EDITORIAL: The Civil War of 2016 – Washington Times

 

Imagine Tea Party extremists seizing control of a South Carolina town and the Army being sent in to crush the rebellion. This farcical vision is now part of the discussion in professional military circles.

EDITORIAL: The Civil War of 2016 – Washington Times

Imagine Tea Party extremists seizing control of a South Carolina town and the Army being sent in to crush the rebellion. This farcical vision is now part of the discussion in professional military circles.

At issue is an article in the respected Small Wars Journal titled “Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A ‘Vision’ of the Future.” It was written by retired Army Col. Kevin Benson of the Army’s University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and Jennifer Weber, a Civil War expert at the University of Kansas. It posits an “extremist militia motivated by the goals of the ‘tea party’ movement” seizing control of Darlington, S.C., in 2016, “occupying City Hall, disbanding the city council and placing the mayor under house arrest.” The rebels set up checkpoints on Interstate 95 and Interstate 20 looking for illegal aliens. It’s a cartoonish and needlessly provocative scenario.

The article is a choppy patchwork of doctrinal jargon and liberal nightmare. The authors make a quasi-legal case for military action and then apply the Army’s Operating Concept 2016-2028 to the situation. They write bloodlessly that “once it is put into play, Americans will expect the military to execute without pause and as professionally as if it were acting overseas.” They claim that “the Army cannot disappoint the American people, especially in such a moment,” not pausing to consider that using such efficient, deadly force against U.S. citizens would create a monumental political backlash and severely erode government legitimacy.

The vision is hard to take seriously. As retired ArmyBrig. Gen. Russell D. Howard, a former professor at West Point, observed earlier in his career, “I am a colonel, colonels write a lot of crazy stuff, but no one listens to colonels, so I don’t see the problem.” Twenty years ago, then-Air Force Lt. Col. Charles J. Dunlap Jr. created a stir with an article in Parameters titled “The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012.” It carried a disclaimer that the coup scenario was “purely a literary device intended to dramatize my concern over certain contemporary developments affecting the armed forces, and is emphatically not a prediction.”

The scenario presented in Small Wars Journal isn’t a literary device but an operational lay-down intended to present the rationale and mechanisms for Americans to fight Americans. Col. Benson and Ms. Weber contend, “Army officers are professionally obligated to consider the conduct of operations on U.S. soil.” This is a dark, pessimistic and wrongheaded view of what military leaders should spend their time studying.

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Obama administration: Trust us on detention

 

The Obama administration

 

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is pulling out all the stops in its defense of a provision in a federal law that critics say allows the unrestricted detention of Americans should Washington decide the citizens are in “support” of any terror group or activity.

 

Prison Planet.com » Ministry of Homeland Security Rolls Out Armored Vehicles

 

A post today on the Daily Paul website shows a fearsome black “special response team” armored vehicle on a flatbed trailer in transit somewhere in Kentucky.

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Pelosi ‘Swears’ Spirit of Susan B. Anthony Spoke to Her in White House

 

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(CNSNews.com)- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) told a recent gathering of the Women’s Political

Committee that the spirits of suffragists Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul spoke to her at the White House.

Pelosi said she heard them say: “At last we have a seat at the table”.

LewRockwell.Com ARTICLES…

 

You’re Dirt, We Rule Bill Wilson and his fiance ride the police state train.

Why They Hate the Gold Coin Standard With a Purple Passion Gary North on Keynesians.

How Many Ways Does the Government Spy on You? Uncounted and maybe uncountable. Article by Andrew Napolitano.

Prison Planet.com » The Dispossessed Majority

 

…..The same brainwashed Americans who rage against Obamacare and are lined up to vote for Romney are oblivious to the fact that Romney, while governor of the eastern liberal Democratic state of Massachusetts, had his version of Obamacare enacted at the state level.

The greatest irony about Obamacare is that it was written by the private insurance companies and diverts Medicaid and Medicare funds to their profits. It is socialized medicine alright, but it is socialism for the private insurance companies.

Prison Planet.com » The Dispossessed Majority

The same brainwashed Americans who rage against Obamacare and are lined up to vote for Romney are oblivious to the fact that Romney, while governor of the eastern liberal Democratic state of Massachusetts, had his version of Obamacare enacted at the state level.

The greatest irony about Obamacare is that it was written by the private insurance companies and diverts Medicaid and Medicare funds to their profits. It is socialized medicine alright, but it is socialism for the private insurance companies.

All it took to convince Red staters to go along with the military/security complex squandering $6 trillion on the Iraq and Afghan wars was yellow ribbon decals and a slogan, “support the troops.”

Obama, Republicans claim, won’t stand up to Syria, or against Iran, or for Israel. But Republicans are proud when Romney goes to Israel to slither on his belly pandering to the crazed, blood-thirsty Israeli prime minister Netanyahu, who called Israeli top generals “pussies” for warning against attacking Iran. Romney told Netanyahu, just tell me what to do, and I’ll do it; I am loyal to Israel. Apparently, flag-waving Republican patriots are not bothered when their presidential candidate announces that as soon as he is in office he will turn over US foreign policy to Netanyahu and send more americans to death and bankruptcy for Netanyahu.

Karl Rove didn’t have any trouble at all in brainwashing red staters to support their own demise. The pickup truck driver could just as well have sported a bumper sticker that read: “Don’t support a Democrat. He might do something for you.”

Yes, I know. It is almost as easy to beat up on Democrats. Bush and Cheney and their neocon hoodlums destroyed the Constitution and, thereby, America. But the Democrats let them. It was Nancy Pelosi, who as Speaker of the House stridently declared Bush’s impeachment to be “off the table.”

Bush and Cheney unquestionably violated both US and international laws and the Constitution. Nancy Pelosi’s refusal to hold them accountable established the precedent that the executive branch is no longer accountable to law or to the Constitution. In effect, the executive branch now comprises a dictatorship. It acts outside of law and constitutional restraints. On some issues it still has to consult with Congress or the courts, but as the executive branch’s power and audacity grows, consultation will become a formality and then drop away. Congress will have no more influence than the Roman senate under the empire, and courts will become stages for show trials.

Americans elected Obama president expecting that he would restore the rule of law. Instead, he codified the Bush regime’s transgressions and added some of his own. No one of my generation could have imagined the president of the US sitting in the Oval Office signing off on lists of American citizens to be murdered without evidence or due process of law.

via Prison Planet.com » The Dispossessed Majority.

“Lincoln’s Marxists” at Fort Delaware | revisedhistory

 

By Al Benson Jr.

Back in the late 1800s and early 1900s it used to be a common thing for either people who had fought in the War of Northern Aggression or someone in their families, to write accounts of their activities while in that War and have these printed up in limited editions, mostly for succeeding generations of their families and maybe a few close friends.

Is this how Obama will steal election?

 

Progressive organizations are quietly pushing a “popular vote” that could see only 14 states –

 

English: Barack Obama delivers a speech at the University of Southern California (Video of the speech) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

those with the largest populations – decide the presidency for voters in all 50 states, according to a book released this week that’s now skyrocketing up bestseller charts.

 

Prison Planet.com » NYPD Unveils Orwellian ‘Domain Awareness System’

 

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New York City Mayor Michael Bloombergis touting the latest police state technology.

 

 

NYPD Unveils Orwellian ‘Domain Awareness System’

 

The “Domain Awareness System,” aside from its blatantly Orwellian name, is a super surveillance database possible through a partnership between Microsoft and the city of New York.

 

Report: Rep. Steve King mulling bill to repeal everything Obama has signed

 

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), an outspoken critic of just about everything President Obama supports, is considering introducing a bill that would repealeverything Obama

 

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has signed into law.

 

Disinformation: How It Works

 

There was a time, not too long ago (relatively speaking), that governments and the groups of elites that controlled them did not find it necessary to conscript themselves into wars of disinformation.

Waiting for GOP to give us something to believe in

 

Try as they might to portray him as ‘Bain Batman’, ‘Romney Hood’, and the “Romney Killed My Wife” ad guy, the Obama Team is missing the boat on what most aptly describes their Chief Opponent. Mitt Romney is a lukewarm cup of tea.

Make that the lukewarm cup of tea we fervently cling to in the hope it will sometime soon give us something to believe in.

Prison Planet.com » Check Out This Homeland Security Armored Vehicle Being Hauled Through Kentucky

 

Check Out This Homeland Security Armored Vehicle Being Hauled Through Kentucky

 

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Print The Alex Jones Channel Alex Jones Show podcast Prison Planet TV Infowars.com Twitter Alex Jones’ Facebook Infowars store

 

Daily Paul

 

Thursday, August 9, 2012

 

WTF is our Government so afraid of? Us? Clearly…

 

Check Out This Homeland Security Armored Vehicle Being Hauled Through Kentucky…..

 

A History Of US Secret Human Experimentation...

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.....1946 Patients in VA hospitals are used as guinea pigs for medical experiments. In order to allay suspicions, the order is given to change the word "experiments" to "investigations" or "observations" whenever reporting a medical study performed in one of the nation's veteran's hospitals.

1947 Colonel E.E. Kirkpatrick of the U.S. Atomic Energy Comission issues a secret document (Document 07075001, January 8, 1947) stating that the agency will begin administering intravenous doses of radioactive substances to human subjects.

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DHS and US Military Make Final Preparations Before Announcing Martial Law :

 

Informants and military personnel are coming forth anonymously to confirm that martial law “is right around the corner.”

However, right now we are under a silent martial law and citizens are reporting strange and unexplainable activity from the US armed forces and multiple federal agencies that point to a covert preparatory operation to completely lock down America in the very near future.

Zimmerman will seek ‘stand your ground’ hearing [Cue the thugs to threaten to riot]

 

Attorneys for the neighborhood watch volunteer charged in the death of an unarmed teen say they’ll seek a

 

FLORIDA – 2005: In this handout provided by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, George Zimmerman poses for a mug shot in this 2005 booking photo in Florida. At the time Zimmerman was arrested and charged with battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest by the Florida Department of Alcohol Beverage and Tobacco, charges that were eventually dropped. On February 26, 2012, Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by George Michael Zimmerman who was on neighborhood watch patrol in the gated community of The Retreat at Twin Lakes in the city of Sanford, Florida. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

 

“stand your ground” hearing that could lead to criminal charges being dismissed.

 

(“How Many Ways does The Government Spy On You?”) Gazillions by Andrew P. Napolitano

 

Gazillions. That’s the number of times the federal government has spied on Americans since 9/11 through the use of drones,

 

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legal search warrants, illegal search warrants, federal agent-written search warrants and just plain government spying.

 

This is according to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who, when he asked the government to tell him what it was doing to violate our privacy, was given a classified briefing. The senator – one of just a few in the U.S. Senate who believes that the Constitution means what it says – was required by federal law to agree not to reveal what spies and bureaucrats told him during the briefing.

 

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Michael Savage: How Obama fixed 2012 election (very interesting information) Michael Savage: How Obama fixed 2012 election (very interesting information)

Capt._Eric_H._May_20070917_Petraeus_with_a_Kiss ("An ass-kissing little chickenshit...I hate people like that.")

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"An ass-kissing little chickenshit...I hate people like that."

Admiral William Fallon talking about General David Petraeus

Give credit where credit is due. This week General Petraeus fully understood his role when he came to Washington.

His costume was dazzling, bedecked with nine rows of fruit salad and a fine collection of qualification badges. His spit shined shoes creaked with excitement, but his expression was as firm as his comb-over hairdo, and he was ready.

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Would the US Military Stand Down and ‘Empower a Revolution’ If Faced With Riots and Civil Unrest? by Mac Slavo...

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Among the many inconsistencies with what’s playing out in the middle east is the question of what our President and Secretary of Defense would ask our own military to do if political protests, riots and violence erupted here in the US. Both seem to suggest that the leaders of these middle eastern countries, as well as their law enforcement and military apparatuses, should stand aside.

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Army colonel ignites firestorm with article on crushing a 'tea party insurgency'

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Army colonel ignites firestorm with article on crushing a 'tea party insurgency'

Examiner.com ^ | August 5, 2012 | Anthony Martin

Posted on Wednesday, August 08, 2012 5:56:04 PM by EveningStar

A retired U.S. Army colonel who now teaches modern warfare to soldiers at the University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. has co-written an article with a…

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Who Pulls Obama’s Strings?

 

By J.D. Longstreet Thursday, August 9, 2012

 

There is something very telling about an incumbent president asking an “impeached” president

 

Cover of Bill Clinton

 

to go to bat for him. It’s sort of like someone in court for, oh, jay walking, having a car thief testify as to the character of the accused in court. It’s wildly weird!

 

Prison Planet.com » Rape Victim Traumatized By “Horrific” TSA Experience

 

Woman told by screener her genitals would be groped

A woman who was the victim of a brutal rape underwent a “horrific” experience at the hands of TSA agents this past weekend at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport which ended up with her checking into a psychiatric ward.

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Brennan Dunn, the woman’s husband, posted an account of his wife’s experience on the Flyer Talk website.

Dunn’s wife had been subjected to a violent sexual assault and death threats at the hands of three men in Florida five years previously, an experience that led to her committing self-harm and being forced to take medication and attend therapy sessions.

What you don’t know about David Petraeus

 

The political world is abuzz with speculation about whether Mitt Romney plans to choose CIA Director David Petraeus

 

English: Official photo of David Petraeus, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

to be his vice-presidential running mate on the GOP ticket – but Petraeus’ positions on a variety of issues could upset conservatives if he is indeed selected for the slot.

 

Rep. Steve King mulling bill to repeal everything Obama has signed

 

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Rep. Steve King mulling bill to repeal everything Obama has signed

 

The Hill ^ | 8-8-12 | Pete Kasperowicz

 

Posted on Thursday, August 09, 2012 6:48:55 AM by afraidfortherepublic

 

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), an outspoken critic of just about everything President Obama supports, is considering introducing a bill that would repeal everything Obama has signed into law.

 

King put forward this suggestion to an Iowa audience on Tuesday, when he also reiterated his threat to sue the Obama

 

 

administration for its June decision not to deport younger illegal immigrants. Under that policy change, illegal immigrants who are in school or have served in the military would get a two-year deferral from deportation.

 

Cybersecurity Bills Threaten Freedom | Veterans Today

 

OBAMA TO TRANSFORM U.S. MILITARY INTO SOCIAL WORKERS: New focus on ‘global warming,’ poverty, etc (See Reader Responses)

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OBAMA TO TRANSFORM U.S. MILITARY INTO SOCIAL WORKERS: New focus on ‘global warming,’ poverty, etc

Klein Online / WND ^ | July 31, 2012

Posted on Monday, August 06, 2012 7:59:35 PM by 2ndDivisionVet

Progressive organizations

behind White House policy have crafted specific, second term plans for President Obama to transform the U.S. Armed Forces into a social work-style organization designed to combat “global warming,” fight…

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LYONS: Forcing our all-volunteer force to fail – Washington Times

 

Concerns raised by Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and four of her colleagues on the proper vetting of Huma Abedin, the deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton,

 

Hillary Rodham Clinton, United States Senator. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

provoke larger questions about Muslim Brotherhood penetration and influence in our government agencies, particularly the Department of Defense (DOD).

 

Recently, we witnessed Pentagon Islamic adviser Louay Safi‘s reappearance as the political head of the Syrian National Council, a Muslim Brotherhood-dominated group. Among his many other activities, he is also the director of leadership development for the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which is the largest Muslim Brotherhood group in the United States.