What I Saw At The Coup

Western Rifle Shooters Association ^ | 9-11-2012 | Matt Bracken

[Travis McGee]

Let’s hope the plans cover the contingencies.

[Rebelbase]

100% response from those I’ve forwarded this story to has been various equivalents of WOW!

Some focused on the happy ending and others expressed shock upon realizing the apparatus for identifying and locating “subversives” is already in place.

[Travis McGee]

Yeah, all they would need is a big enough smokescreen. That’s why the Iran/Israel potential conflict looms so large, among other reasons.

[aruanan]

That's when we began to hear of "The Militia of One." In the end there were too many rifles, and too many willing shooters.

It always seems to surprise a progressive that his targets for elimination could feel at least as strongly about their own lives and points of view as he thinks he does. He looks at their reactions to him as somehow they are doing something wrong when they discover and eliminate his threat. I hope there's at least a few moments for him to think, "Oh, crap--"

[Travis McGee]

I'd just like liberals to read my last two articles, (When the music stops and this one), and ponder all of those millions of scoped deer rifles.

The articles are directed to them, not to the choir. I just hope that conservative readers forward them to their liberal friends.

[DuncanWaring]

He might be a zealot, but he is not a martyr.

That decision is not in his hands.

You might even say "It's beyond his pay grade".

[DuncanWaring]

Who is typing on the computer connected to the teleprompter?

If it's not the people on the other end of the BlackBerry, the two (groups) have extended daily phone calls with each other.

[DuncanWaring]

"Not dozens." He paused. "Around two thousand, actually."

Does this "2,000" figure come from research in the data-mining world, or did you just decide it sounded good in the story?

[DuncanWaring]

Just curious.

[Travis McGee]

Just sounded plausible.

[Lazamataz]

so few ant hills

Dude.

Relo to Georgia. We have a few down here. LOL

[DuncanWaring]

Suitable for multiple-occupancy, it appears.

[MileHi]

bflr

[RedMDer]

Thanks deoet!

[RichInOC]

To the extent he can avoid it, he will. He’s not about dying for the cause, he’s about letting some other poor bastard die for the cause.

[The Shrew]

I just spent an hour reading dozens of posts on Small Wars Journal about Colonel Benson's article. Turns out the SMJED has closed down the thread as he didn't like the tone of many of the posts.

So, if they didn't hear the objections maybe they will just overlook them. Fascinating.

Semper Fi,

TS

[little jeremiah]

I posted your article with attribution and link of course, on another website, and so did two other people!

I can’t forward it to liberal friends because I don’t have any.

I think this thread would have gotten a lot more readers/comments but for the horrible news the last couple of days.

[Travis McGee]

Ironically, I released it early because I was worried the story would be overtaken by events in the M.E. Have to get it out before the events described take place. I think that “Coup” will still spread, just more slowly.

[Travis McGee]

Here’s my favorite letter in SWJ so far:

by jkatzman | August 10, 2012 - 10:57pm

HERR BENSON: <<”Thank you to all who took the time to read and comment on our essay. We were hoping to start a conversation and it seems we succeeded.”>>

If you really believe that, you’re dumber than even your article makes you out to be. Frankly, I don’t think you do.

What you did, was leave a LOT of people believing, with cause, that the Army is strategizing ways to use armed force to kill and crush them, and fellow members of their democratic political movement. In blunt terms, to turn South Carolina into Afghanistan, or Aleppo.

Your rhetoric is certainly appropriate to the rulers of such places, and your scenario was delivered as the violent threat toward your fellow Americans that it was meant to be.

There are no words to adequately describe how offensive that is. Or to describe the colossal dereliction of responsibility, judgment, and the fundamental pact between America and its military that this article represents. Not to mention a dereliction of duty, since you used your position at Leavenworth as part of your bona fides. Despite disclaimers, that effectively links your article to them, and your continued employment there to this article.

You have crossed several red lines, and done so with malice aforethought.

If this is the level of professionalism that AECOM Tech displays, they need to be relieved of their contract post-haste. If you continue to teach at Leavenworth, it would be sufficient justification for the commander’s removal from his post.

Frankly, it also leaves this reader with massive questions about the editorial judgement at Small Wars Journal. I strongly suspect that I am not alone.