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91 posted on 10/2/2013 1:22:26 PM by Old Sarge: “A sobering thought: What if the Barry-cades are only the first step? Anyone remember the Bonus Army?”
That is exactly what was on my mind when I said “following orders” is the right thing for these federal employees to do today, but things could change with an illegal order, such as shooting veterans.
I am quite aware that the political and military leadership of 1930s America, given the violent revolutions of Europe, had good reason to suspect the motives of at least some in the Bonus Army who may have been sympathetic to socialist agendas or worse. The least that can be said is radical organizers were trying to manipulate the Bonus Army for their own ends; since the Bonus Army failed, we probably will never know for sure whether the radical elements were a tiny group or had the ability to take effective control of the leadership of the movement.
Nobody is going to make a reasonable case that World War II veterans in their 80s and 90s are attempting a violent overthrow of the government. That's flat-out crazy talk.
If President Obama does not treat these veterans with the respect they deserve, he will quickly lose support even in his own political party — and Sen. Claire McCaskill won't be the only person standing with the vets rather than with her party's leadership.
As I said on a different Free Republic thread today, “I don’t care whether we win via the front door or the back door as long as Obamacare gets kicked out the door.”
That is the message we need to send to our elected officials, both Republicans and Democrats, and it is the way to get to the 50 percent we need to win this thing.
MUST quibble with you...
The Leftists LOATHE the military. They've told us that since the 1960's.
Every one of them, from students to actors to journalists to the first black President, have all stated they LOATHE the military.
They'd like nothing better than to watch those "old dead white guys" keel over on live podcast. That's their nature, their stated desire, and their eventual goal for both me and you.
“...had good reason to suspect the motives of at least some in the Bonus Army who may have been sympathetic to socialist agendas or worse....”
My thoughts too, but I have no research to back it up; at that time, though, the IWW (International World Workers - one of many Communist party affiliates) was heavily agitating throughout the country and the unions.
And you have to figure, with a little extrapolation, that they were mixed in with the Bonus crowd, using mob tactics and agitation to provoke confrontations with the powers that be - after all, what better way to show how “evil” the “capitalist” government by “oppressing the workers”... blah blah.
Agitprop works. They were/are masters of it.
THIS situation, however, is vastly different. Obamastapo goons firing on 90 year old wheelchair bound vets and their families for exercising their Constitutional rights - which they fought to protect??? Even Obastard isn’t THAT stupid and dimwitted to not be able to see how that would play out on the 6 oclock news.
And his media buttmonkeys wouldn’t be able to spin his ass out of that nightmare, no matter how hard they tried...