Rumors of a Coup

American Thinker ^ | June 10, 2010 | J.R. Dunn

[neverdem]

THE BATTLE OF ATHENS, TN is instructive, IMHO.

[Eastbound]

"I've had a little difficulty grasping exactly how such a thing would work, so I've spent the last few days puzzling it out"

Da guy is way behind the times. Can't believe someone doesn't realize that the country has already been 'couped'.

[GeronL]

A Reichstag scenario, with its dependence on an ill-informed, limitlessly gullible populace, simply won't work in the millennial United States

I disagree.

The mass media will run with it, blaming conservatives and a lot of the sheeple will buy it 100%.

[trumandogz]

“He issues an executive order canceling the elections until Sarah Palin closes down her Twitter account.”

[Natural Born 54]

I think his title is a little off. The coup has already happened. As to the rest of it, some good points but he lacks imagination on others. He still thinks the administration and a good portion of the Congress feel some kind of obligation to play by the rules. I hope he’s right but I don’t think so.

[Slings and Arrows]

Of possible interest to your list.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"The problem with this conjecture is that the U.S. is not Germany of 1933."

Yet.

[Yosemitest]

You need to read this.

Origins of the American Military Coup 2012
by Charles J. Dunlap Jr (now MG Dunlap) written in the Winter of 1992-93.

[LeoWindhorse]

what is the power behind a ‘coup’ ?

If anyone thinks that our good folks in the military
would follow any illegal orders from this bunch that think they have the power , they should think again. Such an order
set would ensure the issuers permanent demise .
Our Armed Forces are not sheep that are easily led by a bad shepherd . They have luckily been fairly well ‘led’ by those civilians that at least knew when to stay out of the damn way .
But not with this DADT stuff and any other wild ass thing they might come up with . Or a weak and feeble response to a real attack on the homeland , it’s anybody’s guess .
I think there is a line in the sand that it would be better not to cross .

[Impy]

You familiar with this “Battle of Athens”?

http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1985/2/1985_2_72.shtml

[Kevmo]

But my interest was piqued by the fact that it has been mentioned several dozen times in the comment threads of essays of mine in recent weeks.
***No doubt it’s been mentioned several dozen times how much of an idiot the author is, but we won’t be seeing any articles on that.

[nolongerademocrat]

LOL

[DB]

Agreed. He’d be a fool to try it - not that he’s not a fool...

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Dumb question - if he’s going to try to do something like this - why not wait until after the elections to try it? If the RATS win, then according the premise of the article, no need for the “coup”. If the RATS lose big, they have between early November and the seating of the next congress to pull it off. In the meantime they can lie, cheat and steal to make sure that San Fran Nan and Dingy Harry stay right where they are now, enabling the obamanation.

[101voodoo]

Perhaps some will, but the credibility of the media is at an all time low with far over half of the people asked finding them not truthful or credible.

[Habibi]

There are coups, and then there are coups. They can swing both directions, but either way it’s necessary to have a good third of the folks behind them (just picking some numbers from the Revolutionary War). Does anyone believe there are going to be this number of Marxists, or far right nut jobs for that matter? In this environment, there are not going to be those kind of numbers IMHO.

This is just a fever dream of the fringe. Either end of the Bell Curve are lots closer together than the folks that ride the hump. I’m not sure who’s pushing this delusion. Actually, the Marxists might consider such a destabilization to be of benefit to their cause. The far right fears it no doubt. The middle is oblivious as most would agree that this scenario is exceptionally unlikely. Why worry? You’re dealing in single digit probabilities here.

[counterpunch]

Not just conservatives, but the Tea Party, specifically.

[Rocky]

Nancy Pelosi was asked if the Healthcare bill was constitutional. She said, “You’re kidding, right?” The Democrats and their media sycophants could care less about the Constitution.

The author may be right in his conclusion, but he too quickly dismisses some possibilities that cause some of us concern. He lacks imagination.

One thing he has right: Thank God, Obama and his Chicago louts are incompetent. They might want a coup, but they couldn’t organize one.

Come November, everything will change. We have to make sure of that.

[timetostand]

And what happens when there is total economic collapse and there are food riots and blood in the streets???

[random_user_827]

Now we reach the political ramifications, always the juicy part in a democracy: namely, the claim that Obama will "call off" the 2010 elections. Simply put, there is no constitutional provision for doing any such thing.

Well, the Dems can always cite the Commerce Clause. Why not? They use it to justify everything else...