The Coup: a position paper

Obama's election marks the successful culmination of a coup which has been decades in the making. Two things occurred. 1) The coup strategists developed and supported a person with the capability of selling its intentions and position. 2) Previous to the election the strategists spent decades subverting the population into a sickened and weakened state so that there would be no serious opposition when the time to strike came. The coup represents an overthrowing of the constitution, an attack or overthrowing of the educational system, a weakening/overthrowing of our economic system, an overthrowing of our moral system, a subversion of religion, an overthrowing and a wearing down of our evaluative/rational processes. With the prolonged attack upon the secondary non-political elements is that list, and the resultant despondency and confusion, the primary political elements were ready to fall. In other words decades were spent successfuly and comprehensively attacking the guts of the nation.

McCain and many others were among those who were so weak and useless as to present no opposition. In displacing defense of the American people they effectively worked to effect the coup. You don't need much of an army to defeat a people who don't defend themselves. You don't need much of army to defeat a nation who's leaders are disinclined or incapable of defending it.

Obama wasn't particularly overwhelming or even competent intellectually. He was successful because not one national figure of prominence would stand up to dispute him. Not one. And so it was that an unknown figure with no convincing record of achievement, a shady background, and hostile intent could lay siege and easily conquer a republic using a few doctored up poetic words.

Years ago I studied with a Marxist psychologist whose forte was mathematical models of behavior. His position was that the way to impose an authoritarian Marxist state was to apply psychologically operant techniques and attitude change mechanics until you had people voting the way you wanted because in their distorted and manipulated condition of mind that is what they thought they wanted, even to their detriment. It has been my experience that Marxists have dedicated great emphasis on psychological operant techniques, on crowd manipulation, on cognitive dissonance management, on propaganda strategy and haven't missed a beat in successfully and diligently applying it in over 50 years. This goes back historically into Adorno et al and the Frankfurt School during the 1930s who established what became law within the psychological profession and up though the expansion by the Saul Alinskys and others during the '60s. The cute part about it is that the people who are successfully processed then become agents to impose processing. The successful result of this has ultimately been hysterical militant crowds supporting Obama. Obama has the language structure of the processing and conditioning meticulously honed and is therefore well equipped to step into what's been done and what has been conditioned or deconditioned very smoothly. He plays upon every conditioned nerve and reaction like a concert pianist.

The conditioned reactions are strong when not confronted and counterinterpreted. But Obama was and is vulnerable and could have been crushed. But he wasn't about to be confronted by the fat lazy complacent Republican aristocracy typified by Bush and McCain who are positioned on the basis of family name and contacts and, the entirety of which could not muster up three functioning brain cells. Those who are not brainless are too worried about protecting their entitled sinecures to rock the boat and do their job or defend the nation. They are the most useless bunch of pretentious parasites on earth.

The final result of years of background strategic work and a confluence of factors is that we have elected a revengeful Marxist loon with an ideological mission in addition to his own personal mission. Each mission serves the purposes of the other. He is determined to impose an authoritarian political structure where people are subjugated in servitude and presumption of enforced social ownership of themselves like sacrificial pawns to be pushed about at will on a chess board. Effort will arbitrarily be taken from some pawns and given to others. From each according to his ability to each according to his irresponsibility and arrogance is the new prescription for slavery. The new slavemasters will be those people with a voracious propensity for irresponsibility and living for the immediate present under the audacity of hope with the brokers maintaining them in that position being supreme. And what an ego trip it must be for a self-impressed half-wit out of nowhere play a part in it and to be in charge of it all.

One of the most serious crises affecting America in recent years has been the audacity of trashiness extending extending from the lower levels up into the White House. Obama has found a way to tap into it and exploit it to effect a coup with probable destruction of this country.

Words have meaning. Don’t call it a “coup” if it isn’t one.

Yes, I am suspicious of where BHO will take his power. He achieved it legitimately; this is different from whether, like others you note, he subsequently uses it illegitimately. Adolph, Hugo and Daniel did not stage coups to achieve power, they staged them to continue and extend that power beyond legitimate limits.

Agree with much of what you said in your #20.

However, I do not think the Dems will implode as quickly as you suggest, and even doubt they will fail in the near term. There is good reason to believe their political strategy has been well thought out over the past 70 years and the Clinton terms gave them a lab class.

That strategy will become more obvious as O announces his team, Axelrod, Rahm, etc.; to say nothing of the characters-in-waiting. These folks have particular skill sets and histories that will strongly suggest their course of action. Perhaps even more indicative will be the Dems initial legislation. O will not have to dirty his hands; he will even be allowed to play the good guy once in a while.

O’s handlers knew their conflicting promises would cause conflict and they almost certainly have anticipated a loss of support from within the party. Their history is such that they will rely on increasing federal restrictions and controls to compensate for that loss.

Webster's New Dictionary defines coup d'etat as follows: "a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics ; especially : the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group". As you correctly assert, words have meanings. The term, coup, includes both violent and peaceful changes, contrary to your assertion.

Hitler and Chavez were elected to their offices by following the rules, as did Ortega most recently. After achieving the chancellorship and presidency, respectively, Hitler and Chavez began the process of turning what had been democratic republics into dictatorships under the color of due process.

Granted, it will be far more difficult for Obama to do likewise, given the sheer size of the country and the safeguards that the Framers wrote into the Constitution. However, Obama is a second or maybe even a third generation red diaper baby on his maternal side, and his associations throughout his life were with leftists. You cannot say the same thing about Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reed, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, etc.

Sorry, kids, but the Second Amendment may be a chimera. It’s a nice security blanket, one that I subscribe to wholeheartedly, but the reality is a little thinner.

For the Second to work (i.e. to use the “reset” button), people have to take up arms and be willing to use them. Before that takes place, somebody must step up onto a soapbox at the front of the mob and start giving orders.

A) Who is going to step up, thereby facing instant arrest? Talking or even e-mailing about this might be enough to bring the thought police to your door.

B) How many people, really, are going to get off their couches and grab their pitchforks and double-barreled shotguns? Those that do will be arrested, until critical mass (maybe a third of the population) is reached. There is safety ONLY in numbers.

C) Just who is the enemy, exactly?

Sad to say, none of this will even start taking shape until things get VERY bad ... soup lines ... and even then I can see it working until at least one military unit switches sides and joins the Constitutionalists.

Otherwise, we’re whistling past the graveyard, folks. Sorry.

I’m more than willing to reconsider, so please ... flame away.

Good article. The only difference I have with it's conclusion is the timing. These tactics were used here successfully since 1932 and our running it's course. History plays out in waves. The wave is spent. Obama will be our Gorbachev. Trying to save a dying system. Ans my evidence for this is that these questions are being asked. Up until now the socialist were changing our country through stealth. Roosevelt's New Deal, and Johnson's Great Society were pure socialism...but nobody in public accused them of it. It is different now. We are actually debating if BO is a socialist. This is new. And the ONLY HOPE for a economic collapse is in the premise that we blame the right cause. Amity Shlaes’s book “The Forgotten Man” debunking FDR , Joe The Plumber calling BO a socialist are, Sarah P emerging are all evidence that the end is coming for the collectivists....just like it came to the USSR........THAT IS THE BATTLE.......to blame collectivism for the coming collapse

“Yes, I am suspicious of where BHO will take his power…”

O has already demonstrated he is a threat to our nation…to our “flawed” Constitution”...to the 2d Ad….to the national defense…to our economy…to our election process…etc.

What more would you like to see?

Here is your answer from the grave:

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What wouldthings have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at nightto make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and hadto say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as forexample in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city,people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at everybang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but hadunderstood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in thedownstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers,or whatever else was at hand? [...] The Organs would very quickly havesuffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all ofStalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!” The Gulag Archipelago, A. Solzhenitsyn. Chapter 1 “Arrest”, fn. 5

However, there are some problems with the way they went about their coup here...Simply put: They got greedy and tried to do this too soon.

Very interesting But at the same time, that's one of the reasons that I think Obama will move very quickly to go beyond the pretense of gaining cooperation and instead resort directly to force to impose this coup.

I'm not sure how he'll do it - wait for or stage some national "emergency" that lets him seize unprecedented powers, and organize us all into those horrible "corps" listed on his website, perhaps.

But the disturbing fact is that he and, mostly, the smarter people behind him, such as Ayers, didn't get this far by waiting for anything. I suppose you could say that they waited for 40 years until public education had softened up the minds of our citizens and a set of conditions arose that enabled them to move; but they created some of these conditions and obviously had their plan in place and ready to go immediately.

In other words, if the election was the first step, they've already got the next step planned and ready to go before any resistance can build.

At this point it’s hard for me to get a feel for how quickly and how far zer0 and his enablers plan to move. He has many that have gone along with him so far, but will they stay with him if he begins to implement ideas such as the civilian security force. The one fear I have is now that the socialists having gained control of the executive and legislative branches will in the case of a complete financial implosion institute draconian measures which would make any hope of a free and open election a pipe dream. At that point it would take at least the real possibility of a violent overthrow to restore limited government.

I have a feeling that as a first step state’s rights are going to be tested if and when he attempts to institue this civilian security force. I would only hope that certain governors would at that point draw a line in the sand.

Good citation, Mick. Applicable and concise.

Still, I take more strength from numbers. If somebody popped one of the secret police (or Civilian National Security Force ... a rose by any other name ...) then a dozen more will swarm the place. But if there is a crowd of 50 armed citizens saying “no” then the answer is no.

In a related note ... if a dozen guys carrying machine guns and wearing identical clothes, helmets, boots, flak vests, etc., surround your house and kick in the door, how thin is the line between “SWAT team” and “government storm troopers” anyway? Probably just a matter of semantics, I guess. Maybe I just miss Officer O’Malley on the beat and his “community” policing concept.

You also have to wonder how California moved from being a middle of the road and even slightly conservative state, as it was until the 1980s to the leftist bastion it has become. Were there forces at work there as what this article describes in Colorado? The loss of California placed the first and third most populous states in the Union into the hands of the Left. The Republican ascendancy in the South offset the electoral effect of the loss of California. But we are now seeing the Upper Southern states of Virginia and North Carolina beginning to fall away. Even the old GOP bulwark of Indiana was about 50-50 this time.

Neither the big government "conservatives" nor the Christian Right, the two ascendant factions of the 1990s and early 2000s, have effectively countered the leftist onslaught.

I predict that we’re going to start seeing a lot of Ruby Ridge and Waco-like incidents over the next couple of years.

Opposition to the invaders will be crushed so terribly that sympathizers will feel completely defeated and demoralized.

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