Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:25 am Post subject: Military Intervention to Remove 0bama
Military Intervention to Remove 0bama
By John L. Perry, Newsmax
There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America's military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the "Obama problem." Don't dismiss it as unrealistic.
America isn't the Third World. If a military coup does occur here it will be civilized. That it has never happened doesn't mean it wont. Describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it. So, view the following through military eyes:
Officers swear to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." Unlike enlisted personnel, they do not swear to "obey the orders of the president of the United States."
Top military officers can see the Constitution they are sworn to defend being trampled as American institutions and enterprises are nationalized.
They can see that Americans are increasingly alarmed that this nation, under President Barack Obama, may not even be recognizable as America by the 2012 election, in which he will surely seek continuation in office.
They can see that the economy ravaged by deficits, taxes, unemployment, and impending inflation is financially reliant on foreign lender governments.
They can see this president waging undeclared war on the intelligence community, without whose rigorous and independent functions the armed services are rendered blind in an ever-more hostile world overseas and at home.
They can see the dismantling of defenses against missiles targeted at this nation by avowed enemies, even as America's troop strength is allowed to sag.
They can see the horror of major warfare erupting simultaneously in two, and possibly three, far-flung theaters before America can react in time.
They can see the nation's safety and their own military establishments and honor placed in jeopardy as never before.
So, if you are one of those observant military professionals, what do you do?
Wait until this president bungles into losing the war in Afghanistan, and Pakistan's arsenal of nuclear bombs falls into the hands of militant Islam?
Wait until Israel is forced to launch air strikes on Iran's nuclear-bomb plants, and the Middle East explodes, destabilizing or subjugating the Free World?
What happens if the generals Obama sent to win the Afghan war are told by this president (who now says, "I'm not interested in victory") that they will be denied troops they must have t o win? Do they follow orders they cannot carry out, consistent with their oath of duty? Do they resign en masse?
Or do they soldier on, hoping the 2010 congressional elections will reverse the situation?
Do they dare gamble the national survival on such political whims?
Anyone who imagines that those thoughts are not weighing heavily on the intellect and conscience of America's military leadership is lost in a fool's fog.
John L. Perry, an award-winning newspaper editor and writer, who served on White House staffs of two presidents, contributes a regular column to NewsMax.com. Newspapers under his direction were consistent winners of awards for journalistic excellence. The Associated Press Managing Editors Association named him one of the 12 best newsroom managers among the AP's member newspapers.
Perry has received numerous awards for column and editorial writing and for public-service and spot-news reporting.
He has worked as an editor or reporter for several daily newspapers, including the Tampa Tribune, the St. Petersburg Times, the Buffalo Evening News and the Clearwater Sun.
With a master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, he was one of the first American journalists allowed into the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin.
Perry also has had a distinguished career in public policy. He served President Lyndon B. Johnson as deputy under secretary of commerce and was a White House speech writer and race-relations trouble-shooter for President Johnson.
He was interim director of public information for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Perry served as press aide to Gov. LeRoy Collins of Florida and executive assistant to the speaker of the Florida House of Representatives.
A specialist in corporate communications, strategic planning and crisis management, he was public-affairs counselor to several international and national businesses.
Perry was also assistant to the president of the National Association of Broadcasters, a member of the top-management team and director of public relations for the 1982 World’s Fair in Knoxville, Tenn., and an academic fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:29 am Post subject: GRASSROOTS REBELLION PICKING UP STEAM
GRASSROOTS REBELLION PICKING UP STEAM
There’s nothing like a concentrated dose of liberalism to work like smelling salts on the American public.
Here we are almost one year into the Obama presidency and gun sales are still running hot in the midst of a recession.
Political novices are getting involved and taking off work to rally at Tea Parties - even to the point where nearly a million people traveled to Washington, DC in September to tell Congress and the President that they’d better start taking seriously their oath to uphold the Constitution.
Speaking of Obama, the Presidential Approval Index (as reported by Rasmussen) has dropped more than 30 points since he took office. More Americans now "strongly disapprove" of the President than "strongly approve" of him.
Most encouraging, however, is the change in thinking that seems to be sweeping the nation. People who formerly swallowed the pabulum from the political left are now rethinking their positions.
For example, support for gun control is at its lowest level in recent memory. Only three in ten Americans now support stricter gun control according to a recent Rasmussen poll (released October 5). This is a substantial drop from recent years.
Sixty-nine percent oppose the ability of city governments to prevent citizens from owning handguns - an interesting statistic considering that the Supreme Court will be looking at Chicago’s handgun ban this year.
Seventy-one percent of Americans believe the Second Amendment protects the right of individuals to own guns. And an equal percentage believes that President Obama is at least somewhat likely to seek tougher gun control laws.
People are scared of what the ObamaCrats are planning to do to them and now they’re rising up to say "ENOUGH!" But the people in the states are not alone, as their legislators are also stepping into the fray:
• Thirty-six states have introduced 10th Amendment resolutions, and seven states have already passed them. These resolutions reassert the sovereignty of each state and rebuke Washington for its profligate ways.
• Montana and Tennessee have enacted Firearms Freedom Acts, declaring that guns which are made (and stay) in their states are exempt from federal gun restrictions. Seven other states have also introduced such legislation - Alaska, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Texas - and another twenty states are considering similar bills.
• Over a dozen states have refused to implement parts of the REAL ID Act (2005), a law which forces states to standardize driver’s licenses. Such standards could require RFID chips to be placed in the licenses, allowing the tracking of individuals and the inclusion of all kinds of private information (including gun ownership). The states' rejection of this law has forced the Obama administration and the Congress to move towards repealing and replacing the federal law.
• More than a dozen states are considering ballot initiatives to prevent their citizens from being forced to buy health insurance - a crucial element of all the federal ObamaCare proposals. Arizona has already placed its anti-socialized health care initiative on the ballot for 2010.
All Americans should be concerned about socialized health care, but gun owners should especially be wary. The ObamaCare legislation in Congress could empower anti-gun bureaucrats to deny medical reimbursements to individuals who engage in supposedly "dangerous" activities, like owning loaded weapons for self-defense.
Every version of the health care bill in the Senate contains language that will punish Americans who engage in "unhealthy" lifestyles by allowing insurers to charge them higher insurance premiums. Of course, what constitutes an unhealthy lifestyle is to be defined by legislators.
So don’t be surprised if an anti-gun nut like HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius - who vetoed concealed carry legislation as the governor of Kansas - uses this same line of thinking. As the one who will write the ObamaCare regs, Secretary Sebelius can prescribe policies that impose a back-door gun ban on any American who owns "dangerous" firearms.
After all, insurers already (and routinely) drop homeowners from their policies for owning certain types of guns or for refusing to use trigger locks (that is, for keeping their guns ready for self-defense!). While not all insurers practice this anti-gun behavior, Gun Owners of America has documented that some do - Prudential and State Farm being two of the most well-known.
The good news is that because homeowner insurance is private (and is still subject to the free market) you can go to another company if one drops you. But what are you going to do under nationalized ObamaCare when the regulations written by Secretary Sebelius suspend the applicability of your government-mandated policy because of your gun ownership?
A majority of Americans are right. The ObamaCrats do want to restrict our gun rights, but they’re not necessarily going to do it with a frontal assault.
That’s why it’s a good thing that the silent majority is now waking up, because a grassroots rebellion is the only thing that is going to be able to prevent all the back-door assaults on our liberties.
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