Would you support a militairy coup in the US?

Would you?

  • 100%

    Votes: 13 31.7%
  • Never ever

    Votes: 24 58.5%
  • Screw the US

    Votes: 4 9.8%

  • Total voters
    41
Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

I have no way of knowing if this stuff is accurate or not, but I have to say I am dubious. I can't think of a better way for some general to lose his stars than authorize a course that discussed how the military could arrest the President. Did they skip the part where he is their Commander in Chief? And just who makes the determination that he has committed treason? Some ambitious general?

The Constitution sets out a procedure for removing the President and there is nothing in it about generals deciding he has committed treason. In fact, the people committing treason in the hypothetical would be the generals who authorized it.

I'm not saying I couldn't envision a scenario, like when Pinochet overthrew the marxist Allende regime in Chile, where we might want to arrest a traitorous president, even though the congress wouldn't impeach him. Let's not kid ourselves that it would be constitutional though.

Good post and I agree there is no way of knowing if this info is true. But lets take a hypothetical situation that is unmistakeably unconstitutional. For instance let's say the pres attempted to subject the US to international rule, such as the UN which would now function as the supreme law of the land. Even if the majority of Congress and even if the population backed the president, I would think that it is the duty of the military to remove him.
 
Quote from PiggyBank:

Good post and I agree there is no way of knowing if this info is true. But lets take a hypothetical situation that is unmistakeably unconstitutional. For instance let's say the pres attempted to subject the US to international rule, such as the UN which would now function as the supreme law of the land. Even if the majority of Congress and even if the population backed the president, I would think that it is the duty of the military to remove him.

Indeed. However overt mistakes of that magnitude are unlikely.
Smaller agreements will likely transpire over time that effectively do the same thing. (The anecdotal "frog in hot water")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog

We were in a little danger at the "Climate Change Summit" in Copenhagen.

The problem is that "little by little" our freedoms and national sovereignty are eroded.

Who is minding the store to blow the trumpet of warning
when one of those small lines is crossed?

Which small change is finally too far?


Personally I believe that JFK saw the danger, signed an executive order to
remove the strangle hold of the FED and began to print US money again. (Silver Certificates)

However he ended up dead. And the day after ... those printing presses stopped for good.

The below video is the best one I have seen on the "corporate DC take-over" topic.
It is very hard to swallow and likely will cause people to react.
However it has "real information" ... and actually connects many dots.

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Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

I have no way of knowing if this stuff is accurate or not, but I have to say I am dubious. I can't think of a better way for some general to lose his stars than authorize a course that discussed how the military could arrest the President. Did they skip the part where he is their Commander in Chief? And just who makes the determination that he has committed treason? Some ambitious general?

The Constitution sets out a procedure for removing the President and there is nothing in it about generals deciding he has committed treason. In fact, the people committing treason in the hypothetical would be the generals who authorized it.

I'm not saying I couldn't envision a scenario, like when Pinochet overthrew the marxist Allende regime in Chile, where we might want to arrest a traitorous president, even though the congress wouldn't impeach him. Let's not kid ourselves that it would be constitutional though.

We have plans and plans of plans for everything. The Military is sworned to uphold against foreign and domestic. This falls under the domestic aspects.
 
Quote from Ivanovich:

There'd be one hell of a gun fight between the military and the Secret Service.

And the millions of people who voted for the President

I'm no fan of Bush,But I wouldn't hesitate for 1 second to fight any group that tried to take him out of office by non legal means
 
Quote from ..........:

And the millions of people who voted for the President

I'm no fan of Bush,But I wouldn't hesitate for 1 second to fight any group that tried to take him out of office by non legal means

I doubt very many would have voted for him if they had been told the truth by the media. Besides, how can the military upholding its constitutional duty be non legal?
 
Quote from jficquette:

I doubt very many would have voted for him if they had been told the truth by the media.

Obama still has over a 50 % approval rating,that means a lot of Americans still support him
 
Quote from ..........:

And the millions of people who voted for the President

I'm no fan of Bush,But I wouldn't hesitate for 1 second to fight any group that tried to take him out of office by non legal means


By the way, whatever happened to the civilian security force cooked up by Emanuel and Obama? Is that the force you are talking about?
 
Quote from ..........:

... I'm no fan of Bush,But I wouldn't hesitate for 1 second to fight any group that tried to take him out of office by non legal means

I voted yes but I was under the impression that this is theoretically, not as in right now. Seriously though Obama has spoken of a civilian security force "just as well armed, and just as well funded as the military". That scenario = revolution for me. The Constitution addresses the National Guard, there is only one reason why anyone would want a civilian security force.
 
Quote from rcaldwell:

By the way, whatever happened to the civilian security force cooked up by Emanuel and Obama? Is that the force you are talking about?

Whoa... I swear I was writing that and didn't see what u wrote. I guess that is everyone's line not to be crossed.
 
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