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    TRAITORS IN OUR MIDST!

    By Richard Day on Fri, 01/31/2014 - 1:13am |

    You ever feel like holding a stranger in your arms and telling them that everything is going to be Okay?

    (Me)

    I am not now, nor have I ever been a member of an organization that advocates the violent over-throw of the United States Government.(I am not so sure about the future!)

    (Me, probably recalling the McCarthy Hearings in the Fifties. hahahah)

    Tea Party leader, retired Army general and former Fox News contributor Paul Vallely in a recently published video told a Tea Party group that, if given the troops, he would lead a coupagainst the U.S. Government.

     

    Vallely has called made his comments in a discussion with an Arizona-based Tea Party group last December, a recording of which the website Right Wing Watch recently acquired. “I had a call this afternoon from Idaho, the gentleman said, ‘If I give you 250,000 Marines to go to Washington, will you lead them?’” Vallely, who was Fox News’ senior military analyst during the Iraq War, told the group. “I said, ‘Yes, I will, I’ll surround the White House and I’ll surround the Capitol building, but it’s going to take physical presence to do things.”


    http://thinkprogress.org/security/2014/01/28/3213361/retired-army-general-tells-tea-party-group-lead-coup-government/

    Okay, so we have a former member and leader of our military, with huge pension benefits including life long health coverage asking members of some organization to help him and his. form a militia in order to over-throw the Government!

    And I know little about this 'would-be terrorist'. That is for sure.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_E._Vallely

    Wiki says that the General served in our military with distinction.

    I mean he gave his entire career over to the US Armed Forces; beginning with the Vietnam War.

    I am sure that he is fine and unrighteous guy. Or he once was.

    Except that he is calling for 250,000 troops in an attempt to attack the United States Government.

    WHAT THE HELL IS THIS ABOUT?

    And why should this traitor be given his pension let alone the further inquiry considering his freedom to walk unattended in this country that has supported him all these live long years?

    WHAT IS AN AMERICAN?

    This is something I wrote about recently.

    http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/how-do-we-know-what-we-know-18039

    Days after he wrote a column endorsing the assassination of President Obama, Fox hosted Michael Scheuer to accuse Hillary Clinton of effectively murdering the Americans who died during the 2012 attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya.

    Hyperbole?

    That is a nice word.

    Hillary Clinton intentionally killed folks in Libya?

    Forget that crap, this arsehole called for the assassination of the President of the United States of America! What???

    Why? Oh, let the fascists tell you why. The right wing nuts will tell you why.

    Michael Scheuer is walking around free after threatening to kill the President of the United States of America.

    http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/taking-shots-white-house-12203

    If you look at my past link, you will note that:

    Nugent threatened to die or be in prison if President Obama were re-elected. (I kind of liked that choice, actually.)

    And there are all those who would impeach My President.

    http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/rant-tomasky-impeachment-repubs-16682

    GOOD LUCK ON THAT ONE!

    James Yeager (whoever the hell that is, but my bet is that he is a repub) wishes to start shooting.

    http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/taking-shots-white-house-chapter-two-16022

    Alex Jones wishes to declare war upon the United States of America. (Ibid)

    Edwin Meese just would impeach our President. (Ibid)

    But my real problem has to do with a retired general who would declare war upon the United States of America and calls for 250,000 volunteers?

    What the hell is this?

    This fellow was not just talking into his PC in his jammies.

    The General was speaking in front of a political group for chrissakes!

    I can just hear Curly Rand Paul.

    Oh, well some supporters are speaking outside the boundaries of propriety, but hell, that does not mean I support them!

    WHERE IS THE LINE?

    http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1769.html

    We had the McCarthy hearings of course, back in 1954!

    Have you ever been a member of the Communist Party or any other organization that espoused or espouses the violent over throw of the United States Government?

    But when do we cross over to 7 Days in May?

    http://dagblog.com/arts/seven-days-disarray-15463

    Hal Turner was convicted of (kind of) attempted murder after he called for the death of certain judges on his Web show and then published the addresses of the judges he wished to kill.

    http://dagblog.com/arts/seven-days-disarray-15463

    Glenn Beck called for the murder of Michael More, but kind of shied away from doing it himself although he promised to pay for the bullet that did the job.

    http://www.blippitt.com/glenn-beck-threatens-to-kill-michael-moore-video/

    Beckerhead was never charged.

    Limbaugh called for riots in Denver during the Democratic Convention, and he was not charged by any State or Federal DA; hell his ratings went up.

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/04/24/502750/-Limbaugh-Calls-For-Denver-DNC-Riots-Operation-Chaos

    But this retired General, sucking from the governmental teet and probably receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars speaking to fascist bastards; (hell he might be on a dozen corporate boards) calls for the violent over-throw of the United States Government and calls for volunteers?

    People like Paul Vallely scare the hell out of me!

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    by Resistance on Fri, 01/31/2014 - 1:59am

    Executive orders, NSA, drones, environmental disasters  ... People are paranoid Richard. 


    by Resistance on Fri, 01/31/2014 - 2:22am

    Para military people always over estimate how many are willing to over throw the government. They plan big rallies and a dozen people show up but they are sure thousands are going to come. 

    He was blowing smoke up their butts.  He knows that kind of logistics is impossible with 250,000 troops in a coup.  What do they think the rest of the military would be doing?  He made general so I know he didn't flunk out of War College.  He knows better.  


    by trkingmomoe on Fri, 01/31/2014 - 1:02pm

    Sacking Baghdad wasn't enough for these goons.

    At least the delusional visions of conquest are now confined to our own shores.


    by NCD on Fri, 01/31/2014 - 5:28pm

    IRONY....

    hahahhaah

    NCD this bastard receives a hundred and fifty? grand a year plus bennies and he can just advocate the violent overthrow of this nation with impunity?

    Pissed me off. hahahah


    by Richard Day on Fri, 01/31/2014 - 7:04pm

    Can I have summa what these folks are smokin'?

    "We have 1.8 million definite militia members coming," promises Operation American Spring spokeswoman Karen Smith. (The Anti-Defamation League pegs the number of American militia members at about 20,000.) "Other than that, we're not keeping a list of concerned people or whatever because how are we gonna do that?"

    According to Riley's introductory note, which he posted on Facebook, about 1 million activists will stick around DC after the march in a nonviolent attempt to shut the city down. According to the the document, the real work will occur after the transfer of power: "Those with the principles of a West, Cruz, Lee, DeMint, Paul, Gov Walker, Sessions, Gowdy, Jordan, Issa, will comprise a tribunal and assume positions of authority to convene investigations, recommend appropriate charges against politicians and government employees to the new U.S. Attorney General appointed by the new President."

    I just shake my head when reading stuff like this, Mr. Day. Life is but a dream to them and I suppose I'm just glad they row, row, row their boat far away from where I paddle my canoe.


    by wabby on Sat, 02/01/2014 - 6:32am

    Momoe was talking about militarists (fascist white...whatever) who put together these 'marches'.

    We are not supposed to countenance some right wing fascist who is a retired general.

    THIS IS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN.

    It is part of their contract; when they sign up with the armed forces.

    This bothered me much.


    by Richard Day on Sun, 02/02/2014 - 11:08pm

    I just looked up this General and read his bio.  He lost his son at Camp Mackall in 2004.  This happen while his son was in Q training for Special Forces. He was following in his dad's foot steps with special operations.  The General was right leaning but went over deep end after his son's death.  He may have been involved in some insane operations early in his career in the 1960's. This comes back to haunt them later in life and losing his son in a tough training coarse was probably just enough to push him over the edge.  

    I am sure because he is a public figure that the authorities are keeping an eye on him. He is an old man who is probably around 75 years old living in his own strange world. 

     


    by trkingmomoe on Tue, 02/04/2014 - 12:22am

    Well there is a human side to all this after all!

    Thank you.


    by Richard Day on Tue, 02/04/2014 - 12:40am

    May 16th is the big day.  It is a recruiting and fund raising opportunity.  They do this every year during the summer.  It is midterm election year.  Rally up the far right.


    by trkingmomoe on Tue, 02/04/2014 - 12:10am