File photo: US Army Sgt. Anthony Peden, 25, right, and Pvt. Isaac Aguigui, 19, depart after appearing before a magistrate judge at the Long County Sheriffs Office in Ludowici, Georgia, 12/12/11. (photo: Lewis Levine/AP)
White Terrorist Plot to Assassinate the ‘Commander in Chief’
By Juan Cole, Informed Comment
28 August 12
white terrorist cell on a military base in Georgia plotted to assassinate President Barack Obama and stage a military coup. It murdered two former members of the cell. It bought $87,000 of military grade weaponry and land in Washington state. It planned to bomb a dam in Washington and poison its apple crop. It planned to take over Fort Stewart in Georgia.
The National Security Agency is massively and illegally spying on ordinary Americans. Peace activists are bothered by police and put on watch lists. Journalists like Amy Goodman have been beaten up for covering peaceful protests. The NYPD conducted extensive espionage on American citizens of Muslim heritage not only in NYC but far beyond their jurisdiction. Rep. Peter King of New York keeps holding hearings on the alleged radicalization of American Muslims (who are mostly pillars of the American establishment; King himself supports IRA terrorism).
But extremist white Christian soldiers want to kill the president and privately stockhold thousands of dollars worth of military grade weapons? Apparently if they hadn’t started murdering people they could have flown under the radar on all that.
All those right wing politicians and commentators who kept hammering Obama as a foreigner, a Muslim, illegitimate, a budding dictator– they created the hothouse atmosphere that fostered this kind of evil.
Indeed, apparently one of the four plotters was a page at the 2008 Republican Convention.
Republicans aren’t responsible for having crazed assassins among them– that would be guilt by association. But they are responsible for promoting irrationality by using fear, demonization, taboos, innuendo and coded race discourse. It is reasoned argument that makes for democracy. Karl Rove and Rupert Murdoch and Koch brothers’ rhetorical tactics release chickens that eventually will come to roost.
And don’t get me started about what the Bush White House would have done if minority members in uniform had gotten up such a plot against W. They’d have used it to put progressives in concentration camps. Because Democrats are not on the whole demagogic, this plot will likely not even get that much air play.
Nor will the National Rifle Association come under any pressure to stop insisting that extremists and the mentally ill have free and constant access to military grade weaponry.
What I’m afraid of is that demagoguery and semi-automatic weapons will keep dominating our society until something very bad happens, something which may cost us even more of our liberties.
Little wonder the military are not trusting this or any administration. If the govn’t knows this, why has BO not taken action?
See youtube —- CIA Asset Susan Lindauer Can Now Speak 10 years after 9-11.
Tigrr, enough already. I posted this video quite a while ago . . . Hugs, ~Jean
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Add your tJuan Cole is on top of this issue. The Republican Party knows exactly what they are doing by throwing coded words and red meat to their base until they become completely unhinged. Many of us do that with repititious fear monger in blogs and communications. With a society collapsing and many becoming jobless and homeless, we need to monitor what we spread. I hold the GOP, media, NRA and many of the 1% responsible for these activities to destroy life. Many so-called “enlightened” individuals are responsible as well as they promote this fear.
Juan Cole is on top of this issue. The Republican Party knows exactly what they are doing by throwing coded words and red meat to their base until they become completely unhinged. Many of us do that with repititious fear monger in blogs and communications. With a society collapsing and many becoming jobless and homeless, we need to monitor what we spread. I hold the GOP, media, NRA and many of the 1% responsible for these activities to destroy life. Many so-called “enlightened” individuals are responsible as well as they promote this fear. Thanks, Jean.
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Mr. Cole seems to see irrational thinking as one sided. If it is true what these guys did, they need to be jailed for a good long time. We seem to have a lot of articles about Repubs that say they should shut up, don’t be racist, be good little boys and girls.
I am not a Republican anymore because I don’t agree with top down thinking , from either side of the two parties but when I read an article that is one sided and conveniently puts Repubs as the bad guys thereby meaning the Left are the good guys, it does not resonate. It is hate thought. Most people on both sides are good,,the leaders on both sides are terrible.
If the author is against guns and the 2nd amendment, fine….He needs to say so but not try to couch his agenda by using one side against the other.
I will try to google his article that I am sure he did not write about the Fr. Hood shooter.
We are One and we’ve all had enough of it.