Cole writes: "A 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."
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'
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.
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Hey, I remeber those days sitting in Ceasar's bar and grill next to the coliseum, having a cold flagon of wine and a chicken leg and telling my buddies how I was going to overthrow the empire and start a new religion. They said, give it up, Paul. Well, I showed them.
I do remember Alan Berg (after your timely reminder). What a sad day for free speech when a few can't contain their festering hatred, fed by such an unrelenting stream of high priced garbage.
I do believe we face similar levels of threat, that our DHS may not be protecting us from as "well" as they claim to be from external threats.
When you say
"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", you are using your imagination to supposedly create what would have happened. You can't KNOW this. As much as I hated the GWB regime and all it did, I would not be willing to say that I know what would have happened in any particular imagined case.
I suggest you go a little easier with the imagination from now on. This will make your writing stronger, clearer and more honest.
I agree, "supposing" is the stuff that Fox Noise programming thrives on. But don't we get tired of playing the PC game while the ignorant masses eat up the "suppose" journalism and vote accordingly? The democrats and the left in general are far too fair in this neo-American culture of "don't give a sucker and even break" and the realization that lies take time and money to un-do. No longer does this culture cast a stern eye at liars, cheats, thieves (unless they're petty), and ass holes.
I don't believe it's a stretch at all to suggest that conservatives would use a similar plot to further their agenda while the left will allow this news to pass without much fuss. These are the same people who wanted to put HIV+ people in concentration camps in the 1980s and today they want to deport tens of millions of illegal workers. The only way to accomplish this would be to round up these millions, tearing apart families and communities, and place them in detainment camps while they wait to be placed on trains and buses for deportation. It would be absolute chaos and inhumane to say the least. Conservatism in this country is a fascist and evil movement in my opinion. We can't KNOW the future, but we have plenty of evidence to back up our conjecture.
The average American has no access to any form of "military grade weaponry", unless they wish to purchase it illegally (which I have no doubt some do). The so-called "assault rifles" often discussed in the popular media do indeed LOOK like military weapons, but lack several key features--notab ly fully automatic fire--and do not function at all in the same way as "the real thing".
Meanwhile, during the U.S. occupation of Iraq, every family was allowed to keep an AK-47 (a real one, not a lookalike) at home for self-defense purposes. We permitted Iraqi civilians a freedom our own do not have.
I would be interested in learning the details of the "stockpile of weapons". There is no question that these are violent, bad-intention men. They are hardcore criminals who had no qualms about committing murder. Beyond that, they had "plans", which have been genuine or may have been angry talk spewed across a barroom after a few beers. A fair number of "terrorists" are currently serving long prison sentences for less.
Yes, the bad guys need to be attended to--these were. But we must take care that we do not become what we claim to fight, or lose what we claim to fight for.
http://www.northwestfirearms.com/general-firearm-discussion/6247-west-coast-machine-guns-cottage-grove.html
These guy's plot to kill the President, have an arsenal of military grade weapons and get held at county jail? No CIA and DHS? Oh yeah, they're white.
Meanwhile Republicans are whipping up homegrown hate, by fear-mongering and out-right lies that are being eagerly consumed by the ignorant masses. For the last 30 years, Republicans have been fostering ignorance by destroying our educational system to such an extent that CIVICS to most americans refers to a brand of car rather than knowledge of how our government is designed to work.
As long as we as a country continue down the road of partisanship both sides are going to take us right over the brink.
Neither of our two political parties offer any answers. Nor does the corporate road of profit and greed.
If not now, when do we actually begin to LIVE the essential teachings of every religion on this planet: treat others like we would wish to be treated, practice tolerance, forgiveness and understanding, and individually and as a society adopt the attitude of gratitude and love.
I know this sounds trite. But If we do start "becoming the changing we want to see" soon than we will surely destroy ourselves and the on which we live. Perhaps we are already too far gone. But at some point we must realize that we are in a very deep hole and we have to stop digging!
Slow down. Breathe. Meditate on what you want to say before you let your fingers touch the keys. Don't leave out important words like planet. ;)
Fort Stewart spokesman Kevin Larson said the Army has dropped its own charges against the four soldiers in the slayings of Roark and York. The Military authorities filed their charges in March but never acted on them. Fort Stewart officials Monday refused to identify the units the accused soldiers served in and their jobs within those units.
"Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield does not have a gang or militia problem," Larson said in a prepared statement, though he said Army investigators still have an open investigation in the case.
"However, we don't believe there are any unknown subjects," he said.
District Attorney Tom Durden said his office has been sharing information with federal authorities, but no charges have been filed in federal court. Jim Durham, an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Georgia, would not comment on whether a case is pending.
No other unknown suspects does not sound like some huge militia underground. It sounds like a few nuts here that killed their own; one of which turned States Evidence and is no doubt the source of the info. Plot on POTUS = reduced sentence for him.
When they're Islamic terrorists we send them to torture camps until they die of old age. We also have to look under our bed at night for other Muslims that might be lurking about. In short, we go into panic mode.
BUT, when they're just white republican terrorists who's only crime is taking AM radio seriously, we must turn the other cheek.
WHY IS THAT?
*bangs head against wall*
"We are all brothers under the skin, and I for one would be willing to skin humanity to prove it." --Ayn Rand
DO 'NOT' LOOK AT YOUR LEADERS AND WHERE THEY ARE TAKING YOU!!!!
LOOK OVER HERE!!! Someone is doing something!!!!
It is nothing short of a miracle, Mr. Cole, that "something very bad" has not happened already. Given the blatant lies, hatred of race and religious differences and any gender other than ass-kickin' white male, along with abysmal ignorance, sick media, joblessness, economic tragedy and a bunch of other incendiary issues, we have been sitting on a powder keg as the fuse burns right past our feet.
Meanwhile, our "officials" spy on and arrest peaceful people for saying what MUST be said. It is as though there is one act of "terror" that the U.S. won't tolerate, and that is the spreading of the Truth.
Amazing that this reported "incident" so far has been "brought to justice" by a magistrate in Ludowici, Georgia -- heretofore known as the Speed Trap of the Universe. Where are the FBI and CIA? Spying on the League of Women Voters, without a doubt.
I'm so sick and tired to hear the King and Bachmann thypes spew their whiteness over the networks as if "we care" about their phobic rhetoric. They live in hatred and breed it and pass it on from generation to generation.
If the white supreme type states don't want to cecede then why don't the rest of us leave and form our own "perfect union"
VOTE DEM, VOTE OBAMA or we will be ruled by this white trash and another one like Scalia will be appointed to the Supreme Court (maybe more than one)
VOTE - d..n it -- don't repeat 2010 by staying at home and complaining about Obama (He ain't king and Congress holds the purse -so he cannot DO ALL YOU THINK HE SHOULD)
And BTW - he's done a lot but gets absolutely no credit - even the Dems in Congress seem to have lost their voices.
VOTE
Um, they tried this one already...it was called seccession and it led to a little thing called the Civil War.
What about all of the african american, latinos and other minorities currently living in the south not to mention poor whites or workers fighting for the right to organize? would you simply abandon them to the whims of the ultra-right wing in the south?
And, King and Bachmann are not southerners so to say that the south should again secceed because you are sick and tired of King and Bachman (as am i) is a non-sequitur not to mention that it either ignores or covers over the racism that existed then and continues to exist in the north. The north on its own has never been the
"perfect union" you seem to be suggesting it would be without the south.
though it reads like a really bad B-movie, it makes you wonder about the possible connections to higher personnel. was there a Gen. Jack D. Ripper from "Dr. Strangelove" is a very easy leap.
we are living in a very sad time right now...
FOREVER.
They WANT to die, but we FORCIBLY deny them that right. We FORCE them to live so they can continue to be tortured and we can continue to "have a little fun".
If that's what we "must" do to deal with terrorism, then we MUST DO THE SAME THING TO THESE REPUBLICAN TERRORISTS.
WILL WE BE SENDING THEM TO GUANTANAMO?
I'd like to know, because either we need to shut down Guantanamo and put people on trial so they can be held in American prisons, or we should be consistent and TREAT ALL TERRORISTS THE SAME.
I wonder how well these repuglicans would stand up to the torture techniques they believe in using on little brown skinned people.
Drones. And, I am not saying Romney's death squad money is better. It may be worse. The constitution is debased over time by wordiness in regulations over the basics of the statutes. Larkin Rose epitomizes this. Also, "I did not have sex with this woman." Now, take Abdul-Rahman al-Awlaki as the same precedent.
The Old Guard we must replaced. Where is Indira Singh? Who is William Binney? What did Bernard Von NotHaus stand for?
I think it's interesting that you chose an article about republicans trying to murder the Democratic President of the United States, to make some snide remark about President Clinton committing a sin.
Clearly the guys who wanted to murder OUR PRESIDENT felt he isn't up to their moral standards either.
In English please?!
Backup and reference please.
And where was the outcry when tea-bastards carried guns openly to Obama public appearances? I suppose you'll say the wanted to protect him.
We are talking about home-based terrorism here, poisoning reservoirs, blowing up dams as well as assassination.
Again, only in America!
WHY DO REPUBLICAN TERRORISTS HATE AMERICA?!? I think they hate us for our freedoms.
Therefore, I don't think it would be safe for our homeland security to give these people a trial in the U.S. They need to be removed from our country where they can pose no threat. Afterall, we don't want our first warning to be a mushroom cloud, do we? After extraordinary rendition proceedures and a little creatively applied ENHANCED INTEROGATION, we will be able to rest in the knowledge that our country is still safe for freedom and democracy.
Just like Donald Rumsfeld said about brown-skinned terrorists, "ALL AMERICANS NEED TO WATCH WHAT THEY SAY". Any comments against the President of the United States (OUR President) should be taken for what they are: TREASON, and TERRORIST SYMPATHY.
Welcome to the US owner-media tabloids.
And it ain't because we have a "liberal" media.
It is ironic that NON-CENSORED news about USA is available on en.rian.ru/world/20120829/175490481.html
Who is the TOTALITARIAN state now?
You've uncovered their plan methinks. Such a measure would only allow the elites and their acolytes free reign over America.
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