COMMENT: With the budget talks coming down to the wire and growing [predictably] more acrimonious, it is worth noting the number of small planes that have intruded into Camp David air space–5 in one month. All apparently did so while Obama was at the retreat.
This is reminiscent of a number of “high, hard ones”–a baseball reference–that narrowly missed Bill Clinton’s chin while he was batting at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The phenomenon also brings to mind the mortality discussed in FTR #742.
Is this a form of sub-rosa political dialogue, analogous to the horsehead-in-the-bed gambit from the movie The Godfather?
“Fighter Jets Intercept Third Plane Near Camp David” [Reuters]; yahoo.com; 7/10/2011.
EXCERPT: Fighter jets intercepted a private plane near Camp David on Sunday, the third civilian plane this weekend to fly the restricted air space while President Barack Obama was at the Maryland retreat.
In all three cases, the planes were met by F‑15 fighter jets and landed without incident at nearby airports, North American Aerospace Defense Command spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Bill Lewis told Reuters.
Following two incidents on Saturday, a Cessna 182 that was out of radio communication was intercepted on Sunday morning by two fighter jets.
The plane landed at the Carroll County Regional Airport in Maryland. Lewis did not know if the plane was met by law enforcement but said that typically occurs in such cases.
The incident marked the fifth time in a month that fighter jets have scrambled to guide civilian planes away from the area while Obama was at the presidential retreat. . . .
COMMENT: Also reminiscent of the Clinton years is the cascade of violent, openly seditious rhetoric being dispensed by the GOP and its right-wing allies.
The NewsMax site recently featured an editorial calling–in effect–for a military coup to overthrow Obama. This recalls Senator Jesse Helms’ statement that Clinton would be in danger if he visited military bases in North Carolina.
EXCERPT: In a column posted yesterday at the conservative website NewsMax, John L. Perry wrote that a military coup “to resolve the ‘Obama problem’ ” is not “unrealistic.”
Newsmax appears to have taken down the column for its website, but it’s been archived at Media Matters for America:
Will the day come when patriotic general and flag officers sit down with the president, or with those who control him, and work out the national equivalent of a “family intervention,” with some form of limited, shared responsibility?
Imagine a bloodless coup to restore and defend the Constitution through an interim administration that would do the serious business of governing and defending the nation. Skilled, military-trained, nation-builders would replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars. Having bonded with his twin teleprompters, the president would be detailed for ceremonial speech-making.
Military intervention is what Obama’s exponentially accelerating agenda for “fundamental change” toward a Marxist state is inviting upon America. A coup is not an ideal option, but Obama’s radical ideal is not acceptable or reversible.
While it might be tempting to dismiss Perry as part of the far-right fringe, his credentials suggest otherwise. According to his NewsMax biography, Perry holds a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and has worked as an editor or reporter for several daily newspapers, including the Tampa Tribune, the St. Petersburg Times and the Clearwater Sun. . . .
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/politics/defense/coldunl.htm
Strange 1992 story about a “predictive” Pentagon essay in which a “Second Gulf War” ends with “Iran attacking U.S. troops in Iraq” and “too-feminized, too-civilian” troops “have forgotten how to fight”.
This right-wing “cautionary” fantasy requires a “2012 military coup”.
I’ve been saying forever to expect a Chilean-style military coup, in which civilian right-wing leaders declare (as Merkel & Cameron both did last year) that “Multiculturalism has failed” and that “civilian rule is inept and only military discipline can save society”.
However, I don’t expect to see it on Obama’s watch.
Odd as this sounds, here’s a bizarre forecast: The next president will be Hillary Clinton, who will be (Constitutionally) chosen in an Election of 1824 scenario.
There will be so many 2012 presidential candidates that no candidate will receive the minimum number of electoral votes (270).
This throws the election into the majority-Republican House of Representatives, who will split the vote between the “Tea Party” ticket and the GOP ticket. You can already see this strategy being engineered.
Hillary, in 3rd place with number of votes, will be chosen president & immediately labelled “illegitimate”. More engineered chaos, such as a few Whiskey Rebellions, and she’ll be the perfect Allende-style patsy-strawman for a military coup ... and it needn’t be overtly military, but rather a few Major Hasans (“Al Qaeda sympathizers infiltrating the military”) who crash their F‑16s into the Capitol Dome during a GOP walkout, eliminating the entire Democratic national leadership, which will also result in a need for a military “purge”.
April 4, 2015? Why not on Obama’s watch? Just look at his newest backstabbing of what’s left of the New Deal. (What would a Trojan Horse do?)
Google “The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012” for the full essay in pdf format.
@R. Wilson: Just finished reading it, and lemme tell you, it could be a REAL eye-opener, especially for vets & National Guardspeople.
Also, as for infiltrators, let’s NOT forget many of the white supremacists out there, they have their fingers in that pie as well.