Former General And Tea Party Activist Calls For Uprising And Obama’s Arrest by Niki2

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Former General And Tea Party Activist Calls For Uprising And Obama’s Arrest

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Tuesday, December 31, 2013 9:54 AM

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Former general and Tea Party activist Paul Vallely is calling for the citizens of the U.S. to arrest President Obama. According to Right Wing Watch, Vallely said:

“I would say if we can make citizens’ arrest, I challenge our government that if we have people that are conducting treason against the United States and the best interests of our country, violating the Constitution, violating our laws, just as they are doing with these excessive executive orders that are coming out of the White House where you have a President and his team that doesn’t care about the Constitution.” ( http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/obama-presidency/former-us-gen
eral-wants-obama-placed-under-citizens-arrest-audio#)

He’s also calling for an Egyptian-style uprising against the U.S. government, a national recall election, and marching on state capitols. According to nutty right-wing site WorldNetDaily, Vallely said he’s getting lots of calls for interviews, and that millions of Tea Party Americans are looking for the type of leadership he and his compatriots are willing to provide. He said his ideas are resonating all over the country.

Unfortunately, he's wrong--except in that narrow little Tea Party World where they encourage one another. Vallely endorsed Larry Klayman’s march on Washington, which was supposed to draw a hundred million people. Instead, the rally fizzled so badly only about a hundred people showed up. Other rallies and events are considerably smaller now than they used to be. And a Gallup poll released on Dec. 11, 2013, shows that Tea Party support is at a record low of 22%. 24% call themselves outright opponents, while 48% are neutral. A majority of Americans now say they have an unfavorable opinion of the Tea Party, for the first time in history.

And what about the fact that Barack Obama was legally elected according to the United States Constitution?

Vallely’s answer to that came in a podcast a few days ago, where he said the elections which resulted in two presidencies for Obama in 2008 and 2012, “are known to be corrupt.” They must be, or Obama would not have been elected, he's saying. http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/u-s-general-calls-for-massive-march-on-cong
ress-white-house/

The problem with what Vallely and others like him want is that they can’t see the forest for the trees. The Tea Party isn’t this wildly popular movement, drawing huge numbers of people. He and other Tea Party “leaders” might be wildly popular among the Tea Partiers, but not among the general population. The Tea Party suffers from serious delusions caused, in part, by hyper-partisan districts. The reason that’s a source of delusion is because it is very, very easy to believe that everyone everywhere thinks the same way you do when everyone you know (or represent) thinks that way.

Apparently, these delusions aren’t limited to people like Ted Cruz and Rand Paul. Vallely seriously believes that there’s a large majority of Americans who are so fed up with liberals, and Democrats, that they’ll back the Tea Party if it just has the right leadership. But there is very little evidence to support that idea. The polls don’t back it up. The elections didn’t. Business groups are openly targeting Tea Party candidates and incumbents. Other Republicans are distancing themselves from the Tea Party, too. When these guys call for a "massive uprising", almost nobody shows.

But in their own little echo chamber, laws and the Constitution don't mean anything; if they don't get what they want, REVOLUTION!

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Tuesday, December 31, 2013 9:13 PM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

I looked this dude up on Wikipedia. He was a big voice of support for the birthers.

I find it disturbing that a West Point graduate, who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and to obey the orders of his Commander in Chief, could advocate the overthrow of any President, for any reason.

But then again, he served in Vietnam; maybe we have to "destroy the Constitution in order to save it."

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Wednesday, January 1, 2014 11:55 AM

FREMDFIRMA

Feh, some days I wish the mouthy, gutless, hypocritical worms would try...
Give folks like *me* the excuse to do what we really, reallllly want to, unto THEM, and well, that won't be pretty at all.

Would solve, at least temporarily, the problem of such cretins, since with all their sockpuppetry and echo-chambering they have bought into their own myth that there's more than a tiny little handful of em, which in practice would lead to a curbstomping of epic proportion on sheer numbers alone.

-F

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Wednesday, January 1, 2014 1:45 PM

BYTEMITE

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Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:

Feh, some days I wish the mouthy, gutless, hypocritical worms would try...
Give folks like *me* the excuse to do what we really, reallllly want to, unto THEM, and well, that won't be pretty at all.

Would solve, at least temporarily, the problem of such cretins, since with all their sockpuppetry and echo-chambering they have bought into their own myth that there's more than a tiny little handful of em, which in practice would lead to a curbstomping of epic proportion on sheer numbers alone.

-F

Unsurprisingly, I'm with Frem.

The tea party will not be successful, and of course this former general is just manipulating the followers for his own ends.

But the only thing Bush did that Obama hasn't done was lie about a war. As far as I'm concerned they're all monsters who have betrayed the trust of the people.

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