Gates Threatens Obama with US Military Coup
Sunday, 24 January 2010
by Francis A. Boyle - professor of international law at the University of
Illinois
According to today's New York Times, flying home on his way back from
Pakistan, Secretary of "Defense" Gates "relaxed on the 14-hour trip home
by watching 'Seven Days in May,' the cold war-era film about an attempted
military coup in the United States." Gosh, that's really relaxing! All of a
sudden out of nowhere Gates resurrects this ancient film and ostentatiously
lets the New York Times and the other media know that he is watching it on
his Pentagon plane home.
Obviously, Gates is sending a threat to Obama and the civilian
"leadership" in America: You risk a military coup if you do not do exactly
what we in the Pentagon tell you to do. This is no idle threat. And it can
happen here in America. Just remember the plutocratic sponsored military
coup attempt against President Franklin Roosevelt that was thwarted by
retired Marine Corps General Smedley Butler under similar economic and
political conditions.
If it had succeeded that anti-FDR coup would have established a fascist
dictatorship in America. I am not comparing Obama to FDR by any means. But
the historical parallels should be obvious to everyone. And remember that
Bush's General Tommy Franks publicly stated that in the event of another
major terrorist attack on America, the American people would demand that the
military shut the civilian government down. In other words, Gen. Franks too
publicly threatened a military coup against this Republic's democratically
elected civilian leadership.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are the sole responsibility
of the author
Pentagon Memo - Gates Sees Fallout From Troubled Ties With Pakistan -
NYTimes.com "His final message delivered, he relaxed on the 14-hour trip home
by
watching "Seven Days in May," the cold war-era film about an attempted
military coup in the United States."
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