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Title: Army colonel ignites firestorm with article on crushing a 'tea party insurgency'
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URL Source: http://www.examiner.com/article/arm ... rushing-a-tea-party-insurgency
Published: Aug 10, 2012
Author: Anthony Martin, Conservative Examiner
Post Date: 2012-08-10 01:49:25 by Tatarewicz
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Views: 277
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A retired U.S. Army colonel who now teaches modern warfare to soldiers at the University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. has co-written an article with a Civil War expert that has ignited a firestorm today among those increasingly concerned about what some say is a distinct anti-civilian tone that has infected much of the military and Homeland Security since 2009. Retired Col. Kevin Benson and Jennifer Weber, Associate Professor of History at the University of Kansas, co-wrote an article for Small Wars Journal on a 2010 Army report titled, "U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, The Army Operating Concept 2016 - 2028." The report describes how the Army will respond to threats "at home and abroad" in the coming two decades and in doing so has made clear that a monumental cultural shift has occurred in the thinking of those at the top levels of military command. This shift has some government watchdogs worried, particularly given that Benson is using the platform provided at Fort Leavenworth to educate military personnel in his vision of the nature of modern warfare in America. According to the vision articulated by Benson, future warfare will be conducted on our own soil. The military will use its full force against our own citizens. The enemy will be average citizens whose values resonate with those articulated by the tea party. The fictitious scenario used in the Army report as a teaching tool is a future insurrection of "tea party activists" in South Carolina. As the scenario goes, the tea party group stages a takeover of the town of Darlington, S.C. The mayor is placed under house arrest and prevented from exercising his duties. The police chief, the county sheriff, and other law enforcement officials are removed from office and told not to interfere. The city council is dissolved. The governor of the state, who had previously expressed solidarity with tea party goals, does little to address the situation. A news conference is called by the new town leaders, all tea party activists, who tell the media that due to the failure of central government to address the concerns of the citizens, the Declaration of Independence has been re-imposed and the local government has been declared null and void. From the report: When the leaders of the group hold a press conference to announce their goals, they invoke the Declaration of Independence and argue that the current form of the federal government is not deriving its “just powers from the consent of the governed” but is actually “destructive to these ends.” Therefore, they say, the people can alter or abolish the existing government and replace it with another that, in the words of the Declaration, “shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.” While mainstream politicians and citizens react with alarm, the “tea party” insurrectionists in South Carolina enjoy a groundswell of support from other tea party groups, militias, racist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan, anti-immigrant associations such as the Minutemen, and other right-wing groups. Several items of interest are to be noted in the scenario the Army uses to describe the tea party activists -- "right wing," "extremists," "insurrectionists," all of whom are lumped together with militias and organizations that are considered "racist" and "anti-immigration." By contrast, those who oppose the tea party are referred to as "mainstream." The obvious question that arises is why would this sort of scenario, with its obviously biased and skewed portrayals, be presented as a teaching tool to military personnel? Why would the U.S. military consider the tea party to be "extremist" or "insurrectionist?" And why would the tea party be classified together with groups that are "racist, "anti-immigration," and "extremist right wing?" In the numerous tea party rallies that have occurred across the nation no racism was noted by any observer. Speakers included persons of all races and ethnic backgrounds. No sentiment was expressed against legal immigration but outrage was directed toward those break the law and enter the country by illegal means. And the charge that the tea party is extremist right wing is difficult to justify given that the main thrust of the movement is the protest against runaway government spending that has placed the nation on the brink of economic ruin due to its enormous and unsustainable debt. Yet repeatedly since the election of Barack Obama in 2009, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has referred to the tea party as "potential homegrown terrorists." Why? Not a shred of evidence remotely suggests that the tea party has any connection whatsoever with terrorists. Yet some of President Obama's closet longtime friends have not only been associated with terrorism but actively participated in it, such as Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, who as members of the Weathermen from the 1960s and 70s bombed federal buildings that resulted in the deaths of police officers. But if one listens to the rhetoric emanating from the White House, DHS, and now the U.S. military, one gets the impression that none of the president's friends ever posed a threat to the country but hundreds of thousands of tea party activists are ticking time bombs lying in wait to unleash a nuke on an American city at the drop of a hat. The brainwashing against conservatives by this administration has had a definite impact on the military. One analyst who works for retired U.S. Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely told this reporter that now over half of Pentagon personnel are solidly in Obama's corner and share his values and world view. And with the publication of the Benson and Weber article, it is now clear that the U.S. Army considers it a valid proposition to assume that a future civil war will be sparked not by extremist Islamists with dirty bombs or left wing insurrectionists inspired by Alinsky or Ayers but by the tea party and the conservatives who participate in it. ALERT! Brand New! A new entry in my regular series Musings After Midnight is now posted at my blog, The Liberty Sphere. It's titled "With All of THIS Going On, It's Enough to Make a Normal Person Become a Conspiracy Theorist." Don't miss it! As an original foot-soldier in 'the Reagan Revolution' that led to the election of Ronald Reagan, Anthony G. Martin is no stranger to politics, particularly in the state of his birth, South Carolina. Poster Comment: Scott Harrison · Top Commenter · Tampa, Florida A retired military officer wuld come up with this because we develop scenarios in the military to discuss the moral, legal, ethical and logistical issues of dvierse viewpoints. It doesn't mean we support the scenario but a failure to discuss, study and evaluate possible outcomes is bad. We used to train and teach the possibility of Russians invading europe and how they would win but we never advocated this outcome. Writing about the situation does not mean advocating. Also, it is possibly easier to describe the Tea Party patriots as the subversive group than to name the crent administration or Progressive Party as subversive. Tatarewicz: Bureaucracy just preparing to nip in the bud any Arab Spring that might mobilize in America.
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#1. To: Tatarewicz, All (#0)
What's old is new again: "Since you don't have anything to eat, obviously you can not continue to live on this farm as you can not sustain yourself, so the Federal government must take care of you. We will relocate you to a refugee camp and will burn the house and outbuildings." General Sherman also wrote to U.S. Brigadier General John Eugene Smith at Allatoona, Georgia, on July 14, 1864: "If you entertain a bare suspicion against any family, send it to the North. Any loafer or suspicious person seen at any time should be imprisoned and sent off. If guerrillas trouble the road or (telegraph) wires they should be shot without mercy." Same Federal troops, nothing has changed except the uniform. Any questions? Class dismissed..... The military will use its full force against our own citizens.
-Alex Kurtagic
#2. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
The true enemy will be the Federal Reserve Bank owned U.S. FEDERAL Govt and whatever mercenary force they enlist. This evil force will be funded by those average Americans targeted for extinction. Way to go ! The military will use its full force against our own citizens. The enemy will be average citizens whose values resonate with those articulated by the tea party.
"In an unjust society, the only place for a just man is prison."
Thoreau
#3. To: Tatarewicz, All (#0) (Edited)
OathKeepers and others may need to step up their efforts to grow our numbers. Civil war may be in the air. If the one from 150 years ago was really a "war of northern aggression," what will be the catch phrase for current events? 'Maybe the elite war for our minds or, the war of elite propaganda? The first one was won by the wrong folks and our present situation is the result. What will our great grandchildren face if the info war is lost?
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#4. To: noone222 (#2)
This is purely hypothetical, but if they plan to send their mercs after civilians, why not plan a pre-emptive targeting of bankers? A man has not just a right, but a duty to protect his family from those that would do them harm.
#5. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
There is a slew of evidence that the FED GOV and the War Party are terrorist. Not a shred of evidence remotely suggests that the tea party has any connection whatsoever with terrorists.
#6. To: Obnoxicated (#4)
Indeed. The FEDERAL GOVT (congress) that has allowed the country to be taken over by bankers is every bit as guilty of murder, treason, subversion, and genocide as the bankers and none should escape justice. A man has not just a right, but a duty to protect his family from those that would do them harm.
"In an unjust society, the only place for a just man is prison."
Thoreau
#7. To: X-15, 4 (#1)
In a few years, the Bois d'Arc Creek in Fannin County will be replaced by the Lower Bois d'Arc Reservoir. What was once bottomland hardwood forest will become a 17,000 acre water supply project. Brothers Russell and William Graves are teaming up to produce a film about growing up along the Bois d'Arc and what the loss of this valuable habitat means to those that have a history with the land. For more on the documentary, see www.russellgraves.com/
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them ~ Thomas Jefferson
#8. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
Because they are a threat to the elites. When people exercise their desire to live free of tyranny tyrants quake. This Colonel should be shot for treason or hung from nearest convenient Oak tree as a treasonous swine as that is what he is. The obvious question that arises is why would this sort of scenario, with its obviously biased and skewed portrayals, be presented as a teaching tool to military personnel? Why would the U.S. military consider the tea party to be "extremist" or "insurrectionist?" And why would the tea party be classified together with groups that are "racist, "anti-immigration," and "extremist right wing?"
#9. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. ... July 4, 1776
In Congress Assembled,
#10. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
This well could be simply made up. Who is the "one" analyst? Who is Vallely? One analyst who works for retired U.S. Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely told this reporter that now over half of Pentagon personnel are solidly in Obama's corner and share his values and world view.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
#11. To: X-15 (#1)
Nice academic course there X. Any questions? Class dismissed.....
"Satan / Cheney in "08"
#12. To: Lod (#7)
Russell Graves finished his documentary and it's won a couple of awards, it shows on TV occasionally.
-Alex Kurtagic
#13. To: Original_Intent, tom007 (#8)
I have to disagree my friend. He's alerting us to a possible scenario. The system used those who support Ron Paul against him even though Paul does not endorse their politics, and the likelihood of an uprising in Darlington, SC or anywhere else being supported by "unapproved or non PC" (wink wink) groups elsewhere would be all the propaganda needed to "nape the village". The reality is this: Even if every working man and woman rises up against the IRS and the middle class wage tax, it will be heartily endorsed by "tax protestors who finger non Christians in New York City as the primary beneficiaries" and therefore an invalid grievance against FEDGOV, Inc. The system will use any dirty trick to keep the taxes coming and use that money to subsidize the browning of America. And, for those who doubt that over half of the Pentagram "supports Obama and his values and world view", it's quite likely that the grunt military is 70% black now, with The US AIR FORCE lowering the overall average. It should surprise no one if a possible black uprising occurs and tank crews lower their American flags and run up the African flag or clenched fist. "Also, it is possibly easier to describe the Tea Party patriots as the subversive group than to name the current administration (and the majority black armed forces) or Progressive Party as subversive." The scenario is a disturbing one, but no more so than the interviews with marines, asking if they'd use force against Americans. Who knows what mischief we prevented by being alerted to that? Col. Kevin Benson, USA (ret) may be vindicated as a visionary and a good friend to civilians who are disturbed at what's happened in America. Forewarned is forearmed. This Colonel should be shot for treason or hung from nearest convenient Oak tree as a treasonous swine as that is what he is.
#14. To: HOUNDDAWG (#13)
Half the Pentagram is for BO? Quite likely?????? 70% black? And, for those who doubt that over half of the Pentagram "supports Obama and his values and world view", it's quite likely that the grunt military is 70% black now, with The US AIR FORCE lowering the overall average.
"Satan / Cheney in "08"
#15. To: wakeup (#3) (Edited)
Hunger games. What will our great grandchildren face if the war is lost?
____________________________________________________________ . . . The US government has declared civil war on itself. Its lust for war grew so great... Liberty before death. We run , we live, We fight again, till we win. We did not start this fight. We damn sure did not willingly pay our taxes to buy the bullets and drones that shall be used to kill us. We will correct the violations of this rogue nation....our rogue nation. We will fix this because nobody else can. You will work to help me help us all to fix this failure. After you're done educating yourself, Action!!!
#16. To: HOUNDDAWG (#13)
While your reasoning seems sound enough I guess my thought is that the scenario voiced by the worthy Col. is one that 20 or 30 years ago would have sparked a firestorm of outrage but now, through the magic of media control, it is almost mainstream. The overtones disquiet me. To besmirch and degrade patriots who only want to see what is best for the country, and its people, derided as kooks and nuts is disturbing whatever the context. However, your thought that the good Colonel is providing an indirect warning does provide something to chew on. You are no doubt correct in saying that it is politically impossible to name the Red Diaper Doper Babies as a subversive threat. I have a few other thoughts but I want to chew on it a bit before I stick my foot in my mouth.
#17. To: Tatarewicz, Horse, All (#0)
Cross-referencing their blather and related info at 4um Title: Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A “Vision” of the FutureRetired Col. Kevin Benson and Jennifer Weber, Associate Professor of History at the University of Kansas, co-wrote an article for Small Wars Journal on a 2010 Army report titled, "U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, The Army Operating Concept 2016 - 2028."
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
#18. To: Original_Intent (#16)
The overtones disquiet me. To besmirch and degrade patriots who only want to see what is best for the country, and its people, derided as kooks and nuts is disturbing whatever the context. However, your thought that the good Colonel is providing an indirect warning does provide something to chew on. You are no doubt correct in saying that it is politically impossible to name the Red Diaper Doper Babies as a subversive threat. I have a few other thoughts but I want to chew on it a bit before I stick my foot in my mouth. Well, sure, it's disturbing but I trust my instincts and "The Colonel" was not endorsing the secret recipe scenario he predicted. He was as disturbed as you and I and will likely take some flak for it as did the senior instructors at The Army War College who warned that Israel ain't the chum that sold out politicians would have us believe. And those officers were just as delicate because of "Israel's sensitivities", too. The rank & file brass aren't selected for any of the Monica/Chandra "skull therapy", (or Jeff Gannon hard bodies-"8 inches uncut") the boodle or the blackmail used to control the "plurality of lifestyles" leadership of the bicameral open market arm sales committee we call The US Congress. The retired colonel lives on an honest pension and he's still free to exercise his 1st amendment right and gutsy enough to use it, assuming he doesn't leak "secret stuff". Did you get the impression that he was criticizing those of us who would recoil in horror from such a ghastly use of force against civilians? Therefore I submit that the only plausible purpose for such an article is to alert patriots who are inclined to act if they know that possible mischief is on the docket. Voters can now vet political hopefuls with incisive questions to head off the skullduggery before voting for or against them. If the good colonel was supportive of the plan he wouldn't warn us, unless he was offering an apologetic explanation (using the PNAC-designed template) about why America needs troops to occupy cities in the not too distant Orwellian future. The "Kristol Chandeliers Kosher Boys Choir" certainly knew better than to wish for a PLANNED Pearl Harbor Event (PPHE) and to openly advocate or suggest that the US Govt initiate it, too. The Colonel made it clear that (certain rogue factions of) the US Govt would be behind the future bayoneting of citizens that it labeled as "domestic terrorists" for that purpose. If "The Colonel" had hinted in any way that he supported that (the way PNAC "prayed fervently" for 9/11) then your first reaction would have been absolutely correct. My friend Dr. Roy Salls (retired LAPD Detective Lieutenant and La Brea Tar Pits Archaeologist) wrote his thesis entitled "METHODOLOGICAL MOUTHTALK- (How The LAPD Brass makes policy while trying not to put anything in writing that can later return to bother them), and Roy's thesis used the identical clinically detached tone to savage the LAPD as The Colonel's article. To those who are accustomed to "fighting words from pissed off patriots" it could easily be mistaken as advocacy. I'm telling you my friend, it was "Kristol Kleer" to mee that The Colonel was criticizing any such "evolution of force" by the govt while trying to avoid being called a commie by blind, (read: "stupid") "love it or leave it" loyalists, certain "militant non Christians" (wink wink) Zio Pubs and backroom billionaire puppeteers. While your reasoning seems sound enough I guess my thought is that the scenario voiced by the worthy Col. is one that 20 or 30 years ago would have sparked a firestorm of outrage but now, through the magic of media control, it is almost mainstream.
#19. To: HOUNDDAWG (#18)
Heh-heh. Do you think the Col. was covering his tracks with this? "While mainstream politicians and citizens react with alarm, the “tea party” insurrectionists in South Carolina enjoy a groundswell of support from other tea party groups, militias, racist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan, anti- immigrant associations such as the Minutemen, and other right-wing groups." A man who needs to resurrect all the near-archtypal SPLC spooks and bugbears to people his scenario ain't likely a friend of the folks. I may be small minded, but dollars to doughnut this feller won't be in the trenches when it hits. He'll likely be in his gated prepper retreat. Screw these people.
#20. To: randge (#19)
A man who needs to resurrect all the near-archtypal SPLC spooks and bugbears to people his scenario ain't likely a friend of the folks. I may be small minded, but dollars to doughnut this feller won't be in the trenches when it hits. He'll likely be in his gated prepper retreat. It was typical govt speak and standard boilerplate for military/domestic white papers of this type. It is actually neutral and does not signal advocacy or opposition, it's simply a matter of fact. It could be used to describe the unintentional groundswell for Ron Paul, or you and me if we struck a chord that vibrated in patriot hearts. It is no more indicative of "unfriendly to patriots" than pointing out that govt agents and bootleggers, defense attorneys, bail bondsmen, bankruptcy masters and coast guard gunners applauded Prohibition would be "unfriendly" to govt. All of the divergent if not opposing interests had reasons for supporting the Volstead Act and the truth is the truth no matter who doesn't like it falling upon their ears. "While mainstream politicians and citizens react with alarm, the “tea party” insurrectionists in South Carolina enjoy a groundswell of support from other tea party groups, militias, racist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan, anti- immigrant associations such as the Minutemen, and other right-wing groups."
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