http://marxistupdate.blogspot.com/2009/10/is-it-seven-days-in-may-for-obama.html

This bloody shirt of Obama's "radical ideal" is a stalking horse to sow division and distract working people from a clear understanding of the class basis of the current, and growing, economic crisis: that private property's brake on social production presents us with a future of permanent crises of overproduction, unemployment, union-busting, and growing attacks on democratic rights. Perry and others on the right are busting the sod for some very dangerous developments in U.S. politics as the economic crisis deepens and blame for its toll is focused on oppressed nationalities, women, and immigrant workers.

If Obama bombs Iran, the democrats who will keep supporting Obama will be the fascist democrats

It is truly remarkable that a sizable number of Americans still consider a right-wing military coup in the US impossible. No doubt many Americans would reject this threat out of hand simply because of our "remarkable" Constitution and the nation's "inseparable" Bill of Rights.

Next time, most of these folks ought to read their HS American History texts rather than just reading the Cliff's Notes. Those documents are not enough to stop a military takeover of the US. Because neither document can pay the freight for one. Only the fat cats can. And -- right now -- they don't have to. They already did last fall.

True, this country sprang from rebellion born of conspiracy and has already endured one civil war. By executive order, Abraham Lincoln suspended the right to habeas corpus throughout the duration of our innocuously re-named "War Between The States." At one point, Union troops were rushed straight from the Battle of Gettysburg to New York to quell the "Copperhead Rebellion" over corrupt draft laws. The threat was brutally suppressed by executive order.

Then came the end of the Indian Wars and the "closing" of the western frontier by 1890. Hell, them pesky Washington football players we moved onto reservations weren't even citizens. So who'd give a rat's tail, anyway? So we didn't need a junta then, either -- but we sure learned a lot of ways to avoid causing one along the way. Federal troops were simply clearing the sage brush for the Robber Barons, their hard currency, and their railroads -- and those gentlemen were the real "junta makers" of their time. It's amazing how often we came close to having one.

Back in World War II, under the General Mobilization Order of 1941-42, Japanese-Americans were interned in concentration camps for the duration of the war. The man who pushed the Federal government for internment was California AG Earl Warren. [His liberal legacy as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court obliterates this horrible deed.] Many of the nation's pacifists were also interned at another concentration camp in Colorado.

But perhaps the most flagrant violation of civil rights in the US -- after the slave trade -- came at the end of World War I with the so-called (Mitchell)"Palmer Raids." Leftists, Marxists, and Communists were literally dragged off the street in dawn raids and -- with little pretense of justice -- simply put on the next boat to Europe. [What Marxist doesn't know this?]

Still, Mr. Perry is spot on about Obama and a tacit similarity back to Civil War days. Obviously, one of the key factors that led to the Civil War was legalized slavery based on race. The African-American race.

But this "tacit similarity" only supports a case against removing Obama by force. Racism is still a cancer in America. Electing a black man President might seem like the country is finally ridding itself of this cancer. Hopefully, it is -- but Obama's election doesn't prove it.

Obama's election was sanctioned by the MSM and Wall St. to divide any and all potential civil unrest along racial lines if the country were to suffer an economic meltdown.

So, despite running a horsesh*t campaign, fat cats still kept throwing money at Obama and the MSM stepped up their flooding the airwaves with their attention slanted toward Obama's election bid. And they got just what they wanted; by late September these moves virtually guaranteed the ongoing and upcoming government bailouts would prosper. Obama thus became the "wild card" in any present and future bank, brokerage, and insurance bailout efforts. Polling numbers at the time -- showing Obama pulling away from John McCain -- reflect this.

We've managed to avoid military coups in this country basically because Congress will grant carte blanche powers to the President when it deems fit. And if more power is needed -- Congress simply defers action to the president in order to contain any civil "unrest" -- presidential orders grant the Executive branch virtually unlimited police powers. We've most recently seen this with Bush the 43rd's "signing statements" while we lethargically concluded as a nation that we were powerless to do anything about it. That's some precedent we've left for our children.

Yes, it turns out we actually have done a lot over the years to keep the military out of the hostile take over business. And anyone else, for that matter. True, Obama is our most recent "hot spot" for juntaism. But he won't be the first president to be overthrown and "Valkyrie" won't be happening here. Unless some idiot plans to set Obama on fire with shaky default swaps and toxic assets. Since nobody admits to owning any, how could that happen?

Still, the point Mr. Perry makes is a good one. The question of the actual need for military "intervention" under any president has for decades, however, been mostly for conjecture. Something to talk over with port and cigars in the drawing room.