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Coup d’etat
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/ ^ | July 13, 2013 | Paul Craig Roberts

Posted on 08/08/2013 11:59:38 AM PDT by BO Stinkss

The American people have suffered a coup d’etat, but they are hesitant to acknowledge it. The regime ruling in Washington today lacks constitutional and legal legitimacy. Americans are ruled by usurpers who claim that the executive branch is above the law and that the US Constitution is a mere “scrap of paper.”

An unconstitutional government is an illegitimate government. The oath of allegiance requires defense of the Constitution “against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” As the Founding Fathers made clear, the main enemy of the Constitution is the government itself. Power does not like to be bound and tied down and constantly works to free itself from constraints.

The basis of the regime in Washington is nothing but usurped power. The Obama Regime, like the Bush/Cheney Regime, has no legitimacy. Americans are oppressed by an illegitimate government ruling, not by law and the Constitution, but by lies and naked force. Those in government see the US Constitution as a “chain that binds our hands.”

The South African apartheid regime was more legitimate than the regime in Washington. The apartheid Israeli regime in Palestine is more legitimate. The Taliban are more legitimate. Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein were more legitimate.

The only constitutional protection that the Bush/Obama regime has left standing is the Second Amendment, a meaningless amendment considering the disparity in arms between Washington and what is permitted to the citizenry. No citizen standing with a rifle can protect himself and his family from one of the Department of Homeland Security’s 2,700 tanks, or from a drone, or from a heavily armed SWAT force in body armor.

Like serfs in the dark ages, American citizens can be picked up on the authority of some unknown person in the executive branch and thrown in a dungeon, subject to torture, without any evidence ever being presented to a court or any information to the person’s relatives of his/her whereabouts. Or they can be placed on a list without explanation that curtails their right to travel by air. Every communication of every American, except face-to-face conversation in non-bugged environments, is intercepted and recorded by the National Stasi Agency from which phrases can be strung together to produce a “domestic extremist.”

If throwing an American citizen in a dungeon is too much trouble, the citizen can simply be blown up with a hellfire missile launched from a drone. No explanation is necessary. For the Obama tyrant, the exterminated human being was just a name on a list.

The president of the united states has declared that he possesses these constitutionally forbidden rights, and his regime has used them to oppress and murder US citizens. The president’s claim that his will is higher than law and the Constitution is public knowledge. Yet, there is no demand for the usurper’s impeachment. Congress is supine. The serfs are obedient.

The people who helped transform a democratically accountable president into a Caesar include John Yoo, who was rewarded for his treason by being accepted as a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt school of law. Yoo’s colleague in treason, Jay Scott Bybee was rewarded by being appointed a federal judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. We now have a Berkeley law professor teaching, and a federal circuit judge ruling, that the executive branch is above the law.

The executive branch coup against America has succeeded. The question is: will it stand? Today, the executive branch consists of liars, criminals, and traitors. The evil on earth seems concentrated in Washington.

Washington’s response to Edward Snowden’s evidence that Washington, in total contravention of law both domestic and international, is spying on the entire world has demonstrated to every country that Washington places the pleasure of revenge above law and human rights.

On Washington’s orders, its European puppet states refused overflight permission to the Bolivian presidential airliner carrying President Morales and forced the airliner to land in Austria and be searched. Washington thought that Edward Snowden might be aboard the airliner. Capturing Snowden was more important to Washington than respect for international law and diplomatic immunity.

How long before Washington orders its UK puppet to send in a SWAT team to drag Julian Assange from the Ecuadoran embassy in London and hand him over to the CIA for waterboarding?

On July 12 Snowden met in the Moscow airport with human rights organizations from around the world. He stated that the illegal exercise of power by Washington prevents him from traveling to any of the three Latin American countries who have offered him asylum. Therefore, Snowden said that he accepted Russian President Putin’s conditions and requested asylum in Russia.

Insouciant americans and the young unaware of the past don’t know what this means. During my professional life it was Soviet Russia that persecuted truth tellers, while America gave them asylum and tried to protect them. Today it is Washington that persecutes those who speak the truth, and it is Russia that protects them.

The American public has not, this time, fallen for Washington’s lie that Snowden is a traitor. The polls show that a majority of Americans see Snowden as a whistleblower. It is not the US that is damaged by Snowden’s revelations. It is the criminal elements in the US government that have pulled off a coup against democracy, the Constitution, and the American people who are damaged. It is the criminals who have seized power, not the American people, who are demanding Snowden’s scalp.

The Obama Regime, like the Bush/Cheney Regime, has no legitimacy. Americans are oppressed by an illegitimate government ruling, not by law and the Constitution, but by lies and naked force.

Under the Obama tyranny, it is not merely Snowden who is targeted for extermination, but every truth-telling American in the country. It was Department of Homeland Security boss Janet Napolitano, recently rewarded for her service to tyranny by being appointed Chancellor of the of the University of California system, who said that Homeland Security had shifted its focus from Muslim terrorists to “domestic extremists,” an elastic and undefined term that easily includes truth-tellers like Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden who embarrass the government by revealing its crimes. The criminals who have seized illegitimate power in Washington cannot survive unless truth can be suppressed or redefined as treason.

If Americans acquiesce to the coup d’etat, they will have placed themselves firmly in the grip of tyranny.


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To: TexasRepublic
"After the Bush regime’s persecution of Texas border agents Ramos and Compean, I realized that something about that regime was dreadfully wrong. GWB could have pardoned those agents any time he wanted."

Good point Texas. There was also the remarkable failure of Bush to support Scooter Libby when it was no secret that Colin Powell's deputy, Richard Armitage, had confessed to exposing Valerie Plame to the media sources. It was Bush's Justice Department and Fitzgerald, the prosecutor, brought charges with a confession from Armitage in hand. That is tyranny and not rule of law.

21 posted on 08/08/2013 2:52:03 PM PDT by Spaulding
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To: EternalVigilance
Political leaders around the world who sanction human abortion, including our own, have already far surpassed their record of the shedding of the blood of the innocents.

I stand corrected, EternalVigilance.

22 posted on 08/08/2013 4:09:26 PM PDT by Standing Wolf
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To: laplata; stephenjohnbanker; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; uncommonsense
The Obama Regime, like the Bush/Cheney Regime, has no legitimacy. Americans are oppressed by an illegitimate government ruling, not by law and the Constitution, but by lies and naked force.

Under the Obama tyranny, it is not merely Snowden who is targeted for extermination, but every truth-telling American in the country.

It was Department of Homeland Security boss Janet Napolitano, recently rewarded for her service to tyranny by being appointed Chancellor of the of the University of California system, who said that Homeland Security had shifted its focus from Muslim terrorists to “domestic extremists”...

Gentlemen, start your engines....

How much LESS can the Eunuchs(R) do to further enable and promote this institutionalized NWO treason shoved down our throats??

How did we arrive to this day?

The blood-sucking of Reagan's America and Sovereignty began under GH NWO Poppy Bush; It was further made a mockery by Bubba (House-Impeached) Klintoon; the baton was handed down to GW Bush whose Patriot Act suffocates us still. Now Gangsta-0 has made calling Evil "Good" an art-form as he rolls up and crams the USCON down or up every orifice possible....

AND STILL, NO enmasse Congressional outrage from Republican "leaders"??

The Dems as we well know are the USA Communist Party. Expecting the NWO-GOPe-Dem-Vichy collaborators Boehner, McConnell, McStain, Cantor, and Lady Lindsey to stop this national execution is not gonna happen.

Viable solutions to this? We are indeed amidst an obvious Coup d’etat. What cards are left to play?

Until Country Club Republicans, Party organizers at the local level AND military-types concede that Amnesty means America dies and surrenders without a fight, we WILL die. Is that what they really wnat? They 30 pieces of silver?? Honor. Is it an extinct American virtue?

Frankly, until it is conceded that GW Bush changed America forever FOR THE WORSE, and indeed collaborated with 0bama, our side has lost the initiative, and focus, is confused and divided. Simply, the Friends of our Enemies are...our Enemies. DEADLY Enemies.

The Bushes are Trojan Horse Destroyers of American Sovereignty and must be regarded as nothing BUT. The Stockholm Syndrome regard that some can't break loose of is helping the New World Order achieve it goal. God help us.

23 posted on 08/08/2013 4:26:51 PM PDT by USS Johnston (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke)
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To: TexasRepublic
After the Bush regime’s persecution of Texas border agents Ramos and Compean, I realized that something about that regime was dreadfully wrong. GWB could have pardoned those agents any time he wanted.

BINGO!!!

24 posted on 08/08/2013 4:27:36 PM PDT by USS Johnston (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke)
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To: laplata
The American “Nomenklatura” is now in place. They are using all the resources available, including the US Military, to implement the New World Order. The American people are going to become Sacrificial Lambs once they are no longer needed. IMO

Bears repeating! Time is running out. QUICKLY!!

25 posted on 08/08/2013 4:29:00 PM PDT by USS Johnston (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke)
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To: WhoisAlanGreenspan?
The obvious question is why the author thinks the Bush/Cheney Regime, had no legitimacy.

Because THEY worked on behalf of a transnational New World Order and NOT in the interest of US Sovereignty.

They undermined our security at the Mexican Border, enacted the unconstitutional Patriot Act, protected and coddled the Saudis and their interest above our own, spilled American blood and poured trillions into a Muslim stronghold that would NEVER become anything BUT an Islamocracy, and perpetrated a "War on Terror" that NEVER protected the US border from an invasion of our southern flank WHILE supporting Amnesty BACK THEN.

Furthermore, for EIGHT years, they NEVER promoted Conservative Agenda AND laid the red carpet for 0bama. So in WHOSE interest did they act?

26 posted on 08/08/2013 4:40:12 PM PDT by USS Johnston (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke)
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
The NSA is currently determining who the trouble makers will be when Martial Law is imposed. They'll be detained in advance of the regime's final push and sent to internment camps. That's a few years away, within 10 years.

I concur. Chaos, Anarchy, and Martial Law are the End Game. And suspension of the USCON under the auspices of "security".

Those who oppose Amnesty, a socialist America, and an obtrusive Patriot Act that regards conservatives and patriots as "The Enemy" ARE Trojan Horse traitors AND "The Enemy".

Everything is azz-backwards.

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." ~ Edmund Burke

27 posted on 08/08/2013 4:47:40 PM PDT by USS Johnston (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke)
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To: BO Stinkss
We Are Being Ruled by An Unconstitutional, Illegitimate and Hateful Government.

Succinctly put.

28 posted on 08/08/2013 4:49:25 PM PDT by USS Johnston (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke)
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To: USS Johnston

Bravo! Right on!


29 posted on 08/08/2013 5:34:50 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: PhilDragoo

Indeed. Thanks for the ping!


30 posted on 08/08/2013 9:02:52 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: USS Johnston; TexasRepublic

” After the Bush regime’s persecution of Texas border agents Ramos and Compean, I realized that something about that regime was dreadfully wrong. GWB could have pardoned those agents any time he wanted.”

THIS alone, should have clued even low information Republicans.

Bush also called us “vigilantes”


31 posted on 08/09/2013 10:13:23 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens. KILL THE BILL!)
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To: BO Stinkss

I didn’t know | Paul Craig Roberts had this in him....

B U M P!


32 posted on 08/09/2013 10:17:07 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens. KILL THE BILL!)
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To: USS Johnston
"The Dems as we well know are the USA Communist Party."

For those who are new to FR, or not up on recent US history, this statement is not opinioned or hyperbole.

Do an ixquick search on CPUSA (Communist Party USA)

Or a Startpage search on CPUSA.

Add in some top level democrat names like "Leon Panetta"... and your blood pressure will skyrocket...

33 posted on 08/10/2013 8:06:02 PM PDT by uncommonsense (Liberals see what they believe; Conservatives believe what they see.)
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To: uncommonsense
"The Dems as we well know are the USA Communist Party."
For those who are new to FR, or not up on recent US history, this statement is not opinioned or hyperbole.

AMEN! And why do Republicans fail to trumpet this distinction?? Commies, d@mmit!! Dem caucuses: COMMUNIST! AND...THE President himself is a d@mn, flaming Commie!! Pubbies need to shout it from the rooftops, making it a national referendum! (IF they sported anything other than ovaries).

Do an ixquick search on CPUSA (Communist Party USA)

"ixquick" -- right there with you, my friend :-)

34 posted on 08/11/2013 7:58:49 AM PDT by USS Johnston (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke)
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To: stephenjohnbanker; TexasRepublic

NEVER forget The Alamo; And NEVER forget that SOB GW Bush referred to American Patriots as “Vigilantes.”


35 posted on 08/11/2013 8:00:27 AM PDT by USS Johnston (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke)
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To: uncommonsense
Add in some top level democrat names like "Leon Panetta"... and your blood pressure will skyrocket...

(popping nitro) I know, I know ;-)

36 posted on 08/11/2013 8:01:41 AM PDT by USS Johnston (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke)
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