A Stealth Coup d'État in the United States
By Lawrence Sellin
On November 19, 1863 during the
Consecration of the National Cemetery following the July 1-3, 1863
Battle of Gettysburg, President Abraham Lincoln pondered whether the new
nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all
men are created equal could long endure.
Contrary to Lincoln's hope, the government of the people, by the people and for the people is now perishing from the earth.
Military historian Edward Luttwak
described a coup d'état as an infiltration of a small, but critical,
segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the
government from its control of the remainder.
The U.S. government has been infiltrated
by ambitious and greedy men and women whose allegiance is not to their
country, but to themselves and their political party.
The aims and conduct of the Democrat and
Republican establishments have become antithetical to the principles
upon which the nation was founded. Their aims are driven by political
expediency and winning elections for the sole purpose of attaining and
maintaining personal power and profit. Their conduct is based on
remaining unconstrained by the Constitution and the rule of law and
unaccountable to the American people.
Elections are in no way about
representative government, but instead are contests to determine who
will possess the power to allocate favors and redistribute wealth from
ordinary Americans to a small group of political supporters.
Corrupt politicians, the front men and
operational arm of networked financiers, siphon off the wealth created
by hard-working Americans while preserving the illusion of democracy for
the now disenfranchised voters. Faux journalists, who falsely proclaim
themselves as tireless defenders of liberty, then distort the news in an
effort to manipulate public opinion to further the goals of selected
politicians and their wealthy benefactors.
The real issue of the 2012 campaign is
not Obama's record or Romney's business acumen. It is the endemic
corruption in the federal government perpetrated by a permanent
political class, financed by crony capitalism and facilitated by a
fawning media.
The United States is on the verge of
collapse because without adherence to the Constitution and respect for
the rule of law no economic or any other policy can succeed. As long as
the corrupt status quo continues, it matters little who wins in November
because, ultimately, the ordinary American loses.
Many of those presently in the federal
government have violated their oaths of office to support and defend the
Constitution, they have obstructed justice and they have scorned and
rejected citizens' attempts to petition for the redress of grievances.
Democrat and Republican elected officials continue to block any objective investigation of Barack Obama's personal history because it would reveal dereliction of duty by most and criminal conspiracy by many.
The politicians recognize that if the
truth was told about the depth of the corruption and the extent of the
criminality in the government, the American people would rise up in open
rebellion against those who have undermined the Constitution and
flouted the rule of law.
As Abraham Lincoln said, the American
people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to
overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the
Constitution. The loyalty of the American people is to our country and
our Constitution, not to shady officeholders or petty bureaucrats.
Between now and Election Day on November
6, 2012, there is a window of opportunity to stop the coup d'état,
restore the Constitution, uphold the rule of law and pave the way for
the election and appointment of honest members of government.
Thomas Jefferson wrote:
"And what country can preserve its
liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this
people preserve the spirit of resistance?"
The battle line of the Second American
Revolution has been drawn: expose Obama and the entire corrupt system
protecting him will also be exposed.
The time for education and persuasion is over. The time for resistance has come.
Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. is a retired
colonel with 29 years of service in the US Army Reserve and a veteran of
Afghanistan and Iraq. Colonel Sellin is the author of "Afghanistan and the Culture of Military Leadership". He receives email at lawrence.sellin@gmail.com
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