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President Obama and His "Control Issues"

Captain Kid Wrote: Jan 31, 2010 6:18 PM
is really simple. IF Obama is stupid enough, and trust me I have NO DOUBT that he is, to build his "Civilian Army" and turn it loose on the American citizens, for ANY reason, the Marines and the Army WILL become involved, regardless of ANY order to "stand down."

I may only be a junior, or "Field Grade" officer, but I know that such an order from the Commander in Chief would be exactly the same as if he ordered us to "Stand Down" while a foreign army was invading our country, illegal, not to mention blatantly treasonous.

We would be derelict in our duty and our oath to the Constitution to obey such an order.

“This is just un-American! This is not the way things should be in my country…”

I took careful note of these words, as I sat in a bar and listened to a friend venting about his struggle. It was the week between Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day, and my friend (we’ll call him “Dave”), a former colleague from the media industry who has been unemployed for several months, did not have an optimistic outlook for 2010.

“I figured that I’d go ahead and get the ‘Obama loan’” Dave told me as he explained the difficulty he had with...