Conspiracy theory: Obama to declare martial law or something?
A post at LewRockwell.com is worrying whether U.S. army will have a new enemy: American citizens:
Members of all branches of the United States Military will soon be facing a most critical decision. The European Union Times is reporting here that Obama is using the deployment of additional troops to Afghanistan to cover for the movement of some 200,000 troops, presently on duty in countries other than Iraq and Afghanistan, to USNORTHCOM to prepare for the “expected outbreak of Civil War within the United States before the end of winter.”
The claim is just so out there, I don’t know how to take it. Is this one of those truther or birther type conspiracy theories (or, say, DHS report on right-wing domestic terrorism) that have no legs to stand on? Or does this have some basis on facts?
In the end, even if the worst fears (about the ruling elite’s intentions) of Mr. Gaddy come true, I wouldn’t worry about it. Men and women of American military have been one of the most fiercest defenders of individual freedom—including the individual right to own and carry firearm—I have ever known. If orders were to come down for these patriotic men and women to trample on the constitutionally protected individual rights of Americans, I have every confidence that they will mutiny before following those orders—after all, Nuremberg tribunals proved that “just following orders” wasn’t an excuse for ignoring one’s conscience, and if I had to put my trust in anyone else’s conscience, I would put it in the conscience of American volunteer army.
If I am betrayed by this trust, well, the world as I know has come to an end and my most deeply held beliefs might as well break.