Once a week or so, I check out WorldNetDaily to see what the far-right of the Republican right is up to.
This week, they are, among other wingnuttery, promoting a "NATIONWIDE Call-to-Action, aka the Birther coup, by far-right veterans.
Here's a taste of how the Veteran Defenders of America (a WND-connected fundraising outfit) plan to celebrate Veterans Day this year:
We The Veteran Defenders of America and The United States Patriots Union call for a “unified march” from ALL fifty (50) states to Washington D.C. on Friday November 11, 2011, Veterans Day - led by American veterans and former service members with a clear purpose – to demand the immediate restoration of the U.S. Constitution, the removal and prosecution all of the individuals named herein (Obama, Biden, Boehner, Reid, Pelosi, McConnell, Cabinet secretaries, "czars," etc., who have all "committed treasonous acts against the people, the states and the U.S. Constitution"), by voluntary resignation or articles of impeachment, and the end to Sharia Law on American soil.
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To be prepared to act as citizens to protect and preserve the Constitutional Republic, in the event that our public servants, who have sworn an oath to the Constitutional Republic, refuse for any reason, to act upon those oaths.
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In the event that the current administration or its thug supporters attempt to use government or civilian force and violence to silence the people, as in the cases of Syria, Libya, Yemen, China’s Tiananmen Square, the Bonus Army of 1932 in the United States, or the UK presently wrestling with black and Muslim violence, the people must be prepared to defend themselves against such tyrannical tactics. We cannot expect that the federal government will act in the best interest of American veterans or citizens.
"Must be prepared to defend themselves" -- how will the Veteran Defenders of America do that, I wonder?
More, below.
The far-right veterans would prefer that Congress impeach Obama, et al., and that everyone go along with their weird plan to have Congress and the seven remaining Supreme Court Justices (sans Kagan and Sotomayor) appoint "new temporary Executive Branch members" to run the government until after the 2012 elections.
But, of course, the main target is our unconstitutional President -- there are 61 grounds for impeaching Obama ("only scratching the surface").
The first two are Birther gold:
1. Obama is a National Security threat since he definitely has questionable allegiance to the United States, not to mention his refusal to complete and release full, frank and truthful answers as to who he is. Obama has demonstrated a blatant disregard for the public safety and security.
2. Obama and his handlers released an obvious forged birth certificate after release at least two fraudulent COLBs (Certifications of Live Birth). Obama is also using numerous stolen Social Security numbers.
The rest are like that, a grain of truth (sometimes) buried in a big pile of paranoid wingnut fantasy.
A few examples:
5. In one year, Obama and his minions doubled our national debt, which took 200 years to accumulate.
7. Obama and his henchmen proposed a 1% tax on all bank transactions (HR4646) to be implemented after the November 2012 elections.
24. Obama has disgraced the United States by bowing to foreign potentates, while at the same time snubbed our longtime allies, Great Britain and Israel. Obama and his friends have deliberately fostered hate against the Jews and Israel by promoting Palestinian State.
48. At the expense of the American taxpayer to the tune of $6 Billion, Obama and his handlers have established their own Civilian Paramilitary Security Force made up with the likes of SEIU, STORM, ACORN, RUCKUS, The Apollo Project (Soros), AmeriCorps, Color of Change, Drummond Pike/Project and others who choose to remain anonymous.
Plus, there is the obligatory lie about how a few crackpots represent We the People:
The abuse and usurpation of the U.S. Constitution will not be allowed to stand. It is on this basis that We the People make these demands, in full compliance with the law of this land, the Constitution of the United States of America.
This kind of fevered language designed to open checkbooks is usually hidden away in direct-mail solicitations, but the internet has opened that hidden world of hyperbole up quite a bit.
The essential purpose of Veteran Defenders of America is not mass impeachment, or even organizing a march on Washington.
As with many of these wingnut groups (including WND), it's all about the Benjamins -- joining Veteran Defenders of America costs $29 a year (per person).
And that's all they really care about -- scaring the credulous enough to get some of their money.