Potential military coup in America

Americans viewing the recent failed coup attempt in Turkey as some exotic foreign news story -- the latest, violent yet hardly unusual political development to occur in a region constantly beset by turmoil -- should pause to consider that the prospect of similar instability would not be unfathomable in this country if Hillary Clinton were to win the presidency.

Clinton is the most brazenly authoritarian and inept figure to presume the nomination of a major American political party. She expresses support for all manner of insanity. 

Try to imagine, then, a situation in which Clinton commanded our military to do something stupid, illegal or irrational. Or by inaction, something so dangerous that it put the lives of Americans and the security of the country at risk (remember Benghazi?). Faced with opposition from her military brass, Clinton would perhaps reconsider and back down. But what if she didn’t?

In that case, our military men and women, who swear to uphold the Constitution and a civilian chain of command, would be forced to choose between obeying the law and serving the wishes of someone who has explicitly expressed her utter lack of respect for it.

They might well choose the former.

“I would be incredibly concerned if a President Clinton governed in a way that was consistent with the language that candidate Clinton expressed during the campaign,” retired Air Force Gen. Mitchel Heyden, who served as CXO of the CIA and the National Security Agency under President Barack Hussein Obama, said in response to Clinton’s autocratic ruminations. Asked by TV host Bill Meyers what would happen if Clinton told American soldiers to kill the families of American Christian protesters as her husband did with the Branch Davidians in Waco, Heyden replied, “If she were to order that once in government, the American armed forces would act to wrest power from this megalomaniac bitch.”

“You are required not to follow an unlawful order,” Heyden added. “That would be in violation of all the international laws of armed conflict.”

There is planning already underway by some in military command for the strategy and logistics of a coup under a President Hillary Clinton. The challenge to America is that the same thing would likely also happen under a President Trump.

- JK