Say Anything Blog

The Huffington Post manages to consistently plumb new depths of hatred and sociopathology, but today Martin Lewis posted what is probably the most loathsome piece of garbage yet - General Pace, You Can Save the US - by Arresting Bush for "Conduct Unbecoming".

This is what I wrote to the HuffPo in response:

Dear Whomever,

Martin Lewis' post calling for a coup against the White House is a new low for the Huffington Post. Is the Huffington Post going to stand by this traitorous incitement to overthrow our democratically-elected President? Is that what the Huffington Post stands for - illegal militarism in the name of punishing policies some leftist doesn't like?

I urge you to retract this post, fire Martin Lewis, and issue an apology.

Sincerely outraged,

Ken McCracken

I sincerely urge everyone out there to contact the Huffington Post and let them know this crosses the line. Big time.

And please, no 'corrections' defending Lewis claiming he is not calling for a coup d'etat. The only mechanism for relieving the President of his duties as Commander-in-Chief lies in impeachment - what Lewis is calling for completely subverts the Constitution.

P.S. Ed Morrissey agrees that Lewis is pleading for the destruction of the Constitution:

Lewis quotes extensively from the Uniform Code of Military Justice, but clearly his scholarship does not extend to the Constitution. The command of the armed forces follows from the president's election to office, and cannot be separated from the office itself. Bush isn't C-in-C because he got appointed to that position, but because the American electorate voted him into that role. In other words, the military cannot arrest the C-in-C but leave the President in power, and to argue otherwise is to demonstrate complete ignorance.

Secondly, the President does not serve at the pleasure of the Joint Chiefs -- and indeed, the military is subservient to the civilian command structure. They do not have arrest authority over the President -- nor over anyone else in the US other than military personnel, as the Posse Comitatus Act stipulates. Civilian oversight keeps the military from seizing power and is a long and vital tradition in this nation. It's what keeps us from becoming a banana republic, run by military strongmen.

And one of his commenters notes "See? Liberals DO support our troops."

Crossposted from WILLisms.com