“Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! Thus, I give up the spear!”
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“I’ll follow him around the Horn, and around the Norway maelstrom, and around perdition’s flames before I give him up.”
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– Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Dale Franks notes the insanity [1] going on on the left, and insanity I’ve commented on here several times:
This is a seriously written bit of complete insanity. [2] And worse.
It’s from Martin Lewis at the Huffington Post, whoever he is. In this post, he writes an open letter to General peter Pace, the CJCS, urging him to—get ready for it—”relieve the president of command”.
Though you are Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the President’s principal military advisor – President Bush has shown his disdain for your honesty and wisdom. Though you are a decorated Vietnam war hero – who has served his nation honorably for four decades – the President is dispensing with your services. You have one month left in your position before you are tossed out by the President.
President Bush is going to ignore your advice. Just as he has ignored the advice of other Generals who have had the courage to respectfully point out how terribly wrong he is in respect of the Iraq War and the safety of the US military he is sworn to protect. Highly-decorated colleagues of yours such as General Anthony Zinni (Commander in Chief of U.S. Central Command), General Eric Shinseki (Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army) and General John Abizaid (Commander of the U.S. Central Command).
General Pace – you have the power to fulfill your responsibility to protect the troops under your command. Indeed you have an obligation to do so.
You can relieve the President of his command.1
Not of his Presidency. But of his military role as Commander-In-Chief.
Lewis then goes on to expound the most outrageously stupid legal theory, based on the Uniform Code of Military Justice, that would authorize such a move.
It’s difficult to know where to begin to even address this kind of neutron star density of stupidity.
It should no longer be unclear to anyone that what we are dealing with here is a far left that is Ahab-like in its desperation to ‘Get Bush”. Think;
The left has been screaming for years how untrustworthy the military was. Obviously, to now call a member of the military to take over the country so as to remove Mr. Bush, (something that they have been unable to do themselves, ) signals a desperation that they have been unwilling to admit to, even to themselves.
Forget the idea that what is being proposed by these idiots is unconstitutional and thereby impossible, forget that the UCMJ doesn’t apply to the president, who is, after all, a civilian, who was elected to the position… forget all that. What we are talking about here is the unconstitutional usurpation of command. Why am I not surprised that the left is proposing such an idea?
After all, since when has the constitution been a significant roadblock to the political aims of the Democrats? They simply ignore it, at need.
There is madness of a sort at work here. The comment that I posted from Hillary Clinton [3] yesterday I think correctly identifies the genesis of it. They recognize that power is being lost to them. Power, to the Democrats, is as life itself. It is as the breath that they take. The desperation that we see here takes on the quality of a drowning man, flailing about for something / anything that will float, thus sustaining that breath. The implication here is that they know the only way that they can maintain their power, is to usurp it… unconstitutionally. Illegally.
Sadly, this is not the worst example of this that we are going to see, between now and November of 2008. Nor, of course, is it the first.
I suppose it could be argued that these people are acting as enemy agents within our country, and are subject to the law . Sedition, you know is a serious crime, Democrats and their wet dreams not withstanding.
Then again, western law and western justice, which in turn is based on western morality, has always been lenient as regards the actions of the insane.