Latest Right Wing Fantasy/Meme Being circulated:
Military Drawing Up Plans for Nation-wide Gun Confiscations
(As usual, not having any real things to glom onto, they invent fiction. Something else to work up their low-infomation base into a frenzy about.)
UPDATE: THIS WAS ORIGINALLY A SPOOF WRITTEN FOR DUFFEL BAG (A MILITARY VERSION OF "THE ONION"
WASHINGTON, DC – A senior U.S. general has confirmed that the military has secretly drawn up plans to round up large numbers of privately-owned firearms from American gun owners.
General James M. Scott of the U.S. Air Force confirmed that the Pentagon received a series of formal directives from the White House between November 7 and December 13 to begin plans for a massive nationwide operation to confiscate guns using a series of federal databases compiled over the last few decades.
Scott also confirmed that a certain four-star general who heads the U.S. Transportation Command was intimately involved in the planning. General Scott would not reveal the general’s name out of concerns for his safety.
The plan, known in the military as Operation PREAKNESS, combines a series of tactics developed for house sweeps and room clearing in Iraq and Afghanistan, which General Scott admitted had been used as test-runs for the U.S.
“If we can confiscate millions of firearms in a country where we don’t speak the language or understand the culture, the U.S. should be easy,” General Scott told the interviewer. “I just feel sorry for that poor Osama fellow we had to kill to justify the whole thing.”
According to Scott, the actual planning for Operation PREAKNESS was initiated in early 2009 and developed in conjunction with the United Nations, Senator Dianne Feinstein, and several other liberal organizations such as the National Organization for Women, Planned Parenthood, Greenpeace, the American Federation of Labor, and the National Rifle Association, which is apparently a front for all the previous groups.
While there was initially some concern about the constitutionality of using the military on American soil, page 2131 of the ObamaCare Act actually amends the Posse Comitatus law to allow the military to disarm private citizens at the direction of the Secretary of Homeland Security. Objections by then-CIA Director David Petraeus were quietly silenced in November.
A test-run for PREAKNESS was actually conducted in early December in Clinger, PA. A joint platoon of Army Rangers and UN Peacekeepers, working with select state and local officials and using imagery collected by the Google Street View Car, quietly went door-to-door and managed to collect all the firearms from Clinger owners.
The few owners who did complain were initially transported to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas to explain their case before a special international tribunal, before being sent to the National Center For Gun Control in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
A follow-on operation using just the UN Peacekeepers is planned later this week for any owners missed in the previous sweep, although the Peacekeepers have confirmed they will be using a post office truck to infiltrate the area.
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Actually it's really sounds like it should have been written by The Onion. At least the spelling is right.
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"Clinger, PA" as the city for a trial run! 
The few owners who did complain were initially transported to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas to explain their case before a special international tribunal, before being sent to the National Center For Gun Control in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
A follow-on operation using just the UN Peacekeepers is planned later this week for any owners missed in the previous sweep, although the Peacekeepers have confirmed they will be using a post office truck to infiltrate the area.
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And to think how many people believe it!!!
For example: Rand Paul believing that Sen. Hagel is supported by the non-existent "Friends of Hamas"!
duffleblog.com - WAY funnier than the Onion.
It's been fooling a lot of people like Rand Paul ..... and others. 
I just had a thread hidden with this same article. Some don't understand obvious parody! 
sliding across the top, too...
"Pope Benedict resignation tied to Paula Broadwell affair"
Claiming that prisoners from Guantanamo were receiving GI Bill benefits?
They probably didn't bother reading beyond the fourth paragraph, because the part where the general says he feels sorry for "that poor Osama fellow we had to kill" should have tipped the reader off that something's off here.
Then this:
According to Scott, the actual planning for Operation PREAKNESS was initiated in early 2009 and developed in conjunction with the United Nations, Senator Dianne Feinstein, and several other liberal organizations such as the National Organization for Women, Planned Parenthood, Greenpeace, the American Federation of Labor, and the National Rifle Association, which is apparently a front for all the previous groups.
If they did read that far, then they truly are morans.
