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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 04:42 PM Jun 2014

Alex Jones and gun advocate Larry Pratt: Obama training military to attack the Tea Party

By David Ferguson
Saturday, June 14, 2014 13:07 EDT

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Gun Owners of America director Larry Pratt speculated this week that President Barack Obama is training the military to attack members of the Tea Party.

Right Wing Watch reported that Pratt was appearing on Jones’ Infowars radio show when the two began to discuss the furor that surrounded a 2009 report by the Department of Homeland Security that warned of a possible rise in far-right extremist violence in the United States.

Jones and Pratt declared that the DHS report was a plot against conservatives and that Pres. Obama is planning on using an obscure law passed in 2010 as justification for the use of military force against members of the Tea Party.

The conservative Washington Times reported the story as if Obama had invented a provision of federal law that allowed for intervention by the military on domestic soil “in extraordinary emergency circumstances where prior authorization by the president is impossible.” However, the clause is a longstanding one that has been in effect under many presidents.

Jones, however, interprets the law to be official confirmation that the U.S. military is, at this moment, “training with tanks, armored vehicles, drones” to “take on the American people, mainly the Tea Party.”

“Well, he’s certainly not thinking that Muslims are a threat,” Pratt replied, “so he’s turning to his political opponents, declaring that they’re the enemy and ignoring the fact that Muslims from time to time have a tendency to go ‘boom.’”

Jones referred back to the 2009 DHS report, saying that the Obama administration has “fingered veterans as potential terrorists, people who believe in the Second Amendment, who are pro-life, who want to work for limited government.”

“I guess the idea of limited government really would terrorize a socialist,” he continued. “The enemy is freedom and they really are doing what they can to extinguish it.”

Listen to audio of Jones and Pratt, embedded below:


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/14/alex-jones-and-gun-advocate-larry-pratt-obama-training-military-to-attack-the-tea-party/

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arcane1

(38,613 posts)
2. Yes, because the army needs to be "trained" to fight out-of-shape rednecks armed with hunting rifles
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 05:01 PM
Jun 2014



I wish my sense of self-importance was half that high!

billh58

(6,635 posts)
4. Aw, the poor little right-wing wannabe soldiers
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 07:06 PM
Jun 2014

are all dressed up in their cammies with their big old guns, and no one will play with them.

agentS

(1,325 posts)
9. We're training the military to fight these guys? Really, Alex Joke?
Sun Jun 15, 2014, 01:10 AM
Jun 2014




I think one rabid pitbull should be enough to deal with the Teahadists!

Once he wakes up from his nap.
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