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scheming daemons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 10:40 PM
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Is Newsmax columnist John Perry plagiarizing from the novel "Seven Days in May"??
Edited on Tue Sep-29-09 10:46 PM by scheming daemons

Seven Days in May
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Seven Days in May is a political thriller novel written by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II and published in 1962. The novel was made into a motion picture in 1964, with screenplay by Rod Serling, directed by John Frankenheimer, and starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. The story is said to have been influenced by the right-wing anti-Communist political activities of General Edwin A. Walker after he retired from the military. The author, Knebel, got the idea for the book after interviewing then Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay.
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The plot centers on the fictitious U.S. President Jordan Lyman (Fredric March). As the story begins, Lyman faces a wave of public dissatisfaction with his decision to sign a treaty with the Soviet Union, an agreement that will supposedly result in both nations simultaneously destroying their nuclear weapons under mutual international inspection. This is extremely unpopular with both the President's opposition and the military, who believe the Soviets cannot be trusted.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_in_May



Obama Risks a Domestic Military ‘Intervention’

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:35 AM

By: John L. Perry

There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America’s military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the “Obama problem.” Don’t dismiss it as unrealistic.


America isn’t the Third World. If a military coup does occur here it will be civilized. That it has never happened doesn’t mean it wont. Describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it.
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http://www.newsmax.com/john_perry/obama_military_coup/2009/09/29/266012.html



These wingnut assholes can't even be original in their advocating of treason!

John Perry is a joke.... and a plagiarizing one at that.


Note to John Perry: In the novel/movie, the coup attempt is thwarted.. the President maintains his office, and the criminals are arrested.
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villager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 10:59 PM
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1. Haven't seen it in years -- decades -- but still remember Edmond O'Brien under "house arrest"
at a military base....


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scheming daemons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 11:58 PM
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2. Now would be a good time for the original... or the remake with Forest Whitaker... to be aired
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