Military action against the Tea Party is pondered.
Really.
A retired colonel who is now a seminar leader at the University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies at Fort Leavenworth, KS and once directed the School of Advanced Military Studies has written an article for Small Wars Journal in which he describes a scenario where the U.S. military is used domestically.
The villains are “‘tea party’ insurrectionists” who take over Darlington, S.C. with “support from other tea party groups, militias, racist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan, anti-immigrant associations such as the Minutemen, and other right-wing groups.“
The article is “Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A ‘Vision’ of the Future” by Col. Kevin Benson (ret.) and Jennifer Weber.
Matt Bracken, an author and former Navy SEAL, wrote a response: “What I Saw At The Coup“.
Bracken’s piece is much better written, but, while designed to provoke an emotional reaction, is no where near as troubling as the piece by Benson and Ms. Weber, which reveals a mindset that those who hold power are not merely out-of-touch with reality but quite willing to consider violence against fellow citizens who have political views they don’t share.
If they are really out to get you, you are not paranoid.