Thread: A Very American Coup: Coming Soon to a Hometown Near You

A Very American Coup
Coming Soon to a Hometown Near You


By William J. Astore
TomDispatch.com
January 19, 2010


The wars in distant lands were always going to come home, but not this way.

It’s September 2016, year 15 of America’s “Long Warâ€

Even Dijon Mustard and homemade bread doesn't make this baloney possible to swallow. Frankly, we have had plenty of of riots. Civil Rights riots. Anti - war riots during the Viet Nam War era. Students shot and killed at Kent State during the same period. Racial riots in LA after the Rodney King incident. Riots at the Democratic Party Convention in Chicago. Riots at the first WTO Conference. Riots are nothing new to us. Nor are confrontations with disgruntled military vets. In 1932 the Bonus Expeditionary Force demonstrated in Washington DC over bonus certificates. The demonstrators were dispersed by army forces led by MacArthur and Patton.

Amazingly, we somehow re-established law and order after all of this.

I believe the recent elections in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts are a more accurate represntation of how we will successfully deal with issues, now and in the future.