I NOTICED THAT HE WENT OUT OF HIS WAY TO DING THEM — TOO PATRIOTIC AND AMERICAN, I GUESS. VFW fires back at Obama: Politics not ‘confused.’
Amusingly, I’m working on a law review article on the Constitution and military coups, which happens to contain this passage: “A million people with rifles, unorganized, aren’t an army: That takes discipline, organization, and some degree of direction. Absent some sort of pre-planning (e.g., ‘if the Internet goes down, we all show up at the federal building with guns’) or some sort of organizational framework (if I were a coup plotter, I might worry about the Veterans of Foreign Wars, or other groups collecting together people with military experience), they are not likely to act before a coup is complete.”