In May 2016 an extremist militia motivated by the goals of the “tea party” movement takes over the government of Darlington, South Carolina, occupying City Hall, disbanding the city council, and placing the mayor under house arrest. Activists remove the chief of police and either disarm local police and county sheriff departments or discourage them from interfering. In truth, this is hardly necessary. Many law enforcement officials already are sympathetic to the tea party’s agenda, know many of the people involved, and have made clear they will not challenge the takeover. The militia members are organized and have a relatively well thought-out plan of action.
http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/full-spectrum-operations-in-the-homeland-a-%E2%80%9Cvision%E2%80%9D-of-the-future
The above is a small excerpt from "Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A "Vision" of the Future" by PhD Col Kevin Benson and PhD Jennifer Weber. It was published in Small War's Journal on July 25th, 2012. In reading this article I found myself in constant agreement with strategies and tactics that the American Military force should take in dealing with an insurrection.
The logical progression on how such a build-up of insurrection might occur mirrors a fantastic work of fiction. But let's get real. There is a dangerous faux pas in this imagined situation. By now if you haven't picked it up, you are either blind or just down right stupid. This imagined group has been given a name.
Dr Benson, how dare you. What in the world was going on in your mind when you accused the tea party of planning such a movement. I as a Corporal of Marines understood the need for fairness and tact when dealing with others, how did this lesson evade you as a Colonel? I understand your need for realism in proposing a situation that might arise. I understand your foresight and preparedness for future ops that might take place. But I can't imagine you being as blatant as blaming a political group of a fictional uprising. Do you not understand the tea party movement? Do you not understand that the grassroots movement is fed up with the current state of affairs coming out of Washington, but instead of uprising they are calling for support of their candidates to remold Washington from the inside out, kind of like an electoral system is designed to do? How many protests have they staged where police riot forces were required to show up in order to keep the peace? How many cop cars have been defecated on by tea party members? How many rapes have occurred in tea party tents?
Your work, no matter how well intended is a black mark on your record. I would hope that you are enough of an officer and a gentleman to publicly apologize to the tea party and their members and edit your work so that this fictional uprising group has no current affiliation to a political party or movement. This sort of political dirty maneuver is something I expect from a criminal, not from a United States Army Officer.
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when looking at the rhetoric stemming from the tea party war college's are smart to envision a scenerio such as this. radical's from any country, any nationality, any political party must be considered when war planning.
No you are wrong about this one, labeling any group as radical when past ACTIONS have been nothing but peaceful is flat out wrong. This scenario is nothing more than a low blow against a group of Americans who want to change the current power in Washington through the electoral system. This is as ridiculous as it comes. This officer was far out of line by including the tea party in an imagined coupe scenario. Perhaps he is not the only one who should actually start looking at the facts surrounding tea party protests.
his scenerio isn't based on past actions, hence the date of may 2016....this is simply one possible "look ahead" like many that are written and studied. why the paranoia? the facts are there is undeniable potential for tea party extremist to become violent based on their own rhetoric.
As opposed to the folks waving flags of the former USSR, the ones waving flags bearing the image of mass murderer Che Guevara, the ones adopting Malcolm X's phrase "by any means necessary" and ones echoing Noam Chomsky's call for the death of all republicans?
What about having a president who had as a mentor a man who considered the death of 25 million Americans as part of a re-education campaign "acceptable"?
While only a microscopic reflection, consider the conditions of the national mall after the Tea Party and Glenn Beck gatherings compared to the "One nation working together" rally sponsored by liberal causes as well as communist and marxist groups. The first two left the site cleaner than when they arrived, the latter left it covered in waste and in a state of shambles... kind of like the way we're seeing things progress (pun intended) under the current administration.
Consider the attitudes and statements of both sides, as well as the disparity of vision - one side seeking a return to the values they see embodied in the Constitution, the other yearning for a land where "justice" will be meted out on those who have dared to make successes for themselves - and it seems obvious that the ones more likely to unshackle themselves from the burden of civility in the effort to effect a more rapid change won't be members of the Tea Party.
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