“There is no cannibalism or necrophilia at all in the Royal Navy. And when I say none at all, I do mean that there is a certain amount, more than we are prepared to admit . . .”
The politics of these plotters are not entirely clear. Many media sources are calling them “anarchists,” which implicitly associates them with the guys who show up at WTO conferences and smash windows; but somehow I doubt they have much in common with those. One says their aim was “to give the government back to the people,” whatever that means in this context. To me, they call to mind the RWs on the Intertubes who have been screaming intermittently for the past four years that the Army is our liberty’s last line of defense against Obama, etc., and would sooner or later Do Something.
Ambitious, weren’t they? Taking over Fort Stewart? They couldn’t cover the headquarters building.
Idiots with delusions do not constitute a “militia to overthrow the government”, so we can dispense with the sensationalism, and taking a run at a President takes more than a bunch of morons talking about it. We already have millions of them, what makes these guys noteworthy?
Obama goes to the jail house visitor’s center housing these men
::knock knock:: he raps on the glass
“Do you like apples?” he asks
“What?” They reply into the telephone
“Do you like apples?” he asks again.
“Yeah.”
“Well the Georgia prosecutors have your number. How do you like them apples?”
Now that was pretty damn funny. Thanks for the laugh. And geezus what a bunch of knuckleheads. Good work on fucking up you life for no good reason guys.
It is indeed hard to keep these ambitious plans under wraps for too long: assassinate the President, take over a military base, blow up a fountain in a park…
Sort of the Snow White of assassination plans. I hope the secret service extrapolates from this and keeps Obama away from thimbles and stampedes of wildebeests.
And when they took over the Government they planned on revoking Obamacare, cutting taxes on the wealthy, and paying lip service to reducing the National Debt and other things of that nature.
Thank Dubya for lowering recruiting standards so we would keep the units in Iraq and Afghanistan fully manned, what with all the IED KIA’s, PTSD, GI suicides and all.
The fairy tale with the thimble was “The Sleeping Moron,” in which the prince (in a gender-bending departure from previous formulae) falls into a 100-year sleep after sticking a magic thimble up his nose.
The prince is the only one who goes to sleep for 100 years, btw; the rest of the kingdom does just fine after the king decrees that henceforth, strict primogeniture will apply, and the princess will be eligible to ascend to the throne.
