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CatWoman

(79,302 posts)
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 04:54 PM Sep 2014

Crazed Tea Partier Allen West Tells American Troops Not To Follow President Obama’s Orders

Former one-term Republican Congressman and current Fox News conservative pundit Allen West demanded that the military not follow orders from its commander-in-chief. On Friday morning, West wrote on his Facebook page that President Obama has ordered the military to enlist “illegal aliens.” He then claimed that, since Obama cannot make laws regarding naturalization, the order he signed is illegal, and those serving in the military shouldn’t follow it. West then complained about Obama’s tyranny and said all Democrats who support Obama need to be voted out.

Below is West’s entire Facebook post:

Morning folks. While you were sleeping, Barack Hussein Obama took out his pen and ordered our Military to enlist illegal aliens. In other words, this charlatan has allowed those who have disrespected our Constitution and are not citizens to take an oath to support and defend the very document, our rule of law, of which they are in violation. Obama has no constitutional authority to make any laws or rules concerning naturalization as stated in Art I Sect 8 Clause 4. This is an illegal order and should not be followed by our Military. As well, we are pink-slipping men and women in uniform, Americans, and Obama wants to enlist illegals. We are already outsourcing our national security to Syrian Islamists. This is intolerable and just another reason why we must flip the Senate and begin to reverse Obama’s tyranny. Any Democrat supporting this illegal order needs to be voted out!

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/09/26/crazed-tea-partier-allen-west-tells-american-troops-follow-president-obamas-orders.html

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Crazed Tea Partier Allen West Tells American Troops Not To Follow President Obama’s Orders (Original Post) CatWoman Sep 2014 OP
Why has this man not been institutionalized? louis-t Sep 2014 #1
Uh, treason called, it wants to say Hi shenmue Sep 2014 #2
More sedition for Holder to go after tularetom Sep 2014 #4
Well said! tazkcmo Sep 2014 #8
He should have been court martialed atreides1 Sep 2014 #3
The voters have spoken West, this is the reason you are not in office now. Thinkingabout Sep 2014 #5
West needs to be tried for either sedition or treason gopiscrap Sep 2014 #6
Direct incitement of disobedience to the troops shenmue Sep 2014 #7
Especially tazkcmo Sep 2014 #10
lock him up nt Dreamer Tatum Sep 2014 #9
Who is the Congress-critter in Allen West's district? Should we write to them? shenmue Sep 2014 #11
Lois Franken (D). NuclearDem Sep 2014 #12
Aha! Thank you. shenmue Sep 2014 #13
Lois Frankel. She used to be Mayor of West Palm. She did a great job...n/t monmouth3 Sep 2014 #14
Done and done. shenmue Sep 2014 #19
Good for you. I used to see her in Publix quite a bit (when she went on the diet and walked all monmouth3 Sep 2014 #20
Thanks shenmue Sep 2014 #21
According to George Bush, Allen West is "with the terrorists" Renew Deal Sep 2014 #15
Liberals were reviled in 2003 for saying the same thing MohRokTah Sep 2014 #16
West needs to read history. Algernon Moncrieff Sep 2014 #17
. baldguy Sep 2014 #18
This is outrageous, sadoldgirl Sep 2014 #22
he should be locked up CatWoman Sep 2014 #23
The man is a war criminal. Fuck him. Solly Mack Sep 2014 #24

atreides1

(16,093 posts)
3. He should have been court martialed
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 05:02 PM
Sep 2014

...the Army was too chickenshit to do the job...just like the Army dropped the ball with Major Hassan!

But let it be an enlisted soldier that f**ks up and the brass can't wait to nail them to a cross!!!!

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
5. The voters have spoken West, this is the reason you are not in office now.
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 05:04 PM
Sep 2014

You did not make smart moves when you was in Congress, not since you left Congress. Go and sing up with Cheney, it would be someone who thinks crazy like West.

gopiscrap

(23,765 posts)
6. West needs to be tried for either sedition or treason
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 05:08 PM
Sep 2014

and then put in a straight jacket and sent to an institution for the criminally insane and left to rot

shenmue

(38,506 posts)
7. Direct incitement of disobedience to the troops
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 05:11 PM
Sep 2014

probably isn't covered by the First Amendment, the same way death threats aren't.

I hope he gets at least a visit from the Secret Service.

shenmue

(38,506 posts)
19. Done and done.
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 06:16 PM
Sep 2014

I checked out Rep. Frankel's website, and because I do not live in her district (I'm outside of Tampa, northwest of hers), the form letter thing said it couldn't take my comments. My closest local Congressperson is Rep. Mike Bilirakis. He's Republican, so I figured I'd get nowhere with him. I ponied off a letter to Sen. Bill Nelson. Whew!

monmouth3

(3,871 posts)
20. Good for you. I used to see her in Publix quite a bit (when she went on the diet and walked all
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 06:30 PM
Sep 2014

over the place). You can bet she has heard about this so you still did good...

 

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)
16. Liberals were reviled in 2003 for saying the same thing
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 05:45 PM
Sep 2014

So I'll say it now. Allen West is an America hating TRAITOR!

Algernon Moncrieff

(5,790 posts)
17. West needs to read history.
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 05:52 PM
Sep 2014

Foreigners wishing to join our happy little society have been allowed to use the military as a pathway to citizenship since the Civil War.

In the end, the troops swore an oath to obey the CIC and the officers appointed over them. Note that this does not include former Vice Presidents, officers who retired, officers who retired to avoid court martial, Michelle Bachman, Ted Nugent, or Sarah Palin.

 

baldguy

(36,649 posts)
18. .
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 06:12 PM
Sep 2014

sedition (si-dish-uh n) noun

1. incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government.

2. any action, especially in speech or writing, promoting such discontent or rebellion.

sadoldgirl

(3,431 posts)
22. This is outrageous,
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 06:44 PM
Sep 2014

but is it illegal? Or does he have his incitement covered by the 1st amendment? With all the new interpretations by the SCOTUS one does not know anymore what is or is not permissible.

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