FOX’s Benghazi Inquisitor Endorses Obama Assasination, Accuses Clinton of Murder
by Richard Rowe
\Michael
Scheuer is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Center for
Peace and Security Studies, and testified before the House Homeland
Security Committee on October 9th. As a former CIA officer, Scheuer's
been in the belly of the beast for a long time, and has for just as long
been spewing his own brand of right-wing rhetoric at FOX "News"
viewers. Now, he's gone from simple "BENGHAZZIIII!!!!" enthusiast to
full-on terrorist mouthpiece.
Last
week, Scheuer called for the assassination of President Obama in his
weekly column. The subject was standard fare for Scheuer: "the
Islamists' war on America." He had this to say.
[box type="shadow"]As they head further down the road of losing wars and wrecking Anglo-American liberties, Messrs
Obama and Cameron and their supporters in all parties would do well to
read the words of the great 17th century English republican Algernon
Sidney, a man who was revered on both sides of the Atlantic,
who greatly influenced America's founders, and who was executed by the
British Crown for what it described as sedition. "There must therefore
be a right," Sidney wrote:
"...of
proceeding judicially or extra-judicially against all persons who
transgress the laws; or else those laws, and the societies that should
subsist by them, cannot stand; and the ends for which governments are
constituted, together with the governments themselves, must be
overthrown. ... If he [a political leader] be justly accounted an enemy
of all, who injures all; he above all must be the public enemy of a
nation, who by usurping power over them, does the greatest and most
public injury that a people can suffer. For which reason, by an
established law among the most virtuous nations, every man might kill a
tyrant; and no names are recorded in history with more honor, than of
those who did it.[/box]
Amazingly,
private citizen Scheuer sees no irony whatsoever in using a public
forum to advocate for assassination of a democratically elected
official, while accusing SOMEONE ELSE of treason and sedition. Remember
..."professor."
Since
then, Scheuer has amped up the polemic even more, appearing on the
always-objective Lou Dobbs show to add his right hand in what might best
be described as a "circle jerk of corporate toolery." Invoking vivid
imagery of "Hillary Clinton having blood up to her elbows," in the
Benghazi matter, on the basis that "anyone who limits counterterrorism
funding is directly responsible for the murder of Americans."
Oh, yes. Indeed. Like Republican Joe Amash, who after the Snowden leaks attempted to pass a bill that would shut down and defund about 90% of the NSA? You know, the agency directly responsible for counterterrorism.
In
a sense, you have to wonder why Scheuer has such deliberate hatred
toward Democrats as a whole, and Obama and Clinton in particular.
Surely, a distinguished professor and objective witness like he has no
personal stake in divisive politics, or pandering to the right wing on
FOX. There's really no point in him riding the Benghazi horse to death,
it's not as though he's a Koch-funded politician.
Oh
yes, that's right. He's not a Koch-funded politician, he's a
Koch-funded PROFESSOR. Yes indeed, Scheuer's department was one of the
many at the Catholic Georgetown University to directly benefit from the
Koch Brothers' unexpected, million-dollar grant about three weeks ago.
You were speaking of treason, sir?
H/T: Media Matters
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