{"id":41075,"date":"2016-06-24T09:22:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T13:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=41075"},"modified":"2016-06-24T10:23:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T14:23:16","slug":"ted-nugent-praises-call-to-arrest-obama-from-coup-supporting-former-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=41075","title":{"rendered":"Ted Nugent Praises Call To Arrest Obama From Coup-Supporting Former General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->SUBMITTED BY Brian Tashman<br \/>\nwww.rightwingwatch.org<\/p>\n<p>Last year, retired-general-turned-conservative-activist Paul Vallely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/paul-vallely-will-be-happy-lead-anti-obama-revolution\">told a Tea Party group that he would \u201ccertainly head\u201d a revolution to topple President Obama<\/a>, remarks he later <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/paul-vallely-denies-absolutely-false-coup-statements-he-absolutely-made\">denied making<\/a> despite the fact that they were captured on audio.\u00a0Imagine our shock, then, when Vallely told a fringe radio host last week that President Obama should be arrested for his \u201ctreasonous activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vallely\u2019s remarks even earned the praise of right-wing musician and NRA board member Ted Nugent, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tednugent\/posts\/10153028570402297\" target=\"_blank\">who wrote on Facebook<\/a>: \u201cWell listen everybody to what I gotta say, there&#8217;s hope for tomorrow if we wakeup [sic] today!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Calling on U.S. generals to stand up to Obama, Vallely told \u201cThe Real Side\u201d radio program that it may soon be time to \u201carrest\u201d Obama for \u201ctreasonous activities.\u201d He cited the work of the <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/2014\/04\/23\/meet-the-conspiracy-theorists-behind-the-new-be\/198991\" target=\"_blank\">conspiracy-theory-ridden Citizens Committee on Benghazi<\/a>\u00a0as evidence that there are grounds to arrest Obama for purportedly helping the Muslim Brotherhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a whole list we have put together at the Benghazi Citizens\u2019 Commission on treasonous activities not only by him but by Kerry, by Clinton, the lying deceptions of Panetta, of General Dempsey, as well as Hillary Clinton,\u201d Vallely said. \u201c[He\u2019s] tyrannical and that\u2019s his communist upbringing because that\u2019s the way they develop and take over countries and put in a tyrannical leader. We\u2019ve seen that since World War II, all over Europe and now we have socialism gaining in South and Central America. I mean it is just unbelievable that we could let this country go down and commit national suicide that we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that Obama would have been arrested already if it wasn\u2019t for the fact that \u201cthe Republicans are afraid of a black backlash\u201d to such a step. \u201cHe\u2019s black and white, he\u2019s not just black, but they\u2019re afraid of a black uprising, that\u2019s the word I get,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Vallely once called for the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/former-general-turned-conservative-activist-calls-citizens-arrest-obama\">citizen\u2019s arrest<\/a>\u201d of Obama.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/211793133&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While discussing the Jade Helm 15 conspiracy theory, Vallely said that \u201cObama would declare martial law at the earliest opportunity if he could.\u201d He also urged military officials to be ready to stand up to Obama to stop him once he imposes martial law.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/211793202&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/ted-nugent-praises-call-arrest-obama-coup-supporting-former-general\">http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/ted-nugent-praises-call-arrest-obama-coup-supporting-former-general<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}