The American Family Association’s general manager, Buster Wilson, launches into a delusional conspiracy theory about the Obama administration planning for a civil war and building military units that are “the President’s version of the Brownshirts,” no doubt to round up Christians and put them in FEMA concentration camps.
By the way, the National Defense Executive Reserve (NDER) that he rants about has actually been around for nearly 50 years now, first created in 1964. And the executive order that Wilson and the Alex Jones crowd claims is proof of an impending dystopia was nothing more than an update to those long-existing plans for the continuation of government in case of an attack that disrupts our way of life. Only those who are selling fear and paranoia — the AFA’s primary commodity — think they’re a big deal.
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netamigo
July 12, 2012 at 11:14 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Great shirt! I wonder if he cut up a real flag to make it.
Larry
July 12, 2012 at 11:18 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Let me paraphrase that:
There’s a scary black man in the Oval office!
Trebuchet
July 12, 2012 at 11:23 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Covered by Snopes, who do a great job at debunking lots of right-wing nonsense. Typically about half of their “top 25″ are this kind of junk.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/ndrp.asp
keithb
July 12, 2012 at 11:45 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
For a more realistic take on this nonsense, check out Barnes’ Daybreak novels:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_51_(novel)
hat tip to Zeno, (Check out his new book “land of Milk and Money”
baal
July 12, 2012 at 11:52 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
My fear is that this is all projection.
I.e. him and his side (dominionists?) are planning concentration camps and have a shadow NDER that calls for xtian dominion in the advent of governmental collapse.
Illuminata, Genie in the Beer Bottle
July 12, 2012 at 11:56 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
LOlgroan. It’s like they’re begging other to mock them.
oranje
July 12, 2012 at 11:59 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Keep that headline stored as a macro, Ed. You can probably save yourself some time each day with it.
brocasbrian
July 12, 2012 at 12:13 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Maybe we should. Then the level of discourse could rise above the 3rd grade.
d cwilson
July 12, 2012 at 2:10 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
This is the same conspiracy theory wingnuts were floating under Clinton.
It always amazes me how people like this waffle back and forth. When a republican is in the White House, they’re all for unlimited executive power, but when a democrat gets in, suddenly everything is a conspiracy to put Christians in concentration camps.
dan4
July 12, 2012 at 9:41 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@6: Care to elaborate on what you mean? I’m not getting the “easy joke” from the words you quoted.
anfractuous
July 13, 2012 at 7:57 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Actually, I remember reading about this executive order when Dubya signed it in his second term. I think it was on Truthout, maybe. In any case, after the series of exec orders attached to bills he’d just signed indicating that he wouldn’t be abiding by certain parts of these laws, wars, wiretapping, torture, etc, I found it pretty easy to be convinced that this order might actually be a sign of immanent fascism or something. On the other hand, I spent some time googling the subject and learned just what you say in this article, Ed.
I don’t read Truthout anymore. I don’t know whether it has any credibility or not, but my blog reading tastes have changed as I have become more concerned about the radical Christian right. I’d much rather get my info from Rachel Maddow or Jennifer Granholm (I grew up in Mich). And the blogs I read are on FtB. Thanks for being here all of you great FtBers.
jnorris
July 13, 2012 at 10:42 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The government is going to put 80%+ of the population in camps. If the Atheist Nation (C) is that efficient we would have taken over long ago.