Remember where he was just three and a half years ago
by digby
So another fringy wingnut weirdo is out there saying completely nutty stuff that nobody in their right minds would ever listen to:
Islam is not a religion. Islam is a totalitarian way of life and it starts with a legal system call sharia law. It is then a financial system, it is a military system, it is a government system, I mean it’s a geo-political system and that is hard for us to deal with, the fact that Islam is not a religion and does not deserve First Amendment protections.
In 2004, in Annandale, Virginia we discovered a false basement in a man’s home there. It turns out he was the operations officer for the Muslim Brotherhood in America. They went through all of the things in this false basement and they discovered a five-phase plan to take over America. And as you look at the plan, and it’s on the web, you’ll see that they are in the latter stages of phase three and moving into phase four very quickly. And they’ve done this just since the early Sixties when they came to this country and it is difficult for Americans, for Westerners as a whole, to understand that Islam is not a religion.
The Muslim Brotherhood was started in 1928 in Cairo. They didn’t do very well in the first decade, they only had about 800 members but then along came a guy named Adolf Hitler and Adolf Hitler began to fund the Muslim Brotherhood. That’s when he made the arrangements with the Mufti in Jerusalem and that’s why, during World War II, the Jews couldn’t return to that area because Hitler was funding the Muslim Brotherhood to keep the Jews from coming back.
Now I think as we look at the situation in Egypt today we need to recognize that the Muslim Brotherhood is very much at the root of this thing.
Glenn Beck? No. Pamela Atlas? Uh uh. It’s this man:
He served at the Central Intelligence Agency as Deputy Director of Special Activities, and was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General. He was later made Deputy Director for Operations, Readiness, and Mobilization when assigned to the Army Staff. From April 1998 to February 2000, he served as the Commanding General, U.S. Army Special Forces Command (Airborne) at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. From March 2000-2003, he was the Commanding General, United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center, Fort Bragg, N.C. In June 2003, he was appointed Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence under Dr. Stephen Cambone, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence.
That’s General Jerry Boykin, the crusader. He was there until August of 2007.
I don’t want to sound like a blame American firster or be accused of hating the troops, but just what in the hell was the US Military doing with this nutcase in the high command? (And he wasn’t the only lunatic running the asylum during that period.) Shouldn’t the military be asked about this? He’s now dismissed as just another kooky right winger talking on the radio. But when you recall who this fellow was and how much responsibility he once had it takes your breath away.
And imagine how these wingnuts hear what he’s saying on the radio — the guy comes with the credibility of the Big Brass of the US Military. And he sounds just like Glenn Beck.
Update: Holy smokes. I hadn’t seen this:
Dave Neiwert at C&L had been tracking Boykin’s marxist conspiracy for some time:
this was what Boykin saw as America’s biggest problem:
I’m a Special Forces officer, I’m a Green Beret and I’ve studied Marxist insurgency, it was part of my training. And the things I know have been done in every Marxist insurgency are being done in America today.
Among the signs that we are now on the verge of a complete Marxist takeover? — The bailouts, which Boykin says “nationalized” large chunks of the economy. — Gun control, which Boykin claims that Obama is pursuing by agreeing to a United Nations small-arms treaty. — The hate crimes law, which Boykin claims is about being able to silence pastors and other critics. And then, of course, the coup d’grace:
The final thing has been to establish a constabulary force, a force that can control the population. You say “well, we don’t have that.” Well, let me remind you that prior to the election, the President stood up and said that if elected he would have a nation civilian security force that would be as large as and as well-equipped as the United States military. For what? Remember Hitler had the Brownshirts and in the Night of the Long Knives, even Hitler got scared of the Brownshirts and killed thousands of them. So you say “are there any signs that that’s happened” and the truth is yes. If you read the health care legislation which, by the way nobody in Washington has read, but if you read the health care legislation it’s actually in the health care legislation. There are paragraphs in the health care legislation that talk about the commissioning of officers in time of a national crisis to work directly for the President. It’s laying the groundwork for a constabulary force that will control the population in America.
You’ll note that it’s the GOP Governor of Wisconsin who is siccing the law on Democratic legislators to drag them back to the capital and threatening to use the National Guard to replace unions workers. But I guess that’s different. It’s not “Marxist.”
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