He asserts to General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs:
You can relieve the President of his command.
Not of his Presidency. But of his military role as Commander-In-Chief.
You simply invoke the Uniform Code Of Military Justice.
He tries to dodge accusations of a coup by writing:
To be crystal clear - I am NOT advocating or inciting you to undertake any illegal act, insurrection, mutiny, putsch or military coup. You are an honorable patriotic man.
I am NOT advocating or inciting you to interfere with any of the civilian duties of the President. That would not be a legal action by you.
His bio reads:
Martin Lewis is a British-born, Hollywood-based humorist, commentator, producer and radio host.
Maybe I should be kind and just consider this a pathetic attempt at humor. He is, after all, a humorist, oh haha, it is to laugh. Absent humor, though, I'm left with only one conclusion, that he's an an idiot.
Captain Ed neatly sums up why this is so:
Lewis quotes extensively from the Uniform Code of Military Justice, but clearly his scholarship does not extend to the Constitution. The command of the armed forces follows from the president's election to office, and cannot be separated from the office itself. Bush isn't C-in-C because he got appointed to that position, but because the American electorate voted him into that role. In other words, the military cannot arrest the C-in-C but leave the President in power, and to argue otherwise is to demonstrate complete ignorance.
Captain Ed also points out that this is the sort of thing that gives banana republics a bad name.
This is just another example of what I keep seeing from those on the left. They advocate the most horrendous things because they don't act from principle, but from their loathing of President Bush. Indeed, they eagerly sacrifice all principles in an insane desire to see Bush destroyed.
Fooles!
UPDATE: Ah ha, it was a joke. Oh ho ho ho. I love his implied comparison to Swift. Now that is funny! Of course, if I understand his allusions to Swift's A Modest Proposal, when Lewis writes:
...he is advocating the undertaking of illegal acts and is inciting Pace to "interfere with ... the civilian duties of the President." (See Wikipedia's illustration of Swift's device in slamming the very reforms he was advocating.)To be crystal clear - I am NOT advocating or inciting you to undertake any illegal act, insurrection, mutiny, putsch or military coup. You are an honorable patriotic man.
I am NOT advocating or inciting you to interfere with any of the civilian duties of the President. That would not be a legal action by you.
All of this, of course, undercuts any claim of, "Oh ha ha ha, wingnuts can't take a joke, just kidding, guys, titter giggle." It does, however, illustrate that he is singularly lacking humor. And confirms he's an idiot, just as a bonus.
Just so we analyze our satire properly.
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