This evening, I heard about Hillary’s charge that MonicaGate
is a “Right Wing Conspiracy.”

While Bob Kerrey and the rest of us are all laughing Hillary off
we might pause long enough to consider that Bill and Hillary are amoral,
ideological, and ruthless political opportunists who would be entirely
capable of seizing “emergency national security powers” to suppress
opposition and keep power. Moreover, the people they have gathered
around them are weak-minded — e.g., Gore — or also ruthlessly
opportunistic enough to play along.

Can anyone here vouch for the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs? … whose
background, I might add, is “special operations” … the oft-maligned
stepchild among orthodox services. (I don’t know or suspect anything
questionable about him. It would just be nice to hear something
reassuring from one of our in-the-know members.)

I trust we are all aware of how Aaron Burr and a western department
commander toyed with a coup/secession attempt.

When Andrew Johnson was in danger of impeachment, he tried to set up his
own little DC-area army with a gullible Bill Sherman as its commander.
(The report I heard is that you could hear Grant chewing out his buddy
Bill all the way down to the Capitol. Sherman is supposed to have been
soon thereafter exiled “west of the Mississippi” … at least until
U.S. took over the White House himself.)

On H-War or H-Diplo … before I was purged … some academic raised
question about a 1945 right-wing military coup d’etat supposedly being
concocted/considered by MacArthur and Patton. (Can you *imagine* THOSE
two as junta partners?! 🙂 (I pointed out that both M & P had pressing
matters at the time which would have made any such conspiracy impossible
… let alone being on opposite sides of the globe.)

Has anyone here heard about these historical episodes … and charges?

In any case, charges of “conspiracy” destroy political trust and
stability … which presumably was the intention … and if anything
*is* afoot, I hope our “extremist Marines” and other national security
agencies are
*ready to act*
in the best interests of the Nation, not
necessarily those of the denizens of the White House. The anti-Vietnam
generation’s most vivid political experiences/memories are, after all,
in the streets gloriously supporting a successful Communist takeover
(and purge) in Indochina.

Clinton has left a trail of used people who underestimated/misjudged him,
and the convenient deaths of Foster and Brown (and even Colby, as
paranoid as Clinton — and those who have investments in him — is
about VN) are pretty coincidental.

Feel free to circulate this.

Lou Coatney,
sharpening my Randall-made “Smithsonian-style Bowie Knife” in Macomb, IL

🙂 … I think.

+ (We know more about John Kennedy’s death than we do about Colby’s
… or the others’.)