{"id":13920,"date":"2014-05-15T09:49:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T09:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13920"},"modified":"2014-05-15T09:49:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T09:49:42","slug":"operation-american-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13920","title":{"rendered":"Operation American Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"uspring\"<\/a>A group of self-described revolutionary-style patriots with a million mobilized militia members are heading to downtown Washington, D.C., this week to bring a simple message to political leadership, from President Obama to House Speaker John Boehner: Get out.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re called the Operation American Spring \u2014 and they\u2019re vowing to oust the likes of Mr. Obama, Mr. Boehner, Attorney General Eric Holder, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Sen. Mitch McConnell, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Raw Story reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are calling for [their] removal \u2026 as a start toward constitutional restoration,\u201d said retired Army Col. Harry Riley, the leader of the group, Raw Story reported. \u201cThey have all abandoned the U.S. Constitution, are unworthy to be retained in a position that calls for servant status.\u201d<\/p>\n

The aim of the group, too, is to influence those politicos who aren\u2019t targeted for ouster to \u201csponsor and pass very constitutionally crafted state legislation to dissolve the size, powers, scope and spending of the U.S. government by two-thirds,\u201d the media outlet reported.<\/p>\n

The group expects between 10 million and 30 million similarly thinking Americans to meet them in the capital on Friday for a rally that\u2019s being billed as a sort of \u201cArab Spring\u201d for Americans.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the group is holding another event on the same day in Bunerkville, Nev., near cattle rancher Cliven Bundy\u2019s property and in support of his stand-off with the Bureau of Land Management over grazing fees.<\/p>\n

The Friday event was promoted by Tea Party Nation.<\/p>\n

Mr. Riley said he hopes the event will go forward peaceably, but that so far, peaceful protests haven\u2019t brought citizens much luck. He also said that more than 1 million militia members have already mobilized for the event \u2014 and that projections of 10 million to attend aren\u2019t pie in the sky.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor more than five years, \u2018we the people\u2019 have been writing, calling, faxing Congress, the media, screaming in town halls, marching, rallying, demonstrating, petitioning, all to no avail,\u201d he said, Raw Story reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery branch of government looks at \u2018we the people\u2019 whom they have taken an oath to serve, as \u2018pests,\u2019 interfering with their political agenda, cramping their self-serving, greedy agendas. We have no faith in the ballot box any longer, as many believe this sacred secret box has been compromised.<\/p>\n

Source: Washington Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A group of self-described revolutionary-style patriots with a million mobilized militia members are heading to downtown Washington, D.C., this week to bring a simple message to political leadership, from President Obama to House Speaker John Boehner: Get out. They\u2019re called the Operation American Spring \u2014 and they\u2019re vowing to oust the likes of Mr. Obama, … Continue reading “Operation American Spring”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[8947,8948,3747,745],"class_list":["post-13920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-american-spring","tag-operation-american-spring","tag-tea-party","tag-usa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/uspring.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13922,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13920\/revisions\/13922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}