Mind Boggling Stupidity at HuffPo

Found by way of Instapundit.

Putting it bluntly, Martin Lewis is a moron. In a "letter" to General Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he calls for President Bush to be arrested and court-martialed. He quotes extensively from the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), which proves only that he knows how to copy and paste. He doesn't actually provide any basis for an arrest and prosecution, you understand, he just quotes what he feels are pertinent articles and demands action from the CJCS.

I had to work within the UCMJ as a commander, and I can tell you that Martin Lewis has no understanding whatsoever of the document. Sheesh. He thinks you can just pick an article that seems to address your complaint and demand action without proof of wrongdoing. I have a five-year-old nephew who possesses better reasoning skills than that.

Ed Morrissey expresses it better:

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.

Secondly, the President does not serve at the pleasure of the Joint Chiefs -- and indeed, the military is subservient to the civilian command structure. They do not have arrest authority over the President -- nor over anyone else in the US other than military personnel, as the Posse Comitatus Act stipulates. Civilian oversight keeps the military from seizing power and is a long and vital tradition in this nation. It's what keeps us from becoming a banana republic, run by military strongmen.

Lewis wants to turn America into just that kind of nation. His Bush-hatred runs so deep that he would willingly see the military take control over the federal government just to get rid of him. The Left likes to talk about supposed fascism among conservatives, but the Huffington Post is literally calling for a military coup to reverse an election, not only an un-Constitutional act but also the kind of authoritarian rule they supposedly despise.

Unbelievable.

But not surprising.

Update: And now Martin Lewis says he was just kidding. As defenses go, it's pathetic. Reading the original article one is struck by the absolute lack of satire. There is nothing tongue-in-cheek about it.

What a weenie.

Found by way of Little Green Footballs, which relays Allapundit's assessment that Lewis was "encouraged" to use this pathetic defense by Arianna Huffington, who is probably taking more heat than she'd like for the original column.

So I guess it's a collection of weenies over there at HuffPo, then. I don't spend any time there -- is that a change? Or is it standard?

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