Are General Vallely and Stand Up America the Answer to America's Political Crisis?

Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely is hardly the kind of person anyone would call a wild-eyed loose cannon who sees conspiracies to destroy America behind every door. Vallely's Biography on the official USARPAC (United States Army Pacific Conmand) website is impressive. He is a 1961 West Point graduate who retired as Deputy Commanding General for the US Army Pacific in 1991. Vallely is a veteran of two combat tours in Vietnam, and a graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and of the Army War College. Throughout his 32-year military career, General Vallely's significant assignment experience is unique because of his background in Civil Affairs. He was nominated to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations under President Reagan and commanded the 351st Civil Affairs Command from 1982 to 1986, including all Special Forces, Psychological Warfare, and Civil Military units in the Western US and Hawaii. He developed and designed the Host Nation Support Program in the Pacific for the Department of Defense and the State Department. He served overseas in both the European and Pacific theaters. He has served on US security assistance missions on civilian-military relations for Europe, Japan, Korea, Thailand Indonesia and Central America, with in-country experience in Indonesia, Columbia, El Salvador, Panama, Honduras and Guatemala. He has served as a consultant to the Commanding General of the Special Operations Command, as well as the DOD Anti-Drug and Counter -Terrorist Task Forces. He also designed and developed the Host-Nation Support Program in the Pacific for DOD and the State Department. He has in-country security assistance–experience in Israel, Iraq, Kuwait, El Salvador, Columbia and Indonesia in the development of civil-military relations interfacing with senior level military and civilian leadership. Since his retirement from the military, General Vallely has served as a military analyst for FOX News and is a guest on many nationally syndicated radio talk shows. With retired Air Force Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney, General Vallely is the co-author of Endgame : Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror (2004). Vallely currently serves as the Military Committee Chairman for the Center for Security Policy and supports the organization Veteran Defenders of America, which assists American military veterans to recognize and report radical jihadist infiltration in the United States. ~~~~~ But it is as the 2005 founder and chairman of Stand Up America US, a conservative political organization, that Paul Vallely is now speaking out on US national political issues. SUA promotes : First amendment rights; Second amendment rights; strong national defense and secure borders; national sovereignty; support of the armed forces, individual liberties and personal responsibility; and fiscally responsible, limited government. SUA endorses the views of Glenn Beck, and publishes fiction and non-fiction books to promote its message. Recently, General Vallely called for the “forced resignations” of President Obama and congressional leaders in response to multiple grievances, including the alleged political purge of hundreds of senior military officers. Vallely is now being joined by Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles Jones, in an eight-point paper titled “The Americans Project” sponsored by Stand Up America. Vallely told WND that he sees The Americans Project as a “citizens’ commission” of prominent Americans to provide advice to legislative and executive branches of government. The goal is to scrutinize Obama administration actions on national security and economic issues. “America’s Provisional Leadership Council” will look at major concerns and America’s leaders will be “held to high standards of performance to solve the nation’s problems of governing. We wil scrutinize and provide guidance to federally elected officials on behalf of the citizens.” The Americans Project, Vallely added, is a “movement, not a new party necessarily. We want candidates to run as Americans first before being a Democrat, Republican or Independent.” ~~~~~ This week, General Vallely took a deliberate step forward when speaking with WND : "America is imploding and we are at a critical crossroads. It is now obvious; from the Obamacare debacle, to the myriad scandals, to our ever burgeoning debt, to the neutering of our world power status, to the rise of our enemies, and the demise of our allies’ trust in America; implosion is imminent. Obama has taken the seeds of our demise, planted by progressives for over a century now, and amplified their growth at an astonishing rate. We are in a death spiral in terms of whom and what America is, was, and will become. Our ‘exceptionalism’ is the first casualty; we are imploding from within as past Soviet leaders predicted would be the only way we could be vanquished. How, or better yet, can America recover from its economic, political, and cultura death spiral?" General Vallely is calling for a massive public demonstration of discontent. While the General calls it the "Egyptian Model," there is no need to look further than the Constitution's First Amendment : "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." The right of Americans to petition for change when they are dissatisfied with the federal government is as old as the Constitution. What General Vallely is emphasizing is the urgency of the situation today : "Millions of Americans need to “stand up” to Washington “within the next 12 months.”...doing nothing is not an option, because Washington won’t fix itself and “hope is not a strategy.” “We need something … a no confidence vote,”...And perhaps legislation that could create a national recall process. “We need to get off our derrieres, march at the state capitol, march in Washington,....when there are those who are “conducting treason… violating the Constitution, violating our laws,....When you have a president and his team who don’t care about the Constitution, they will do anything they can to win,” Vallely said. And he has been immensely popular among conservatives, especially tea partiers seeking a way to restore the rule of law to Washington. Among other things, they cite the Obamacare law, and the 15 or more times Obama has changed the law – without consulting Congress. In a statement to WND, Vallely said a vote of no confidence could be used : “Clearly America has lost confidence and no longer trusts those in power at a most critical time in our history,....It is true that not all who ply the halls of power fit under that broad brush, but most of them are guilty of many egregious acts and we say it is time to hold a vote of no confidence. It’s time for a ‘recall.’ ” Vallely believes the “credibility of our current leadership is gone....we listen to their excuses, finger-pointing, lies and all manner of chicanery." While General Vallely agrees that there is no legal authority in a vote of no confidence, he argues that it will “take back the power of discourse....What else is our nation to do now that the ‘rule-of-law’ has effectively been thrown out the window by the Obama administration? How are we to trust our government anymore, now that lying and fraud are acceptable practices?” Vallely believes impeachment likely wouldn’t lead to conviction and wouldn’t solve the problem, anyway. “Harry Reid still controls the Senate, so like in Clinton’s day, forget about a finding of guilty,” Vallely wrote. “Incidentally, if Obama was found guilty and removed from office, Joe Biden would step in, Valerie Jarrett still wields all the power at the White House, and likely we get more of the same " ~~~~~ Dear readers, I for one have never heard a retired US military general speak out so pointedly - with such determination to change the leadership in Washington. America's military traditionally stay out of politics. That a general officer of Paul Vallely's stature is willing to "go public" with his fears and aggressive solutions speaks volumes about the trouble America faces -- citizens disgusted with Obama's disregard for constitutional government and Obama determined to disregard both the Constitution and the rebuke of his fellow citizens in his rush to take America down a leftist non-constitutional path that Americans totally reject. It is a recipe for disaster unless someone can get in front and lead. Is Paul Vallely that person? We will find out as 2014 unfolds.