Operation American Dud: Effort to Oust Obama Fails Miserably | Hatewatch

President Obama was not deposed today, nor were the leaders of the House and Senate. Millions of angry Americans did not take to the streets of the capital to angrily demand their country back. It’s hard to exaggerate just how much of an epic failure Operation American Spring (OAS) was today.

OAS was conceived by Harry G. Riley, a 76-year-old retired U.S. Army colonel. In an April 8 press release, the group demanded the “resignations of six, top government officials, including Articles of Impeachment against President Obama, for violating their oath of office, and/or by committing high crimes against the state, and requiring Congress to enforce the demands, or be held accountable.”

Consciously modeling itself after the “Arab Spring, Ukrainian Spring, and other successful, popular, and massive demonstrations against oppressive bureaucracies,” OAS predicted that “10 to 20 million Americans committed to reform our government under Constitutional constraints,” and possibly more, would take to the streets today to end Obama’s tyranny.

They didn’t.

At best, there was a ragtag crowd of a few hundred.

Operation American Dud: Effort to Oust Obama Fails Miserably | Hatewatch

A Former Colonel Plans to Overthrow the U.S. Government on May 16 | Vocativ

Nearly every day in the nation’s capital, one group or another stands on the Washington Mall or in front of the White House, holding posters, protesting perceived government injustices.

Rallies against government activities are nothing new. In fact, you might say they’re as old as the American government itself.

But one set of protesters—a collective of radical neo-conservatives with links to major Tea Party groups—is planning an altogether different type of protest. The group, which calls itself Operation American Spring, plans to head to Washington, D.C., on May 16 to overthrow the government. They will stay there, they say, until President Obama and other top officials resign.

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In other words: Riley’s group is planning an Arab Spring-style occupation of the Washington Mall that, he hopes, will cause Congress to stand up and force a change of the presidency. The 76-year-old Riley says between 1.2 million and 1.8 million are already mobilizing to flood Washington on the day for the march.

It’s kind of hard to see how Riley will muster anything close to that number of people. His own website, Patriots for America, one of the major message boards for the event, has fewer than 5,000 members.

A Former Colonel Plans to Overthrow the U.S. Government on May 16 | Vocativ