Mich. Man posts meme calling for U.S. troops to attack White House

Tom Wassa, a regular on Facebook, posted a meme today that shows U.S. Army troops attacking the White House, with the building in flames. The text reads: “If they were really fighting for my freedom, this is what it would look like.”
Wassa, of Fairgrove, located in the Thumb Area of Michigan, does not mention Barack Obama though, based on his past online posts, the president is apparently the inspiration for the meme.

In defense of the meme, Wassa followed up by posting two photos of military troops in Chile using tanks to fire on the presidential palace in 1973. “This is exactly what Chile did. … A military general removed a communist leader from office and turned the government back over to the people.”

In the process, Wassa displays a stunning ignorance of the military coup in Chile which remains a black mark on former President Nixon’s foreign policy track record. The coup removed a democratically elected socialist government and replaced it with a brutal, anti-democratic military junta that committed an infamous number of human rights violations as thousands of Chileans were tortured, killed or went missing. The CIA assisted with the coup and the Nixon administration stood by the military government in the aftermath.

On his Facebook page, Wassa, who serves as president of the Fairgrove Village Council, also calls for all 50 states to secede from the union. He claims that the Supreme Court has illegally exceeded its limited role in ruling on constitutional issues and he urges the states to break all ties with the federal government.

The origin of the meme was attributed to a group known as The Anti-Media.org.