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Thursday, March 02, 2006

The Coming American Dictatorship

President George W. Bush has signed executive orders giving him sole authority to impose martial law,suspend habeas corpus(he already has) and ignore the Posse Comitatus Act that prohibits deployment of U.S. troops on American streets. The full implementation of this would give him absolute dictatoial power over the government with no checks and balances.
Bush discussed imposing martial law on American streets in the aftermath of of 9/11 by activating"national security" iniatives put in place by Ronald Reagan during the 1980's.
These "national security iniatives" came by way of controversial Marine Colonel Oliver North, one of the key players in the Iran-Contra Scandal.
The initiatives charged the Federal Emergency Management Agency with administering executive orders that provide for the suspension of the Constitution, implementation of martial law, establishment of national internment camps, and the turning over of all functions of government to the President.
John Brinkerhoff, deputy director of FEMA, developed the implementation of the martial law plan to battle a potential national uprising of black militants. The plan called for the jailing of at least two million African Americans. Brinkerhoff later admitted in an interview with the Miami Herald that President Reagan signed off on the initiatives and they remained in place dormant until George W.Bush took office.
Brinkerhoff has provided the Bush Administration and the Pentagon with talking points supporting "revised national security initiatives" that would allow the imposition of martial law, and the suspension of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. This act implicitly forbids the use of troops for domestic law enforcement.
Brinkerhoff wrote that the purpose and intention of Posse Comitatus have been "misapplied and misunderstood", and that the government has in times of national emergency the "full and absolute authority" to send troops into American streets to "enforce order and maintain the peace".
The issue here,the way I see it is that this president has made several public statements about "wishing this was a dictatorship because it would be easier to rule". The people of the United States under the guise of 'homeland security" have lost more freedom under his "rule" than at any other time in American history.The opportunity has never been better for getting rid of "that goddamn piece of paper". The transfer of power would be complete, the cycle would be finished, and his name would be quite appropriately, King George III. I think its time to sound the alarm!
The Revolution will not be televised.

2 Comments:

  • At 5:53 PM , Blogger RightWingRocker said...

    Another commercial for the Libertarian Party.

    Blah Blah Blah

    RWR

     
  • At 10:01 PM , Blogger Rex C. said...

    Could you cite your sources for the information on this post? If it is true, what you say is very disturbing, and being conveniently ignored by many people who irrationally "feel" it's impossible.

    Thank you

     

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