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Police State America - A Look Back and Ahead

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-- a national space policy as part of the goal for "full spectrum dominance" over all land, surface and sub-surface sea, air, space, electromagnetic spectrum and information systems to deter any domestic or foreign threat or challenge to our global hegemony; and,

There's one other crucially important combined NSPD-HSPD:

NSPD-51/HSPD-20 on April 4, 2007 - National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive

This is a combined directive from the White House and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish "Continuity of Government (COG)" procedures under a "Castastrophic Emergency" defined as follows:


"any incident (such as a terrorist attack), regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the US population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions."

COG is then defined as:

''a coordinated effort within the Federal Government's executive branch to ensure that National Essential Functions continue to be performed during a Catastrophic Emergency."

Crucial to understand is that this combined directive gives the President and DHS unprecendented powers free from constitutional constraints. Under NSPD-51, the President can declare a "national emergency" and declare martial law without congressional approval. It allows him to create a de facto militarized police state with him as dictator and DHS as a national Gestapo to an even greater degree than it is already. It also empowers the Vice-President to implement the directives' provisions as part of the "Continuity of Government" plan that in the case of Dick Cheney gives him even more power than George Bush the way this administration operates. This combined directive alone is the face of "police state America" in real time if it's implemented, and it wasn't likely enacted as window dressing. But there's lots more besides.

Other HSPDs relate to:

-- combatting "immigrant terrorism;"

-- a national response plan to domestic incidents;

-- critical infrastructure identification, prioritization, and protection;

-- national preparedness;

-- comprehensive terrorist-related screening procedures;

-- domestic nuclear detection; and others.

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=comment re: Popes by Shirley Bianchi on Monday, Dec 17, 2007 at 12:12:59 PM
for Stephen by Tony Forest on Monday, Dec 17, 2007 at 2:55:04 PM
In other words, you didn't read the article, but merely saw by Richard Mynick on Tuesday, Dec 18, 2007 at 1:11:01 PM
GREAT ARTICLE by WML on Monday, Dec 17, 2007 at 4:19:16 PM
Thank you by richard on Monday, Dec 17, 2007 at 6:50:07 PM
Police State by Robert N Smith on Tuesday, Dec 18, 2007 at 9:31:36 AM
Police State America ---- the domestic half of Vichy Empire by Alan MacDonald on Tuesday, Dec 18, 2007 at 3:35:16 PM
POLICE STATE AND THE LAST NAIL IN THE COFFIN by RICHARD SHADE on Wednesday, Dec 19, 2007 at 9:53:40 AM
rumpelstiltskin by countsueulaw@hotmail.com on Friday, Dec 21, 2007 at 6:47:38 AM
looks like we have the stage set for the anti christ by countsueulaw@hotmail.com on Friday, Dec 21, 2007 at 7:04:22 AM

 
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