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July 21, 2007 at 16:23:41

FEMA'S BLUEPRINT FOR MARTIAL LAW / REX 84

by Allen L Roland Page 1 of 2 page(s)

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We are dangerously close to a situation where ~ if the American people took to the streets in righteous indignation or if there were another 9/11 ~ a mechanism for martial law could be quickly implemented and carried out under REX 84 .. Do remember , the growing threat the Cheney/Bush administration truly fears is not terrorists but, instead, the internal threat of the people demanding the truth : Allen L Roland

I originally wrote this weblog a year ago but it seems appropriate to bring it up to date and share it again ~ particularly in light of the new emergency powers the Cheney/Bush administration now have. ( Presidential directive # 51 ) .

The Cheney/Bush administration have a plan which would accommodate the detention of large numbers of American citizens during times of emergency. This is a secret plan which evidently no one has seen ~ except Dick Cheney and perhaps George W Bush.

Don't believe me, read this short dispatch today from CLG news ~ Ore. Rep. asks to see gov't plans for aftermath of terror attack, denied access 20 Jul 2007 Oregonians called Peter DeFazio's office, worried there was a conspiracy buried in the classified portion of a White House plan for operating the government after a terrorist attack. As a member of the U.S. House on the Homeland Security Committee, DeFazio, D-Ore., is permitted to enter a secure "bubbleroom" in the Capitol and examine classified material. So he asked the White House to see the secret documents. On Wednesday, DeFazio got his answer: DENIED. "I just can't believe they're going to deny a member of Congress the right of reviewing how they plan to conduct the government of the United States after a significant terrorist attack," DeFazio says. Homeland Security Committee staffers told his office that the White House initially approved his request, but it was later quashed. "Maybe the people who think there's a conspiracy out there are right," DeFazio said.

The plan is called REX 84, short for Readiness Exercise 1984. Through Rex-84 an undisclosed number of concentration camps were set in operation throughout the United States, for internment of dissidents and others potentially harmful to the state.

The Rex 84 Program was originally established on the reasoning that if a "mass exodus" of illegal aliens crossed the Mexican/US border, they would be quickly rounded up and detained in detention centers by FEMA.

Existence of the Rex 84 plan was first revealed during the Iran-Contra Hearings in 1987, and subsequently reported by the Miami Herald on July 5, 1987

" These camps are to be operated by FEMA should martial law need to be implemented in the United States and all it would take is a presidential signature on a proclamation and the attorney general's signature on a warrant to which a list of names is attached."

And there you have it ~ the real purpose of FEMA is to not only protect the government but to be its principal vehicle for martial law.

This is why FEMA could not respond immediately to the Hurricane Katrina disaster ~ humanitarian efforts were no longer part of its job discription under the Department of Homeland Security.

It appears Hurricane Katrina also provided FEMA with an excuse to “dry run” its unconstitutional powers in New Orleans, rounding up “refugees” (now called “evacuees”) and “relocating” them in various camps. “Some evacuees were being treated as ‘internees’ by FEMA,” writes former NSC employee Wayne Madsen.

“Reports continue to come into WMR that evacuees from New Orleans and Acadiana [the traditional twenty-two parish Cajun homeland] who have been scattered across the United States are being treated as ‘internees’ and not dislocated American citizens from a catastrophe"

We are dangerously close to a situation where ~ if the American people took to the streets in righteous indignation or if there were another 9/11 ~ a mechanism for martial law could be quickly implemented and carried out under REX 84.

See footage of the camps here: www.fight4truth.com/concentrationcamps.htm

Be forewarned ~ the Cheney/Bush administration will stop at nothing to preserve their power and their ongoing neocon mis-adventure in Iraq and they already have executive control over all the states National Guard troops in a national emergency.

Governor Tom Vilsack of Iowa, called this action "the end of the Guard as a dual-function force that can respond to both state and national needs."

The provision was tucked into the House version of the defense bill in 2006, without notice to the states, something Vilsack said he resented as much as the proposal itself.

Under the provision, the president has the authority to take control of the Guard in case of " a serious natural or manmade disaster, accident , catastrophe or crisis " in the United States.

Do remember, the growing threat the Cheney/Bush administration truly fears is not terrorists ~ but, instead, the people demanding the truth.

Allen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2007/07/21.html

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-Jason V. is a writer / web blogger with an agenda of uncovering corruption and elite modification of the financial / political realm.As the editor of several web sites, including a housing market web site (www.realestatedecline.com) and a political truth website (www.fight4Truth.com), he reaches over 8,000 visitors every week, who seek truthful insights and news that the mainstream media tends to shy away from or black-out.
J. Vorhees-Jason V. is a writer / web blogger with an agenda of uncovering corruption and elite modification of the financial / political realm.As the editor of several web sites, including a housing market web site (www.realestatedecline.com) and a political truth website (www.fight4Truth.com), he reaches over 8,000 visitors every week, who seek truthful insights and news that the mainstream media tends to shy away from or black-out.

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Secret camps in America? Yes, it's true. I'm wondering what kinds of people the government will use to put it's own people into these camps. Maybe foreign troops or Mexican police / cartles. Hopefully American military and police will get a wake-up call when asked to detain there fellow Americans but it hasn't stopped the current U.S. world-wide high prison population per capita. Everyone has a price. Maybe some of us OpEd dissenters will meet, face to face, in one of these camps!
See footage of the camps here: www.fight4truth.com/concentrationcamps.htm

by J. Vorhees (6 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 66 comments) on Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 1:59:25 AM

just a concerned citizen.
k kellyjust a concerned citizen.

glad you reprinted this article.

rex84, along w/other insidious executive orders of late, have strengthened their "tholian web". FEMA has had the ability to exercise eminent domain since Nixon, i believe. i'm sure w/o any research DHS (Dept Homeland Security) is endowed as well.

i have not verified these EO's, but this article from rense (which i detest) ran ystrdy on whatreallyhappened. of special interest, the '03 declaration of emergency.

asset confiscation for public dissent

http://www.rense.com/general77/asset.htm

Bush Outlaws War Protest -
Citizens Face Full Asset Seizure
From Dave Livingston
7-20-7

WELL IT HAS HAPPENED. THIS MANIACAL SON OF A BITCH HAS OUTLAWED ALL WAR PROTEST AGAINST THE IRAQ WAR HERE IN THE UNITED STATES.
PASSED INTO LAW JULY 17TH. SINCE CONGRESS IS TOO WEAK-KNEED TO STAND UP AND DO THE RIGHT THING, PERHAPS IT WILL BE LEFT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. WILL THIS BEGIN THE CIVIL WAR HERE IN THE UNITED STATES PREDICTED BY JOHN TITOR? READ THE ARTICLE BELOW, "Bush Outlaws All War Protest In The United States"..........best of luck.........dave livingston

Bush Outlaws All War Protest In United States
By Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
7-19-7

In one of his most chilling moves to date against his own citizens, the American War Leader has issued a sweeping order this week outlawing all forms of protest against the Iraq war.

President Bush enacted into US law an 'Executive Order' on July 17th titled "Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq", and which says:

"By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as amended (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)(IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.)(NEA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,

I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that, due to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by acts of violence threatening the peace and stability of Iraq and undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq and to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people, it is in the interests of the United States to take additional steps with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 of May 22, 2003, and expanded in Executive Order 13315 of August 28, 2003, and relied upon for additional steps taken in Executive Order 13350 of July 29, 2004, and Executive Order 13364 of November 29, 2004."

According to Russian legal experts, the greatest concern to the American people are the underlying provisions of this new law, and which, they state, are written 'so broadly' as to outlaw all forms of protest against the war. These provisions state:

"(ii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, logistical, or technical support for, or goods or services in support of, such an act or acts of violence or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or

(b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section include, but are not limited to, (i) the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order, and (ii) the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person.

(c) the term "United States person" means any United States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States (including foreign branches), or any person in the United States.

All agencies of the United States Government are hereby directed to take all appropriate measures within their authority to carry out the provisions of this order and, where appropriate, to advise the Secretary of the Treasury in a timely manner of the measures taken."

To the subsection of this new US law, according to these legal experts, that says "...the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit...", the insertion of the word 'services' has broad, and catastrophic, consequences for the American people in that any act deemed by their government to be against the Iraqi war is, in fact, supporting the 'enemy' and therefore threatens the 'stabilization of Iraq'.

In an even greater affront to the American people are the provisions of a law called The Patriot Act, and that should they run afoul of this new law they are forbidden to allow anyone to know about it, and as we can read as reported by the Seattle Times News Service:

"The [Patriot] act also expands the use of National Security Letters, which are a kind of warrant that the Justice Department writes for itself, authorizing its agents to seize such things as records of money movements, telephone calls and Internet visits. Recipients of a National Security Letter are not allowed to tell anyone about them, and so cannot contest them."

It is interesting to note, too, that this is not the first time that the United States has unleashed the brutal power of their government against its citizens to further their war aims and stifle domestic dissent, as during the European conflict of World War I they enacted a law called The Sedition Act of 1918 and which "...forbade Americans to use "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government, flag, or armed forces during war."

It is curious to note that after the enactment of this new law there has been no protest by any of the other political leaders in the United States, with the exception of the only Muslim member of the United States Congress, Minnesota Democrat Keith Ellison, and who compared President Bush to the Nazi War Leader Adolph Hitler by stating the attacks upon the World Trade Center could be likened to the burning of the Reichstag.

Today, as the United States faces an imminent economic collapse, while at the same time its war bill has reached the staggering amount of $648 billion, one of the last freedoms the American people have had to protest their leaders actions against them, and other peoples in the World, has now been taken away from them, the freedom to speak and write in opposition to what is being done to them.

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.", said the great British writer George Orwell, but, and sadly, liberty has been lost to the once free people of the United States who are no longer allowed to tell their leaders, or each other, what they don't want to hear.

With this being so, the American people should, likewise, contemplate their 'new' future, and as, also, stated best by George Orwell, "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."

© July 19, 2007 EU and US all rights reserved.

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by k kelly (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 182 comments) on Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 10:00:19 AM

Student of history, religion, exoteric and esoteric, the Humanities in general and advocate for peace, justice and the unity of humankind, not through force, but through self-realization and mutual respect.
Mac McKinneyStudent of history, religion, exoteric and esoteric, the Humanities in general and advocate for peace, justice and the unity of humankind, not through force, but through self-realization and mutual respect.

A Larger Perspective

Before we become depressed, demoralized and fatalistic about all this, realize that this too will pass in the greater scheme of things. Progressive forces will have to struggle through whatever transpires, but our triumph is assured because the universe was not set up to be an endless black pit of evil and negativity. We are on the cusp of the Age of Aquarius, which will usher in greater enlightenment and oneness. Bush is part of the last desperate Hurrah of the old Aeon in its death throes.

Here's an article by the well-known Swami Beyonananda, (see: http://www.wakeuplaughing.com ) which, while maintaining a humorous veneer, really addresses these serious challenges facing us, although in an upbeat way. It also gets back to what Nietzsche said, that what doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

A Call For Political Climate Change

Time to Fire the Nitty-Gritty Grid

July 20, 2007 by Steve Bhaerman (Swami Beyonananda)

Well, we fired up the grid last Tuesday, or maybe the grid fired us up. Now that we proved that invisibly or visibly (as with the Live Earth events of two weekends ago), the loving heart of humanity can be activated, it's time to move our feet. It's time for the upwising of awareness and upwelling of love to burst into action. It's time to address the political climate crisis.

The Political Climate Crisis is Real!

Earlier this year, I wrote a piece called "The Self-Impeaching President." My point was that because the Bush-Cheney Administration had so violated the letter and spirit of not just our Constitution, but international and commonly-held moral law, they would necessarily stonewall any attempt to investigate. Consequently, they would end up making the case for impeachment by their own actions.

Eventually, it would come down to George Bush's challenge of several years ago: "You're either with me or against me." And now it has. It's George Bush (and his cheney of command) against the Constitution, against the Bill of Rights, against the Declaration of Independence, against the American people, not to mention the people of the world. The inconvenient confrontation that most peace-loving people generally try to avoid is finally at hand: Standing up to the bully. Here's why it's happening now, and here is how it is happening. The Bush Administration has already played the fear card and nobody is listening anymore to the little boy who cried wolfowitz. Bush and Company only have two cards left -- force, and the fear of force. This is a hand they cannot afford to lose, because when the cards fall it will bring down not just this Administration but the entire philosophy that supports absolutely corrupt power taken in the name of "national security" -- the protection racket disguised as "protection." So if you're wondering why this absurdist rationalization called "executive privilege," that's why. He's an executive who wants to hold on to his privilege. Meanwhile, here is another inconvenient truth that is making itself manifest, and if we don't face it we're in even bigger trouble: The mechanisms for fascism are already in place.

Can We Use the F-Word?

OK, you eye-rollers -- put your eyes back front and center so you can see what I mean. The very simple definition of fascism is this: Fascism is interlocking political, military, industrial force run more like a criminal gang than a government. Does that sound familiar? Because the government is involved, it conveniently has the force of "law" behind it. Consider that everything that Hitler did after he took office was "legal."

Similarly, George Bush is proceeding under the cover of law to enact executive order after executive order as arbitrary, irrational and unjust as any policy a dictator might dictate. And, as we are finding out, his legal shills in judicial positions of power are acting solely on his behalf. So, yes ... he has the cover of law. Just as the original coup, the "election" of 2000, was absurdified by five partisan Supreme Court jesters who wouldn't allow a recount to take place in Florida.

The 97-pound weakling of a body politic allowed the bully to kick sand in its face in 2000, and that just invited further abuse. Now the abuse is becoming more intense, more over the line -- and we find that the dictator-in-chief has conveniently covered his bases with judges. So what do we do? First of all, we face this inconvenient truth and at the same time, keep our eye on the prize. Because the "prize" -- a world where we use our resources to heal instead of hurt, where the GNP can be truly measured in "goods" and not "bads," where we live by the Golden Rule not the rule of gold -- is where we are going. What we have now is the challenge that will make us strong enough to stop doing what we've been doing and try something new for a change.

We're Becoming Stronger -- Whether We Like It Or Not

Several years ago, I spent a year in a ch'i kung practice that involved strengthening the ch'i by banging ourselves in the solar plexus first with our fist, then with a wooden block, finally with a brick. Next came the two person practice where we would hit each other full force in solar plexus to "light up the ch'i." While this might sound like a rationalization for sadomasochism, we came to realize that each blow made the ch'i stronger. In fact, we no longer even felt the punch. All we could feel was our shield "rising" to absorb the blow.

George Bush is bringing up the ch'i of the body politic, and it's up to us to recognize and use that power. Each blow to the spirit of the law, to our Founding Fathers, to decency is strengthening us for our true evolutionary destiny -- to overgrow the false dichotomies of left and right and stand for what the vast, vast majority hold in common. In other words, we must turn the demoralized majority into a New Moral Majority that holds honesty, justice, integrity and transparency above ideology or short term financial self-interest.

We Are the New Moral Majority

Here's more good news, something I call The Law of 75. You may have read it here before, but it is worth mentioning again. It's based on something that happened to spiritual psychologist Patricia Sun a number of years ago. She was set to speak at a "new age" bookstore, and noticed there were four fundamentalist Christian pickets outside. "I'm going to talk with them," Patricia said. The store owner was skeptical. "You can't reason with those people," she said, but Patricia did it anyway. A short while later, three of the four picketers had put down their signs and were hugging Patricia: "You're saying just what Jesus said!" they told her. The fourth picket refused to be swayed and continued protesting.

So why is this important? I devised the totally made-up Law of 75 to describe this phenomenon where three out of four people are susceptible to loving communication that calls forth what we hold in common -- the desire to live in peace and happiness, and the willingness to grant others who play by those rules the same freedom / responsibility. 75% of us -- or more -- want the same things, and those same things are far, far more important than the differences that are used to keep us divided and conquered.

I'm willing to bet that 75% of Americans don't want to live in a corrupt fascist system where George Bush's word is law, and where our greatest fear is our own government. I could be wrong. Maybe it's 95% and not 75%.

And what does this mean? It means that Democrats AND Republicans, Greens, Libertarians, Independents -- most Americans -- given a choice (and hey, I say we give it to them) will just say NO to fascism. That 75% of Americans by the way includes rich people and poor people, rural conservatives, urban progressives and even -- and maybe especially -- members of the military, who are experiencing some of the system's abuse firsthand.

On the eve of last November's election -- where, by the way, the body politic finally showed some muscle -- the four military publications representing each branch of service called for the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld. Now sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but I read it differently. I read it as a signal from the military that if George Bush tried any funny stuff, he couldn't count on their support.

My strong sense is that those people in all echelons of power who have not been "ethically-cleansed" will stand up for justice -- if we will. And -- to quote the football coach George Allen, "the future is now." Right now, the Bush Administration has the momentum as it illegally uses the law to hide from scrutiny, and sends out kingly decrees equating protest with treason. Bush can't help it, folks. He has to do it to survive.

Time to Bring Left and Right Front and Center

At the same time we realize he will not and cannot back down, we must remember that 75% of us (a conservative estimate, again, of those who don't want fascism) -- nearly 200 million people -- are standing on the other side. Now all we have to do is understand our numbers and our bottom line -- fascism in any form must be taken off the table now.

To paraphrase the old saying, those who fail to learn from history flunk it and have to take it over. What was it that allowed Hitler to come to power, to use questionable legal leverage in an illegal way until the disease had so metastasized that it could no longer be cured by the German body politic's immune system? It was the failure of the parties on the left, the parties on the right and the parties in the middle to unite to face the common danger.

There's a scene in the documentary, Bringing Down a Dictator -- the story of the fall of Slobodon Milosovic -- where all the leaders of the opposing parties realize they must form a coalition if the dictator is to be stopped. As you look at the expressions on the faces of these leaders, you see how distasteful a task this is for them. And yet they do it. They unite around one alternative candidate, and they are ultimately successful. The pivotal moment, by the way, is when the soldiers realize they will be firing on their brothers and sisters and ultimately put down their guns, and the palace falls. So, again, what do we do? As part of the "up-wising" there is a growing field of awareness among Americans of all stars and stripes that "we're not in Kansas, anymore Toto." There is a groundswell swelling on the ground, but no significant leadership has yet emerged at the top. We can only guess that there is an epidemic of cowardice and denial, and most importantly a "misunderestimation" of the American people, and our own legacy and destiny.

We don't need a revolution in this country. We already had one. But we are at an evolutionary tipping point, and we the people can't wait for some big scorer to come lumbering down the court. We have to tip it in ourselves. In other words, we have to face the truth with courage, and we must communicate with others to strengthen the field of truth and weaken the field of lies. The time is now ripe for a national organization that stands up and uses the F-Word to Just Say NO To Fascism. Maybe it can be called the New Moral Majority or Patriots Against the Patriot Act (PAPA) or the Jefferson's Witnesses or the American Citizens Union.

As an individual I'm not in a position to make this organization happen. But each of us as individuals can put the idea out and call on those who we know are leaders to speak directly to this issue, and some already are. It's very important IN FACT ESSENTIAL that this be a bipartisan or transpartisan group. In addition to calling on people like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and elders like Bill Moyers, Elizabeth Holtzman and Jimmy Carter, we must include those on the right who have called for impeachment or who are concerned about America's loss of liberties, including Bruce Fein, John Dean, Paul Craig Roberts and Rep. Ron Paul (R, Texas). In addition, now is the time for prominent folks to use their bully pulpit to help oust the bully-in-chief from his -- whether it's a spot on Leno or Letterman, or like Michael Moore it's on CNN. In fact, watch this (http://www.breitbart.tv/html/2823.html) and be inspired as we finally have someone break through the media soundless barrier and speak to the betrayal of the American people by the media. Take heart too that Richard Mellon Scaife, one of the most vicious attackers of Bill Clinton and loyal supporters of Bush has now has begun to question the President's mental stability.

It's Up to Us to Put the Decider Through the Decider Mill

No matter who we are, no matter how much or little influence we think we have, we all (75% to 95% of us, anyway) share the same mission: To awaken all 200 million adult Americans to draw the line and tell the "Decider" that we the people are the Deciders, thank you. And we have decided he will do no more deciding on our behalf. Impeachment notwithstanding, we need a long, long, long piece of paper with 50 million or more adult American signatures calling on the President and Vice President to step down. We can call it Total Recall, but I like the idea of a physical scroll of signatures. As Benjamin Franklin ("we must all hang together or else we will surely hang separately") understood, the more of us who sign it, the safer we all will be. As with that other King George some ten score and eleven years ago, this bloodless evolution, this firing of a few Big Shots will be seen and heard around the world. One morning, possibly very soon, we will wake up and realize the tides have shifted. The headlines will reveal it, and we will see it in the faces of our fellow Americans -- people no longer afraid of their own government, people ready to face the real challenges ahead of us as a people and a world without the vicious diversions of problems generated to keep us apart.

If we don't do it, no one will. And if we do, not just America but the world will change course for the better.

May God bless America, and may Good bless us all.

by Mac McKinney (42 articles, 69 quicklinks, 164 diaries, 1071 comments) on Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 11:16:43 AM

Oops, that's Swami Beyondananda

I mispelled Swami Beyondananda. His website, again, is: http://www.wakeuplaughing.com/

by Mac McKinney (42 articles, 69 quicklinks, 164 diaries, 1071 comments) on Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 11:28:26 AM

Synchronicity

Cosmic Coincidence:

While I was inserting Swami Beyondananda's (Steve Bhaerman) article here, it was being published right next to this one as a headliner.

by Mac McKinney (42 articles, 69 quicklinks, 164 diaries, 1071 comments) on Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 11:43:13 AM

Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on Conscious talk radio www.conscioustalk.net
Allen L RolandAllen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on Conscious talk radio www.conscioustalk.net

COMMENT

It's all coming down and coming down fast ~ these neocon fanatics are convinced they are patriots and Congress is still enabling them by not instituting Impeachment proceedings .

As Paul Krugman wrote today ; While Bush no longer has many true believers, he still has plenty of enablers ~ people who understand the folly of his actions, but refuse to do anything to stop him.

And that is precisely what happened in the 1930's with Hitler and his cabal of Nazi fanatics ~ and no one did anything to stop him.

Political apathy eventually leads to Fascism.

Allen L Roland

by Allen L Roland (881 articles, 7 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 347 comments) on Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 11:18:03 AM

I am a Canadian politiphile with a special interest in the American empire.
deliaI am a Canadian politiphile with a special interest in the American empire.

Chalmers Johnson

Johnson's Nemesis keeps echoing in my mind as I read through this article and the comments -- this excerpt in particular:

Failed Checks on Executive Ambition

The current administration’s perspective on political power is far from unique. Few, if any, presidents have refused the increased executive authority that is the natural byproduct of military Keynesianism. Moreover, the division of power between the president, the Congress, and the judiciary – often described as the bedrock of American democracy – has eroded significantly in recent years. The people, the press, and the military, too, seem anxious to cede power to a “wartime” president, leaving Bush, or those who follow him, almost entirely unobstructed in pursuing the imperial project.

Congress: Corrupt and indifferent, Congress, which the Founders believed would be the leading branch of government, has already entirely forfeited the power to declare war. More recently, it gave the president the legal right to detain anyone, even American citizens, without warrant, and to detain non-citizens without recourse to habeas corpus, as well as to use a variety of interrogation methods that he could define, at his sole discretion, to be or not be torture.

The Courts: The judicial branch is hardly more effective in restraining presidential ambition. The Supreme Court was active in the installation of the current president, and the lower courts increasingly are packed with judges who believe they should defer to his wishes. In 2006, for instance, U.S. District Judge David Trager dismissed a suit by a thirty-five-year-old Canadian citizen, Maher Arar, who in 2002 was seized by U.S. government agents at John F. Kennedy Airport and delivered to Syria, where he was tortured for ten months before being released. No charges were filed against Arar, and his torturers eventually admitted he had no links to any crime. In explaining his dismissal, Trager noted with approval an earlier Supreme Court finding that such judgment would “threaten ‘our customary policy of deference to the President in matters of foreign affairs.’”

The Military: It is possible that the U.S. military could take over the government and declare a dictatorship.(5) That is how the Roman republic ended. For the military voluntarily to move toward direct rule, however, its leaders would have to ignore their ties to civilian society, where the symbolic importance of constitutional legitimacy remains potent. Rebellious officers may well worry about how the American people would react to such a move. Moreover, prosecutions of low level military torturers from Abu Ghraib prison and killers of civilians in Iraq have demonstrated to enlisted ranks that obedience to illegal orders can result in their being punished, whereas officers go free. No one knows whether ordinary American soldiers would obey clearly illegal orders to oust an elected government or whether the officer corps has sufficient confidence to issue such orders. In addition, the present system already offers the military high command so much – in funds, prestige, and future employment via the military-industrial revolving door – that a perilous transition to anything resembling direct military rule would make little sense under reasonably normal conditions.

The People: Could the people themselves restore constitutional government? A grass roots movement to break the hold of the military-industrial complex and establish public financing of elections is conceivable. But, given the conglomerate control of the mass media and the difficulties of mobilizing the United States’ large and diffuse population, it is unlikely. Moreover, the people themselves have enjoyed the Keynesian benefits of the U.S. imperial project and – in all but a few cases – have not yet suffered any of its consequences.

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by delia (0 articles, 1 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 112 comments) on Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 2:34:44 PM

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Moreover, the people themselves have enjoyed the Keynesian benefits of the U.S. imperial project and – in all but a few cases – have not yet suffered any of its consequences.

Precisely, Delia ~ and therein lies our problem, resultant apathy and Congressional cowardess as an unchecked run away executive branch veers toward fascism.

Allen L Roland

by Allen L Roland (881 articles, 7 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 347 comments) on Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 11:36:47 PM

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ladybroadoakVirginia Simson is a spiritual journalista/activist who runs a visionary planetary tutorial blogspot, www.ladybroadoak.blogspot.com as well as a blog on the uranium industry and depleted uranium at www.lowlevelradiation.blogspot.com. She feels that we must educate the young as to the real issues of the day - economics, clean energy, a drug free lifestyle, friendship and concern for the environment. We must plan for seven generations in the future. She unconditionally supports impeachment and...

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Yes BUT

As I pointed out in about my last comment to my post on Exec Order 51, there is scarcely a person who has not had some negative impact visited on them from seven years of total domestic neglect (if nothing else higher gasoline prices, and hidden inflation).. or know of some person wounded by a car bomb in the ME who cannot get VA benefits .. or they might be just scared of being the victim of some KatRita scenario or something and have to work out a survival plan all by themselves ...

I got out of impeachment groups and the pundits in them awhile back so I could reconnect with PEOPLE. And they are pissed off, right pissed off. I wish they had gotten pissed off at torture in Iraq, but they didn't - my cynicism/optimism about Murkans ebbs and flows depending on my day on the internet. I have one big thing .. HOPE. Murkans really do not like being seen as UGLY, period. They do have a certain amount of pride which has largely gone into the toilet with Bush/Cheney and other whack jobs and want an end to it. I do not think they are gonna wait to see IRAN attacked to show their desire for change and to get new leadership, whatever it is.

The street prophets have been whipping things up all summer; we get the announcement of the Executive Order by an armeggonIST. Fire the grid was subsidized and promoted by counterintel pro .. and what are we to make of THAT ...? That people want to feel better about themselves, irrespective of what underlies change . they just want a change that leaves them SOMETHING.

I came to a real-ization that the change we were waiting for was this: There are more of us, then there are of THEM. In other words, the Adminstration sucks a big one, carries a BIG, mighty stick (carrots being only for the rich and right-wing Xians) BUT there are more of US than they can possible force into camps, instant poverty, or to face death squads. This was in fact the change in perspective linguistic predictors were calling to take place.

The momentum for change is there .. and Olbermann notwithstanding, good ole Hilary is NOT the direction people want to go; she is not the scapegoat, the American people and ALL people of the world are the scapegoats when we thwart the will of the extremISTS, those with the fundamentalISM of money is better, Big Business is better, war is good, etc.

So to close on a high note, I think the Stop the SPP! activity will be riveting and the impeachment "movement" will get into high gear, even among the biggest couch potato .. afterall, impeachment hearings might prove to be the highest rated TV of all time. It' s time to change the "channel" .... and we will see people demand it be so, or they take to the streets in some way. What's there to lose at this point? As primarily a spiritual person, I believe the GOOD has already won, but it will be a bumpy road getting there.

Virginia

by ladybroadoak (38 articles, 20 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 391 comments) on Monday, July 23, 2007 at 4:45:19 AM

Before I forget ..

I saw the article about conspiracy theories being true (and they are), and posted it around to many groups labelled "MORE Bush bullshit" and it drew the largest comments of all things posted last week ...

by ladybroadoak (38 articles, 20 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 391 comments) on Monday, July 23, 2007 at 4:48:11 AM