Speaking of the September 11th 2001 attacks Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska said, “This is the second Pearl Harbor. I don't think that I overstate it,".
The Bush administration and it’s supporters wanted Americans to be afraid, cooperative and compliant. That is still what they want.
There has been quite a bit of discussion lately about Bush and Cheney declaring martial law and canceling the 2008 election. I personally don’t think they could pull it off, but the bits and pieces of information that have come out certainly makes the suggestion seem to have some merit. Many of these have been outlined is a recent article by Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis.
Some of the evidence that points toward a non-electoral power grab:
1) Under “Unitary Executive theory”, Bush has issued many signing statements that preclude him and his administration from being bound by legislation passed by Congress.
2) One particularly worrisome directive is National Security Presidential Directive 51, which states in part: "Enduring Constitutional Government," or "ECG," means a cooperative effort among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Federal Government, coordinated by the President… to execute constitutional responsibilities and provide for orderly succession, appropriate transition of leadership, and interoperability and support of the National Essential Functions during a catastrophic emergency”.
This clearly states that the President can declare an emergency, and then do what he deems necessary to “…provide for orderly succession, [and] appropriate transition of leadership…” That pertains directly to succession of power… for example, during elections.
3) The awarding of a $385 million contract over five years to Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR), a subsidiary of defense contractor Halliburton, to build internment camps in the US to deal with a possible future “immigration emergency”, or in the case of a “national emergency” could be used to house “relief workers”.
4) The domestic spying program which bypasses the FISA court could most certainly be used to follow the activities of citizens who would try to organize to stop any Bush power grab.
5) The ability to declare almost anyone an “enemy combatant” which then precludes them from exercising their habeus corpus rights is also troubling in this regard.
There are many other facts that are also troubling, but there is one thing that is critical, which is missing from the proposed scenarios.
The Third “Pearl Harbor Type Event”.
I don’t see increased illegal immigration, or progressives protesting in the streets, or any of the normal things that happen in the country every day would provide the cover they would need to pull off a non-electoral power grab. That leaves another large terrorist attack, or other national emergency, to present itself at just the right time. Bush can’t count on bin Laden for this one.
Since Bush and FEMA apparently don’t consider a category 4 hurricane destroying a major US city as a national emergency, I think we can safely say it would have to be a massive “terrorist attack”, in order to be elevated to an election-canceling event.
Al Qaeda has no current incentive to attack the US, because it would give Bush more power and prestige. So if Bush and Cheney can’t count on terrorists to give them the excuse they need, they will have to come up with an excuse of their own.
I personally am not much of a conspiracy theorist. However, if you are then you need to round out this coup plot to make it believable and workable. You also need all the pieces of the puzzle in place if you are going to try and thwart the plan. As such, you will need to try to determine based on their actions and public statements what type of third Pearl Harbor event they might be planning.
Dr. John Moffett is an active research neuroscientist in the Washington, DC area, who has published over 45 scientific articles on the nervous and immune systems. Dr. Moffett is also the author and webmaster of the political opinion website www.Factinista.org, and is a Managing Editor at OpEdNews.com.
15 months? Try 15 days. There are people outthere, including me, concerned that something is already in the air, scheduled for this summer. August 18 is one date that has popped up. Mid-September is another (how nostalgic!). They have been hyping al Qaeda’s powers and capabilities to hit us lately, bin Laden (five or so year old footage) popped up one video, there has been endless talk about a dirty bomb, and so on. The “War on Terror” is losing steam, the Republicans don’t have enough fear in their fear paradigm right now to manipulate the masses properly, and Bush officials and allies are taking major hits for corruption, dishonesty, immorality, you name it. To some of their deluded minds at least, another terror attack would be a good thing.
We have been discussing this on my two posts of False Flag Watch over in the Public Diary Section, dated July 19 and July 24, with the Skull & Crossbones icon (which is appropriate on many levels). Whether or not something is imminent, the potential is there, and I would rather err on the side of caution and assume that an August "Pearl Harbor" is a strong possibility than to get caught off guard altogether.
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Mac McKinney (42 articles, 62 quicklinks, 147 diaries, 989 comments)
on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at 11:25:46 AM
"However, if you are then you need to round out this coup plot to make it believable and workable. You also need all the pieces of the puzzle in place if you are going to try and thwart the plan"
Round out what pieces? And you read the article, pretty much everything needed is already in place - that's why people are concerned. There's not much left that could or would need to be done - other than the act itself. And by that time it would be too late to prepare. So exactly what more are you looking for? A cabinet whistleblower? or What?
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RCG (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 352 comments)
on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at 5:28:41 PM
You said "Al Qaeda has no current incentive to attack the US, because it would give Bush more power and prestige. So if Bush and Cheney can’t count on terrorists to give them the excuse they need, they will have to come up with an excuse of their own."
Yes, this is important:
Let's me think like Al Qaeda for a moment: Bush is not just ineffective in combatting Al Qaeda* but has served as a great recruiting tool. AQ want's the US in Iraq becasue it's become a great place to recruit and train -- it's the Sunni resistance (and seemingly to an extent the Shia also, which is allied with Iran, which AQ has decalred 'war' on) which is mobilizing and uniting against AQ because it is killing civilians and giving the resistance a bad name.
If I was AQ, then, I would want Bush in office -- as a dictator, in fact. Recall the message AQ sent to elect Democrats, knowing that would turn people against Dems. The more extreme the US government is, the better for the extremists. One tool of extremism is to demonize the other side -- all the better if the other side really ARE demons.
That said, I doubt AQ has the ability to make a major strike in the US -- it's not even clear they did so 9/11/2001. If they wanted to attack it's more likely to target assets overseas. And, of course, it's hard to say who 'they' are, with AQ being moslty now a distributed network or pop-up 'franchise' organization, each group being focussed on it's own area and agenda. A false-flag is more likely for these reasons.
On the other hand, a pop-up AQ-type group, not linked with OBL and his allies, might attack. And they may be aided by, or manipulated into an attack: we;ve already seen administration PR generated from so-called 'terrorist' groups (blow up the Sears Tower?? attack Fort Dix??).
Question is, what portion of the population would blame Bush, and what portion fall for the panicky propaganda afterwards? The results of declaring martial law are very iffy -- it might set off all the people who are fed up but are just being pressurized, lacking a fuse. Or, the plan might be to grab those who are first to hit the streets ('factor-X' people), trying to take out the 'leaders' and 'pacify' the sheep. (Strange word that -- "pacify" -- by using violence gainst people!) The odds are good, I think, that they will be waiting for an uprising -- and we should not follow that game. Protests should be very peaceful and provide an excuse -- but rather that would be the time to try to initiate a general strike and massive boycotts. (And, of course, who would want to go shopping or to work when 'those terrorists are attacking'? ,-) Throw them off stride!
*insert caveat theories that Al Qaeda is a black op of Bush and/or CIA, or that AQ does not actually exist.
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Blue Pilgrim (0 articles, 3 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 998 comments)
on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at 5:35:42 PM
I thought about that when I was writing, but I decided that if I were really interested in the future of the middle east, I would want a more moderate US President who would talk and negotiate (you know, like Obama, rather than Clinton).
So you and I think alike, but I decided that the “dictator in US is good for us” mindset is a less likely one for them to hold. I’m not saying that it is wrong, because hoping that your enemy will self destruct is an age-old tactic. I’m just saying I think that if Al Qaeda is real, then they probably really care about the middle east, not just their recruiting drive.
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John R Moffett (80 articles, 14 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 601 comments)
on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at 6:29:19 PM
Everything is now in place for a dictatorship. Why go to the extreme of another terrorist attack? All "W" has to do is lie once again to the American people. He could go on TV one night, make up some nonsense, for example" a plot to overthrow the government is now in the works & I need to stay in office to stablize the country & maintain law & order, etc. Afterwards, he invokes all these Executive Orders, some going back to the Nixon Administration in order to confuse the living hell of the American people. The 2008 elections are thrown out & along with what remains of the Constitution. The people have no idea what is going on any way in their government, so in turn accept him as a dictator. Those who decide to rebel are quickly made examples of in full public view. This creats a shock wave among the people that they must obey & conform or face the consquences, ie lost of job, assets, imprisonement, torture, etc. Crackdowns on remaining rights are increased & you have what makes every dictatorship thrive & that is universal fear. And please don't ever say " it can't happen here".
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iman (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 89 comments)
on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at 7:06:17 PM
While I dread the third Pearl Harbor scenario, I think your hypothesis is the more likely. It is simple, low risk, and very likely to work in modern America.
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W.M.L. (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 283 comments)
on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at 7:58:15 PM
Even reasonably people are so diluted and in denial that they'd swallow whatever was shoved down their throat as "what would be necessary to keep order".
What gets me is that we have a very real example of what's happening in this country in recent history. This is text book Nazi tactics. And least we forget that Prescott bush financed the rise of Hitler and continued to finance him even after we went to war against Germany.
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Mr M (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 9 diaries, 1262 comments)
on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 at 8:14:34 AM
Just wanted to throw in my 2 cents. If I had to venture a guess I will go with pandemic, takes care of a lot of those pesky problems. First people will be afraid to leave their homes sick or not, (no backlash for bush) second it will be easy to disappear people (sorry Nancy won't be in today) third they'll get to use all those brand new detention "oops" I mean health care facilities they just built. Google dead scientists, I think it's been in the works for awhile, also journalist Devvy Kidd has some great articles on her page.
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insydout (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 4 comments)
on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at 7:48:08 PM
about Israel developing genetic weapons to target Arabs -- supposed to be a report in the London Times UK (Sunday Times) 11/15/1998, but I haven't seen any confirmation of it. Might be true they are looking, or it could be just propaganda. There's a bit about it on wikipedia. If disinformation or rumor, it might have originated from Israel to frighten people, or from somewhere else and Israel decline to refute it for the same reason, or it might not have anything to do with Israel. I don't ahve access even to original 1998 article.
I see an article in Salon titled Debunking the ''ethno-bomb''.
In any case, I think would be extremely difficult to do at present levels of knowledge without unintendedly harming a great many people, including Jews in Israel. If Mossad is involved it could well be their equivalent of the CIA's remote viewing or LSD programs, which went nowhere. Spooks get a little weird.
Overall, I would say it's unlikely there is anything to this.
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Blue Pilgrim (0 articles, 3 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 998 comments)
on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at 10:48:53 PM
I work across the street from NIH, and the rumor there is that they have been preparing for a “large pandemic outbreak” for a long time (about a year), and that the preparation was ordered from high up in the chain. Under any other administration, I’d say that was just being prepared… With this one… I just don’t know. They don’t like science much, so being prepared for a disease outbreak seems out of character.
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John R Moffett (80 articles, 14 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 601 comments)
on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 at 5:47:48 AM
Scary article. If all else fails, do they have enough "secret from the people election systems" in place to steal an election that is in actuality not even close? We had better all hope that Alberto Gonzales saves us all by bringing this administration down.
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Sheila Jackson (16 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 137 comments)
on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at 10:29:43 PM
if bush tries something, then i think a rebellion is ripe and in place. it could happen? a resistance could rise up and over throw this idiot. what do all america think he could get away with this?
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vincent passiatore (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 161 comments)
on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at 11:31:10 PM
The people are of this country are so far gone they'd welcome anything the controllers throw at them when another attack happens, even though it was the controllers that attacked them.
Outside of the very small percentage of people who are paying any attention most of the people are so dumbed-down, scared, in debt and miss-informed that they'd eat a shit sandwich if you told them it would make them smarter.
As far as I'm concerned this country is already so far gone it needs to fall before it can be fixed. If I were a younger man or had the means I'd move today to a saner country.
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Mr M (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 9 diaries, 1262 comments)
on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 at 8:05:23 AM
My parents and G- parents where brought up in a scenery of fear, we had a fascist dictator for 40 years, terrorist war going on relentlessly in various "colonies" in Africa that drained human life just like a tumour.
We had to leave the country because we could not even breath.
Enough is enough, we managed somehow a bloodless coup- though we were on the brink of a civil war. Today we have one of the most advanced Constitutions, and the people of this country must fight, everyday if necessary, to keep it so.
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Jessiana (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 7 comments)
on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 at 1:23:17 PM
Even if Bush had the guts to do this, how long do you think he would last? It's obvious he doesn't have the brains to pull this off. Once the power grab has taken place, why would Cheney let Bush be the dictator? It would be like Hitler letting Barney Fife be the Fuehrer. Bush would be eliminated by stronger men either Cheney or someone else. While Bush was reading his "Shakespeares," he should have read Julius Caesar a stronger man than Bush who didn't make the transition to tyrant alive.
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skyreader7 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 182 comments)
on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 at 12:19:28 AM
I’m still under the possibly naïve notion that these totalitarians are all a bit like Barney Fief in the sense that they botch everything they try to do. They’ve been caught doing hundreds of things wrong, meaning they are not good at hiding their misdeeds. This is another example, because if they were planning a 3rd Pearl Harbor, then they blew it again because people are talking about it before they can even get around to pulling it off.
I still say that they are going to go away quietly when their miserable terms are over, because they will be so discredited that no one will follow them anymore. But I could be naïve.
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John R Moffett (80 articles, 14 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 601 comments)
on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 at 6:02:59 AM
I have been saying it for a long time and it is true, there is nothing, ever, which has happened that was not a conspiracy, except Acts of God, and even He plans them carefully.
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Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo (144 articles, 1 quicklinks, 95 diaries, 1313 comments)
on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 at 2:47:07 PM
One of the things that has always amassed me is the amount of denial reasonable people can have.
There are dozens of documentaries, hundreds of books, thousands of articles, testimony from many respected people in the know, not to mention that anyone with their eyes open can see the obvious yet the conspiracy is still a "theory" to them.
The standing army our Founding Fathers warned us against is in place, foreign intervention, and career politicians.
The systematic destruction of our education system and the fact that we have more people in jail than all the rest of the world combined.
Ninety percent of everything we hear, read, and see is controlled by a very few corporations that have no interest in a democratic/republic government.
Our elections are a farce and since the 2000 disaster not only have they not given us uniform, verifiable elections, if anything they've gotten worse.
We have witnessed our government violate every aspect of of the rule of law, piss on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, make torture, kidnapping, and secret prisons the norm without consequence.
We witnessed bush fight tooth and nail not to even have an investigation into 9/11 and then when it was forced upon them make a farce out of it. Even Kean has said it was a white-wash.
Provisions of the Patriots Act, the Military Commissions Act, along with many Presidential Directives, signing statements have essentially made us a de-facto dictatorship.
All this and still there are many, like the author of this article that refuse to see what is in front of them hidden in plan sight. And the kicker here is even though the author says he's not a "conspiracy theorist" yet, he goes on that our government may indeed stage a False Flag event is a very real possibility and THEN he might join the ranks of conspiracy theorists. (?) If you see the "very real possibility" you already ARE a conspiracy theorists.
Sorry John, if we wait for the next False Flag it will be way too late. It may already be. Because if you were to have investigated half of the evidence available on 9/11 that "theorist" part would have been shelved a long time ago.
May I suggest you watch "9/11 Press for Truth", "Hidden in Plain Sight" and "Terror Storm" then come back and lets talk not about conspiracy, but about the very real systematic destruction of this country and the very real creation of a One World Government.
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Mr M (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 9 diaries, 1262 comments)
on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 at 7:52:00 AM
Saw it… read a ton on it. Still not convinced, because I am a scientist, and I need a lot more than those sources gave me. Innuendo, lack of evidence being put forward as evidence… etc.
I clearly stated that I didn’t think that BushCo was going to do it, and only said that if they were going to, they would need to do this first. That’s it.
You can get as mad at me as you like for not believing in something that is not proven. It’s your right, just like I have the right to have my own opinion. But I don’t believe in alien abductions, that Area 51 houses an alien spaceship, that there is a Lock Ness Monster, or that the World Trade Centers were brought down by directed energy weapons. It’s that damn scientist in me that needs to actually have some real evidence, not innuendo. Nothing I saw in any of the 9/11 web sites comes close to meeting the criteria of fact, or scientifically derived data.
Call me naïve, call me an idiot. But somehow, I don’t think calling each other names is going to get us anywhere.
I’ll be the first to admit I was really wrong if some real evidence does come out.
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John R Moffett (80 articles, 14 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 601 comments)
on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 at 8:19:26 AM
