And the last step is to make it easier for the president to declare martial law, and right now we are one step away from the president declaring martial law legally, because with the Defense Authorization Act of 2007 he can say it’s an emergency, and once he says it, he can deploy troops or the federalized National Guard or Blackwater or wherever he wants in the United States of America—and suspend elections if he wants to.
So just because it hasn’t happened yet doesn’t mean this is not an extremely dangerous situation, because one thing I’ve learned about closing societies is that, once people realize what’s happened, it’s usually too late to take action. We’re so used to thinking, “Oh well, we’ll just throw the bums out, or the ACLU will sue them,” or whatever, that’s what happens in democracy time. In police state time, when the edict comes out or the troop is deployed or the politician is assassinated, you’re not free anymore to take these steps because people are in a state of intimidation, and the law doesn’t work the same way it did before that step was taken.
Kall: So it’s the bringing back of the First Brigade, the violation of Posse Comitatus Act, that’s why it’s a coup here in the United States?
Wolf: Yes, that is the completion of the coup.
Kall: What about the money? What about the 700, 800...
Wolf: Oh, thank you. You’re exactly right. The definition of a police state is that the leader has his own military and his own treasury. What we’re seeing now—and again it’s so under-reported; this is being sent to me in e-mails—is that billions are being given to banks, not to lend it to hurting consumers, but to buy weakened banks, which by the way is exactly what they did in Germany: they weakened the businesses of Jews deliberately, and then when they were wounded and devalued, the state moved in and snapped them all up and made huge profits.
Kall: Now NPR has reported that you’ve--Now I was listening on NPR today; also you’ve got these private investing companies, and they basically are predators, like jackals, going after weakened companies or even taking strong companies and forcing them to allow themselves to be acquired and then selling them off for the parts, or what have you. Really, this is a way to get rid of diversity in business, the way to consolidate power. It’s all bad stuff.
Wolf: I’d actually flip what you’re saying around. It would be a way to get rid of diversity in business if we were a strong democracy, but what you’re seeing is the behavior of a Latin American oligarchy. This is exactly how they do things in Latin American dictatorships: they grab a chunk of the assets and nationalize them, and then a small group of cronies basically hand out the goods to one another. What people have to understand about a police state is – we’re so used to thinking, “Well, they would never do that because it’s bad for the economy,” or “It will destroy the middle class because people won’t be able to keep their homes”—in a police state they don’t care about having a strong middle class. They’re better served by depleting or erasing the middle class and having either this tiny oligarchy or people in misery.
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