Under the Obama administration, the plans for a full-time, permanent shadow government, stationed outside the capital, and run by permanently appointed (not elected) executive officials have expanded and grown far more elaborate and costly than many realize.
Study the COG plans carefully, however, and you'll find that the concern isn't so much about protecting our government as it is about protecting the nation's governmental elite, ensuring, in Arkin's words, that "Washington can defend itself, take care of its own, and survive no matter what."
To this end, the government has invested heavily in the "architecture of fear": massive underground bunkers--the size of small cities--which are sprinkled throughout the country for the government elite to escape to "in case of an imminent nuclear strike so that they can set up a kind of Administration-in-exile, directing every order of business from retaliation to recovery."
These self-contained bunkers, staffed 24/7 and strategically located around the nation's capital and in key states, represent a who's who on the shadow government's payroll, with every department and agency represented, from the Department of Education and the Trademark Office to the Small Business Administration and the National Archives. No sector has been overlooked. They even have contingency plans to save priceless works of art.
However, you know who's not on the list of key-individuals-to-be-saved-in-the-eventuality-of-a-disaster? You and me and every other American citizen who is viewed as a mere economic unit to be tallied, bought and sold by those in power.
Not to worry, however. The government hasn't completely forgotten about us.
In the event of a loosely defined "national emergency," the Constitution will effectively be suspended, thereby ushering in martial law.
At that time, writes Christopher Ketcham in Radar magazine, the government will likely round up any "potentially suspect" Americans and place them in one of the many internment camps or private prisons built for just such an eventuality.
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