I realize this is going to raise some eyebrows if my remarks somehow become prophetic. And to tell the truth I am a little paranoid about what the powers that be might do if something does go down and they suspect me of something.
So I want to say up front right now that I am just an average guy in California. You can get my contact info from Kos I have nothing to hide come knocking at my door, lock me away at camp fed. At this point I'd be honored to be locked up for exercising my freedom of speech.
Tomorrow Friday June 11th 2004 the entire US Government is shutting down. Even the postal service is taking the day off to honor Ronald Reagan. You're going to see somewhere between half a million to two million people flood Washington DC and while Security will be in place they are expecting a crowd of about 150,000 people and will be overwhelmed by all the choas that will surround the event.
Now you have a huge crowd, every member of both houses of congress and like half the worlds leaders all in one place. IF I was a terrorist in the United States, and I want to state one more time for Mr. Ashcroft that I am NOT A TERRORIST, but hypothetically if I were this would be too perfect of an opportunity to resist.
SOMETHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN!
There is no doubt about that in my mind! The only question is will they be able to stop it? Or will they drop the ball? I hope they do in fact stop it! I repeat (again for Mr. Ashcroft) I HOPE THEY STOP IT! There will be alot of innocent people in DC brought in by the week long hype they don't deserve to die.
So here is my hypothetical question and a neat little poll for you to give me your best guess of an answer. I know if the Pres and VP are both dead the House appoints the President and the Senate appoints the VP so what if they're gone too?
I know at the state of the union addresses one member of congress stays home. That way if something were to happen we could have a functioning Government. The said represenative would assume the role as President and begin to rebuild the Government.
But what if. What if everyone is gone. What if we're left with no elected member of the house or senate? Who would assume control? I realize we have an election in 6 months, and I would like to believe someone would fill in until then and the election would pick the next President. But my cynical brain tells me some military general guy who will probably be an asshole will decide to take over and run the show from there!
If that happens I think we're pretty much screwed as a Democracy.