I interrupt all the Palin abuse of power and election diaries for this important announcement. Your President threatened our Congress last week with imposing martial law if they didn't pass the bailout package. If this is true, if Congress passed the bailout under such a threat, then this alone is prima facia evidence for Bush's immediate arrest and impeachment!
U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman of California said to Congress, that individual members of the House were threatened with martial law within a week if they did not pass the bailout bill:
"The only way they can pass this bill is by creating and sustaining a panic atmosphere. ... Many of us were told in private conversations that if we voted against this bill on Monday that the sky would fall, the market would drop two or three thousand points the first day and a couple of thousand on the second day, and a few members were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted no."
Here's the full video text of Rep. Brad Sherman's speech on the House floor:
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So how real was Bush's threat to impose martial law? Consider these "Enabling Acts" for starters: The 2007 John Warner National Defense Authorization Act(10.17.06 the same date he signed the Military Commissions Act) and Presidential Directive NPSD-51/HSPD-20.
Both of these empower Bush to deploy US troops against US citizens during any period of national emergency, and to enforce Bush's orders to declare martial law, to enforce such orders "to ensure the continuity of government" with the use of any amount of force necessary, and for the duration of the national emergencey, as defined solely by Bush without any further authorization from the Congress. In a nutshell, Bush can, under the color of law, suspend the Constitution and habeas corpus, and declare himself absolute dictator!
Section 1076 of the massive Authorization Act, which grants the Pentagon another $500-plus-billion for its ill-advised adventures, is entitled, "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies." Section 333, "Major public emergencies; interference with State and Federal law" states that "the President may employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in Federal service, to restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition in any State or possession of the United States, the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of ("refuse" or "fail" in) maintaining public order, "in order to suppress, in any State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy."
For the current President, "enforcement of the laws to restore public order" means to commandeer guardsmen from any state, over the objections of local governmental, military and local police entities; ship them off to another state; conscript them in a law enforcement mode; and set them loose against "disorderly" citizenry - protesters, possibly, or those who object to forced vaccinations and quarantines in the event of a bio-terror event.
The law also facilitates militarized police round-ups and detention of protesters, so called "illegal aliens," "potential terrorists" and other "undesirables" for detention in facilities already contracted for and under construction by Halliburton. That's right. Under the cover of a trumped-up "immigration emergency" and the frenzied militarization of the southern border, detention camps are being constructed right under our noses, camps designed for anyone who resists the foreign and domestic agenda of the Bush administration.
http://www.towardfreedom.com/...
Nobody save a few inquiring minds who make it their life's purpose to watch such goings on seems to be watching and listening to what's happening to this nation, right under all of our noses. The troops are already being deployed!
Thousands of Troops Are Deployed on U.S. Streets Ready to Carry Out "Crowd Control"
By Naomi Wolf, AlterNet. Posted October 8, 2008.
Members of Congress were told they could face martial law if they didn't pass the bailout bill. This will not be the last time. This is a long video, but Naomi Wolf explains it all to us in vivd, stark detail how Bush is pulling off this coup d'etat:
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Part 3: "We're sorry this video is no longer available".
"George Bush struck down Posse Comitatus, thus making it legal for military to patrol the U.S. He has also legally established that in the "War on Terror," the U.S. is at war around the globe and thus the whole world is a battlefield. Thus the U.S. is also a battlefield.
He also led change to the 1807 Insurrection Act to give him far broader powers in the event of a loosely defined "insurrection" or many other "conditions" he has the power to identify. The Constitution allows the suspension of habeas corpus -- habeas corpus prevents us from being seized by the state and held without trial -- in the event of an "insurrection." With his own army force now, his power to call a group of protesters or angry voters "insurgents" staging an "insurrection" is strengthened.
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If this is true and Rep. Sherman is not delusional, I ask you to consider that if they are willing to threaten martial law now, it is foolish to assume they will never use that threat again. It is also foolish to trust in an orderly election process to resolve this threat. And why deploy the First Brigade? One thing the deployment accomplishes is to put teeth into such a threat".
http://www.alternet.org/...
October 02, 2008
"Invasion of the Sea-Smurfs"
A little-noticed story surfaced a couple of weeks ago in the Army Times newspaper about the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team. "Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months," reported Army Times staff writer Gina Cavallaro, "the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks." Disturbingly, she writes that "they may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control" as well.
The force will be called the chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive Consequence Management Response Force. Its acronym, CCMRF, is pronounced "sea-smurf." These "sea-smurfs," Cavallaro reports, have "spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle," in a combat zone, and now will spend their 20-month "dwell time"—time troops are required to spend to "reset and regenerate after a deployment"—armed and ready to hit the U.S. streets.
The Army Times piece includes a correction stating that the forces would not use nonlethal weaponry domestically. I called Air Force Lt. Col. Jamie Goodpaster, a public-affairs officer for Northern Command. She told me that the overall mission was humanitarian, to save lives and help communities recover from catastrophic events. Nevertheless, the military forces would have weapons on-site, "containerized," she said—that is, stored in containers—including both lethal and so-called nonlethal weapons. They would have mostly wheeled vehicles, but would also, she said, have access to tanks. She said that any decision to use weapons would be made at a higher level, perhaps at the secretary-of-defense level.
http://www.democracynow.org/...
There's no way Bush-Cheney would bequeath all the kingly powers and loot they stole from the American people to someone who was not a dyed in the wool, cut from the neocon mold, true believer. Enter John McCain and Sarah Palin.
They didn't achieve so much towards their regional and world hegemonic goals just to see everything go up in a puff of smoke!
They groomed Palin secretly and in the shadows. It is part and parcel of the neocon corporate fascist modus operandi. Cheney crafted their energy policy behind closed doors. Bush planned to overthrow Saddam during his very first week in office, even though he was informed(as shown by the 9/11 Commission's sworn testimony) that there were active "sleeper cells" operating within the US the same week of 01.25.01. Did Bush react to this intel and protect America from this true terrorist threat? No. Or did he raise a false flag, saying Saddam had WMDs and did he continue his path to war with Iraq based solely on lies? Yes.
Cheney, the ex-CEO of Halliburton secretly gave "no bid" contracts to Kellogg, Brown, Root, Bechtel, and Halliburton, even demoting the federal regulator in charge for blowing the whistle on him.
Bush-Cheney, by outing a covert CIA operative in a time of war, threatened the national security of the US, ruined Valerie Plame Wilson's career, and endangered her life and everyone that ever had contact with her!
And just last week, Bush continued his legacy of lies and deceit, threats and intimidation, committing de facto coup d'etat with the bailout plan that gives Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson the contol of our nation's finances, a power which belongs solely in the hands of the Congress. And make no mistake about it, whomever controls the money and credit supply controls this nation!
Yet, these teflon-coated traitors are still un-impeached, and are still free to exact more damage on this nation! And our leaders continue to keep 35 Articles of Impeachment "off the table" using the same worn-out circular argument. Impeachment is off the table because we don't have the votes. We don't have the votes because we don't have the proof. We don't have the proof because we don't have any hearings. We don't have any hearings because impeachment is off the table!
With this final straw, this threat by Bush to impose martial law(and you know if they suspend the Constitution the elections can't be very far behind!), is a prima facia case for impeachment!
What more is it going to take, I ask?
Will it take Abrams tanks rolling down our streets before we impeach them?
Will it take Apache and Blackhawk helicopters mowing down our citizens before we act?
Will it take hundreds of thousands of you to be swept away to the interment camps, ghost ships, and gulag prisons before we wake up?
Will it take US troops firing on US citizens before we see the ever-present danger that grows with every passing day we just continue to focus on electing "more and better Dems"?
If the Constitution falls on one point, it falls on all points!
What will you do, if tomorrow you find the Congress under arrest, America under a state of emergency and under lock-down?
Wake-up before it is too late! I beg you to act now, if it is not already too late!
Coming from a long, proud American tradition of true patriots, I have worn the uniform of this nation, risking my life in its defense. My family blood-line has its roots going all the way back to the original 13 colonies. I once swore an oath to defend to the death, this our free nation and blessed Constitution. Millions of true American patriots before me shed their lifesblood in defense of our freedoms we all take for granted. I've warned you all and sounded the alarm bell until I've nearly shattered it. I've begged our leaders to grow a pair and stand-up for the Constitution and the rule of law-not men, to no avail.
Why do they fear this one man so much? Now we know his true colors. It isn't about them winning this one election at all. They come for us! They aim to rule America with an iron fist, and they're more than ready, willing and able to run over us by any and all means necessary to do it!
I'm done now.
Now you may resume regular broadcasting.