Thread: Bush could seize absolute control of U.S. government

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From Capitol Hill Blue

The Rant
Bush could seize absolute control of U.S. government
By DOUG THOMPSON
Publisher, Capitol Hill Blue
Jan 13, 2006, 07:42



President George W. Bush has signed executive orders giving him sole authority to impose martial law, suspend habeas corpus and ignore the Posse Comitatus Act that prohibits deployment of U.S. troops on American streets. This would give him absolute dictatorial power over the government with no checks and balances.

Bush discussed imposing martial law on American streets in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by activating “national security initiatives� put in place by Ronald Reagan during the 1980s.

These “national security initiatives," hatched in 1982 by controversial Marine Colonel Oliver North, later one of the key players in the Iran-Contra Scandal, charged the Federal Emergency Management Agency with administering executive orders that allowed suspension of the Constitution, implementation of martial law, establishment of internment camps, and the turning the government over to the President.

John Brinkerhoff, deputy director of FEMA, developed the martial law implementation plan, following a template originally developed by former FEMA director Louis Guiffrida to battle a “national uprising of black militants.� Gifuffrida’s implementation of martial law called for jailing at least 21 million African Americans in “relocation camps.� Brinkerhoff later admitted in an interview with the Miami Herald that President Reagan signed off on the initiatives and they remained in place, dormant, until George W. Bush took office.

Brinkerhoff moved on the Anser Institute for Homeland Security and, following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, provided the Bush White House and the Pentagon with talking points supporting revised “national security initiatives� that would could allow imposition of martial law and suspension of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, the law that is supposed to forbid use of troops for domestic law enforcement.

Brinkerhoff wrote that intentions of Posse Comitatus are “misunderstood and misapplied� and that the U.S. has in times of national emergency the “full and absolute authority� to send troops into American streets to “enforce order and maintain the peace.�

Bush used parts of the plan to send troops into the streets of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. In addition, FEMA hired former special forces personnel from the mercenary firm Blackwater USA to “enforce security.�

Blackwater USA, in its promotional materials, describes itself as “the most comprehensive professional military, law enforcement, security, peacekeeping, and stability operations company in the world,� adding that “we have established a global presence and provide training and operational solutions for the 21st century in support of security and peace, and freedom and democracy everywhere.�

Blackwater is also a major U.S. contractor in Iraq and has a contract with the Bush White House to provide additional security work “on an as-needed basis.�

The Department of Homeland Security established the “Northern Command for National Defense,� a wide-ranging program that includes FEMA, the Pentagon, the FBI and the National Security Agency. Executive orders already signed by Bush allow the Northern Command to send troops into American streets, seize control of radio and television stations and networks and impose martial law “in times of national emergency.�

The authority to declare what is or is not a national emergency rests entirely with Bush who does not have to either consult or seek the approval of Congress for permission to assume absolute control over the government of the United States.

The White House press office would neither confirm nor deny existence of Bush’s executive orders or the existence of the Northern Command for National Defense. Neither would the Department of Homeland Security.

But my sources within the White House and DHS tell me the plans are in place, ready for implementation when the command comes from the man who keeps telling the American public that he is a “war time president� who will “do anything in my power� to impose his will on the people of the United States.

And he has made sure that power will be absolute when he chooses to use it.

Watch him try to execute these powers as soon as a backlash comes after another terrorist attack or if the uprising against the illegals starts getting violent.

Exactly!! It would seem that Bin Laden is hiding in the shrub's bedroom. (Has the CIA checked in there? )

The two just coordinate their moves so well!
Just as the shrub is trying to gain the absolute power a president "should" have in wartime, Bin Laden conveniently comes out with a tape AFTER MORE THAN A YEAR OF SILENCE, with threats fo a new attack.

Sure sounds fishy to me!

Always remembering that Bush is insane, it's highly suspicious and very disturbing.

And, I don't think that guy is Osama on that tape just because the CIA "said so" either.

I was waiting for you to chime in on this Judy. Sylvia I agree 100% the timing is too coincidental. This disturbed me greatly as does most of the things this man does.

Originally Posted by SylviaAlvarado

Exactly!! It would seem that Bin Laden is hiding in the shrub's bedroom. (Has the CIA checked in there? )

The two just coordinate their moves so well!
Just as the shrub is trying to gain the absolute power a president "should" have in wartime, Bin Laden conveniently comes out with a tape AFTER MORE THAN A YEAR OF SILENCE, with threats fo a new attack.

Sure sounds fishy to me!

I was thinking the same thing too.

I can't help but wonder just how much leeway that Patriot Act that the Senate didn't bother to read before they passed it actually gave the President. I know darn well they didn't write a thousand-plus pages of legal mumbo jumbo overnight after 9-11. Someone had that baby sitting right in the safe waiting for the most opportune moment. It could well have been started when Clinton was still in office in my opinion. And I believe that no matter who won the election--Bush or Kerry--it would have been produced and the sheep in the senate would still have passed it without reading it.

When I saw the news alert about bin Laden supposedly turning up and making another tape yesterday, I thought "maybe this is the next step in the plot" to force the Senators to stay in tune. It remains to be seen if they are as stupid as the President seems to think we all are.

Then today, I see Los Angeles Hispanics being whipped to a frenzy by racist organizations, and it makes me even more nervous. I think this is a smokescreen to keep us focused on what's going on there so that we don't see them sneak in the dictatorship legalization papers, which is what I think the Patriot Act really is. February 3 is the expiration date. Keep it in mind. February 4th we could have a whole different form of government if we don't do all the arm twisting we can on those wayward senators!

The following is all just opinion based on things I already know:

I don't believe bin Laden is even alive, and if he is, I'd be willing to bet his relatives have him under lock and key somewhere so he can't open his mouth. Running bin Laden up the flagpole every time the President wants this nation to shudder and comply has become a way of life, hasn't it?

I'm wondering how long before they monkey around and let Saddam Hussein, the other half of their evil twin scenario, escape.

I'd be wiling to bet the sudden rash of hispanic uprisings and outright racial slurs have something to do with the idea that they are assured that nothing is going to happen to them no matter how much violence they perpetrate. Look what all is going on and has been going on all over this country and only recently did the papers even start printing any of it. How many of those MS-13 gang members are government plants? When the time comes and they are no longer useful, is the government going to stomp on them like so many cockroaches?

And this is how I see the situation in the Mid East: There are still US soldiers in Saudi Arabia and they have long been considered a threat because the Saudis know that they don't have anyone who will get their hands dirty, much less fight for their nation.

Look at all the Kuwaitis and Saudis who fled their own country when Saddam Hussein was sitting on the Saudi Border in the days surrounding the invasion of Kuwait. I know what the deal was then because I, an American citizen, couldn't get out of Saudi Arabia until every single Saudi who wanted a ticket out was accomodated and when we finally did get out, it was aboard a borrowed charter from some little African country taht took us as far as Zurich. We weren't in danger but the tables could easily have turned if Israel had ignored US orders to stand down or we'd take our their missile launchers just like we did Saddam's.

There are US troops in Egypt, where everyone with any money is an "officer" and the majority of the male population is akin to a nation of 12 year olds with no sense of responsibility. The majority of the men who are in the military OR on the police force are there by draft, not by choice. The law requires them to serve in one place or the other and there aren't a lot of rich people who can buy their way out so they serve. Do you think that Mubarak doesn't perceive the US military as a threat knowing that his army and police don't even have shoe laces and can't be trusted with bullets for their weapons that probably haven't been cleaned in the last 20 years?

I don't know what the status is in other ME countries but I'd guess it is similar to either Saudi or Egypt according to whether the country is rich or poor.

That is just my take on this issue. I've not been in the Middle East in the past six years. I could be wrong but I have a feeling that things are more chaotic in the Mid East now than they were five years ago and that those leaders have to consider the options before they take on the US Military. If any terrorist act occurs in those countries, it will be at the hands of a few thugs who take it upon themselves to act out the whims of the Imams, Ayatollahs or whatever you choose to call them--flakes like bin Laden.

I have seen those thugs, even if they were only suspected of terrorist acts being marched down the road in leg irons so I know they don't monkey around like we do here and wait until the perpetrators of crimes cross the border before they start looking for them. Those people know exactly how precarious their governments are if they don't put down terrorists immediately.

I just can't fathom these evasive "threats" every time people get mad at the president as anything but media hype whipped up by the propaganda machine. Do you think that Al Jazeerah is above taking baksheesh to air something sent to them by the US gov't through some other gov't? I don't. Their media is censored, by the way, and they don't sit around pretending it isn't.

I wish that we hadn't been lied to so often that nobody knows anymore what is fact and what is fiction. I wish the media were a little less prone to peddling proaganda. I wish we didn't have ten thousand armchair generals in this country clouding the issues with things that happened fifty, forty, thirty, even twenty years ago. But things are way too far out of hand now and trust is in short supply because all those factors have contributed to the chaos. I believe our own government has spent the last 20 years or so making it this way on purpose.