Evidence That Bush Will Cancel Elections & Declare Martial Law
- From: bodhi <psychedelictourist@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 14:33:21 -0700 (PDT)
Evidence That Bush Will Cancel Elections & Declare Martial Law
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2008/05/evidence-that-bush-will-cancel.html
A 'national emergency' will provide Bush the raw power he needs to
cancel the elections and hold on to even greater executive power. Over
the course of his criminal and illegitimate regime, George W. Bush has
assumed powers that in cases of a 'national emergency' make of him an
absolute ruler beyond the powers of the Congress or the Courts. It has
all been locked up rather neatly and planned well in advance. A
'decider' by self-proclamation, Bush conveniently 'decides' what is
and what is not a 'national emergency. He is the sole arbiter.
The 'mechanism' by which Bush consolidates all his power is called
Executive Directive 51
[See: White House, National Security and Homeland Security
Presidential Directive, NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/NSPD
51 ].
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html
Signed into law on May 4, 2007, it specifies the 'procedures' to be
taken in the wake of a 'catastrophic emergency' --'any incident,
regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass
casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S.
population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government
functions'.
The Bush administration is prepared to move upon the slightest
pretext. What is called the 'TOPOFF' exercise 'games' a Code Red
alert. An "actual terrorist attack" of the type envisaged under TOPOFF
3 leads to a Code Red Alert, creating conditions for the suspension of
civilian government.
http://www.dhs.gov/xprepresp/training/gc_1179350946764.shtm
If we simply go to red ... it basically shuts down the country.
--Tom Ridge, CBS News Interview, December 2003
The 'civilian government' would be closed down, taken over by an
Emergency Administration.
Long before Bush had signed the measure, FEMA had begun the
construction of a 'gulag archipelago' of FEMA concentration camps that
were most certainly built with this outcome in mind. They are complete
and await a first train load of domestic victims of Bush's Fourth
Reich.
http://watch.pair.com/reich.html
Fema: Concentration Camps or Death Camps?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tnN4dW76kE&watch_response
At hearings of a congressional sub-committee in New Orleans, FEMA
official Glenn Cannon acknowledged that it had been considering the
use of trains to transport large numbers of people to camps and
various locations around the United States. The revelation was ominous
as this use of trains is associated with Adolph Hitler's hellish Third
Reich. The camps and the mass transportation of people to them is a
cornerstone in Bush's elaborate and detailed preparations for a
declaration of martial law. To every citizen of the US --whether
incarcerated in a hellish concentration camp or not --the declaration
of martial means but one thing: an absolute dictatorship!
The various scenarios have main points in common: Bush will, upon any
pretext, declare a national emergency, cancel the elections, and
impose martial law. With martial law comes absolute power, a ruthless
crack down on dissent, mass arrests and mass incarcerations. A 'pre-
text' is never an obstacle to would-be dictators. With the Reichstag
Fire, Hitler proved that 'pretexts' are easily manufactured.
The most likely and most obvious scenario has already been run up the
flag pole by GOP's un-official propaganda minister --Rush Limbaugh.
What Limbaugh has in mind is a classic Nazi tactic: a riot by agent
provocateurs for which 'liberals' and Democrats will be blamed. If the
riots are violent, Bush will cite them as the only pretext he will
need to declare 'martial law' and, having already placed himself in
charge of 'emergency planning', Bush will have completed his coup
d'etat. In a state of 'emergency', he will cancel the elections and
rule by decree.
One can be certain that if Democrats will not provide Bush the pretext
he needs to declare martial law, the GOP will do it themselves and
blame the 'left'. A clue to GOP thinking may be found in the history
of the GOP convention in New York. Then Homeland Security Secretary
Tom Ridge designated the GOP convention a 'national security special
event'. As a result, the security operation was run by the US Secret
Service. It took a 'zero tolerance' approach, meaning 'any protest'
would be busted up. If Bush's future is on the line, you can count on
the GOP to support even more drastic measures.
The 'election' of 2004 was but a harbinger of worse things to come. In
a nation that claims to be 'of the people and for the people', a 13-
block swath of New York City was closed off to the public. In 2004,
the GOP needed only steal key precincts in one or two key states.
While the nation escaped an outright declaration of martial law, it
did not escape the Bush's continuing assault upon the Bill of Rights
and the separation of powers.
In 2004, Democratic politicians issued stern warnings that
demonstrators who wished to gather in Central Park avoid
confrontations that would facilitate a GOP crack down or feed GOP
efforts to 'whip up the right wing base'. Never-the-less, ham-fisted
tactics by the Bloomberg administration were seen by many to be the
main reasons for protest.
There were fears the election of 2004 would be canceled. For all the
good they did, they might as well have been.
It's only reasonable to assume that as the prospects for a
Democratic victory in November brighten, the countervailing prospects
for a manipulation of the electoral process grow simultaneously more
ominous. So?. . . What do we do?
I think the answer is obvious, frankly, and organic. I propose a
general strike, to begin immediately concurrent with the announcement
of any cancellation, postponement and/or abridgment of the
Presidential Elections scheduled for November 2, 2004; such strike to
terminate when, and only when, elections are successfully completed
and fairly counted.
If you work, simply don't go in. If you're a student, simply don't
go to school. If you're a stay-at-home mom or dad, simply stay-at-home
with your kids. Don't shop, don't drive, don't eat at restaurants.
Don't do anything, except subsist. Unless another person's life is in
your immediate professional hands, cease doing what you normally do
until such time as the powers-that-be come to their senses and
remember that whatever power they claim necessarily derives from the
people.
--What to do if the election is cancelled or postponed,
AudieMcCall
http://www.everything2.org/e2node/What%2520to%2520do%2520if%2520the%2520election%2520is%2520cancelled%2520or%2520postponed
Keep in mind that the passage above was written before the elections
of 2004. We know now that Bush stole 2004, as, in fact, he stole the
White House with a felonious, riotous assault in Florida that was
organized and paid for by the Bush for President campaign.
There is a greater chance that Bush will simply cancel the elections
this time around. Bush doesn't have the luxury of stealing the
election; his name will not on the ballot. The US is caught in the
circular logic by which the GOP/right wing justifies a panoply of
atrocities. Having left the nation no peaceful means by which it might
express the popular will, Bush will cite 'violence' as justification
for even more extreme measures. This is the death cycle of Democracy.
Bush will need a 'riot' in order to declare martial law and will
require martial law to justify his crackdowns on dissent and 'civil
disturbance'. The right wing's relationship to dissent mirrors that of
Bush's relationship to 'terrorism'. Bush, in fact, is nothing without
terrorism and his policies can be shown to be the cause of it. Thus --
he will and does manufacture it!
[See: Terrorism is always worse under GOP regimes.]
http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com
Meanwhile, Bush pushes forward on a broad front --conducting 'martial
law exercises', conveniently putting himself in charge of 'emergency
planning'. Kellogg/Brown and Root has built a 'gulag archipelago' of
concentration camps across America as Rush Limbaugh calls for 'riots'
at the Democratic Convention.
Mark Crispin Miller: Endgame -- Bush & Cheney's desperate measures -
Parts 1 and 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvOjjvtMHGc
The GOP, adrift since the end of the McCarthy era, nevertheless
managed to hold on to power due to the timely assassinations of key
Democratic leaders --primarily those named Kennedy, those of color,
those who opposed a crooked establishment. LBJs decision not to seek a
second term brought the 'Great Society' to an end. Jimmy Carter was
effectively nullified with troubles in Iran and a GOP focus group word
which stuck: 'stagflation'. In fact, Carter's economic record was
better than ANY GOP President since World War II. The GOPs hold on
power defies science and statistics. It is best explained by a few
well-chosen words. 'Crookery' and 'thuggery' are among them.
By the time Bush Jr sought the White House, it was clear that the GOP
needed an external threat equal to that of 'communism'. Wars on porn,
drugs and Murphy Brown paled compared to the hysteria that could be
fanned with something like 'communism'. The convenience and timing of
911 defies statistics. It remains yet another highly improbable
'catalyzing event' that had been wistfully desired by NEOCONS in the
Project for the New American Century paper entitlted 'Rebuilding
America's Defenses'.
Homeland security is one piece of a broader strategy [which]
brings the battle to the enemy... But while one key to defense is
offense, it is not the entirety of our security picture. For we also
need a “defense in depth” as part of the strategic whole. That means
even as we pursue terrorists overseas, we work at home to prevent
infiltration by terrorists and their weapons; to protect our people
and places if infiltration occurs; and to respond and recover if an
attack is carried out. This is embodied in our strategy of building
multiple barriers to terrorist attacks.
Thus, Bush will cite an 'external threat' as the pretext to assume the
powers he needs and will use to wage war --not on terrorists --but
upon dissent here at home. There is a word for this: tyranny!
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namaste;
bodhi
http://psychedelictourist.blogspot.com
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