Re: Will Bush Cancel The 2008 Election?
- From: strabo <strabo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:59:18 -0400
Bob Brock wrote:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/31/2874/
It is time to think about the "unthinkable."
The Bush Administration has both the inclination and the power to cancel the 2008 election.
The GOP strategy for another electoral theft in 2008 has taken clear shape, though we must assume there is much more we don't know.
But we must also assume that if it appears to Team Bush/Cheney/Rove that the GOP will lose the 2008 election anyway (as it lost in Ohio 2006) we cannot ignore the possibility that they would simply cancel the election. Those who think this crew will quietly walk away from power are simply not paying attention.
The real question is not how or when they might do it. It's how, realistically, we can stop them.
Thanks to Congress Bush has all the legal tools he needs to declare
martial law. This would have the effect of 'postponing' federal
elections. You may recall that he proposed that specific power just
before the last elections. However, elections at this point would be
the least of worries.
More than elections, due to PD-51, Bush can makeup his own government
and exclude Congress. Since Congress gave him the power, removing
Congress from the continuity of government legally closes Congress and
state access to the Constitution. No more federal government, no more
United States. But the states are independent entities and with the
federal government shut down and Bush would have no legal jurisdiction
over them. At this point the states would fall back to the Articles of
Confederation.
Since the banks and federal agencies would be effectively closed,
much interstate business would cease as would life as we know it.
Each state would have to rush to ensure its capacity to function
without federal aid.
There are two other factors. One is the state supreme courts and the
other is the military. If the courts oppose Bush and the military
refuses orders, which it should since the Constitution would be
deactivated, Bush would have no choice but to bring in mercenary and
foreign troops. I suspect this is the primary plan.
Under those circumstances the way to stop him would be
for the states to act in unison by marshaling resources and refusing
entry to all foreign powers not party to the Confederation. Federal
military installations would be seized by the states and placed
in custody.
So, having effectively ended the federal government you would
have one would-be dictator and his foreign support versus the
confederation of states with the state resources.
Given that Bush has ruined much of the capability of the regular
and state Army and Marines, the remanded Air force and Navy would
be the primary strategic powers with the ground troops kept within
the states to repel boarders.
At this point Bush would command only a few hundred thousand mercs.
The bulk of the initiative would have to come from other governments.
The next step would depend entirely these foreign powers.
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