Still Not Worried?

For those of you who read my post with the quote from Hermann Goering and rolled your eyes, I've got something else for you to check out. Check out this article from Capitol Hill Blue, the oldest political site on the internet, which states:

"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."

Now, taking this alone is disturbing enough as it is. But combining it with the similarities between Dubya's actions and those of Nazi Germany, it flat-out terrifying.

According to the article, for those of you who are just too darn lethargic to actually click the above link, Dubya has already considered using these "national security initiatives" put in place by Ronald Reagan in 1984. He first considered using them shortly after the September 11th, 2001 attacks to declare martial law. He actually acted on some of these initiatives after Hurricane Katrina, using the military to act as "police reinforcement", as well as hiring mercenaries from a company called Blackwater USA to "enforce security."

The initiatives were originally "hatched," the article says, "...by controversial Marine Corps Colonel Oliver North, later one of the key players in the Iran-Contra Scandal." John Brinkerhoff, deputy director of FEMA, developed the martial law implementation plan based on a plan put together by former FEMA director Louis Guiffrida that was designed to stop a "national uprising of militant blacks" after riots broke out across the country in the late 60's, the turning point being the 1968 Detroit Riots. the plan called for jailing of at least 21 million African Americans in "relocation camps".

This is the plan that was reworked for Reagan and first acted upon, in part, by George W. Bush.

If you're not worried, you haven't been paying attention.

All the best,
Derek
(DCF)