> "L'État, c'est moi" We're just ONE planted bomb away from a full
> blown fascist dictatorship!!!!
>
> Cindy Sheehan, the famous Peace Mom who recently expressed her
> intention to run against Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco, says there's a
> "distinct possibility" that America will be hit with another staged
> terror attack that will allow Bush to enact the martial law provisions
> he recently signed into law.
> "I definitely think that is a distinct possibility, that there will be
> some kind of attack whether it's manufactured or real....I think it's
> really possible that these people will do that - why would he [Bush]
> put in that presidential directive if he didn't need to use it - I
> think it's really really frightening,"
>
> "Does anybody think that [Bush's] recent presidential decision
> directive wasn't for declaring martial law and suspending elections -
> that's why they have to be stopped,"http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=3746
>
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>
> Presidential candidate Ron Paul says the U.S. is in "great danger" of
> a staged Gulf of Tonkin style provocation while also warning that a
> major collapse of the American economy is on the horizon and could be
> precipitated by the bombing of Iran and the closure of the Persian
> Gulf.http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/130707greatdanger.htm
>
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>
> Elliot D. Cohen: This Summer, Will America Officially Become A
> Totalitarian State?
> 07/16/2007
> by Elliot D. Cohen, Ph.D.http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/1153
>
> The unfolding of events over the past 7 years and the recent emergence
> of certain key facts point to the prospect of an ominous conclusion:
> before the summer is up, America will be brought under martial law
> with George W. Bush and Dick Cheney at the helm.
>
> In May 2007, Bush posted a national continuity policy to the White
> House Web site that bypasses Congress and puts him in charge of all
> three branches of the federal government if there is a "catastrophic
> emergency" -- vaguely defined to include anything from a destructive
> hurricane to a terrorist attack. This leaves democracy in America
> dangling on a thin thread of chance that such a "catastrophe" doesn't
> happen.
>
> On Wednesday, Michael Chertoff, Secretary of the Department of
> Homeland Security, said he has a "gut" feeling that Al Qaeda will
> launch another terrorist attack on the U.S. mainland sometime this
> summer. Chertoff's "gut feeling" comes on the heels of the latest
> National Intelligence Estimate, which maintains that in the past year,
> Al Qaeda has reconstituted its core structure and has grown stronger
> along the Pakistan/Afghanistan border.
>
> This information is disconcerting in itself. But it becomes even more
> so when considered in the context of the Bush administration's
> unrelenting quest for power. Consider these facts, for example: The
> September 11 attacks were foreshadowed by the Project for the New
> American Century (PNAC) in its report on Rebuilding American Defenses
> (2000) when it stated, "the process of transformation, even if it
> brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some
> catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor . . ."
> This would not be significant were it not for the fact that the Vice
> President, among other key members of the Bush Administration, were
> founding members of PNAC.
>
> This neoconservative organization also prescribed forced regime change
> in Iraq and buildup of a permanent U.S. military presence there. The
> primary goal for invading Iraq was not to quell tensions or stop the
> threat of terrorism posed by the Hussein regime but instead to advance
> U.S. interests in the region through military force. The 2000 report
> stated, "while the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the
> immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force
> presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam
> Hussein." Regime change was therefore pretense for the invasion.
>
> Clearly, the invasion of Iraq was never conceived as a means of
> stopping Saddam Hussein from instigating terrorism. This was made
> plain in the official British documents known as the Downing Street
> memos, which said that Bush was attempting to make the facts "fit" the
> policy in order to justify invading Iraq -- since Hussein's WMD
> capability was in fact "less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran."
> The redeployment of U.S. troops and special forces to Iraq was done in
> spite of the fact that the hub of Al Qaeda was in Pakistan and
> Afghanistan. So the Bush administration permitted Al Qaeda to regroup
> and strengthen in Pakistan and Afghanistan to pursue its ideology of
> global dominance in Iraq.
>
> Add to these facts that the Bush administration has displayed
> consistent disregard for the rule of law by canceling habeas corpus,
> disregarding the Geneva Conventions in the torture of prisoners of
> war, using signing statements to override congressional lawmaking
> authority, eavesdropping on Americans without court warrants,
> summarily refusing to comply with Congressional subpoenas, firing
> federal prosecutors for political reasons, outing a covert CIA agent,
> threatening to jail journalists for disclosing leaked government
> documents, censoring mainstream media and infusing it with government
> propaganda ("prepackaged news" staged by PR firms working for the
> government), placing "gatekeepers" in all federal agencies who report
> directly to the White House, eliminating legal protections for
> government whistle blowers, arresting peaceful protestors,
> manipulating the terror alert system to instill fear in Americans, and
> stacking the Supreme Court.
>
> In a press conference on Thursday regarding the war in Iraq, Bush
> indicated that he will not be discouraged by what the American people
> believe. He said that, while he preferred to be loved, he had to do
> the right thing.
>
> Do what is right by whose standards? Not those of the generals; and
> certainly not those of the majority of Americans. While the mainstream
> media brought out its analysts to comment on Bush's press conference,
> none drew the obvious conclusion. In a democracy, it is the will of
> the people, not that of a single man, that is paramount. But,
> according to Bush, respecting the will of the American people would be
> nice if it happened to accord with his own will, but not in the least
> essential to shaping U.S. policy, even if that policy happened to
> affect the lives and limbs (and tax dollars) of the American people.
> This is dictatorship (or "decidership") at its core, not democracy.
>
> All of these facts, among others, point to the willingness of this
> administration to stop at little or nothing to advance its ideology.
> It has proven its resolve to lie to the American people, violate their
> civil liberties, and discount their will. It has shown little respect
> for the rule of law or the U.S. Constitution.
>
> So, this summer (or sometime before the 2008 presidential elections),
> will America officially become a totalitarian state brought under
> martial law by a ruthless dictator? If Chertoff's gut is right, just
> add the current national continuity policy and the conclusion follows.
>
> Like a game of chess drawing to a close, there is a chilling aura that
> the final checkmate is imminent. In the least, democracy in America is
> in grave danger and at best dependent on chance.
>
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> namaste;
> bodhihttp://psychedelictourist.blogspot.com