September 27, 2005
For years we have warned that the police state is coming, how Martial Law will
become the norm, how ancient laws, rights and freedoms are being overturned and
replaced with repressive mechanisms of control.
For years we have presented the evidence, the Army War College documents, the
domestic military takeover drills, the draconian legislation, officials left
right and centre calling for more centralized military control domestically.
For years people refuted the evidence, or passed it off as being intended for
something else, or simply refused to believe it. Now everything we warned you
about is happening.
In the wake of the recent natural disasters on American soil, dangerous
precedents have been set. We have been forced to watch how in times of crisis
we must submit and follow the orders of Federal Commanders, no matter whether
they deny us basic human rights or not.
Whether it be a state attack, a terrorist attack, an accident or a natural
disaster matters not anymore, the outcome will be the same. We are just one
event, ANY event away from Martial Law.
Getting rid of Posse Comitatus - Setting the precedent
“In a police state the police are national, powerful, authoritarian.
Inevitably, national governments yield to the temptation to use the military to
do the heavy lifting….once the military is used, however minor initially, the
march toward martial law … becomes irresistible.” - Representative Ron Paul of
Texas - June 25 1997.
The Posse Comitatus Act is a recognition that the framers of the Constitution
had a deep distrust of centralized power, particularly centralized military
power that might be used against the people. State militias were preferred over
a national army. In times of major disaster or emergency, it has been state
governors - not the president - who call out that state's contingent of the
national guard.
We have witnessed over a long period of time how Posse Comitatus is
systematically being erased. After 9/11 this was particularly accelerated. All
the so called "experts" were calling for changes to long standing laws, in
order to "protect" us. This led to scores of lower level Government officials
pleading for exactly what the criminal elements higher up wanted all along.
Take the following AP report from November 2001:
"Our way of life has forever changed," wrote Sen. John Warner, R-Va., in a
letter last month to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "Should this law now be
changed to enable our active-duty military to more fully join other domestic
assets in this war against terrorism?"
So let's get this right, "terrorists" attack us because they "hate our
freedoms" and the answer is to get rid of our freedoms?
Here's another mainstream report from 2002 documenting a senators call to
abolish Posse Comitatus and let troops arrest US civilians.
Here's former Homeland Security dictator Tom Ridge saying the same thing. And
here he is saying it again.
But before the war on terror it was clear that there was preparation afoot for
such eventualities. Nothing is under review, this has always been the agenda.
They were erasing Posse Comitatus 14 Years Ago. In 911: The Road to Tyranny
Alex Jones presents footage of troops training to put Americans into
Concentration Camps. This footage includes interrogations and a retired Marine
admitting that in 1988 he was kicking down doors in Norfolk, Virginia. The
Marines would be ordered to the local Police station where they would don
Police uniforms. They would then go to the local gun shop or dealers home and
"Take Them Down."
In Alex Jones' feature Police State 2000 he covers Operation Urban Warrior
where actors posed as American citizens who were Unconstitutionally seized from
their homes by the military and police. These Americans: were rounded up and
confined behind barbed-wire.
The actors were told to demand to be let free and state that they had rights.
They were also told to demand food and water. The troops in turn were taught to
ignore them and to order them to behave in an orderly fashion. "Civil
disobedience will not be tolerated" was one of the many disturbing statements
heard to emanate from the military's loud speakers.
Over the years there have been countless drills of this nature. The media
simply reports them as training for dealing with foreign enemies, yet the
volunteers and the participants are always told differently.
Here's a report on another urban warfare drill entitled "The Millennium
Challenge 2002". This drill was conducted secretly across 26 States in 2002.
Earlier this year details of just one of many Military operations on American
soil was exposed in the run up to Lord Bush's coronation. A secret
counterterrorism program code-named Power Geyser. A small group of super-secret
commandos were hidden among 13000 police and troops and "stood ready with
state-of-the-art weaponry to swing into action.".
There have been literally hundreds of these kind of operations in the planning
and going on for years now. Many designed to use the military on the streets of
American cities in direct violation of Posse Comitatus. The Pentagon has a full
Command in operation working on these activities, the Joint Special Operations
Command (JSOC).
Whilst Studying US COIN (Counter Insurgency) doctrine at University I was
subjected to weekly showings of videos where military operations were carried
out in purpose built mock American towns and cities. We were also informed of
how future Counter Insurgency would be predominantly conducted from Military
bunkers as they had developed the technology to map out entire cities to
pinpoint accuracy from satellite images. The cities in the prototypes were of
course all American cities.
I remember asking the lecturer what the point was in developing this technology
for use in foreign insurgency wars in places such as the mountains of
Afghanistan, and why were the drills and testing of the technology being
carried out purely in American towns and cities. The answer was of course that
in the event of a major terror attack on US soil these types of things would go
into operation. The Pentagon does indeed have "War Plans" drafted in the event
of any type of terror attack, which would be coordinated by Northcom in
conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security and would involve Martial
Law and thousands of troops on the streets.
According to respected military affairs analyst William Arkin, Northcom has
defined three levels of operations, each of which triggers a larger set of
authorized activities. The levels are "extraordinary", "emergency" and
"temporary". During emergencies, the military can provide similar support,
mostly in response to specific events such as the attacks on the World Trade
Center. It is only in the case of extraordinary domestic operations that the
unique capabilities of the Defense Department are deployed. These include not
just such things as air patrols to shoot down hijacked planes or the defusing
of bombs and other explosives, but also bringing in intelligence collectors,
special operators and even full combat troops.
But as Arkin's article makes clear, Northcom is doing more than mere
coordinating. "Under the banner of 'homeland security', the military and
intelligence communities are implementing far-reaching changes that blur the
lines between terrorism and other kinds of crises and will break down
long-established barriers to military action and surveillance within the US."
He also said the Pentagon reviewed the Posse Comitatus Act and determined that
it would not be a violation to deploy the National Guard to protect critical
infrastructure in some circumstances. He said he expects more presidential
directives in the future to expand the military's homeland defense role.
Then of course we have General Tommy Franks stating that a major terror attack
on US soil would mean the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a
military form of government.
Some say this is nothing new. In a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations
in January, former US senator Gary Hart said American founders "created such an
army and called it the militia: citizen-soldiers under the immediate command of
the various states that can be deployed in times of emergency. Since the late
19th century these militias have been known as the National Guard, and they
were created and given constitutional status as the first responders and the
first line of defense in the case of an attack on our homeland".
This is clearly an alteration of reality. The reason why the founding fathers
employed militias and later created Posse Comitatus was that they knew a
centralized national army could be used in a future environment to take over
the country and take away the rights of everyone.
Police State infrastructure - Already in place (and in use)
We have further exposed how the infrastructure for a Martial Law Police State
is already in place, and in many cases is in use. We have a whole archive on
the revelations that FEMA has Concentration camps set up and ready to go in the
event of any emergency that is deemed suitable for their use. As we have also
seen recently, these camps need not have barbed wire and observation towers,
they can simply be well guarded sports stadiums.
Detention centers are common features of any public protest event now, as we
recently saw at the Republican National Convention and G8 protests.
We have also exposed the development of police State weapons that make Tasers
look like water pistols. See this article on The Pentagon's Secret Scream Sonic
devices that can inflict pain--or even permanent deafness. These type of
devices that are routinely used in Iraq have recently been in use in New
Orleans in the Katrina aftermath.
The use of Unmanned drone aircraft has also been documented recently in New
Orleans. Again, such weapons are being used not only in foreign reconnaissance
but also domestically for spying on "citizens" and controlling crowds. Industry
representatives are enthusiastic about the drones' potential.
"I believe we will see Predator and Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
watching over major events, such as the Olympic Games and the Super Bowl, in
the not-too-distant future," Brad Brown, then-president of the Association for
Unmanned Vehicle Systems International wrote earlier this year.
Alex's most recent film Martial Law: Rise of the Police State also documents
the use of huge corporate sponsored surveillance blimps. The Department of
Homeland Security is developing 900 ft long so called "Super Blimps" for
surveillance, intended to fly about 65,000 feet, well above commercial airliner
traffic.
We have also documented the rise in use of the national guard to break up
public events. On multiple occasions we have carried stories, photos and video
of tanks and armed troops on the streets of America. We saw earlier this year
how such deployments are used not only to break up protests, but even something
as insignificant as a rave in a field.
Future technology under development includes robot police that have the ability
to run. Its like we are living in the Twilight Zone or in a futuristic
dystopian film. Yet when you mention these kind of things to people they either
don't believe you or simply laugh at you. Well here's a wake up call, IT'S THE
YEAR 2005, not 1955, and these things are real.
Coming Next: Part Two, After Katrina...
In the Aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita it has become obvious that not
only will another terror attack on US soil provide the pretext for a police
state crackdown, so will a natural disaster.
I'm not going to once again go over in depth the police state showcase that was
New Orleans in the days after Katrina, but let us recap a few key points:
FEMA has been deliberately sabotaging relief efforts in New Orleans, making
things worse than need be.
FEMA, its officials and the people it employs have a long history of
incompetence, corruption, fraud and criminality.
The Federal Government has illegally initiated total gun confiscation of law
abiding citizens and forcibly removed them from their property in New Orleans.
Federal forces have led criminal gangs of police in an America-killing gun
grab.
Along with forced gun grabs and evacuation, we have further exposed the
intricacies of the operative federalized Police State, with the presence of
foreign troops, SWAT teams, privately employed security mercenaries, the
treatment of citizens as "insurgents" and evacuees as "internees" and the
euthanization and inoculation of survivors.
The bottom line on Katrina is that whether you believe it was all incompetence
or part incompetence and part malevolence, the lasting pretext is the same.
When a disaster takes place, you have no rights and the federal government can
arrest you if you don’t follow their every order.
FEMA is clearly using this human catastrophe as a means of executing its decade
long plans and providing the pretext for future takeover scenarios of all major
American cities.
FEMA is not an elected body, it does not involve itself in public disclosures,
and it even has a quasi-secret budget in the billions of dollars. It has more
power than the President of the United States or the Congress, it has the power
to suspend laws, move entire populations, arrest and detain citizens without a
warrant and hold them without trial, it can seize property, food supplies,
transportation systems, and can suspend the Constitution. Not only is it the
most powerful entity in the United States, but it was not even created under
Constitutional law by the Congress.
FEMA executive orders have been paving the way for the police State for many
years. For a full synopsis of FEMA's executive orders in light of the
hurricane, click here.
Here comes the Police State to save the day
Such deliberate federal incompetence and criminality made things desperate in
New Orleans after Katrina. The manufactured mainstream response has been that
things were so bad in New Orleans that a police state was needed to save the
day:
As Washington picks through the lessons learned from hurricane Katrina, there
is a growing conviction that the only organization with the skills, expertise,
and resources needed to respond quickly to a catastrophe of such magnitude is
the American military. "There's a strong historical precedent against doing
this," says Michael O'Hanlon, a defense analyst at the Brookings Institution
here. "But now we've got a real reason." - Christian Science Monitor
President Bush's push to give the military a bigger role in responding to major
disasters like Hurricane Katrina could lead to a loosening of legal limits on
the use of federal troops on U.S. soil.... At question, however, is how far to
push the military role, which by law may not include actions that can be
defined as law enforcement — stopping traffic, searching people, seizing
property or making arrests. That prohibition is spelled out in the Posse
Comitatus Act of 1878, enacted after the Civil War mainly to prevent federal
troops from supervising elections in former Confederate states. - Associated
Press
"It is now clear that a challenge on this scale requires greater federal
authority and a broader role for the armed forces -- the institution of our
government most capable of massive logistical operations on a moment's notice,"
- President Bush
"I believe the time has come that we reflect on the Posse Comitatus Act," -
Sen. John W. Warner, chairman of the Armed Services Committee
The Following is from White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's Press
Gaggle last week. They are openly discussing suspending Posse Comitatus:
Q What's the next step on this idea of the DOD maybe taking over at certain
times if it's a big enough disaster?
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, it's something we'll be discussing with congressional
leaders, and talking about... whether it's a natural disaster or a terrorist
attack or -- I should say, a natural disaster or a terrorist attack of a
certain magnitude and scope, or a disease pandemic, like an avian flu outbreak,
and you need to mobilize assets and resources and logistics and communications
very quickly to help stabilize or contain the situation.
The Department of Defense is really the one organization that has the ability
and capability to be able to do that.
Q -- those two laws that we were talking about earlier, the posse comitatus and
the Insurrection?
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, you're talking about one area -- that's law enforcement.
The President's talking about considering a situation where you need a clear
line of authority in the event of a catastrophic event.
Q Does it take -- would it take an act of Congress to do what the President is
thinking about? I think that's what you were saying.
MR. McCLELLAN: Yes, that's why he said, Congress needs to consider this, and
that he wants to work with Congress to look at how we move forward on it.
Q So, basically, the bottom line is, is that the Defense Secretary would be the
new line of command, and control all the operations?
MR. McCLELLAN: It's something we need to consider for the event of -- for any
event of a extraordinary circumstance brought about because of some
catastrophic event, whether it's a natural disaster or a terrorist attack -- a
large-scale natural disaster or a large-scale terrorist attack type situation,
or a large outbreak of disease.
Clearly it matters not if it's a terror attack or a natural disaster, or even
some kind of disease outbreak, the precedent has been set for Martial Law.
So It was federalization and the criminal negligence and sabotage on the part
of the Feds that caused the mass disruption in New Orleans, yet the call is for
MORE federalization? The call is for troops on our streets, stopping traffic,
searching people, seizing property and making arrests?
Everything we have warned you about for years IS NOW HAPPENING. After 9/11 we
said the next major events would sell the people on the police state, look at
the media response to Katrina and Rita, people are begging for laws to be
passed to allow the police state to become the norm.
So called "Homeland security experts" are calling for federal troops, that
don't need 72 hours for call-up as some National Guard units require, capable
of dropping into a disaster zone as the damage is being done, rather than
afterward. The media is calling for the TOTAL FEDERALIZATION of America.
They want "Military authorities" to supersede"Civilian authorities". When did
we stop being people and become "civilians"? Can it really be a coincidence
that the calls for complete federalization and martial law are coming in
conjunction with the calls for greater funding for FEMA and Homeland Security?
The perceived incompetence of the Feds has been manufactured in order to garner
a greater wealth of both personnel, resources and mass support. We are
literally sanctioning moves towards the police state, sleep walking into
tyranny.
As the Neocon criminals in charge of the US Government sink their teeth further
into our freedoms, the masses are losing consciousness and becoming more
passive. They EXPECT the government to demand they give up their liberties and
now they are WILLINGLY doing so, in some cases even DEMANDING that the
government take them. The more they ask, the more they shall receive.
NORTHCOM Takeover drills
After Katrina and Before Rita Lord Bush canceled a scheduled trip to Texas and
instead visited Colorado Springs, Colorado and the U.S. Northern Command
Headquarters.
Our sources informed us at that time that far from this being a change of plan,
Bush was visiting Northcom to be witness to a martial law takeover drill which
was directly connected to Granite Shadow, which the Washington Post reported,
"is yet another new Top Secret and compartmented operation related to the
military’s extra-legal powers regarding weapons of mass destruction. It allows
for emergency military operations in the United States without civilian
supervision or control.
A Joint Task Force Rita was been created under the jurisdiction of NorthCom.
Operating out of Austin Texas, in liaison with NorthCom in Colorado, under the
command of Army Lt. Gen. Robert Clark. A "standing joint force headquarters"
was established in Austin, Texas.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff subsequently classified Hurricane
Rita as an "incident of national significance," which justifies the activation
of a so-called "National Response Plan"(NRP).
As Michael Chossudovsky pointed out in his article on this, The National
Response Plan (NRP) is effective upon issuance with a phased implementation
process during the first year. During the first 120 days of this implementation
process, the Initial NRP (INRP), Federal Response Plan (FRP), U.S. Government
Domestic Terrorism Concept of Operations Plan (CONPLAN), and Federal
Radiological Emergency Response Plan (FRERP) remain in effect. (For further
details, consult the complete document at
http://www.dhs.gov/interweb/assetlibrar ... seplan.pdf
So essentially, the period of time during which the NRP would be in operation
would extend far beyond the emergency period in the disaster area. In all
likelihood, the NRP would modify the functions of civilian government.
The Washington Post reported Aug. 8 that The Northern Command would be the lead
agency in domestic terror response. The Pentagon "has devised its first-ever
war plans for guarding against and responding to terrorist attacks in the
United States, envisioning 15 potential crisis scenarios and anticipating
several simultaneous strikes around the country, according to officers who
drafted the plans."
Northcom has a history of calling for the end of Posse Comitatus and officials
there seem to be hell bent upon a military takeover. Head of Northcom Gen.
Ralph E. Eberhart was quoted in the New York Times in 2002 as saying
"My view has been that Posse Comitatus will constantly be under review as we
mature this command, as we do our exercises, as we interact with FEMA, F.B.I.,
and those lead federal agencies out there,"
This is precisely the point, the erosion of Posse Comitatus has been ongoing
for a long time. As revealed in part one of this report, military takeover
drills and exercises have been in operation for years.
Eberhart has also said that he is anxious to use new technology, including
unmanned surveillance blimps cruising at 70,000 feet and Predator drones
scanning American coastlines.
The general said it was also possible that the North American Aerospace Defense
Command would expand beyond the United States and Canada to include Mexico.
"To defend this nation, we have to defend as far out as possible...Therefore we
need the support of Canada and Mexico to be able to defend our interests."
A recent Council On Foreign Relations document corroborates this proposed move.
The 59-page CFR document spells out a five-year plan for the "establishment by
2010 of a North American economic and security community" with a common "outer
security perimeter."
The document entitled "Building a North American Community," asserts that
George W. Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul
Martin "committed their governments" to this goal when they met at Bush’s ranch
and at Waco, Texas on March 23, 2005. The three adopted the "Security and
Prosperity Partnership of North America" and assigned "working groups" to fill
in the details.
So there we have Orwell's Oceania coming to pass. A unionized Americas under
the control of a military dictatorship.
Could it be that Rita was a NORTHCOM beta test to see if they could get people
out of the cities should they want to? One was a rich city, the other was a
poor one. Was Katrina a beta test for keeping people in the city?
Whatever happens next it's going to be on a grander scale.
What more is it going to take?
We cannot go any further down the line towards a Martial Law Police State in
America without actually being in one. How much more has to happen before
people realize there is a Constitutional crisis in effect now.
The Neo-con element of the Elite power structure have decided that now is the
time to instigate the takeover. The massive power trip they have received after
9/11 has tipped them over the edge. The loonies are in complete control of the
asylum now. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and wherever else they choose next
are side issues to them now. Target number one is the occupation of the USA.
When The United States of America become Oceania their goal is complete. As the
masses sleepwalk into this scenario the few that are still awake are becoming
more active and waking up more people. We have to move on this now, there is no
more time for procrastination. Everyone should be writing reports like this
one, everyone should be waking up their families and friends. We are in an
Information War.
Are we going to stand by and be the generation who go down in history as the
weak, poor saps that allowed themselves to be ruled over by brutish
warmongering power hoarding criminals elites?
Or are we going to go down in history as the generation that defeated
tyrannical violent warmongers by standing up and being counted? Through
peaceful, progressive intelligent outreach and the reclaiming of our freedom.
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