Fear, Suspension, and Martial Law - Oh, My!

[Moi]

(Photo courtesy of the Huffington Post)

Did you notice Dumbya’s eyes last night? Red. More beady than usual....but instead of idiocy, the characteristic smirk has a snicker behind it. And he seemed zoned out. Something is going on. It could be drugs, but I think it’s something else.....

Here’s the text of his speech from last night.


Outside of FEAR! and DANGER!, he is blaming the people for buying houses and things - not that he WANTED people to do this, ya know - for the problems the economy is having. That’s Delphi. Turn stuff around, blame it on the victim, and make it sound feasible. Delphi is what Hitler used. How many times have Dems compared the Bush administration to Hitler’s?

I keep mentioning Delphi lately in my posts. We parents of special needs kids know from Delphi. All politicians use it in some form, too, but I’ve never seen it used as much as I have this election. Obama’s used it, successfully, in the primary. Saul Alinsky, the guy who developed the Delphi technique, was the subject of Hillary Clinton’s thesis. So that makes the primary even more pathetic. But I digress....

What Fearless Brainless Leader didn’t explain to the American people was how the Fed is desperate because they are overextended, and China pretty much owns us. Their butts are in a sling, no matter what else is going on....and they are counting on the wimpiness of the Dems to bail them out.

Of course, there were no solutions in his speech that would benefit the American people, like paying off everyone’s credit cards and loans, or giving everyone in the country a million dollars and then requiring them to pay off their loans....which would be a lot less than them giving all that money to the institutions. Institutions, heh, that is a good name for them. That’s where the people who run these things belong.... But Heaven Forbid the Fed bail out real people, instead of real assholes.

The flip side of the coin? We’ve all joked at some time that Bush/Cheney would probably pull a martial law stunt, just so the Republicans could stay in office. It seems that that might not be such a joke.

Think about it. McCain suspending his campaign. When Hillary and Edwards suspended theirs, they basically quit. But - Is McCain not suspending, and just getting out of the way in preparation for a major move by the guy he supported 90% of the time? Is this our October Surprise?

Actually it’s probably more of a Dicktator Cheney move. Bush is too dumb for a move like this. People, in our zeal to return the pResidency to the Dems, and with Bush/Cheney keeping a low profile, we are not thinking about them. HOW many times have we all talked about this kind of thing?? We must never turn our back on scum. All these little things I am about to mention have happened in dribs and drabs. They’ve been easy to miss, or put aside. There is too much to truly be coincidence, especially with the timing....

I googled martial law in the news, and I was surprised there wasn’t more blogger discussion. Of course, the national media Never talks about this sort of thing - but it’s understandable to a point, can you imagine the mass fear? Then again, maybe we need some mass fear to get us off our butts..... I did find this article by Glenn Greenwald on Salon....

Several bloggers today have pointed to this obviously disturbing article from Army Times, which announces that “beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the [1st Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry Division] will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North”—“the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities.”

WTF do we need an army here for, beginning October 1?????? What civil unrest?????? McCain or Obama supporters?

Later on, Greenwald says that we shouldn’t be worrying about martial law.

There’s no need to start manufacturing all sorts of scare scenarios about Bush canceling elections or the imminent declaration of martial law or anything of that sort. None of that is going to happen with a single brigade and it’s unlikely in the extreme that they’d be announcing these deployments if they had activated any such plans. The point is that the deployment is a very dangerous precedent, quite possibly illegal, and a radical abandonment of an important democratic safeguard. As always with first steps of this sort, the danger lies in how the power can be abused in the future.

Glenn, please don’t live in Idealist Land. We are talking Dick Cheney here. He and his Halliburton cronies made sure there is a place to put all of us out of hand Dems.

You might not think that troops from the US would want to do this sort of thing. But if you think about it, there IS someplace they could get people... I keep warning you guys about organized religion..... Now, they can buy your foreclosed home for a dollar. Moose hunting be damned, I think I’d better go buy a gun.

They’ve been prepping for this for years. What do you think the whole FBI spying on your neighbors thing was about? Guess I’d better get the Obama sign off my lawn....

Oh, and remember this?

Public Law 109-364, or the “John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007” (H.R.5122) (2), which was signed by the commander in chief on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony, allows the President to declare a “public emergency” and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to “suppress public disorder.”

And yes, I know that later the language was changed. However, Dumbya also issued a signing statement that basically gives him a loophole to do what he wants.

The media needs to be talking about this. And Obama needs to bag the debate and find out what the Sam Hill is going on - IF he doesn’t already know. I agree that there would normally be no reason to postpone it, because there’s not much going on in DC on a Friday night, anyway. But right now, we need real leadership, and debating an old man on a Friday night isn’t priority, and it’s not going to establish BO as a leader.

Then again, maybe he should debate Nader on Friday. My point is made at about the 2 minute mark.

[Moi]

Hi Pamela -

I also hope that none of your theories is true, but of course, being a Doubting sort of Thomas, I figure the worst is usually true... my husband is the guy you see with the sign saying "the end of the world is near!" Our household is not too much of a bummer, lol.

But as I was writing the post, every time I would write a sentence, 10 more branches off the subject would come to mind. I just decided not to get into more subjects or details in the post, it was already going toward a life of its own, lol. ;) There's a lot more than the deployment going on that is right out of Wolf's book - and creepily enough, my husband & I were talking about Blackwater last night, and he came to the same conclusion you did.
One thing - if they are training clergy to be military, that's a hell of a mental picture....!

Maybe there ought to be civil unrest if Obama isn't elected (fairly). No one should ever have to go through what Al Gore went through - and no, of course it's not a black or racial issue. It's the principle of the thing. We will all be pissed, but what would be more reassuring would be if the percentage between Obama & McCain was a lot larger than it is (although I heard it's into double digits, finally).

No one in the MSM will ever discuss this stuff. Bush can promote FEAR and DANGER, but the MSM pundits are making money for their corporate bosses, and you know they won't. Well, partly that, and partly because Dems have no spines. (Chant: Harry Reid. Harry Reid.) And unfortunately, the MSM is where it NEEDS to be discussed. The things that get passed around on the internets don't generally end up in the living room of Larry the Cable Guy - he's too busy watching Faux, and listening to the FEAR and DANGER warnings there.

Why don't you post on it? BTW, I see you are a local. ;)

[Pamela Lyn]

Moi, thanks for the post.

I have a couple of theories about this deployment, and I sincerely wish that none of them is true. But....

1. I think that this deployment falls in line with the ten steps to shutting down a democratic society that Naomi Wolf outlines "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot"

2. Very sadly, there are those individuals who are trying to promote the idea that if Barack Obama is not elected that there will be civil unrest. There are those who want to make this a racial issue. But I hardly think that it will only be the Black community that would be upset if this country has to live through another Florida 2000.

3. The military may be used, in addition to Blackwater, to provide border security.

and

4. The military may be used in the event of natural disasters like Katrina during which Blackwater was used to protect sections of New Orleans.

All of the above scenarios are disturbing and should be openly discussed.