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Bush’s Fascist Valhalla
By Mike Whitney
11/22/05 "ICH" -- -- The strategy to militarize the country is
moving forward as planned despite apparent setbacks in Iraq. As the
Washington Post reported on Nov. 27 the Dept of Defense is expanding
its domestic surveillance activity to allow Pentagon spies to track
down and “investigate crimes within the United States”.
An alarmed Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore) said, “We are deputizing the
military to spy on law-abiding Americans in America. This is a huge
leap without a congressional hearing”.
Is this the first time that the naïve Wyden realized that the war on
terror is actually directed at the American people?
The expanded powers of the Pentagon were presented in a proposal by
a presidential commission headed by Lawrence Silberman and former
Senator Charles Robb, two members of the Council on Foreign
Relations (CFR) and the 9-11 “whitewash” commission. The CFR, a
4,000 member amalgam of elites from the military, industry and
media, was the driving force behind the Iraq war, as well as,
enthusiastic advocates of the national security state. Their
recommendations will allow the military to assume the traditional
role of law enforcement and by giving it the authority to “carry out
domestic criminal investigations and clandestine operations against
potential threats inside the United States”.
Oh, yeah; and the Pentagon will be involved in the “apprehension, or
detention of individuals suspected” of criminal offenses.
The Patriot Act is up for renewal and will remove the last
nettlesome parts of the 4th amendment and any conceivable notion of
personal privacy. “Lone wolf” provisions in the new bill allow law
enforcement to investigate any American citizen, whether he is
connected to an “alleged” terrorist organization or not, seizing
whatever records they want, without a shred of “probable cause”. The
same is true of the Act’s NSS (National Security Letters) which
permits the government to sort through all of one’s private records
without judicial oversight.
The “due process” provisions of the Bill of Rights has been
summarily removed by the 4th Circuit Court in its recent Jose
Padilla ruling which allows the president to arbitrarily imprison an
American citizen “indefinitely” without charging him with a crime.
The long-standing “presumption of innocence”, habeas corpus, and
inalienable rights were quietly rescinded without as much as a
whimper from the American people.
At the same time Bush has put “a broad swath of the FBI” under his
direct control by creating the National Security Service (aka; the
“New SS”)? This is the first time we’ve had a “secret police” in our
200 year history. It will be run exclusively by the president and
beyond the range of congressional oversight.
On October 27, 2005 Bush created the National Clandestine Service,
which will be headed by CIA Director Porter Goss and will “expand
reporting of information and intelligence value from state, local
and tribal law enforcement entities and private sector
stakeholders"? This executive order gives the CIA the power to carry
out covert operations, spying, propaganda, and “dirty tricks” within
the United States and on the American public. (“The New National
Intelligence Strategy of the US” by Larry Chin, Global Research)
Also, within 2 years every American license and passport will be
made according to federal uniform standards including microchips
(with biometric information) that will allow the government to trace
every movement of its citizens?
All of these changes in the law have taken place below the radar of
public attention and all of them correspond to a “nutcase”
conspiracy by the CFR to transform Canada, Mexico and the US into
one, integrated “free trade” nation in 5 years time. (I’m not making
this up) See: Trilateral Task Force Recommendations, http://www.usembassycanada.gov/content/can_usa/northamericancommunity_TF_final.pdf
The only thing that makes this bizarre specter of a “capitalist
police state” seem believable is that Bush has already carried out
many of the basic recommendations of that other wacky conspiracy
theory; The Project for the New American Century. The US has
extended its military presence throughout Central Asia and the
Middle East, curtailed civil liberties at home, greatly enhanced the
power of the president, militarized space, passed legislation for
Missile Defense “Star Wars”, and reinvigorated the bio-chemical
weapons industry. All of these were outline in PNAC.
Sometimes “conspiracy theories” come to fruition despite our
unwillingness to give them credence.
So, let me make a prediction, however groundless and far-fetched as
it may seem.
The 5 years of work that went into creating the Bush National
Security State will not be passed on to some anemic Democrat, like
Hillary Clinton, according to the normal protocols. The “capitalist
police state” represents the concerted efforts of myriad elites from
all walks of life; particularly banking, big energy, military and
media. The last obstacle to actualizing their macabre vision is
Congress; the final hurdle to absolute power.
So, how would the Bush administration respond if there was another
anthrax attack on Congress?
Well, we have a pretty good idea, since the American Enterprise
Institute, to which the administration is closely aligned “issued
proposals for the operation of Congress following a catastrophic
terrorist attack”. They advocate the “APPOINTING” of individuals to
the House of Representatives “to fill the seats of dead or
incapacitated members, a first in American history”… “The Continuity
of Government Commission is ‘self-commissioned’, its members being
neither elected nor appointed by any government body…and mostly made
up of professional lobbyists”. (Read the whole article http://www.conservativeusa.org/cog-ronpaul.htm)
So, duly-elected congressman would be arbitrarily replaced by
lobbyists and industry representatives?
This gives us some idea of the seething contempt that right-wing
elites have for democracy and how they plan to dismantle Congress
when given the opportunity.
Presently, Bush’s fortunes are inextricably tied to an “unwinnable”
war in Iraq. As his popularity has dwindled, Congress has become
more reluctant to promote his far-right agenda and make further cuts
to popular social programs. This situation will only get worse as we
approach the 2006 mid-term elections.
Could it be time to “look the other way” while terrorists enter the
country?
According to Sean Hannity, right-wing shiatsu for the FOX News
channel, terrorists have already snuck in through our “porous
borders”.
A preemptive strike on congress would lift the battered Bush from
the political ash-heap and put the finishing touches on the imperial
presidency.
It may be time for another galvanizing “Pearl Harbor-type event”;
one that will strike at the legislative nerve-center of American
democracy. With Congress out of the picture, the path is clear for
one man rule and Bush’s fascist Valhalla
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