CONSTITUTIONAL NIGHT FRIGHT “PARANOIA, AMERICAN STYLE”

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(PT 1) CONSTITUTIONAL NIGHT FRIGHT

Saturday, October 22, 2005 - FreeMarketNews.com

PART ONE OF TWO

ANOTHER IN THE “PARANOIA, AMERICAN STYLE” OCCASIONAL SERIES

Who slept last night? “Conspiracy”-oriented reporters were out in force (well, at least three of them) though there was seemingly no way of corroborating their more alarmist announcements, The duo of “Sherman and Skolnick” – an investigative radio team receiving support from PATRIOT RADIO (Web, Shortwave, AM-FM Broadcasts For New World Order News) were promo-ing a “cloakanddagger” exclusive posted in the very early AM and e-mailed to various sites.

Entitled “U.S. Nervous Breakdown!” it claimed that Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald had actually made his indictments available to the administration but that “U.S. Attorney Alberto Gonzales had resigned rather than serve them, as follows, “ was shocked while examining 22 indictments from Federal Grand Juries apparently including Bush himself. Gonzales swiftly disqualified himself refusing Bush's order to on the spot firing of Patrick Fitzgerald. … Bush ordered FBI to make fake Capitol "terrorist" scare to force evacuation. Democrats, however, refused to leave. Member of Joint Chiefs of Staff says he wants to go to arrest Commander-in-Chief Bush for treason. But Bush loyalists in top Military brass threaten to arrest brave senior General who is supported by an Admiral. Some in military, nevertheless, ordering monopoly press to quickly "tell the truth now" or suffer dire consequences. ...”

The Sherman and Skolnick report was a slightly later version of a report by the controversial Tom Flocco, who is also supported by PATRIOT RADIO (and thus one story probably cannot be treated as independent corroboration of another). Flocco’s story claims that, “Today, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald handed over 22 indictments to Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, accusing President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney and others of espionage, obstruction of justice, perjury and a variety of other charges in the matter of the CIA/Valerie Plame leak-gate case. … According to intelligence sources who spoke with federal whistleblowers Thomas Heneghan and Stewart Webb, Bush then ordered Gonzalez to fire Fitzgerald and have the indictments quashed and sealed. Gonzalez refused to release the indictments which have been handed down by the grand jury and ordered served by a judge, subjecting the Attorney General to additional charges of obstruction of justice, the sources said.”

Flocco was also reporting early this morning that “Bush-Cheney CIA/Plame case indictments released this morning” – and was slugging the deck “developing” since there was nothing to go after the headline. A quick check of some other sites showed nobody else seemed to be carrying anything related to the above two articles. Rense.com, which itself has been cited for misinformation by no less than the Bush State Department (a cite - to his credit - he's proud to display on his homepage) often finds fault with some of Flocco’s more “extreme” reporting.

CONTINUED, PART TWO
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[Dogmudgeon]

1. Just what we need

Wackos reporting about other wackos.

At least it makes for some good readin'. Occasionally funnier than hell, too.

--p!

[HereSince1628]

2. hahahahah, oh if only it were true.

My advice to the author is don't overplay it. Trying to bring in the Joint Chiefs is way too much. The Generals might play in such intrigues in other fascist countries, but not in the US. They have a long history of respecting posse commitatus.

[Shipwack]

4. While I agree that this is mildly entertaining fiction...

I wouldn't be so sure that the current Joint Chiefs would put duty to country and constitution over loyalty to George Bush junior...

I have no doubt that the current crop of high ranking admirals and generals, and commandants were chosen based on how loyal they were to the Administration.

[HereSince1628]

5. Well, I think the Secret Service is more likely to shoot someone

who tries to arrest the president. The SS are truly scary.

[bigbrother05]

3. I wish this was true

Part 1 is pretty funny. Lets hope its true. Gonzales said you can't make me go in there. HaHa.