The Patriot Acts I and II and the Military Commissions Act, all the pieces are in place to install a pure fascist dictatorship if reaction to the Iran attack causes millions to take to the streets. Below are links to the presidential directives that create the excuses and provide the blueprint for a national security state, an excerpt from a particularly odious provision within each of them, and articles or blog postings explaining their significance.
This is the most recent, from July 17, and sanctions property and liquid asset seizure for pretty much anyone BushCo deems a pain in the ass. Here's the text of the directive:
How to legally steal your stuff
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.htmlHere's some particularly awful parts:
"(c) the term "United States person" means any United States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States (including foreign branches), or any person in the United States.
(B) undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people.
Sec. 5. For those persons whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order who might have a constitutional presence in the United States, I find that, because of the ability to transfer funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this order would render these measures ineffectual. I therefore determine that for these measures to be effective in addressing the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 and expanded in Executive Order 13315, there need be no prior notice of a listing or determination made pursuant to section 1(a) of this order.
And here’s comment on what this actually means in real life:
Criminalizing the anti-war movement
http://www.inteldaily.com/?c=172&a=2839The following is a link to two earlier directives, signed May 9, 07, both of which provide the framework and excuses for implementing martial law (which is what declaring a national state of emergency means to these swine). Note that Bush is to be the sole guarantor of the continuance of Constitutional law under these conditions, and that he’s the only one who gets to define what constitutes grounds for declaring a state of emergency.
Lock up the usual suspects
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.htmlA couple of looks behind the curtain:
“(b) "Catastrophic Emergency" means any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions;
“(18) The Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall provide secure, integrated, Continuity of Government communications to the President, the Vice President, and, at a minimum, Category I executive departments and agencies.”
“(6) The President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government for ensuring constitutional government.
Comment on this blueprint for totalitarianism includes this article detailing the rise of fascism under Bush:
Imperialism and fascism are on the rise in the USA
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2143.shtmlThis one is specific to the DHS and National Security directives:
Bush anoints himself ensurer of Constitutional government in emergency
http://progressive.org/mag_wx051807And this one deals with fabricated “terrorist” attacks as pretext for nuking Iran:
Bush directive for a "catastrophic emergency" in America: Building a justification for waging war on Iran?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6134Then mix in a little Operation Noble and TopOff coming in October and it would be difficult to come up with too many innocent conclusions. (See my post # 69 on this thread:
http://tinyurl.com/2kmg5l).
I think we're about to reach the tipping point and, unless the congressional demos suddenly discover that they'll be swept under the bus along with everybody else unless they act NOW to impeach Cheney, then Bush, they'll spend the rest of their useless lives wondering how they could have missed the signs that any reasonable person would have been happy to spell out for them.
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