(Borganic.org) On Thursday, Fox News ran a segment on how declaration of a pandemic might result in a loss of constitutional rights. “If it becomes a pandemic, you could lose some simple rights — like going to the movies,” said host Steve Doocy, who completely understated the issue.
Here’s what Fox and the corporate media are not telling you — the government has a wide palette of dictatorial options ready to go: Executive Order 12919 (would put the United States under total martial law and military dictatorship), Executive Order 12656 (allows the government to increase domestic intelligence and surveillance of U.S. citizens and would restrict the freedom of movement within the United States and grant the government the right to isolate large groups of civilians), Executive Order 11921 (allows FEMA to “develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency”), and a blizzard of additional EOs allowing federal seizure of all communications media in the US, seizure of all electric power, fuels, minerals, public and private, seizure of all food supplies and resources, public and private and all farms and equipment, seizure of all means of transportation, including cars, trucks, or vehicles of any kind and total control over all highways, seaports and water ways, and ominously seizure of American people for work forces under federal supervision, including the splitting up of families if the government so desires. This last one is detailed in the Army’s Civilian Inmate Labor Program document.
According to the Washington Post, on October 4, 2005, Bush suggested that putting National Guard troops under federal, rather than state, control might be one part of a response to the “catastrophe” of an avian influenza outbreak.
In January, 2007, federal law was changed and empowered Bush to “go over a governor’s head and call up National Guard troops to aid a state in time of natural disasters or other public emergencies. Up to now, governors were the sole commanders in chief of citizen soldiers in local Guard units during emergencies within the state,” Kavan Peterson wrote for Stateline. “Over objections from all 50 governors, Congress in October tweaked the 200-year-old Insurrection Act to empower the hand of the president in future stateside emergencies.”
Last November, the Pentagon sealed the fate of the National Guard when Secretary of Defense Gates began the process of separating the Guard from the states. A memo issued by Gates “concluded the military isn’t ready for a catastrophic attack on the country, and that National Guard forces don’t have the equipment or training they need for the job,” and should be rolled into DoD operations. A report released by the “Commission on the National Guard and Reserves said the Pentagon must use the nation’s citizen soldiers to create an operational force that would be fully trained, equipped and ready to defend the nation, respond to crises and supplement the active duty troops in combat,” the Associated Press reported on November 25, 2008.
CONPLAN 0400, Rex-84, Operation Cable Splicer, Operation Garden Plot, the Patriot Act I and II, the Military Commissions Act of 2006, and a flurry of EOs lately designed for supposed “emergency preparedness” — these represent the tedious structure of plans for martial law developed over the last couple of decades.
The government is looking for a perfect storm in order to impose martial law and a dictatorship imposed by the military. It remains to be seen if the largely bogus H1N1 “swine” flu virus is the ticket required to set this portentous machinery in motion.
If there is anything to what Hawaii governor Linda Lingle said on Friday, we may very well find out this weekend.
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