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Date: July 21, 2007 8:02:51 PM PDT
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Subject: Old-School Republican Warns: Unless We Impeach NOW, a
Police State Is INEVITABLE
Old-line Republican warns
'something's in the works'
to trigger a police state
Muriel Kane
Published: Thursday July 19, 2007
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/
Oldline_Republican_warns_somethings_in_works_0719.html
Thom Hartmann began his program on Thursday by reading from a new
Executive Order which allows the government to seize the assets of
anyone who interferes with its Iraq policies.
He then introduced old-line conservative Paul Craig Roberts -- a
former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Reagan who has
recently become known for his strong opposition to the Bush
administration and the Iraq War -- by quoting the "strong words"
which open Roberts' latest column: "Unless Congress immediately
impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a
dictatorial police state at war with Iran."
"I don't actually think they're very strong," said Roberts of his
words. "I get a lot of flak that this understated and the situation
is worse than I say. ... When Bush exercises this authority [under
the new Executive Order] ... there's no check to it. It doesn't
have to be ratified by Congress. The people who bear the brunt of
these dictatorial police state actions have no recourse to the
judiciary. So it really is a form of total, absolute, one-man
rule. ... The American people don't really understand the danger
that they face."
Roberts said that because of Bush's unpopularity, the Republicans
face a total wipeout in 2008, and this may be why "the Democrats
have not brought a halt to Bush's follies or the war, because they
expect his unpopular policies to provide them with a landslide
victory in next year's election."
However, Roberts emphasized, "the problem with this reasoning is
that it assumes that Cheney and Rove and the Republicans are
ignorant of these facts, or it assumes that they are content for
the Republican Party to be destroyed after Bush has his fling."
Roberts believes instead that Cheney and Rove intend to use a
renewal of the War on Terror to rally the American people around
the Republican Party.
"Something's in the works," he said, adding that the Executive
Orders need to create a police state are already in place.
"The administration figures themselves and prominent Republican
propagandists ... are preparing us for another 9/11 event or series
of events," Roberts continued. "Chertoff has predicted them. ...
The National Intelligence Estimate is saying that al Qaeda has
regrouped. ... You have to count on the fact that if al Qaeda's not
going to do it, it's going to be orchestrated. ... The Republicans
are praying for another 9/11."
Hartmann asked what we as the people can do if impeachment isn't
about to happen. "If enough people were suspicious and alert, it
would be harder for the administration to get away with it,"
Roberts replied. However, he added, "I don't think these wake-up
calls are likely to be effective," pointing out the dominance of
the mainstream media.
"Americans think their danger is terrorists," said Roberts. "They
don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the
Bill of Rights, the Constitution. ... The terrorists are not
anything like the threat that we face to the Bill of Rights and the
Constitution from our own government in the name of fighting
terrorism. Americans just aren't able to perceive that."
Roberts pointed out that it's old-line Republicans like himself,
former Reagan associate deputy attorney general Bruce Fein, and Pat
Buchanan who are the diehards in warning of the danger. "It's so
obvious to people like us who have long been associated in the
corridors of power," he said. "There's no belief in the people or
anything like that. They have agendas. The people are in the way.
The Constitution is in the way. ... Americans need to comprehend
and look at how ruthless Cheney is. ... A person like that would do
anything."
Roberts final suggestion was that, in the absence of a massive
popular outcry, "the only constraints on what's going to happen
will come from the federal bureaucracy and perhaps the military.
They may have had enough. They may not go along with it."
The full audio of Thom Hartmann's interview with Paul Craig Roberts
can be found here.
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