Karen Watters Cole wrote:
If it wasn't for the line of succession, one could understand someone
lamenting that that hand-grenade malfunctioned in Georgia --
damned Soviet forced-labor state industries that only produced junk!
Oh, God forbid, no. We do not want anything to happen to Bush2. May he have
nothing more than knee problems until after Jan. 22, 2009.
At least when JFK was shot, there wasn't this concept of world terrorism,
although the Cold War dynamics still applied. Same prayer for ex Prez Ford,
Carter, Bush1 and Clinton.
In the event there is even a thwarted attempt on his life, we would not only
have a vindictive, validated Cheney and an unleashed Rumsfeld, but we are
highly vulnerable to martial law in the event of an assassination, never
mind the Shadow Government in the event of another major attack.
Yes, maybe Bush is like a cheap plane ticket:
Since it makes the traveller stop and switch planes en route it takes
them a bit longer to get where they're going. (And where one
has no rational hope of stopping something bad from happening,
any delay is an opportunity for something unexpected to
felicitously intervene.)
There are two kinds of military takeovers that could happen in the
United States, and you have described the more likely one (the neocons
taking
over the military to impose "martial law", which would, likely,
largely consist in Robert Borkean marital law [Remember Bork saying there
is no constitutional right to privacy?]. Can't you just see it: MPs
confiscating contraceptives from pharmacies and the FBI
breaking into people's houses to search for them in people's medicine
cabinets?
But I still have a fantasy of a different kind of military takeover: That
the U.S. military would get so fed up with being impressed [aka
hijacked...] by the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz-Rice-... regime
into doing things they know are bad, not just for the country but
also for the military itself, that they
itself would take control, getting rid, among others but
surely among the first, of Mr. Rumsfeld.
What a shame Colin Powell doesn't hear his country's call [get
that man a hearing aid!]....
America's calling, [General Powell],
You know what it's all about....
Is there something we can do to save the land we love....
(--popular song, ref. lost)
\brad mccormick
Nixon's paranoia was nothing compared to this inner circle.
Give 'em credit for manoeuvering "us" into a
situation where heads we lose and tails they win.
These are the
people who floated the idea of using cable installers and appliance
repairmen acting as homeland security spies. The end justifies the means in
this crowd, and the trampling on constitutional checks and balances would be
severe, perhaps fatal. The Dept of Homeland Security just got approval in a
rider attached to the budget omnibus bill and signed by Bush2, to waive any
and all laws along the borders, ostensibly to construct security fencing and
police against infiltration, but that could easily be redefined and extended
now that it is law.
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