Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury on New Orleans: "Americans
Are Being Brainwashed"
Mentality is "like that of the brown shirts that followed Hitler"
Steve Watson/Alex Jones | September 6 2005
http://prisonplanet.com/Pages/Sept05/060905brainwashed.htm
Paul Craig Roberts has held a number of academic appointments and has
contributed to numerous scholarly publications. He served as
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Regan administration.
Roberts followed up his commentary Impeach Bush Now, Before More Die
with an interview on The Alex Jones show on Monday 5th September
2005. The former Assistant Secretary had noted of the New Orleans
disaster "If terrorists had achieved this result, it would rank as
the greatest terrorist success in history." and went on to spell out
how the disaster was left to happen. He succeeded these comments on
Monday by laying out the facts again and asserting that the Federal
government has been criminally negligent and should be held up to
accountability.
Click here to listen to the full interview
Mr Roberts believed that such comments would bring him much criticism
from so called Patriots (the flag waving kind), yet he was surprised
at the amount of people who agreed and even informed him that it was
far worse then what he'd gone on record with.
Roberts reviewed the way in which the federal government had slashed
funding for flood prevention schemes and pumped everything into the
war in Iraq and the war on Terror. He also went on to admit that the
military was turning on the people, treating them as subjects,
overturning the Posse Comitatus Act.
Roberts agreed that FEMA has deliberately withheld aid, and cut
emergency communication lines, and automatically made the crisis look
worse in order to empower the image of a police state emerging to
"save the day". He even insinuated that the shoot to kill policy was
part of the overall operation in order get an awful precedence set to
aid the military industrial complex takeover of America.
"The power of the Federal Government is now greater than at any time,
it'll never go back and the Posse Comitatus Act has been eroding ever
since it was passed in 1878..." Roberts asserted.
Roberts further commented "There is no excuse for this, we have never
had in our history the federal government take a week to respond to a
disaster...this is the first time ever that the help was not
mobilized in advance. The proper procedure is that everything is
mobilized and ready to go"
Mr Roberts commented that the American people are being "brainwashed"
and no longer believe what the founding fathers said over and over,
that your worst enemy is always your own government and never confuse
Patriotism with support for the government. He asserted that the
mentality is "like that of the brown shirts that followed Hitler" and
that the government is deadly dangerous, "you can't let the military
take over policing".
On the question of where this is all leading and what the government
is gearing up for, Mr Roberts suggested that "It does look like there
is a push coming from inside the bowels of the police authorities and
it seems to be independent of whoever the President is or who or
whatever party is in office. It just gets worse and it's hard to say
that it's Bush doing it, he may not even know what's going on... it's
enough for us to say that New Orleans demonstrated massive federal
incompetence, if it were laid on private people would be tantamount
to criminal negligence... some kind of accountability has to be exercised"
The private corporations own and run everything and are turning
America into a third world police state, when questioned as to how we
can stop this Mr Roberts stated:
"The longer it goes on it will be harder and harder to stop...It
depends on how much resistance or what kind of resistance they meet,
but I think one thing we can do is demand accountability for this
failure, do not buy the Karl Rove lie that this was a failure of
State and Local Government"
Roberts urged listeners to look at the Patriot Act, which suspends
Habeas Corpus, where they can now suspend you indefinitely, a massive
erosion of civil liberties. He was quick to point out though that we
should not assign the government omnipotence, we can make people
aware of the situation and try to explain illogical actions that have
no reasonable explanation.
Roberts read out an email from an emergency management official who
said that the feds are involved in everything they do, everything has
to be approved by the feds. FEMA sets the table, Mr Roberts
suggested, every major agency in New Orleans has been federalized,
the State and Local officials have no authority.
"They might screw up occasionally but why is it that NOTHING that was
supposed to be done was done?" Roberts questioned.
"The whole problem is...failure, massive unacceptable failure,
criminal negligence... it has caused the US it's largest and most
strategic international Port through which 25% of all our oil and gas
comes... look at the price of gasoline, this is a tremendous
impact... I don't see how a recession can be avoided... We have lost
our most influential port through what appears to be INTENTIONAL
incompetence, it's very hard to understand"
Roberts went on to stress that this event is WORSE than 9/11 because
it was announced days ahead of the event and contingency plans were
intentionally ignored. The officials on the scene have said there was
a complete stand down of the government and intentional incompetence.
Furthermore they did nothing ON PURPOSE in order to provoke the
resulting chaos and anarchy so they could say "look how out of
control everything is - we have to have limits on freedom and troops
on the streets."
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