Martial Law and Detention Camps in America

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Transforming America into a Police State

Is Martial Law Coming to America?

Detention Facilities for Mysterious 'New Programs'

Will America Go from a Police State to a State of Martial Law?

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Transforming America into a Police State

The Defense Department has made plans to deploy 20,000 troops nationwide by 2011 to help state and local officials respond to emergencies. The 130-year-old Posse Comitatus Act restricts the military’s role in domestic law enforcement, but a 1994 Defense Department Directive allows military commanders to take emergency actions in domestic situations to save lives, prevent suffering, or mitigate great property damage. - newsmax.com

The planned militarization on U.S. soil:

1. The Army Service Component Command to U.S. Northern Command* began training for homeland scenarios at Fort Stewart, Georgia, with a final mission rehearsal exercise in mid-September 2008 (they arrived home in April 2008 after 15 months in Iraq).

2. The derivatives market collapses due to massive home mortgage foreclosures, crushing the international financial system.

3. On September 24, 2008, Bush announces the $700 billion financial bailout plan. Most U.S. citizens do not support the bill and it is defeated; however, the revised bill is passed on October 3, 2008, after "fierce lobbying" by the Bush administration.

4. For the first time ever, the U.S. military deploys an active duty regular Army combat unit (3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team) for full-time use inside the United States to deal with national emergencies, including terrorism, natural disasters and civil unrest. This was announced on September 30, 2008, and effective October 1, 2008.

5. The financial markets are still collapsing even after passing the revised rescue package.

We naturally must question the timing of this planned militarization for two reasons:

1. Civil unrest resulting from a "generated crisis" as described by Joe Biden.

2. Civil unrest resulting from the financial meltdown, given the broad impacts of financial collapse on employment, lifelong savings, pension funds, homeownership, etc.

Glenn Beck Highlights the Economic Crisis and Threat of Martial Law (October 2008)

• Should there be civil unrest, the Constitution of the United States may be suspended and martial law may be declared by the President and orchestrated through FEMA under the Department of Homeland Security, and the "potential terrorists" could be transported and housed in detention facilities.
• There are reports that vacant yet staffed detention camps are in existence throughout the U.S. The detention camps supposedly all have railroad facilities as well as roads leading to and from the facilities (many also with an airport nearby).
• On January 22, 2009 (two days after the inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States), H.R. 645, the National Emergency Centers Establishment Act (NECEA), was submitted during the first session of the 111th Congress. The bill directs "the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish national emergency centers on military installation;" more specifically, "there shall be established not fewer than one national emergency center" in each of the six areas defined within Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) regions."
• With such pieces in place, a government transformation to dictatorship could happen at any time and happen very swiftly.
• The militarization of civilian police and civil defense activities (martial law) is an extremely serious warning signal of dictatorship coming to America.

* The Army Service Component Command of U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) is the combatant command established October 1, 2002 to provide command and control of Department of Defense (DoD) homeland defense efforts and to coordinate defense support of civil authorities.

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New Orleans: Bombs, Choppers During Military Exercises Startle Residents (February 2009)
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New Legislation Authorizes FEMA Camps in U.S. (January 2009)
En Route to Military Rule and the Demise of Civilian Government
U.S. Military Preparing for Domestic Disturbances
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20,000 More U.S. Troops To Be Deployed For "Domestic Security" (December 2008) - a must read!
Pentagon Deploys U.S. Troops for Terrorist Attack or Other Catastrophe (December 2008)
Combat Troops in Iraq Deployed to U.S. to "Help with Civil Unrest" (October 2008)
Gates Memo Announces Final Assimilation of National Guard and Reserve
America Under Martial Law (Video Part 1 of 3 - October 2008)

Martial Law is Coming to America

On May 9, 2007, President Bush implemented National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD 51. This Executive Order (No. 13434) gives the President the power to suspend Constitutional government and instate broad dictatorial powers under martial law in the case of a "catastrophic emergency" [note: the nature of a "catastrophic emergency" is undefined and left to the President's discretion]. NSPD 51 grants unprecedented powers to the Presidency and the Department of Homeland Security, overriding the foundations of Constitutional government. It allows the sitting President to declare a “national emergency” without Congressional approval. The implementation of NSPD 51 would lead to the de facto closing down of the legislature and the militarization of justice and law enforcement. The President can declare a "public emergency" and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities in order to "suppress public disorder."

Bush Grants Himself Dictatorial Power for Continuity of Government (May 2007)

Martial law is defined as military rule or authority imposed on a civilian population when the civil authorities cannot maintain law and order, as in a time of war or during an emergency. Declaration of martial law means your rights are suspended and it is government by decree: people can be arrested and imprisoned indefinitely without charges, freedom of speech and freedom of assembly can be suspended, and censorship of the media can be imposed. Gun ownership will also come under severe attack during marital law: you could see house to house searches by the military or National Guard looking for guns and seizing any they find, along with stored food.

Executive Order No. 12919: "National Emergency"
Should the President proclaim and put into effect Executive Order No. 12919, "the President would put the United States under total martial law and military dictatorship. "The President need not wait for some emergency to occur, however. He can declare a National Emergency at any time and freeze everything. Congress, and the States, are powerless to prevent such an executive dictatorship as long as the President advises Congress in a timely matter."

Establishing Martial Law in the United States

On October 17, 2006, there were two acts of tyranny committed. The first was a public signing of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which suspended habeas corpus. This Act will allow the President to declare you an 'enemy combatant,' ending your rights to seek legal or judicial relief from unlawful imprisonment. The second act of tyranny took place in a private Oval Office ceremony in which the President signed into law the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2007, which essentially eliminates the protections of the Posse Comitatus Act and which re-wrote the Insurrection Act. The NDAA will allow the President to declare a 'public emergency' and take control of state-based National Guard units, without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to 'suppress public disorder.' —Daneen G. Peterson, Ph.D.

In the final hours before Congress adjourned in 2006, President Bush signed the Military Commissions Act of 2006. In doing so, the Constitution was violated and the principle of habeas corpus, which protects against unlawful and indefinite imprisonment, was thrown to the wind. This Military Commissions Act of 2006 gives the President absolute power to designate 'enemy combatants.' Section 6 of the Military Commissions Act strips those declared an 'enemy combatant' of the right to be heard in court to establish his or her innocence as guarded by the Constitutional principle of habeas corpus. This Act violates Article I, Section 9, of the U.S. Constitution: “The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion.” Presently, the suspending of habeas corpus will be applied to 'non citizens,' but once one class of people is deprived of their rights it's only a matter of time before other groups are also deprived. Moreover, the Act's 'enemy combatant' designation applies to both Americans and foreigners. Thus by establishing military tribunals for 'enemy combatants', the Military Commissions Act puts the U.S. military in control of American citizens. —Nathanael Kapner

The John W. Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007 (PL 109-364) was signed by President Bush on October 17, 2006 . The Act "has a provocative provision called 'Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies,'" the thrust of which "seems to be about giving the federal government a far stronger hand in coordinating responses to (Hurricane) Katrina-like disasters," wrote Jeff Stein, CQ National Security editor, on December 1, 2006.

"But on closer inspection, its language also alters the two-centuries-old Insurrection Act, which Congress passed in 1807 to limit the President's power to deploy troops within the United States 'to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination or conspiracy,'" Stein further wrote.

"But the amended law takes the cuffs off" and "critics say it's a formula for executive branch mischief," Stein explained. "The new language adds 'natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident' to the list of conditions permitting the President to take over local authority—particularly 'if domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of maintaining public order,'" Stein added.

"One of the few to complain, Senator Patrick J. Leahy (Democrat-Vermont), warned that the measure virtually invites the White House to declare federal martial law. It 'subverts solid, longstanding Posse Comitatus statutes that limit the military's involvement in law enforcement, thereby making it easier for the President to declare martial law.'"

However, these changes were repealed in their entirety by HR 4986, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, reverting back to the original state of the Insurrection Act of 1807. Despite this repeal, President Bush attached a signing statement saying that he did not feel bound by the repeal. It remains to be seen whether President-elect Obama will reverse Bush's signing statement.

Bush Gives Himself Unprecedented Power to Impose a Form of Martial Law (October 2008)

Executive Authority
Executive Order No. 12656, Assignment of Emergency Preparedness Responsibilities, assigns national security emergency preparedness responsibilities to federal departments and agencies, delegating to FEMA primary responsibility for coordinating the efforts of, among other things, federal emergency assistance. The executive order "appointed the National Security Council as the principal body that should consider emergency powers. This 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. The National Guard could be federalized to seal all borders and take control of U.S. air space and all ports of entry."

Executive Order No. 11921, Adjusting Emergency Preparedness Assignments to Organizational and Functional Changes in Federal Departments and Agencies, allows FEMA (stated as the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency) 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 institutions in any undefined national emergency." It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months.

FEMA's powers were consolidated by President Jimmy Carter to incorporate: The National Security Act of 1947, which allows for the strategic relocation of industries, services, government and other essential economic activities, and to rationalize the requirements for manpower, resources and production facilities; The 1950 Defense Production Act, which gives the President sweeping powers over all aspects of the economy; The Act of August 29, 1916, which authorizes the Secretary of the Army, in time of war, to take possession of any transportation system for transporting troops, material, or any other purpose related to the emergency; and The International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which enables the President to seize the property of a foreign country or national. These powers were transferred to FEMA in a sweeping consolidation in 1979 (note: FEMA is now under the Department of Homeland Security, which was formed in 2002). For the first time in American history, the reigns of government would not be transferred from one elected element to another, but the Constitution, itself, could be suspended.

Executive Orders
Executive orders are supposed to be a presidential tool for running the executive branch of government; executive orders were never intended to be used as imperial orders. The only people with the authority to curb the misuse of executive orders are the members of Congress, who have 30 days from the issuance of an order to reject it by majority vote. However, they seldom bother to read them, and the press seldom bothers to cover them—even when they represent sweeping new interpretations of human rights, compromises of U.S. national sovereignty, or abuses of power.

Executive Order No. 10990: Enables U.S. government to take over all transportation and take control of U.S. highways and ports.

Executive Order No. 10995: Enables U.S. government to seize and control all media.

Executive Order No. 10997: Enables U.S. government to take over all gas, electric power, petroleum, fuels, and minerals.

Executive Order No. 10998: Enables U.S. government to take over all food supplies and farms.

Executive Order No. 11000: Enables U.S. government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.

Executive Order No. 11001: Enables U.S. government to control of all health, education, welfare functions.

Executive Order No. 11002: Enables the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all U.S. persons.

Executive Order No. 11003: Enables U.S. government to take control of all airports and aircraft.

Executive Order No. 11004: Enables the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing, decide on areas to be abandoned, and put entire populations into new locations.

Executive Order No. 11005: Enables U.S. government to takeover of all railroads, waterways, and public storage facilities.

Naomi Wolf Interview on the Police State in America (October 2008)

Army Times Article Supporting Naomi Wolf's Claims (October 2008)
Rep. Sherman: Martial Law Threatened If We Voted 'No' on Bailout (Video - October 2008)
Prescott Bush Led Plan to Launch a Fascist Coup in 1930s America
Local News Report, Martial Law Is Coming (Video)

Look back to the police state in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and, more recently, to the police state during the 2008 conventions (both Republican and Democrat), and you will see eroding civil liberties and impending Martial Law.

"Let Military Keep Order In Disasters" Says Brookings Institute, the Global Elite's Think Tank for Public Policy
Disaster Relief? Call in the Marines
Concerns Over Posse Comitatus Violations
Blackwater Eyes Domestic Contracts in U.S.
Blackwater May Lose License in Iraq

Blackwater USA: the Shadow Army of the Shadow Government

Blackwater Mercenaries Deployed in New Orleans
A Blackwater contractor is paid six to nine times more than a top Army sergeant, and a Blackwater contractor working in Iraq can earn $10,000 or more per month or $120,000 or more per year (tax free). The U.S. taxpayers pay Blackwater USA, a war profiteer of the military-industrial complex, $1,222 per day for one Blackwater "Protective Security Specialist, which, the Congressional report notes, amounts to $446,000 per contractor per year.

Scandal-Ridden Blackwater Changes Name to ‘Xe’
The scandal-ridden security firm Blackwater USA is officially changing its name effective immediately as the company moves to rebrand itself after being fired last month by the State Department from its job protecting diplomats in Iraq. The company will now be known as Xe and hopes to be a “one-stop shopping source for world class services in the fields of security, stability, aviation, training and logistics,” according to a memo sent by company president Gary Jackson to employees on February 13, 2009.

Is Xe's Erik Prince ‘Graymailing’ the US Government?
Xe's Erik Prince: Tycoon, Contractor, Soldier, Spy for the CIA
Obama Administration Uses Blackwater in Drone Killings
CIA Hired Blackwater for Killings
More Blackwater Revelations: This Time Child Prostitutes
Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder
Ex-Employees Claim Blackwater Pimped Out Young Iraqi Girls
Blackwater Mercenaries: Knights Templars on a “Crusade to Wipe Out Muslims”
Iraqis Speak of Random Killings Committed By Private Blackwater Guards
Blackwater Chief is a Super Villain: Ex-Employees

The Police State After Hurricane Katrina

The Police State After Katrina
The Untold Story of Gun Confiscation After Katrina (Video)
Martial Law After Hurricane Katrina (CNN Video)
The Clergy Response Team After Hurricane Katrina (Video)

The Police State During the 2008 Democratic National Convention

The Police State During the 2008 Republican National Convention

The Police State During the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, September 2009

The Police State During the G20 Summit in Toronto, June 2010

The Police State During the 2011 Occupy Movements Across the U.S.

The Police State at the University of California at Davis, November 2011

Detention Facilities for Mysterious 'New Programs' (Updated 12/29/11)

On August 14, 2002, the Los Angeles Times published a story by Jonathan Turley titled Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision. According to Turley (a professor of constitutional law at George Washington University):

"Attorney General John Ashcroft's announced desire for camps for U.S. citizens he deems to be 'enemy combatants' has moved him from merely being a political embarrassment to being a constitutional menace. Ashcroft's plan, disclosed last week but little publicized, would allow him to order the indefinite incarceration of U.S. citizens and summarily strip them of their constitutional rights and access to the courts by declaring them enemy combatants... The camp plan was forged at an optimistic time for Ashcroft's small inner circle, which has been carefully watching two test cases to see whether this vision could become a reality. The cases of Jose Padilla and Yaser Esam Hamdi will determine whether U.S. citizens can be held without charges and subject to the arbitrary and unchecked authority of the government... Ashcroft hopes to use his self-made 'enemy combatant' stamp for any citizen whom he deems to be part of a wider terrorist conspiracy."

According to former Congressman Dan Hamburg (Democrat-California), since 1999, the government has entered into a series of single-bid contracts with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) to build detention facilities at undisclosed locations within the United States (most of these sites only need refurbished because they are mostly closed prisons, former WWII internment camps, and other facilities taken over by the government).

On January 26, 2006, KBR (recently reprimanded for gross overcharging in its military contracts in Iraq) announced that it was awarded a $385 million contract to build detention centers in the United States. Two weeks later, on February 6, 2006, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced that the fiscal year 2007 federal budget would allocate over $400 million to add 6,700 additional detention beds. This $400 million allocation is more than a four-fold increase over the fiscal year 2006 budget, which provided only $90 million for the same purpose.

Buried in Halliburton's press release "2005 Full Year and Fourth Quarter Results" (PDF file, page 5) on Halliburton's website (please note that the press release has since been removed from their website), is the announcement of the $385 million contract, awarded by the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) component. According to Halliburtion: "The Indefinate Delivery/Indefinate Quantity contingency contract is to support ICE facilities and has a maximum total value of $385 million over a five-year term. The contract provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S. or to support the rapid development of new programs."

Note: The contract for Halliburton's subsidiary to build detention facilities is part of a longer-term Homeland Security plan titled ENDGAME, which sets as its goal the removal of "illegal economic migrants, aliens who have committed criminal acts, asylum-seekers (required to be retained by law), or potential terrorists."

During this same time period from 2005 to early 2006, H.R. 1492 was passed (on November 16, 2005); it was signed into Public Law 109-441 by President Bush on December 21, 2006. H.R. 1492 guaranteed $38 million in federal money to restore 10 former internment camps where Japanese Americans were detained during WWII.

On the Army's website is an unclassified document, first posted in February 2006, titled Civilian Inmate Labor Program (Army Regulation 210–35). This regulation, effective one year earlier on February 14, 2005, "provides policy and guidance for establishing civilian inmate labor programs and civilian prison camps on Army installations."

The document, first drafted in 1997, underwent a "rapid action revision" on January 14, 2005; the revision provides a "template for developing agreements" between the Army and corrections facilities for the use of civilian inmate labor on Army installations. On its face, the Army's labor program refers to inmates housed in federal, state and local jails. The Army also cites various federal laws that govern the use of civilian labor and provide for the establishment of prison camps in the United States, including a federal statute that authorizes the Attorney General to "establish, equip, and maintain camps" upon sites selected by him and "make available… the services of United States prisoners" to various government departments, including the Department of Defense.

Though the timing of the document's posting in February 2006 may just be a coincidence, the reference to a "rapid action revision" and KBR contract's contemplation of "rapid development of new programs" have raised eyebrows about why this sudden need for urgency. These developments also are drawing more attention now because of earlier Bush administration policies to involve the Pentagon in "counter-terrorism" operations inside the United States.

The El Pais interview (excerpt below) on February 1, 2006 with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Tom Shannon, contradicts the Homeland Security plan to build additional detention facilities for illegal immigrants, leading one to believe that the facilities will be used for the other purposes, such as stated in KBR's contract: "to support the rapid development of new programs:"

Question: When President Bush came to the White House for the first time, he came with the idea of opening the borders and allowing the Mexicans, the Guatemalans to come in, then something happened—the borders were closed, but the Mexicans are still crossing the borders. What are the plans of the American administration? The United States needs all these laborers for its economy.

A/S Shannon: President Bush has committed himself to immigration reform—and especially the immigration reform that would include a temporary workers' program. A temporary workers' program would attempt to link willing workers with willing employers and create a process whereby employers in the United States who need workers could bring those workers into the United States from a foreign country—and not just Mexico or Central America, but any country—in a way that would regularize their status within the United States. That proposal is being debated and worked on in our Congress right now; the process still has a ways to go. So we'll see what legislation eventually emerges from the Congress. But the President is committed to immigration reform and he is committed to a temporary workers' program.

Border Invasion Pictures
Napolitano: DHS Authorizing Illegal Aliens to Work in U.S. (October 19, 2011)

On January 22, 2009 (two days after the inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States), H.R. 645, the National Emergency Centers Establishment Act (NECEA), was submitted during the first session of the 111th Congress. The bill directs "the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish "national emergency centers on military installations." NECEA mandates that no fewer than six separate facilities be established in different Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) regions throughout the country for the concentration of civilian internees on military installations. These existing military installations will be used for emergency situations or natural disasters that might render individuals and families "dislocated." NECEA further proposes that over the course of the next two years, $360 million is to be appropriated for this initiative. [The Senate version of this bill, S.3476: National Emergency Centers Establishment, was introduced on June 10, 2010, where it was "read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services."]

In July 2009, the Army National Guard began advertising for Corrections Officers and Internment/Resettlement Specialists: “As an Internment/Resettlement Specialist for the Army National Guard, you will ensure the smooth running of military confinement/correctional facility or detention/internment facility, similar to those duties conducted by civilian Corrections Officers. This will require you to know proper procedures and military law; and have the ability to think quickly in high-stress situations. Specific duties may include assisting with supervision and management operations; providing facility security; providing custody, control, supervision, and escort; and counseling individual prisoners in rehabilitative programs.”

On December 6, 2011, Infowars.com reported on a document originating from Halliburton subsidiary KBR that provides details on a push to outfit FEMA and U.S. Army camps around the United States. Entitled “Project Overview and Anticipated Project Requirements,” the document describes services KBR is looking to farm out to subcontractors. The document was passed on to Infowars.com by a state government employee who wishes to remain anonymous for obvious reasons. Services up for bid include catering, temporary fencing and barricades, laundry and medical services, power generation, refuse collection, and other services required for temporary “emergency environment” camps located in five regions of the United States. KBR’s call for FEMA camp service bids arrives soon after the Senate overwhelmingly passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which permits the military to detain and interrogate supposed domestic terror suspects in violation of the Fourth Amendment and Posse Comitatus. Section 1031 of the NDAA bill declares the whole of the United States as a “battlefield” and allows American citizens to be arrested on U.S. soil and incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay.

On December 15, 2011, just before the Christmas break, the U.S. Senate voted to give the president the power to order the military to pick up and imprison, without charge or trial, civilians anywhere in the world. The power is so broad that even U.S. citizens could be swept up by the military, and the military could be used far from any battlefield. Military resources could be directed not at an enemy shooting at our military in a war zone, but at American citizens within the United States itself. The worldwide indefinite detention without charge or trial provision is in the National Defense Authorization Act passed by both the House and Senate and currently being reconciled so that it can be presented to the president for signing into law. What we are dealing with here is the potential for the scope of the bill to expand from those who legitimately can be called violent terrorists and enemy combatants, to those who are simply political opponents and eventually to those who fail to support those in power. If this scope can be expanded, history shows us that inevitably it will. American citizens are guaranteed rights under the Constitution, rights which are natural rights, rights endowed by our Creator, not rights bestowed by government. If government can remove your rights by decree, and worse, by secret decree, you have no rights, only privileges at whim.

On December 31, 2011 Obama signed the military detention bill (NDAA) into law.

Army ‘Strategic Shock’ Report Says Troops May Be Needed To Quell U.S. Civil Unrest (November 2008):

Violent, Strategic Dislocation Inside the United States (Pages 31-32)
As a community, the defense establishment swears to protect and defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. DoD’s role in combating “domestic enemies” has never been thoughtfully examined. Thus, there is perhaps no greater source of strategic shock for DoD than operationalizing that component of the oath of service in a widespread domestic emergency that entails rapid dissolution of public order in all or significant parts of the United States.

While likely not an immediate prospect, this is clearly a “Black Swan” that merits some visibility inside DoD and the Department of Homeland Security. To the extent events like this involve organized violence against local, state, and national authorities and exceed the capacity of the former two to restore public order and protect vulnerable populations, DoD would be required to fill the gap. This is largely uncharted strategic territory.

Widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security. Deliberate employment of weapons of mass destruction or other catastrophic capabilities, unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order, purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters are all paths to disruptive domestic shock.

An American government and defense establishment lulled into complacency by a long-secure domestic order would be forced to rapidly divest some or most external security commitments in order to address rapidly expanding human insecurity at home. Already predisposed to defer to the primacy of civilian authorities in instances of domestic security and divest all but the most extreme demands in areas like civil support and consequence management, DoD might be forced by circumstances to put its broad resources at the disposal of civil authorities to contain and reverse violent threats to domestic tranquility. Under the most extreme circumstances, this might include use of military force against hostile groups inside the United States. Further, DoD would be, by necessity, an essential enabling hub for the continuity of political authority in a multi-state or nationwide civil conflict or disturbance.

A whole host of long-standing defense conventions would be severely tested. Under these conditions and at their most violent extreme, civilian authorities, on advice of the defense establishment, would need to rapidly determine the parameters defining the legitimate use of military force inside the United States. Further still, the whole concept of conflict termination and/or transition to the primacy of civilian security institutions would be uncharted ground. DoD is already challenged by stabilization abroad. Imagine the challenges associated with doing so on a massive scale at home.

The Suspension of Our Civil Rights

Habeas corpus (Latin for "you [should] have the body") is the name of a legal action or writ by means of which detainees can seek relief from unlawful imprisonment. The United States Constitution specifies that, "the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended unless, when in cases of rebellion or invasion, the pubic safety may require it." The Constitution is clear in indicating that suspension is a possibility in specific cases, but vague as to who determines when public safety is in danger. Clearly, it is the President's duty to invoke the suspension, but is it also his duty to determine when an invasion or rebellion threatens the public safety? Or is that the job of the Congress?

"There Is No Express Grant of Habeas Corpus in the Constitution" — Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

The Largest ICE Raid in U.S. History: A Personal Account
A Spanish-language interpreter in Postville, Iowa, battled with his own ethical decisions about how to stay neutral during the largest single-site raid in U.S. history on May 12, 2008. He says nothing could have prepared him for the prospect of helping our government put hundreds of innocent people in jail.

Privatization of Prisons

Cheney Ran SS-Style Political Assassination Unit
(Halliburton's Former CEO) Cheney's Financial Interest in Private Prison Companies
Halliburton Confirms Detention Camps Already Constructed in America
Former Congressman Warns of Detention Camps in America
Detention Camp in Columbus, Ohio, Part 1 & Part 2
FEMA Camps & FEMA Coffins
The Return of Debtors Prisons
Human Trafficking in America's Private Prisons

Will America Go from a Police State to a State of Martial Law?

A quote from a 1924 edition of the American Bankers Association Journal sums up what is currently happening:
"When, through the process of law, the common people lose their homes, they will become more docile and more easily governed through the strong arm of government applied by a central power of wealth under leading financiers. These truths are well known among our principal men who are now engaged in forming imperialism to govern the world. By dividing the voter through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting for questions of no importance."

Republicans and Democrats are two parties set up to give us the illusion of choice and to promote the false left-right paradigm. Political offices (including the Presidency) are bought, paid for, and controlled by the global elite through organizations such as the Federal Reserve, Trilateral Commission, Council of Foreign Relations, Royal Institute of International Affairs, and Bilderberg Group. What people don't realize is that Clinton, Bush, and most of those who came before them in the 20th century did not orchestrate any conspiracies—they were simply puppets being controlled by outside forces. Partisanship is insignificant in terms of the shadow government agenda.

Reporters Abused and Arrested at 2008 Republican National Convention (Video)

According to Naomi Wolf: "The Karl Rove-Dick Cheney cabal is using Sarah Palin as a stalking horse to put a popular, populist face on the coming police state and to be the talk show hostess for the end of elections as we know them. Time magazine reported that Rove is 'dialed in' to the McCain campaign. Rove's protégé Steve Schmidt is now campaign manager. And Politico reported that Rove was heavily involved in McCain's vice presidential selection. Finally a new report shows that there are dozens of Bush and Rove operatives surrounding Sarah Palin and orchestrating her every move. How, you may ask, can I argue, as I now do, that there is actually a war being ramped up against U.S. citizens and our democracy and that Sarah Palin is the figurehead and muse for that war? Look at the RNC. This is supposed to be McCain's America. But you see the unmistakable theatre of Rove's S and M imagery—and you see stages eight, nine and ten of the steps to a dictatorship as I outlined them in The End of America. Preemptive arrest? Abusive arrest? Newly released footage, which was buried to avoid confiscation, shows riot cops arresting and abusing a giant group of people for nothing."

Will Events Surrounding the Presidential Inauguration Lead to Civil Unrest and Martial Law?

McCain-Palin Push Forward on Campaign of Fear and Hate (Video)
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McCain-Palin Lynch Mob Politics (Report and Videos)
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According to an article in Time magazine in November 2007, Republicans were organized in several states to throw their weight behind Senator Barack Obama, one of several candidates competing against Senator Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. While Karl Rove's name isn't mentioned in the story, several former fundraisers and strategists for President Bush are identified. (The Times of London reported several Bush heavyweights backing Obama earlier in the year.) With the help of Wall Street investment firms, these gentlemen flushed Obama's coffers with cash early on in the race, something conservative deep pockets had not done for any candidate in their own party. His receipts topped $100 million in 2007—not bad for a little known freshman senator. To expedite the Rove strategy, a website and discussion forum called "Republicans for Obama" formed in 2006. The executive director of New Hampshire's Republican Party, Stephen DeMaura, later established "Stop Hillary Clinton (One Million Strong Against Hillary)" on Facebook.

Will the "Generated" International Crisis Predicted by Biden Lead to Martial Law?

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According to Kurt Nimmo at Infowars: "Speaking at a Seattle fundraiser on October 19, 2008, Joe Biden tells us would-be president Obama will face a 'generated' international crisis within his first six months in power and he will need supporters to stand by him as he makes tough, and possibly unpopular, decisions.' Biden said this 'test' would likely unfold in the Middle East or Russia, and it would likely be coupled with the economy... It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out what's in store. As should now be obvious, the global elite are deliberately tanking the economy worldwide in an effort to consolidate their hold and wealth, and this will result in unimaginable privation on a global scale. They have launched a final effort to usher in a world currency and a world government."

Will the "Imminent" Economic Collapse and U.S. "Merger" into the NAU Lead to Martial Law?

The mass media said almost nothing about the secret meeting of the House on March 13, 2008, mentioning only one of the items being discussed (the new surveillance techniques that are going to be used by the U.S. government to watch all American citizens). The story was first released in a newspaper out of Brisbane, Australia, revealing the contents of the secret U.S. government meeting and plans for America, including all of its citizens. Shortly thereafter, David J. Meyer, from Last Trumpet Ministries, found it and made it more available for the world to see. Glenn Beck reported on it (see video above).

Here is what was revealed:

• The imminent collapse of the U.S. economy to occur sometime in late 2008.
• The imminent collapse of the U.S. government finances sometime in mid 2009.
• The possibility of civil war inside the United States as a result of the collapse.
• The advance round-ups of "insurgent U.S. citizens" likely to move against the government.
• The detention of those rounded up at the Rex 84 camps constructed throughout the United States.
• The possibility of public retaliation against members of Congress for the collapses.
• The location of safe facilities for members of Congress and their families to reside during massive civil unrest.
• The necessary and unavoidable merger of the U.S. with Canada and Mexico, establishing the North American Union (NAU).
• The issuance of a new currency, called the Amero, for all three nations as an economic solution.

The New World Order and TransAtlantic Economic Integration (see excerpt below)

Where is our comatose Congress on this "treaty" (TransAtlantic Economic Council), this plan to integrate the European Union (EU) and the United States? Some Americans have been heavily distracted by the North American Union and the open-on-purpose southern border. That is the least of our worries. While the astute are focused on the North American Union (NAU) there are other issues.

Foreign Affairs, published by the Council on Foregin Relations, had the following to say: "The world economy and the international financial system have evolved in such a way that there is no longer a viable model for economic development outside of them. The right course is not to return to a mythical past of monetary sovereignty, with governments controlling local interest and exchange rates in blissful ignorance of the rest of the world. Governments must let go of the fatal notion that nationhood requires them to make and control the money used in their territory. National currencies and global markets simply do not mix; together they make a deadly brew of currency crises and geopolitical tension and create ready pretexts for damaging protectionism. In order to globalize safely, countries should abandon monetary nationalism and abolish unwanted currencies, the source of much of today's instability." Given the CFR's influence in foreign, national and personal policies, this is significant.

During the George H.W. Bush Administration, big business personalities were placed in key regulatory positions. An effort to weaken certain regulations was led by Vice President Quayle, who employed a group called the White House Council on Competitiveness to spearhead the campaign. In 1991 the Council's executive director, Allan Hubbard, was accused of a conflict of interest because of his financial holdings in corporations that stood to benefit from a deregulatory agenda.

War, financed on both sides by international bankers, desolates lives, destroys economies, depletes resources, moves massive amounts of money; promotes despair, discouragement and dependence within the population; and creates more wealth and power for the corporate elite. To the elite, common humanity functions merely as cannon fodder and labor, the cheaper, the better! The purpose of war is profit. War-torn people easily fall prey to the suggestions of the elitists who have ulterior and highly profitable motives in offering security and solace.

People willingly give up their freedoms when threatened. World War II gave rise to the two new super powers: the United States and the Soviet Union, a new enemy, heavily financed by Wall Street and industrialized with our tax money and technology—in Hegelian Dialectical terms—thesis and antithesis. Owning both sides ensures success—like owning both political parties.

Economic warfare directed by the British in an effort to reclaim her American colony began with deflation through the New York Panic of 1920-21. Next was the Crash of 1929. The British banking cabal was instrumental in shaping the Federal Reserve, whose policies led to the wild speculation and ultimate crash during the Great Depression of 1929. The deliberate catastrophic crash was worldwide, creating joblessness, hunger, disintegration of production, and national bankruptcies.

The European Community (originally called European Economic Community) was founded on March 25, 1957 by the signing of the Treaty of Rome. With such common interests as economic, social and trade matters, the manipulated countries easily morphed into the European Union, which was created on February 7, 1992 in Maastricht, Netherlands, known as the Maastricht Treaty (formally the Treaty of European Union, TEU), for the place where it was signed. The treaty was entered into force on November 1, 1993. Down with independence and personal freedoms!

It appears we are on the fast track to the One World Order. With George H. W. Bush giving or selling our infrastructure through an Executive Order, and through his son, things looks pretty dismal.

Next on the agenda: the full implementation of the North American Union. The NAU began as a seemingly innocuous document called the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, just a collaboration to ensure prosperity for adjoining countries and safety from the terrorists, communists, Islamofascists or whichever enemy is currently targeted on the daily Two-Minutes-Hate segment distributed through the "fair and balanced," everything-sounds-like-Fox-News, mass-media-by-the-Propaganda-Ministry.