From one of my favourite blogs, I linked to this article, “Brigade Homeland Tours Start Oct 1” on the Army Times-website. It is not unusual for an active-army unit to be “at home” in times of crisis – such as when a natural disaster struck, e.g. Hurricane Katrina. But it is very unusual in any other circumstances.
Clearly the Bush Administration expected serious civil unrest with the recent economic collapse. There must definitely have been fear of civilian “terror” – surpassing the fear of the terror in Iraq. The news article says that this home-based active army “…may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack.”
What is really scary is the announcement that this active army on home soil is going to be a permanent feature. After this initial 12 months of the 1st Brigade Combat Team’s active duty on home soil, it is expected that “another, as yet unnamed, active-duty brigade will take over and that the mission will be a permanent one.”
America is moving towards a dictatorship regime with unprecedented speed. Everything is in place. With Bush’s signing of the “John Warner National Defense Authorization Act”, the president can declare Martial Law at a whim – he merely has to announce that there is some civil unrest and viola!, we have Dictator Mr. President.
Bible prophecy is occurring before our very eyes. The lamb is starting to speak like the dragon.
Here are two YouTube-videos to get you thinking...
4 comments:
Correct me if I'm wrong but the martial law act you're talking about passed at the end of 2006 and was only for the fiscal year of 2007. The complete name of the act is the "John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007".
Also, after reading the armytimes article I see it as innocuous and considering the times we live in where the FBI issued a warning today of suicide bombers at federal buildings, I think having an army brigade on hand isn't such a bad idea.
Everybody on the left has been screaming at Bush to secure our homeland first and provide for us at home first instead of in Iraq, but the moment he does something like this they miscontrue it to be ominous and self-aggrandizing.
Bush has three months left in the White House. Do you honestly think he will refuse to leave and try to be a dictator?
Nah, I don't think Bush will stay in office to be a dictator. I do, however, think that he is creating a system that can make it easy for a dictator to arise.
I agree with that... I think Obama will be the next president. Watch what happens to people who speak out against him. Right now, there are people already being silenced by Obama's campaign through legal threats.
Yes, it doesn't matter if the next president is a Democrat or a Republican, the system will be in place. And any president under strain (be it natural disasters, another 9/11 incident, etc) will be tempted to use the authoritarian powers available to him.
I'm curious to see if Obama (if he becomes president) will lift the powers Bush had given the president. Honestly, I doubt it. "Power corrupts" and people are very lax at giving up control once they have it.
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