Thursday, October 9, 2008

It Can Happen Here

Administration cronies threatened martial law if Congress refused to pass the fascist Wall Street bailout. Think it can't happen? Martial law can be declared at the President's whim for practically any reason. Even now, America is a surveillance state, law enforcement is being federalized and militarized, and the military is policing the American people. Up to 8 million Americans are listed as subversives who can be detained under the slightest pretenses during a national emergency. (I would be insulted if my name were not included in this database already).



Historically, communism and fascism were embraced during economic crises. During the Great Depression, the Business Plot was a conspiracy by wealthy businessmen to establish a fascist dictatorship in the United States. Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler publicly revealed in 1934 that he had been recruited to lead the military coup—a claim later supported by a congressional investigation...

"It can't happen here," you might say. "Our government would never do something like that."

They already have! In addition well-known atrocities like Waco and the Kent State shootings, the U.S. government has long treated citizens like lab rats. Between 1910 and 2000, more than 20,000 secret tests were carried out against the American people. Many “subjects” died or lived to endure excruciating health problems. In the infamous Tuskegee Experiment, 399 poor black men were denied treatments for syphilis so that government scientists could study how the disease spreads and kills. The Pentagon has carried out secret radiation tests on thousands of non-consenting patients, including institutionalized children and pregnant wives of GI’s. Military personnel were used as guinea pigs in hundreds of atomic and hydrogen bomb tests. In 1968, the Pentagon tested a deadly bioweapon in the New York subway system. Prisons inmates are forced to participate in medical experiments. At least two-thirds of foster children take a cocktail of psychosopic drugs. From 1951–1961, the U.S. Army paid Israel’s health ministry to conduct radiation testing on sephardic children.

Of course, nobody can predict where the crisis will lead. As Michael S. Rozeff writes, "There are too many variables and too many scenarios, and there is no theory that comprehends the totality of reality." I'm just saying that a slide from soft tyranny to hard tyranny is a real possibility.

One thing is for certain: It won't happen without a fight. There are too many Americans who cling to archaic notions like peace and liberty, including radicals on both the Right (gun nuts, constitutionalists, Texans, Ron Paul supporters), and the Left (the ACLU and antiwar activists).

If it becomes necessary to kick it old school, which side will you take?

"People should not fear their government. Their government should fear the people." -V for Vendetta

Hat tip to Alex Jones, LRC, and a bunch of other people.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks to Alex Jones for his brillian documentary "End Game".

Any anyone tell me where I can verify the radiation testing on Sephardic children from 1951 to 1961 by the the U.S. Army ?

Can't find anything online.

thanks,
dPQ