The Democrats and the Leftists decry the Republicans for blocking every bill that Obama puts forward. The Progressives and the Libertarians add their voices for a Halleluiah Chorus. All of these people are yelling and screaming about the partisan politics of the Republicans when, in fact, Obama is continuing the same practices and policies of the previous administration–and expanding others. Obama is protecting the same interests that the Republicans endorse–including finance reform. For Obama’s voting record, from the time he was an Illinois Senator through his government career, shows that he will vote for bills the populace supports if he knows they will be defeated and, thus, he comes out the hero. He will also vote against policies the people do not like when he knows they will pass. Again: the people’s hero. He sold out on his medical insurance reform to the benefit of the insurance companies that helped elect him. He is putting forth a finance reform package because he knows it will be defeated. (I have written on this tendency of Obama’s this before but I was by no means the first. See “All aboard the hope train: Bandwagon politics,” http://www.counterpunch.org/secor09062008.html.)
People seem to be of the opinion that all the Republicans want is to regain power. So, it would seem that the only reason for the Republicans’ behavior is greed and power. Pure and simple. But I think this is too simple. There is more. The Tea Baggers are a lead-in, kind of like a movie trailer.
The Republicans are playing for higher stakes than just being nay-sayers. Not just power and greed drive the Republicans but total control. The present Congressional partisanship is just a step in the right direction (no pun intended). What is important in this move to take over the country is the general unrest in the population, the Tea Baggers included– even though the Tea Baggers are, more or less, on the Republicans’ side. Indeed, as the Leftist horde are not much into creating disturbances, the Tea Baggers are the Republicans’ greatest asset and, so, they are being coddled and encouraged in their disregard for peace and civic responsibility. The Tea Baggers will shout, as those who voted for Obama, disappointment and, more, traitor in the end. (Even the NRA will be disappointed, betrayed.) And this is just what the Republicans want.
Why?
Because when the Republicans regain power, they will have to crack down on civil disobedience and general unrest in order to bring about a peaceful society. There will be increased unrest amongst the unemployed, those losing their homes and living on the street, people without food–you name it, even wills of god. There will be more shootings (terrorism). There will be lootings. There will be angry protests. This kind of civil unrest will have to be quelled in the name of peace and orderliness. So, once the Republicans get back in power, they will institute with a vengeance all of the right wing dictatorial powers they’ve been working on since 9/11 to control the “mob.” And they will manage this solution to all of these problems by maintaining they have arisen solely due to the policies of President Obama. Obama is their fall guy. The people, having short term memory loss and no sense of history, will agree. They will already be complaining bitterly and so used to hearing that it’s all Obama’s fault for their condition that enacting such draconian measures will be logically enacted. Because, after all, a peaceful society is a prerequisite to a comfortable society: everyone must obey the law. Crimes are already on the rise, so it only stands to reason (see http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov).
There are already 15,000+ troops–not counting the National Guard and the Reserves–illegally housed in the United States for crowd control and other policing activities, which is the reason they were stationed in the country in the first place– counter to the posse comitatus (18 U.S.C. ยง 1385; see www.dojgov.net/posse_comitatus_act.htm). Notice that the right and Homeland Security are maintaining just the opposite, that posse comitatus is a myth (www.homelandsecurity.org/journal/articles/trebilcock.htm). If you shout something loud enough and long enough people will begin to believe it. The Republicans have thus prepared the way for this resort to crowd control. Indeed, round-up operations have routinely been initiated over the past several years right under our noses, hiding the illegal activity behind the smoke screen of the victims being social undesirables. Via the mercenary companies, the military have been used for policing activities (New Orleans) with disastrous but successful results. Despite the occasional outcry against these tactics of containment, nothing was ever done about curbing such activity. The Army has even been called in to contain oil! As this hits land, this will entail controlling people as well.
This means: martial law. This means: dictatorship. This means: tyranny. And this insures total power and control. This means the Republican right win owns you and will abuse you. And if you don’t like it, they will kill you. No one will be able to stop them. No one will be able to stop them because the great majority of the populace is apathetic. The Left is ineffective, caught up in the web of useless actions, as outlined by Paul Goodman 40 years ago. They, and most other “activists,” are more interested in writing about their discontent than in doing anything about it. Most of them are the disaffected middle and upper-middle classes. They are thus helping themselves to that which they abhor and shout about–you can’t have rabble rousers running loose instigating upheavals against the government, now can you?
Remember, it only took four dead in Ohio to squelch the entire anti-war movement during Nixon’s run at total dominance: the National Guard shot at its own people. Innocent people, like the People’s Army shot at their own people at Tiananmen Square. Since the 90′s in the US, all stops have been pulled out in crowd control, such that the police is become a paramilitary force utilizing weaponry that is internationally illegal when used by the military. They use such non-lethal weaponry as tazers, gas/chemicals, air burst canons, rubber bullets, pepperballs, bean bag flexible baton rounds, the Active Denial System of microwaves, infra- and ultra-sound bursts, rubber bullets with electroshock effect, the Variable Volicity System of propulsion energy, “flashbang” (stun) and “sting” grenades. . .and the paramilitary attackers advance under armor–body armor and vehicle armore. Such activity looks similar to the regimes to be found in such enlightened countries as Burma and China and Colombia and Central America and Russia and Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine.
In this manner, the Marxists will be happy, for everyone will be equal except those at the top, the leaders. As it is in any Marxist-founded country. If people dare to open their mouths, they will be jailed or–much more economical–killed. This is not just true historically, it is true at this moment.
Thus, while we are bitching at the immediate tactics of the Republicans, we are missing the bigger picture. We are aiding and abetting our subjugation by not paying attention, by not seeing beyond the ends of our noses. In fact, it doesn’t matter whether the Republicans are in power, as far as we the people are concerned, as the troops are there for the Democrats to use as well. All it takes is the arbitrary decision to call a national emergency by the President. Congress (the people’s representative) has abrogated all power to the President.
I hope I am wrong but the military coup has already happened and nobody raised cane. The great majority of the populace is submissive, only ever shouting about it, never doing anything about it in the name of preserving their comfort. Already the government police forces engage in surveillance, secret police and intimidation. It’s legal to assassinate US citizens, much less jail them for suspicion. Meanwhile, the media passes off the stationing of the military on US soil for crowd control and policing as a good and necessary thing for our protection. Like the Republican and Democratic National Conventions and the use of 1500 Army troops stationed all around the Inaugural Ceremonies. Look up: helicopters are constantly buzzing around our skies, high flying jets and satellites are taking our pictures and drones are being used. We have already seen how these troops contain and control people in Iraq and Afghanistan. . .
Advertisement
Like this:
Be the first to like this post.
Tags: criticism, democrats, martial law, obama, republicans
This entry was posted on May 14, 2010 at 12:59 am and is filed under commentary. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
The Plan
The Democrats and the Leftists decry the Republicans for blocking every bill that Obama puts forward. The Progressives and the Libertarians add their voices for a Halleluiah Chorus. All of these people are yelling and screaming about the partisan politics of the Republicans when, in fact, Obama is continuing the same practices and policies of the previous administration–and expanding others. Obama is protecting the same interests that the Republicans endorse–including finance reform. For Obama’s voting record, from the time he was an Illinois Senator through his government career, shows that he will vote for bills the populace supports if he knows they will be defeated and, thus, he comes out the hero. He will also vote against policies the people do not like when he knows they will pass. Again: the people’s hero. He sold out on his medical insurance reform to the benefit of the insurance companies that helped elect him. He is putting forth a finance reform package because he knows it will be defeated. (I have written on this tendency of Obama’s this before but I was by no means the first. See “All aboard the hope train: Bandwagon politics,” http://www.counterpunch.org/secor09062008.html.)
People seem to be of the opinion that all the Republicans want is to regain power. So, it would seem that the only reason for the Republicans’ behavior is greed and power. Pure and simple. But I think this is too simple. There is more. The Tea Baggers are a lead-in, kind of like a movie trailer.
The Republicans are playing for higher stakes than just being nay-sayers. Not just power and greed drive the Republicans but total control. The present Congressional partisanship is just a step in the right direction (no pun intended). What is important in this move to take over the country is the general unrest in the population, the Tea Baggers included– even though the Tea Baggers are, more or less, on the Republicans’ side. Indeed, as the Leftist horde are not much into creating disturbances, the Tea Baggers are the Republicans’ greatest asset and, so, they are being coddled and encouraged in their disregard for peace and civic responsibility. The Tea Baggers will shout, as those who voted for Obama, disappointment and, more, traitor in the end. (Even the NRA will be disappointed, betrayed.) And this is just what the Republicans want.
Why?
Because when the Republicans regain power, they will have to crack down on civil disobedience and general unrest in order to bring about a peaceful society. There will be increased unrest amongst the unemployed, those losing their homes and living on the street, people without food–you name it, even wills of god. There will be more shootings (terrorism). There will be lootings. There will be angry protests. This kind of civil unrest will have to be quelled in the name of peace and orderliness. So, once the Republicans get back in power, they will institute with a vengeance all of the right wing dictatorial powers they’ve been working on since 9/11 to control the “mob.” And they will manage this solution to all of these problems by maintaining they have arisen solely due to the policies of President Obama. Obama is their fall guy. The people, having short term memory loss and no sense of history, will agree. They will already be complaining bitterly and so used to hearing that it’s all Obama’s fault for their condition that enacting such draconian measures will be logically enacted. Because, after all, a peaceful society is a prerequisite to a comfortable society: everyone must obey the law. Crimes are already on the rise, so it only stands to reason (see http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov).
There are already 15,000+ troops–not counting the National Guard and the Reserves–illegally housed in the United States for crowd control and other policing activities, which is the reason they were stationed in the country in the first place– counter to the posse comitatus (18 U.S.C. ยง 1385; see www.dojgov.net/posse_comitatus_act.htm). Notice that the right and Homeland Security are maintaining just the opposite, that posse comitatus is a myth (www.homelandsecurity.org/journal/articles/trebilcock.htm). If you shout something loud enough and long enough people will begin to believe it. The Republicans have thus prepared the way for this resort to crowd control. Indeed, round-up operations have routinely been initiated over the past several years right under our noses, hiding the illegal activity behind the smoke screen of the victims being social undesirables. Via the mercenary companies, the military have been used for policing activities (New Orleans) with disastrous but successful results. Despite the occasional outcry against these tactics of containment, nothing was ever done about curbing such activity. The Army has even been called in to contain oil! As this hits land, this will entail controlling people as well.
This means: martial law. This means: dictatorship. This means: tyranny. And this insures total power and control. This means the Republican right win owns you and will abuse you. And if you don’t like it, they will kill you. No one will be able to stop them. No one will be able to stop them because the great majority of the populace is apathetic. The Left is ineffective, caught up in the web of useless actions, as outlined by Paul Goodman 40 years ago. They, and most other “activists,” are more interested in writing about their discontent than in doing anything about it. Most of them are the disaffected middle and upper-middle classes. They are thus helping themselves to that which they abhor and shout about–you can’t have rabble rousers running loose instigating upheavals against the government, now can you?
Remember, it only took four dead in Ohio to squelch the entire anti-war movement during Nixon’s run at total dominance: the National Guard shot at its own people. Innocent people, like the People’s Army shot at their own people at Tiananmen Square. Since the 90′s in the US, all stops have been pulled out in crowd control, such that the police is become a paramilitary force utilizing weaponry that is internationally illegal when used by the military. They use such non-lethal weaponry as tazers, gas/chemicals, air burst canons, rubber bullets, pepperballs, bean bag flexible baton rounds, the Active Denial System of microwaves, infra- and ultra-sound bursts, rubber bullets with electroshock effect, the Variable Volicity System of propulsion energy, “flashbang” (stun) and “sting” grenades. . .and the paramilitary attackers advance under armor–body armor and vehicle armore. Such activity looks similar to the regimes to be found in such enlightened countries as Burma and China and Colombia and Central America and Russia and Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine.
In this manner, the Marxists will be happy, for everyone will be equal except those at the top, the leaders. As it is in any Marxist-founded country. If people dare to open their mouths, they will be jailed or–much more economical–killed. This is not just true historically, it is true at this moment.
Thus, while we are bitching at the immediate tactics of the Republicans, we are missing the bigger picture. We are aiding and abetting our subjugation by not paying attention, by not seeing beyond the ends of our noses. In fact, it doesn’t matter whether the Republicans are in power, as far as we the people are concerned, as the troops are there for the Democrats to use as well. All it takes is the arbitrary decision to call a national emergency by the President. Congress (the people’s representative) has abrogated all power to the President.
I hope I am wrong but the military coup has already happened and nobody raised cane. The great majority of the populace is submissive, only ever shouting about it, never doing anything about it in the name of preserving their comfort. Already the government police forces engage in surveillance, secret police and intimidation. It’s legal to assassinate US citizens, much less jail them for suspicion. Meanwhile, the media passes off the stationing of the military on US soil for crowd control and policing as a good and necessary thing for our protection. Like the Republican and Democratic National Conventions and the use of 1500 Army troops stationed all around the Inaugural Ceremonies. Look up: helicopters are constantly buzzing around our skies, high flying jets and satellites are taking our pictures and drones are being used. We have already seen how these troops contain and control people in Iraq and Afghanistan. . .
Like this:
Tags: criticism, democrats, martial law, obama, republicans
This entry was posted on May 14, 2010 at 12:59 am and is filed under commentary. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.