by smiths » Tue Sep 13, 2005 5:05 am
everyone fears the worst in relation to katrina, the non-existent emergency managment and the ramifications,<br>and probably quite rightly,<br>certainly it is impossible to explain the us govt. response as merely incompetent, even criminally negligent doesnt really get close,<br>and everyone around here is well aware of 'posse comitatus' and the excuse that seems to have been created to create military rule,<br><br>so i put to you these articles for consideration, please read<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts09122005.html">www.counterpunch.org/robe...22005.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>"Lawlessness, the eruption of which was guaranteed by delayed relief, provides cover both for martial law, which suspends constitutional protections, and for the confiscation of legally owned private firearms in violation of the Second Amendment to the US Constitution.<br><snip><br>Many readers see a concocted militarization of civil society. They insist that these new precedents, together with the recent federal appeals court ruling that the White House has the power to seize American citizens and to hold them indefinitely on mere suspicion or accusation without charges or presentation of evidence against them, mean the overthrow of liberty and accountable government in the United States."<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/sep2005/hon-s13.shtml">www.wsws.org/articles/200...-s13.shtml</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>"As head of the military’s Task Force Katrina, Honore played a principal role in engineering an intervention that delayed any significant aid to the tens of thousands of people left without water, food, shelter or medical assistance during those first horrific four days.<br><br>His agenda was that of the Pentagon, which ordered the city sealed—no relief in, no evacuees out—until the military could intervene with overwhelming force to impose law and order and defend private property. He acted on the basis of plans and doctrines designed not for relief of human suffering, but suppression of civil unrest. The result was many more needless deaths. All this is conveniently forgotten in the media’s lionizing of the “take-charge” general.<br><snip><br>It is no surprise that someone who believes that racism has deprived Africans of the kind of “help” that Washington has bestowed upon the Iraqis would find in the military and a “barking” general the solution to the profound social crisis revealed by the Hurricane Katrina disaster.<br><br>She is hardly alone, however. If anything, a piece entitled “‘Man of Action’ What City Needed,” released Sunday by the Associated Press, was even more explicit. “To troops, he’s the ‘Ragin’ Cajun,’ an affable but demanding general barking orders to resuscitate a drowning city,” the article declared. “To his country, he’s an icon of leadership in a land hungry for a leader after a hurricane exposed the nation’s vulnerability to disasters.”<br><br>The content of these articles is both ridiculous and ominous. It would seem that those who seek to shape public opinion in America are promoting the idea that the country’s immense problems—and its “hunger for a leader”—may be answered by the rise of a military man on horseback"<br><br>and i have posted this before and know that many will be familiar but cant help feel its worth reposting,<br>written in 1992, fortelling of a time when the military would be seen as the only power with credibility and an ability to get things done<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/1992/dunlap.htm">carlisle-www.army.mil/usa...dunlap.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>"It wasn't too long before 21st-century legislators were calling for more military involvement in police work.[26] Crime seemed out of control. Most disturbing, the incidence of violent crime continued to climb.[27] Americans were horrified and desperate: a third even believed vigilantism could be justified.[28] Rising lawlessness was seen as but another example of the civilian political leadership's inability to fulfill government's most basic duty to ensure public safety.[29] People once again wanted the military to help."<br><br>it is happening is it not?<br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>
