A NEW WORLD ORDER
Two disturbing developments have occurred in the last couple of days that have gone relatively unnoticed compared to the recent IRS, AP, and Benghazi scandals.
First, the senate is debating an expansion of
the already broad powers of the 2001 Authorization to Use Military
Force (AUMF) so the U.S. can essentially engage any area in the world in
the war on terror, including America. Which brings us to the second
development: the Pentagon has recently granted itself police powers on
American soil.
Assistant
Secretary of Defense Michael Sheehan told Congress yesterday that the
AUMF authorized the US military to operate on a worldwide battlefield
from Boston to Pakistan. Sheehan emphasized that the Administration is
authorized to put boots on the ground wherever the enemy chooses to base
themselves, essentially ignoring the declaration of war clause in the
US Constitution.
Senator
Angus King said this interpretation of the AUMF is a "nullity" to the
Constitution because it ignores Congress' role to declare war. King
called it the "most astoundingly disturbing hearing" he's been to in the
Senate.
Even ultra-hawk John McCain agreed that the AUMF has gone way beyond its authority.
"This
authority ... has grown way out of proportion and is no longer
applicable to the conditions that prevailed, that motivated the United
States Congress to pass the authorization for the use of military force
that we did in 2001," McCain said.
Glenn
Greenwald wrote an excellent piece describing how this hearing reveals
the not-so-secret plan to make the war on terror a permanent fixture in
Western society.
Greenwald writes:
It is hard to resist the conclusion that this war has no purpose other than its own eternal perpetuation. This war is not a means to any end but rather is the end in itself. Not only is it the end itself, but it is also its own fuel: it is precisely this endless war - justified in the name of stopping the threat of terrorism - that is the single greatest cause of that threat.
A
self-perpetuating permanent war against a shadowy undefinable enemy
appears to be the future of American foreign policy. How convenient for
the war machine and tyrants who claim surveillance is safety.
But
perhaps most disturbing of all of this is the military's authority to
police American streets as if it was in civil war. For all those still
in denial that America is a militarized police state, this should be the
ultimate cure to your delusion.
Jeff Morey of AlterNet writes:
By making a few subtle changes to a regulation in the U.S. Code titled “Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies” the military has quietly granted itself the ability to police the streets without obtaining prior local or state consent, upending a precedent that has been in place for more than two centuries.
The most objectionable aspect of the regulatory change is the inclusion of vague language that permits military intervention in the event of “civil disturbances.” According to the rule: “Federal military commanders have the authority, in extraordinary emergency circumstances where prior authorization by the President is impossible and duly constituted local authorities are unable to control the situation, to engage temporarily in activities that are necessary to quell large-scale, unexpected civil disturbances.”
A law from 1878 called the Posse Comitatus Act was
put in place to prevent the Department of Defense from interfering with
local law enforcement. But now, the DoD claims they've had this
authority for over 100 years.
"The
authorization has been around over 100 years; it’s not a new authority.
It’s been there but it hasn’t been exercised. This is a carryover of
domestic policy," said an unnamed defense official who also emphasized
that all soldiers take an oath to defend the Constitution against all
enemies "foreign and domestic" indicating that citizens are a threat to
the Constitution.
Yet,
the Constitution is a document that polices the government, not the
people. In other words, the only people who can be "enemies" of the
Constitution are those who took an oath to defend it. Therefore, only
government officials can be an enemy the Constitution.
This follows a recent West Point study that
sought to define the American people as "domestic enemies" in order to
justify soldiers breaking their oath to corral pesky citizens.
The
West Point Terrorism Center wrote that "conspiracy theorists" who worry
that local law enforcement will be steadily replaced by
federally-controlled law enforcement could potentially be a domestic
enemy:
Some groups are driven by a strong conviction that the American political system and its proxies were hijacked by external forces interested in promoting a “New World Order,” (NWO) in which the United States will be embedded in the UN or another version of global government. The NWO will be advanced, they believe, via steady transition of powers from local to federal law-enforcement agencies, i.e., the transformation of local police and law-enforcement agencies into a federally controlled “National Police” agency that will in turn merge with a “Multi-National Peace Keeping Force.” The latter deployment on US soil will be justified via a domestic campaign implemented by interested parties that will emphasize American society’s deficiencies and US government incompetency.
So,
as the US military claims to have the authority to be a "National
Police" force, researchers who claim there is an agenda to do just that
are now labeled as domestic terrorists?
Does
this make any sense? Will oath takers see through these ridiculous
interpretations and engage the real domestic enemy to the Constitution?
Or will they just follow orders when the time comes to crack down on
Americans?
No comments:
Post a Comment