A new governor, for the new America.
Posted on 12/28/2010 3:42:00 AM PST by Scanian
What does any would-be tyrant need in order to gain control over the lives of citizens? Three things come to mind: martial law, socialized medicine, and food dependency.
In at least two of these categories, President Obama has already succeeded.
Martial Law
By way of executive proclamation, President Obama has secured for himself the power to declare martial law in the event of a national "emergency," real or contrived, and without the accountability typically required by the Posse Comitatus Act and the Nation Emergencies Act of 1976.
This is the legacy of the "conservative" Bush administration. National emergencies have now been transformed into power-grabbing devices thanks to the virtually unnoticed National Security Presidential Directive (NSPD) 51.
NSPD 51 empowers the president to co-opt all state and local government authority in the event that he declares a national emergency. This is a self-declared power not subjugated to the National Emergencies Act of 1976 as in previous directives.
President Obama quickly went beyond NSPD 51, signing an order creating a "Council of Governors" who would be put in charge of declaring martial law. The directive is in direct violation of Posse Comitatus and the Insurrection Act. This "Council of Governors" answers only to President Obama.
In October of last year, President Obama declared a national emergency in the midst of the much-hyped swine flu crisis. This declaration was largely overlooked. By combining his October declaration with the provisions of NSPD 51, President Obama can now be considered virtually uninhibited by Congress and free to flip the switch at any moment.
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Obama can find a pretext to declare a real emergency. And who will object?
Now he just needs to find one.
Shoot, he might use the snowstorm as such a “crisis.”
If he considered using swine flu, anything is possible.
I hope he does, the sooner the better.
Our Founders fled England under much less severe pretenses, and here we are just taking what Bamster has to shovel into our arses. We just keep bending over and letting him shovel (spade sideways) until we’re full of his “love.”
I won’t be the first to cast a stone, but I’ll join in the melee once it begins. Do we have any Washingtons among us? Jefferson? Madison?
He has to be stopped.
didn’t most of those governors just get replaced???
I'm confident his "love" will be repaid in kind, as necessary.
A new governor, for the new America.
I’m sure the “elites” will have plenty of food...
and the rest of us have plenty of ammo.
Just sayin’
Just sayin’
LOL! You weren't by any chance suggesting what some of the cowboys/gangsters of ol' used to say are you? "I'll make them eat lead!"
Just sayin'
Just making some observations...
the “elites” never seem to be deprived of anything that the state restricts to the “peasants”.
But these peasants seem to be in possession of more effective means than pitchforks.
Agreed, but through manipulation of the food and energy supplies, and subsequent and inevitable civil disobedience by the oppressed, would not a majority of Americans be begging for martial law to restore the tranquility and basic needs of the society? My life's observation indicates few Americans have the skills, knowledge, and fortitude to act as an oath keeper or ten percenter. Most would choose survival by servitude.
People in the large Metropolitan areas will be easy to control. If you are up in the mountains or out in a rural area and have a good supply of food you will be able to obtain additional food by growing it yourself or getting it from the local small farmers. Not to mention people in the rural areas are not so easy to push around and right about now they are real PO’D.
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