They Hate Us Because Of Our Freedom!

by Mariella Konings


Before 9-11, he regularly ‘joked’ about it. Being Governor of Texas, he quipped in July 1998: “You don’t get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier.” (1)

He made a similar joke in a speech on Capitol Hill in December 2000, after the voting irregularities during the presidential elections had thrown the nation into turmoil: “If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.” (1) (2)

And then he said it again, in Business Week in July, 2001, this time as the president of the USA: “A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.” (1) (3)

But after September 11, 2001, it became all too clear that president Bush had, in fact, been serious. Meanwhile, it has been 7 years since the day Bush and his crime syndicate were let into the White House, and countless scandals of epic proportions have blighted the presidency since. “From Abramoff to Abu Ghraib to Alberto Gonzales, and those are just the scandals filed under ‘A’...,” US Weekly editor in chief Janice Min sighed recently. (4)

While the massmedia, who have been conveniently ignoring the scandals of the Bush crime syndicate for years, is trying to focus the attention of the public on the next presidential elections in November 2008, the Bush administration must not be perceived as ‘irrelevant’. Neither must it be assumed that they will just sit back and quietly ride out the last year of the Bush presidency.

For the Bush administration has silently been preparing for the overthrow of the US constitutional republic on paper, scheming to abolish the Constitution and dismiss Congress, replacing it with a form of military dictatorship. While these new ‘laws’ have for the most part not been enforced, they could be, if an adequate opportunity arises.

Currently, the risk that the Bush crime syndicate will step forth and boldy declare Martial Law in the US between now and November 2008 is currently a real and present danger. If that happens, the ‘biggest democracy in the world’ will transform into an open military dictatorship, much the same way Germany, then the ‘biggest democracy in the world’ was transformed into a military dictatorship some 60 years ago when Hitler got elected to the highest position and transformed into a ruthless dictator. Only this time it will look and feel like a technologically superior, multicolor version of that ‘darkest chapter’ in human history.

And while the massmedia have steadily ignored this descent into fascism, the alternative media on the internet have been buzzing for years about the upcoming Martial Law. Currently many are sounding the alarm on the internet. Amongst them is a growing number of democratic and republican politicians, veteran journalists, military men, (former) CIA employees, celebrities, industrial leaders, diplomats and human rights activists. Their tone has been frantic for over a year, but as of the last months their tone has reached a feverish pitch, a clear indication of their rising level of panic.

They are screaming their warnings to who ever will listen and their words deserve being repeated over and over again, untill the truth sinks in. The American people must impeach Bush and Cheney now, before it’s too late.

Enter The American Dictatorship

Since Bush came to power in 2001, there has been a significant rise in the appearance of phrases like ‘big brother,’ ‘police state’ and ‘dictatorship’ in the headlines of the mass media, when referring to the national and international policies of the Bush administration.

But US politicians also began using these terms. Among the first to do so were members of Congress Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga) and Ron Paul (R-Tex). On July 29, 2002, Cynthia McKinney warned the House Armed Services Committee against the use of the military to enforce the law on citizens ‘for their own security.’ “The military has an appropriate role in protecting the United States from foreign threats,” McKinney said, “and should remain dedicated to preparing for those threats. Domestic uses of the military have long been prohibited for good reason, and the same should continue to apply to all military functions, especially any and all military intelligence and surveillance. Congress and the Administration must be increasingly vigilant towards the protection of and adherence to our constitutional rights and privileges. For, if we win the war on terrorism, but create a police state in the process, what have we won?” (5)

While McKinney, a black woman who was one of the most popular figureheads of the early 9-11 truth movement, saw her promising political career destroyed, Ron Paul steadily kept warning the Americans about the ongoing attempts to replace the existing laws and regulations with more authoritarian and repressive legislature, resulting in a police state. As Ron Paul commented in 2004: “Those who believe a police state can't happen here are poor students of history. Every government, democratic or not, is capable of tyranny. We must understand this if we hope to remain a free people.” (6)

After 9-11 happened, the Bush administration came down with the PATRIOT Act. Soon the effects became noticable, as the rights given to the American citizens by the Founding Fathers were taken away by the Bush and his cronies. All citizens were subjected to wiretapping and surveillance, and had all their personal information stored while the government began drawing up lists with ‘suspects’ of ‘terrorist activity,’ including membership of Greenpeace and Amnesty International, criticizing the president and citing from the Constitution. Citizens homes could now be entered by police without a searchwarrant while incidences of policebrutality shot up, as did the number of deaths caused by tazers. The US was transforming into an open police state.

In 2005, former CIA official and former Republican Congressman Bob Barr commented to Alex Jones: “Basically, as long as you smile when you demand to see somebody's ID at gunpoint sitting on a bus I guess it's OK for the government, that's sort of the way they operate. It can be a totalitarian type regime. I think it's a real danger where we have the military becoming involved in all sorts of domestic matters and we have the government being able to seize very private personal records on people without any suspicion that they've done anything wrong. This is a dramatic turn of events that has accelerated greatly since 9/11.” (7)

Barr also stated: “Even when the leaders in Washington say we're not going to let the terrorists change our way of life, they are implementing policies that do precisely that.” (7)

Democratic US Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) on September 29, 2006, as recorded the Congression Records: “Using the military for law enforcement goes against one of the founding tenets of our democracy.” (8)

One sentence uttered by former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor sent a shudder through the nation. Sandra Day O’Connor (1930), a staunch Republican and appointed by Reagan to the Supreme Court, surprised everybody by retiring from her job for life in 2006. Not long after, she held a televized speech in front of an audience of lawyers at the Georgetown University. In that, she stated this warning: “It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings.” (9) (10) (11)

US Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Ca) too uttered a dire warning on television on the direction the Bush administration was taking America. In an interview on the Ed Schultz Show on July 12, 2007, Senator Boxer said: “They are ignoring the Congress. They keep signing these signing statements which mean that he's decided not to enforce the law. This is as close as we've ever come to a dictatorship.” (12)


Coming Soon To Your Doorstep: Martial Law

At this moment in time, there are still too many legal obstacles in the way of the open implementation of an open military dictatorship in the US by the Military-Industrial-Financial Industry. Obnoxious little things, like Congress, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

However, the Founding Fathers that drew up the Constitution and improved it with the Billl of Rights, formulated their political system specifically so that a potential dictator elected fairly could not distort the law in such a way that the constitutional republic could be replaced by a totalitarian regime. Thus they ensured the American government would always be for the people, through the people and by the people. The Founding Fathers even gave the American citizen the constitutional right to protect themselves from the ‘tyranny of the government’ through the 2nd Amendement, which gives the citizen the right to legally own and bear a gun specifically to defend themselves against a tyrannical government.

But citizens can be persuaded to give up their rights. Citizens will give up their rights when they believe they are threatened. But first they must be convinced that giving up their liberty will give them security. In the years after 9-11 many people were scared into believing Osama and al-Qaeda threatened their lives and liberty. However, as the years passed more and more people felt the threat was exaggerated, and began to object more and more into the gross intrusions into their private lives and the blatantly illegal methods the government was using in the international War on Terror. As a result, the Bush administration became more secretive, in particular while adapting the existing laws to fit their needs.

On February 19, 2007, The New York Times devoted an editorial comment to the secrecy of the Bush administration while altering the basic principles of the American political system to make it more fit for a military take-over: “A disturbing recent phenomenom in Washington is that laws that strike to the heart of American democracy have been passed in the dead of night. So it was with a provision quietly tucked into the enormous defense budget bill at the Bush administration’s behest that makes it easier for a president to override local control of law enforcement and declare martial law.” (13)

Martial Law in the modern US society had been a subject that had been raised several times in the decades before. One of the first to confirm such measures were in place was crime boss Frank Carlucci, a close associate of the Bush crime syndicate, in 1981, the year he went from deputy director of the CIA to deputy secretary of defense under Reagan. Carlucci, who would grow out to a significant player in the Iran/Contra Affair and who was tied to the Carlyle Company on 9-11, wrote in a National Security Council Directive in 1981: “Normally a state of martial law will be proclaimed by the President. However in the absence of such action by the President, a senior military commander may impose martial law in an area of his command where there had been a complete breakdown in the exercise of government functions by local authorities.” (14)

Almost 20 years later, General Tommy Franks speculated that Martial Law could indeed take place as a “worst case scenario” in the US. Franks, who led the military operation Enduring Freedom into Iraq in the spring of 2003, spoke of Martial Law in an interview in the December 2003 edition of ‘Cigar Afficionado’ and suggested it could be implemented after terrorists had WMD and used it against the US. If that would happen, said General Franks in the interview: “the Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy (...) It means the potential of a weapon of mass destruction and a terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event somewhere in the Western world – it may be in the United States of America – that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event. Which in fact, then begins to unravel the fabric of our Constitution. Two steps, very, very important.” (15)

‘Nightline’ aired a show on April 7, 2004, titled “The Armageddon Plan”. In this show, studioguests discussed a terror attack that would – amongst other dramatic things – flatten the US Congress. If that happened, host Ted Koppel speculated to guest Kenneth Duberstein, former White House Chief of Staff under Reagan, “Aren’t we left for at least the forseeable future with some sort of martial law anyway?” Duberstein: “You have to suspend rights.” Koppel: “And during that period (...) the executive branch of government takes on extraordinary power doesn’t it?” Richard Clarke, security czar of Bush 43: “I think in any war where Washington were destroyed, inevitably, there would be a period of, for lack of a better term, something like martial law.” (16)

Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tx) expressed his astonishment about the determination to consider imposing Martial Law in an interview with Alex Jones on October 11, 2005: “... they're willing to change the law and turn it into a military state? That is unbelievable! They're determined to have martial law.” (17)

The proclamation of Martial Law will coincide with the dissolving of Congress and the Supreme Court, and the abolisment of the Constitution, while the president will take full control of government and the military.
Political author James Bovard, writing for the American Conservative in April 2007, states it very clearly: “‘Martial law’ is a euphemism for military dictatorship (...) ‘Martial law’ means obey soldiers’ commands or be shot.” (8)

The only voice within American politics who has consistently warned the people throughout the years is Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tx). Exposing the secrecy in which the PATRIOT Act was passed in 2001, the only critic of the illegal invasion of Iraq, Ron Paul has been steadily passing warnings about the Bush crime syndicate. In an interview with Alex Jones on November 24, 2005, he said: “They're putting their back up against the wall and saying, if need be we're going to have martial law. We've heard all these statements by the President, by the administration, why they need more militarism at the federal government to keep people in check so nobody knows how this will turn out but I do know that the only thing we can do about it is try to alert the American people to what's going on so they can be prepared.” (18)

In the 1980’s, the Reagan administration began implementing in writ new potential reasons for imposing Martial Law upon the unsuspecting nation. The infamous Luitenant Colonel Oliver North, who would after aqquire worldfame as a major drugssmuggler in the Iran/Contra affair, worked for the NSA and got involved in the plan for “REX 84”. REX 84 was a scenario in which Martial Law would be the kickstart of rounding up tens of thousands of citizens, in particular Afro-American citizens, and place them in ‘relocation camps’. North expanded the requirements for Martial Law to include ‘public unrest’, but the plan was aborted after the Miami Herald leaked the existence of REX 84.
In the years after, reasons to impose Martial Law continued to be added, including natural disasters like storms and floods. Natural disasters were also used as a reason to abolish the Posse Comitatus, the law that prevents the military from being used on American soil and that prohibits the use of the military for civillian law enforcement.

Former Republican Congressman, former CIA official Bob Barr spoke out against using natural disasters for abolishing the Posse Comitatus: “If we have the military involved whenever there's a windstorm, rain or tornado then what we are doing is that we are undermining the entire basis on what our constitutional representative democratic form of government was founded.” (7)

Ron Paul in an interview with Alex Jones on October 11, 2005: “To me it's so strange that the President can make these proposals and it's even plausible,” Congressman Ron Paul said, “When he talks about martial law dealing with some epidemic that might come later on and having forced quarantines, doing away with Posse Comitatus in order to deal with natural disasters, and hardly anybody says anything. People must be scared to death.” (17)

US Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) uttered a stern warning on September 19, 2006: “We certainly do not need to make it easier for Presidents to declare martial law.” (8)

One of the most vocal critics of the Iraq War, Cindy Sheehan, has also turned her message towards warning of the impending military takeover threatening the US. Sheehan, who turned a peace activist after her son was killed in Iraq announced after years of campaiging that she was stepping down because of her great disillusionment.
However, a few months later she was back with a vengeance. And this time, Cindy Sheehan talked about government staged terror attacks being used by the Bush administration to impose Martial Law. In interview on the Alex Jones Show on July 12, 2007 she said: “I definitely think that is a distinct possibility, that there will be some kind of attack whether it's manufactured or real....I think it's really possible that these people will do that - why would he put in that presidential directive if he didn't need to use it - I think it's really really frightening (...) Does anybody think that [Bush's] recent presidential decision directive wasn't for declaring martial law and suspending elections? That's why they have to be stopped.” (19)


If Martial Law will be imposed it will be between now and November 2008. When it happens, it will be too late to take action. Therefor Bush and Cheney have to be impeached or committed to an insane asylum NOW. Otherwise they might assume full dictatorial power the way Hitler did after the burning of the Reichstag, and launch World War III afterall...



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