Anticipating a Terrorist Attack on Congress

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Anticipating a Terrorist Attack on Congress

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Anticipating a Terrorist Attack on Congress

Mike Whitney

 

November 27, 2005

 

 

Will there be a terrorist attack on Congress?

 

The strategy to militarize the country is moving forward as planned

despite apparent setbacks in Iraq. As the Washington Post reported on

Nov. 27 the Dept of Defense is expanding its domestic surveillance

activity to allow Pentagon spies to track down and " investigate crimes

within the United States " .

 

An alarmed Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore) said, " We are deputizing the

military to spy on law-abiding Americans in America. This is a huge

leap without a congressional hearing " .

 

Is this the first time that the naïve Wyden realized that the war on

terror is actually directed at the American people?

 

The expanded powers of the Pentagon were presented in a proposal by a

presidential commission headed by Lawrence Silberman and former

Senator Charles Robb, two members of the Council on Foreign Relations

(CFR) and the 9-11 " whitewash " commission. The CFR, a 4,000 member

amalgam of elites from the military, industry and media, was the

driving force behind the Iraq war, as well as, enthusiastic advocates

of the national security state. Their recommendations will allow the

military to assume the traditional role of law enforcement and by

giving it the authority to " carry out domestic criminal investigations

and clandestine operations against potential threats inside the United

States " .

 

Oh, yeah; and the Pentagon will be involved in the " apprehension, or

detention of individuals suspected " of criminal offenses.

 

This is a giant step for removing dissidents and political enemies

while further militarizing the country.

 

So, why would there be a need for a terrorist attack on congress?

Isn't the master-plan for a military dictatorship moving along

according to schedule?

 

Yes and no.

 

The Patriot Act is up for renewal and will remove the last nettlesome

parts of the 4th amendment and any conceivable notion of personal

privacy. " Lone wolf " provisions in the new bill allow law enforcement

to investigate any American citizen, seizing whatever records they

want, without a shred of " probable cause " . The same is true of the

Act's NSS (National Security Letters) which permits the government to

sort through all of one's private records without legal defense or

oversight.

 

The " due process " provisions of the Bill of Rights has been summarily

removed by the 4th Circuit Court in its recent Jose Padilla ruling

which allows the president to arbitrarily imprison an American citizen

" indefinitely " without charging him with a crime. The long-standing

" presumption of innocence " , habeas corpus, and inalienable rights were

quietly rescinded without as much as a whimper from the American people.

 

At the same time Bush has put " a broad swath of the FBI " under his

direct control by creating the National Security Service (aka; the

" New SS " )? This is the first time we've had a " secret police " in our

200 year history. It will be run exclusively by the president and

beyond the range of congressional oversight.

 

Also, on October 27, 2005 Bush created the National Clandestine

Service, which will be headed by CIA Director Porter Goss and will

" expand reporting of information and intelligence value from state,

local and tribal law enforcement entities and private sector

stakeholders " ? This executive order gives the CIA the power to carry

out covert operations, spying, propaganda, and " dirty tricks " within

the United States and on the American public. ( " The New National

Intelligence Strategy of the US " by Larry Chin, Global Research)

 

Also, within 2 years every American license and passport will be made

according to federal uniform standards including microchips (with

biometric information) that will allow the government to trace every

movement of its citizens?

 

All of these changes in the law have taken place below the radar of

public attention and all of them correspond to a " nutcase " conspiracy

by the CFR to transform Canada, Mexico and the US into one, integrated

" free trade " nation in 5 years time. (I'm not making this up) See:

Trilateral Task Force Recommendations,

http://www.usembassycanada.gov/content/can_usa/northamerican

community_TF_final.pdf

 

The only thing that makes this bizarre specter of a " capitalist police

state " seem believable is that Bush has already executed the

fundamentals of that other wacky conspiracy theory; The Project for

the New American Century. Most of the goals of that hypothesis have

materialized. The US has extended its military presence throughout

central Asia and the Middle East, curtailed civil liberties at home,

greatly enhanced the power of the president, militarized space, passed

legislation for Missile Defense " Star Wars " , and reinvigorated the

bio-chemical weapons industry.

 

You see, sometimes " conspiracy theories " come to fruition despite the

unwillingness of the Left to speculate on what the future may hold.

 

So, let me make a prediction, however groundless and far-fetched as it

may seem.

 

The 5 years of work that went into creating the Bush National Security

State will not be passed on to some anemic Democrat, like Hillary

Clinton, according to the normal protocols. The " capitalist police

state " represents the concerted efforts of myriad elites from all

walks of life; particularly banking, big energy, military and media.

The last obstacle to actualizing their macabre vision is Congress; the

final hurdle to absolute power.

 

This may shed some light on the anthrax attacks in 2001 following the

destruction of the Twin Towers. Certainly the administration has done

everything possible to obfuscate the details of that investigation,

which has only increased suspicion of their motives.

 

Could the anthrax have been a " second wave " attack intended to disband

Congress and deliver supreme authority to the president?

 

Who knows?

 

What we do know, however, is that elite right-wing groups like the

American Enterprise Institute, " issued proposals for the operation of

Congress following a catastrophic terrorist attack " . They advocate the

" APPOINTING " of individuals to the House of Representatives " to fill

the seats of dead or incapacitated members, a first in American

history " … " The Continuity of Government Commission is

'self-commissioned', its members being neither elected nor appointed

by any government body…and mostly made up of professional lobbyists " .

(Read the whole article; http://www.conservativeusa.org/cog-ronpaul.htm )

 

This gives us some idea of the contempt that right-wing elites have

for democracy and how they plan to dismantle Congress when given the

opportunity.

 

But, why now???

 

Bush's fortunes are inextricably tied to an " unwinnable " war in Iraq.

As his popularity has continued to dwindle, Congress has become more

reluctant to promote his far-right agenda and make further cuts to

popular social programs. This situation promises to get worse unless

the Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal take " preemptive " action to reverse the

current downward trajectory.

 

It may be time for another galvanizing " Pearl Harbor-type event " ; one

that will strike at the legislative nerve-center of American

democracy. With Congress out of the picture, the path is clear for one

man rule; the final jewel in the neocon crown.

 

Courtesy & Mike Whitney