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Bush: Katrina Failure = gimme more power

by Open-Publishing - Saturday 17 September 2005
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Edito Governments Catastrophes USA Ben Frank

by benfrank

Bush says he may need more power in disasters

He wants Congress to look into whether presidential authority should be expanded in times of catastrophes like Katrina.

Props to SpeakSpeak

Bush wants the power to order the military to arrest people in the US. Currently, the military is barred by the Posse Comitatus Act from arresting people in the US.

Protests can be declared “emergencies” for soldiers to arrest protestors.

Taken in the context of 100,000 dead in Iraq on a war of choice, could those same twisted decision makers allow thousands to suffer and die as an excuse to gain more power? And knowing the Republican Rubber Stamp Congress, you know this is going to happen. In effect we’re looking at the beginning of The Clampdown. In a few weeks? months? Soldiers on US Soil arresting citizens and locking them away indefinitely. Holy shit!

I suggest town hall meetings everywhere, demand airtime on your local
‘public’ radio station- create a Bill of Rights safety zone in your
community- get your local cops (who are hopefully good people) on your
side.

We don’t need soliders arresting American citizens- ever!
We don’t need to lock away American citizens without a trial.

People
argue that good cops wouldn’t take out dissenters. This is not like the
Nazis rounding up people and locking them up in camps...... Yet.

It’s
getting very close to that. Local cops won’t burst into someone’s home
with a gun, but *some* troops will. Could closed military bases be turned into detainment camps? Just last week on the Floor of the House, Cynthia Mckinney said that in 1987 there was a government plan in case of a black uprising:
martial law, detainment camps, using the military against American
citizens.

Please send this to all of your Republican aquaintences. Do they buy this bit about the Katrina failure
leading to using the military against our own citizens? What about
locking away citizens without a trial- why does that make us safer?

http://benfrank.net/blog/2005/09/17...

Forum posts

  • Nazi power. No more comments, but where are the Democrats!

    • Where are the Democrats?

      They Voted For The Enabling Act for crying out loud.

      Oh, I know. We aren’t supposed to call it that. It’s the Patriotism Act.

      Patriots are supposed to say nothing when American Citizens are locked away in prison forever without ever being charged with a crime. Just because Der Leader says they’re bad.

      The IV Reich is already here friends.

    • ConsteeeToooshun?

      We dun neeeed no steeenkeen ConsteeeToooshun

    • El Arbusto

      The Shrubista

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  • The Bush lust for power is equalled only by his ego. He is now the emperor of the world, with Karl Rove as the Court Jester. He is even now preparing plans to invade Iran, Syria and Venezuela... trading blood for oil. When he took office and appointed Ashcroft as Attorney, everyone was aware that fascism was on the way... civil rights be damned because the imperial authority of Georgie Bush was paramound. Bush can arrest ANYONE and hold them INDEFINITELY because his attorney told him he is above the law. He can torture and abuse anyone. Not a single Republican Senator has spoken out about his abuses and demanded his impeachment because of his lies that send this nation to war and several thousand of our soldiers to their deaths. Not a word of reproach for Bush. He has immunity from Jerry Falwell and the Christian God who approves of killing Muslims wholesale. The action of some troops in New Orleans was like they were still in Fallujah, breaking down doors, hollering like crazy, pointing guns at people’s faces, and showing extreme arrogance.

    • Since they made a promise to God - to protect and defend the Constitution...

      Judgement Day Ain’t Gonne Be No Fun Fer Them!

  • Fear is a great motivator. There are clearly masters of public manipulation in power now. They have no qualms about people dying off to keep power in their hands. If Katrina victims die unnecessarily, it’s no more than collateral damage to the power elite. Just like our dead boys in Iraq, Katrina victims will be used as political capital, then discarded. Bush’s reaction to Cindy Sheehan shows just how much he cares about the war dead. Maybe with New Orleans closer, and the press involved, we can get through to the American people through Katrina.

    I applaud the concern of the people posting, but please keep the comments from degenerating into baseless accusations. There are literally thousands of examples of Bush wrong-doing: cronyism (Brown/Albaugh), ineptitude, economic short-sightedness, fiscal responsibility, racism, and poverty creation. We don’t need to get creative. We need to stick to talking points that are uniform across the board. That’s what Bush & Co. have done, to great effect.

    If we fight, we need to appeal to the majority in open and rational dialogue, unlike the powers that be, whose use secrecy and snappy slogans to gloss over deeper problems. Evidence of wrong-doing has been laid bare by Katrina. It’s our job to exploit the consequences. Unlike them, we do it to prevent additional loss of innocent lives and block a wicked Administration from doing more harm. The power brokers in Washington will use the loss of life as a method to gentrify the city, plunder our national treasury (selling to the Chinese), and get money to Halliburton, Big Oil and other favored companies.

    This may be the last chance for the American people to learn about what Bush has been doing to our country...

  • That is WHY he/they PURPOSED SCREWED UP THE RECOVERY AND RELIEF EFFORT TO SAY SEE, I NEED MORE POWER TO CALL OUT GUARD ON U.S. CITIZENS IN FUTURE! I.E. ON US PROTESTERS! PEOPLE OF AMERICA AND WORLD, WAKE THE HELL UP AND NOW! CHAVEZ IS RIGHT! THE U.S. IS A TERRORIST STATE NOW! PLEASE WORLD HOLD BUSH AND COHORTS ACCOUNTABLE, BECAUSE DUMB ASS AMERICAN’S AREN’T SO FAR BUT HOPEFULLY THEY WILL BEFORE HE/THEY AND OTHERS DESTROY NOT ONLY U.S BUT ENTIRE WORLD, THROUGH CORPORATE GREED! THAT IS WHAT IS DRIVING HIM/THEM IS U.S. CORPORATE GREED, AND WILL DESTROY NOT ONLY U.S BUT WORLD! PLEASE, PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF U.S. STOP THESE FASCIST MURDERING BASTARDS AND NOW! AND I PRAY THEY DON’T INVADE VENEZUELA! THE WORLD AND U.N. HAD BETTER NOT LET THEM DO IT! I WILL BE ON CHAVEZ’S SIDE! IT’S BUSHIT! HE/THEY ARE ONLY SECOND TO HITLER! PLEASE, PLEASE FELLOW AMERICAN’S OUR NATION IS AT SAKE! I AM BEGGING YOU TO STAND UP NOW AND BE COUNTED AS TRUE PATRIOTS AND DEMAND, IMPEACHMENT, INDICTMENT AND IMPRISONMENT OR HANGING FOR TREASON, WAR CRIMES AND WAR PROFITEERING FOR BUSH/AND COHORTS, WHO ARE BEHIND 9-11, ILLEGAL, IMMORAL WARS, WAR CRIMES, AND WAR PROFITEERING! HOW MANY MORE INNOCENT PEOPLE MUST THEY MURDER AT HOME OR ABROAD BEFORE YOU PEOPLE GET A CLUE? OR BEFORE WORLD STOPS HIM/THEM? I BEG YOU WORLD TO FORGIVE AMERICA, AS WE HAVE FASCIST MURDERERS IN CHARGE OF OUR GOV’T NOW! TO AMERICAN’S, GET UP OFF YOUR ASSES AND CALL, EMAIL AND WRITE YOUR REPS. AND CONGRESS AND DEMAND THEY IMPEACH, INDICT AND IMPRISON OR HANG BUSH, AND COHORTS FOR TREASON, WAR CRIMES, AND WAR PROFITEERING AND MAKE THEM PAY BACK OUR TREASURY FROM THEIR ILL GOTTEN GAINS BEFORE THEY BANKRUPT OUR NATION FOR THEM AND THEIR DAMN CRONIES IF THERE IS ANY, ANY, ANY AT ALL JUSTICE IN U.S. LEFT! I BEG YOU FELLOW AMERICANS TO HOLD THESE MURDERING FASCISTS ACCOUNTABLE AND NOW! HE/THEY PURPOSEDLY SCREWED UP RELIEF TO VICTIMS OF HURRICANE TO PLEAD FOR MORE POWER TO SUPPRESS MORE PROTESTERS, AND TO BE ABLE TO HAVE POWER TO CALL OUT GUARD ON OUR OWN CITIZENS FOR GOD’S SAKE!, WAKE THE FUCK UP AMERICA AND NOW, BEFORE HITLER II, MURDERS MORE PEOPLE AT HOME OR ABROAD!! WAKE THE HELL UP AMERICA AND WORLD! THESE FASCISTS ARE ONLY SECOND TO HITLER! THEY HAVE MURDERED THOUSANDS TO GET THEIR WAY, NOW THEY WANT MORE POWER, BUSHIT! THEY DON’T NEED MORE POWER BUT NO POWER, I.E. THEY NEED TO BE HANGED FOR TREASON, ETC. I AM SOOO VERY SORRY WORLD FOR U.S. WE IN AMERICA ARE OPPRESSED TOO LIKE CHAVEZ SAYS! THE REAL STORY ISN’T GETTING OUT IN CORPORATE PRESS! THERE ARE ALOT OF US AGAINST WHAT IS HAPPENING BUT LOBBYING OUR WORTHLESS CORPORATE WHORE REPS. MOST OF THEM DOESN’T HELP! GREEDY U.S. CORPORATIONS ARE DETERMINED TO CONTROL NOT ONLY U.S. WHICH THEY ALREADY DO BUT ALSO THE WORLD! IT IS CALLED THE NEW WORLD ORDER! WHICH WE MUST FIGHT AGAINST AND NOW! PLEASE, FORGIVE AMERICA WORLD! NOT ALL OF US ARE BRAINDEAD BUSH/COHORTS FASCIST SUPPORTERS BUT HAVE LITTLE RECOURSE! MAY GOD FORGIVE AMERICA AND MAY HE SAVE US FROM THESE MURDERING FASCISTS!

    • I agree with you 110%. But I don’t know how this corporate greed can be stopped. The media is kept silent by the corporates. People must start organizing together to get the word out!!!
      AMERCIA NEEDS A 2ND REVOLUTION AND FAST!!!!!!