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What could BHO be thinking?  ACORN–Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has helped him all along in his career…..until now that is.  Ooops, be careful who you work for and who you take endorsements from.

http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/10/10/185551/96 ” There’s a lot of kerfuffle over ACORN this week – but one distinction needs to be made as we have conversations with out friends, family, and neighbors this weekend: the voter registration issues involving ACORN are not the same as voter fraud itself. In Las Vegas, for example, reports surfacedthat ACORN submitted voter registrations listing the names of the Dallas Cowboys. But that doesn’t mean someones going to voting fraudulently even if the right-wing media implies so. It just means there may be faulty registrations that are never touched. Contrary to the implication, the Dallas Cowboys will not be voting in Clark County. ”  Oh, they won’t be touched?  Sure, that explains it.

Then why is ACORN registering the Dallas Cowboys in the first place. Purportedly the aim of ACORN would be to register voters and there is an investigation under way.  Whose paying for the investigation?  You can bet that the finding of an investigation will never be made prior to the election anyways. 

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/us/politics/11acorn.html?_r=1&em&oref=sloginr has ACORN as a “community organizing group that has been accused of involvement in problematic voter registrations in several hotly contested states, including Colorado, Indiana, Nevada and North Carolina.” 

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/05/obamas-acorn/ says “ACORN as well as other groups were the recipients of foundation money from both the Woods Fund and Joyce Foundation. Why is this important? Obama sat on both boards. Through his board positions, he was able to assist in the funneling of many millions of dollars in grant money to various ultra-liberal organizations like Chicago’s ACORN. It may not be illegal but it gives me pause.”

Nahhhh, no impropriety there, certainly nothing illegal.  Choke, choke,choke.  It makes my head spin around like the girl in the Exorcist movie.

Obama’s lies, omissions, ties to William Ayers, Khalid al-Mansour, Rashid Khalidi, Ingrid Mattson, Frank Marshall Davis, Franklin Raines, Jim Johnson, Bernadine Dohrm, Madeleine Talbot and ACORN are a dangerous mixture, throw in Antoin”Tony” Rezko’s corruption trial, his mortgage issues, Jerimiah Wright, and the NOI-Nation of Islam and then add his wife who is “proud of her country for the first time” and what we have is the fact that it is time to take another look at Obama’s views BEFORE you vote.  At the same time, as in ACORN’s maneuverings, it would be prudent to see just who it was that asked you to register to vote-don’t ya think? 

What we we don’t have is the time to elect Obama to run our country as POTUS.  Americans need to take the time to Google Search these names and see for themselves what an Obamanation would mean to the freedoms of our country.  BHO is not for USA.

If McCain looses, the Republicans will claim not only election fraud among other things but in the process, place improprieties to an Obama administration and mainstream media as well. 

Rightfully so.

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Ladies and Gentleman, please remain in the upright and seated position ….

District Court, Judge Ricardo Urbina wants to release 17 Chinese Muslim detainees at Guantanamo, who are not Americans. “The decision is momentarily stayed while the Government appeals  “He reasoned, despite the fact that the Uighur’s are non-Americans held outside the United States, that they are vested by the United States Constitution with a right against indefinite detention.  The government has been trying to find a country that (a) will take them and (b) will not persecute them.  Where in the Constitution it says these aliens have a right to enter the United States and live among our population is not clear.  http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDcyNWRiYmFkM2RjMWYxNjA5MzM4YjI5YmNlMTc3NDk= Full report from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/10/07/ST2008100702270.html  The government cleared another 60 people in cleaning the Gitmo house but unlike the others- the Uighurs were reportedly trained at camps sponsored by the East Turkistan Islamic Movement, a group that the Bush administration designated a terrorist organization AFTER the men were detained, the lawyers have argued and thus would be certainly subject to horrors in their own homeland and sending them back would certainly be cruel and unusual.

Cruel and unusual?  Staying in Gitmo, going home or going free?  The government apparently provided no proof that they were enemy combatants or security risks in the first place, even after SEVEN YEARS in captivity.  They were never charged with any crime in the first place, only held in suspicion.  Is the American Justice System providing justice in interpreting the constitution to allow their release or providing a president to allow other prisoners freedom? 

SEVEN Years is a long time in the fight for a fair trial.  And for what crime?  Reading the rules of the constitution, I’d say we( and them)  are all vested against indefinite detention.  Charge them with something already, have a trial and be done.  Or let them go.  Whether they are guilty or not, the hatred of America must be paramount after Seven years in captitity,  so much so that if they were released- they might just jaywalk, spit or complain they might get arrested again. 

“The United States has made extensive and high-level efforts over a period of four years to try to resettle the Uighurs in countries around the world,” the State Department’s legal adviser, John B. Bellinger III, said in an interview. Its lack of success, he added, “has not been for lack of trying.  ”Published: June 10, 2007 in an article “Chinese Leave Guantánamo for Albanian Limbo” where four Guantanamo Detainees were released into Albania.   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/world/europe/10resettle.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Even E.T. got to phone and go home.

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October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980 was the life of John Lennon.  Today was his birthday.  If he were alive today, surely he’d have some satirical commentary on our Presidential Elections, the Stock Market fiasco, etc.  A few pertinent inspirational statements for today’s hot button subjects previously quoted from Lennon in conversation or song, might include something like these—

On Lennon’s own Death:  “Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something. ”

On Sarah Palin: “As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”

On Society:  “Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.  I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.”

On Conspiracies like 9-11 & UFO’s:  “The more I see the less I know for sure.”

On Drowning in Debt:  “When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream.”

On Social Security:  “The older generation are leading this country to galloping ruin!”

On Home Foreclosure:  “Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.”

On Education Reform:  “There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.”

On Religion:  “You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

The War on Terrorism;   When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun. “

On The Stock Market & Economy:  ” I don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy me love. ”

On John McCain:  “Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”

On Obama:   ” I get by with a little help from my friends ”

On Bush:  “…you know it ain’t easy.  You know how hard it can be.  The way things are going, they’re going to crucify me.:

On Dick Chaney:  “There’s room at the top, I’m telling you still but first you must learn how to smile as you kill if you want to be like the folks on the hill.”On President Bill Clinton:  “Whatever gets you through the night.  It’s alright.  It’s alright.”

On Hillary Clinton:  “I am going into an unknown future, but I’m still all here, and still while there’s life, there’s hope. “

On Darfur:  “All we are saying is give peace a chance.”

On Global Warming: “We are all water from different rivers, That’s why it’s so easy to meet. We are all in this vast, vast ocean.  Someday we’ll evaporate together.” 

On The Paparazzi:  “Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they’ve sold their papers and got big circulation’s, they say, ‘Look at what we’ve done for you.'” On Elvis:  “Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.”

On Brittany Spears:  “”Nobody controls me, I’m uncontrollable.” 

http://www.lennonmurdertruth.com/ is a web site that believes that the murder of John Lennon was orchestrated and premeditated somehow with government authority.   The site states, “Contrary to all reports about a lone drifter named Mark David Chapman who allegedly shot John Lennon in the back December 8, 1980 you’ll find ample evidence in the back issues of Time, Newsweek, and US News and World Reportmagazines to suggest otherwise. Namely, that John Lennon was, not only politically assassinated, but that Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and, you’d better sit down, horror novelist Stephen King are the three people who can be proven guilty of the crime. King being the real murderer and Chapman but a look-alike, paid actor misleading you with an absolute hoax, the media in tow.” 

Steven King?  The author goes on to say that ,” I feel like I’m talking to a bootlicking, phony moron.
As if the media never told them a big, fat lie in their life; as if the media was trustworthy.
As if the assassinations of the 60’s didn’t teach us that our govt. is afraid of anyone who
actually wants to implement America’s freedoms, documents, rights and philosophies.
As if the majority of Americans don’t think that those assassinations were coverups. You
cowards cringe from the latest book about R.F.K.’s murder that exposes 12 bullet wounds.
You persist in keeping your heads down and your mouths shut while you set up the next list
of martyrs who want to make the world a better place.” 

If your really interested -you’re invited to protest with Steve Lightfoot, author of the website “Who really killed John Lennon, this Oct. 9, John Lennon’s birthday, at ABCTV’s Bldg. at W.67th and Columbus Ave., N.Y.N.Y., all day, from 9:00 am to 7:00 pm. 

At http://www.whale.to/b/lenn.html claims are made that “CIA director, Tavistock underling and then vice-president George Bush Sr. had Lennon slaughtered on the streets of New York utilizing yet another mind-controlled Delta slave Mark David Chapman. Mark Chapman is the victim of an artificially induced model psychosis.” 

Wierd thing is, that in all thisconspiracy jumbo, that both John Hinckley and Mark David Chapman were each carrying on their person a paperback copy of the JD Salinger novel, Catcher in the Rye.  Reportedly,  Salinger had ties to the US intelligence community, especially the CIA.

I never read the book and don’t know much except, today was his birthday and John Lennon is dead.

All quotes are probably property and copyrighted by their respective owners.  All quotes are provided for entertainment purposes only. 

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Yawn.  What a bunch of posturing bullcrap from the both of them.  This one and “that one” as McCain called Obama, are nincompoops in figuring out how to win, er,-make that earn votes.  Not that they are both not reasonably well educated men and serve as elected officials but neither one can give a straight answers.  A yes or no would suffice just one in awhile.  I am not McCains “friend” as he  mentioned in just about every response.  I don’t need another friend, I need a candidate that doesn’t sell his point as if he is at a campaign rally speech.  Obama, poised as always wins on fluency in his delivery but gets an F for spewing just as much rhetoric as McCain.  Budget freezes, taxes, jobs, the economy, blah, blah.  The name dropping didn’t help either one of them either.  A boring format with the same boring old answers.  And, what the hell is CNN doing with that stupid chart at the bottom of the screen and why is there a 5 second delay in the speech from NBC to CNN?  Lots of whys-  Like why did these two make it this far.  Is this the best America had to offer?

The Fed dropped rates again today.  Hold on to your shirts tails…..

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CBO –Congetional Budget Office on October 1, 2008 issued its analysis of the financial rescue legislation —aka the Bailout released by the Senate.  The legislation includes the rescue package considered by the house earlier this week, a temporary increase in deposit insurance, and certain tax provisions including an extension of Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) relief. The pdf of the analysis is posted here. .

“…the Secretary would have the authority—if deemed necessary to promote stability in the financial markets—to purchase any financial asset at any price and to sell that asset for any price at any future date. That lack of specificity regarding how the authority would be implemented and even what types of assets would be purchased makes it impossible at this point to provide a meaningful estimate of the ultimate impact on the federal budget from enacting this legislation.”

OMG, ANY ASSET???  ANY ASSET?  Assets like my house, my business, my car, my bank accounts, my securities, etc.?  SHAME.  SHAME.

Maybe the Senate better re-write that.  Don’t ya think?  Maybe that’s the whole purpose- that in the event that your and my assets (not to mention asses) are deemed necessary to promote stability and avoid chaos, the government can take it away and sell any asset.  Maybe for a penny, maybe for an Amero, all as it deems appropriate.  Executive Order 11921 already allows FEMA control over in part, the flow of money in US financial institutions in any unidentified national emergency.  

I don’t seriously suggest that the government had this in mind when writing these provisions but dammit anyways, there certainly is an increasingly squeezing of not just our pocketbooks, but those inalienable rights. Rights guaranteed, I was taught and still believe and trust in.   

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough.

“Trust no one”  Agent Mulder from the X-Files.

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I want more candy in the trick or treat bag this October, a fatter turkey in November and more toys for Christmas.  I like my martini’s shaken, not the economy.  Our US Government elected officials and the US citizens want it all too and are stirring things up so much that my martini is starting to look like a Jim Jones koolaid drink.  Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it. 

Our $700 Billion Dollar Bailout is increasing as fast as Muhammad Ali once said, ” I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my bedroom and was in bed before the room was dark.”  The lights are certainly dimming on financial markets as the bailout plan looks for ratification.  People looking for proof that we need this will get it in the next 6 months or so when we will again be wondering what the hell happenednd.

Ideology has to be set aside and bi-partisan solutions must be found. Yadda, yadda, yadda.  Is this bailout the right thing and is it the right time?  Had Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson acted on bailing out Lehman Brothers in the first place we might not be seeing this ginormous chain reaction in the financial markets.  Maybe he knew that there was no stopping the spiral downward in the credit markets and figured that a bailout was going to be the only way to restore corrections in the marketplace, and at a speed that would help limit a recession and guide our economy towards growth and justice.  Justice?  Indeed it is unjustifiable, the skirting of laws that were meant to avoid this situation in the first place.  If a tree falls in the woods…does it make any noise?

This F’ed up system has run amok and I am wary to give billions back to the same incompetents that got us here in the first place.  I am also wary not to.  Ben Bernake, The Federal Reserve chairman is not an idiot.  He received a PHD in economics from MIT and thankfully has held his ground on limiting the amount of political persuasion that often permeates our government.  He has studied The Great Depression and the woes of Japan’s banking failures and failure to act in a responsive way.   The main stock index in Japan, nearly 20 years later is still less than one third of its level.  I don’t want to be broke and dead by the time the US Market sees a correction.

Wall Street is asking Main Street to foot the bill on the same kind of pork that got us here. The current bill endorses a not $700 but an $850+ billion bailout plan plus it has another $150 billion in tax breaksfor individuals and businesses.  Add in the $85 billion for AIG last week and we as well round up and call it a ONE TRILLION DOLLAR BAILOUT.  It seems totally dysfunctional to have money in the bill that has tax relief for things like Wooden Arrows,  Motor sports racing track facilities, Investors on Indian Reservations, Renovating restaurants, Rum producers in the Virgin Islands, etc,.    I must be missing something in that this bailout was originally intended to help out with the sub-prime mortgage and credit problems. Over at http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28851 there is a whole list of maddening programs that includes 3.2 Billion for …”the “Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Program,” over six years and to be used not just for schools but also to “implement stewardship objectives that enhance forest ecosystems,” support programs which “control noxious and exotic weeds” and enhance “soil productivity” or “improve cooperative relationships among the people that use and care for Federal land and the agencies that manage the Federal land.”  Yes siree, that $3.2 billion is certainly going to help get us out of this immediate financial mess.  SHAME, SHAME on you. (and me)

In some great manner of a brain fart, the bailout bill also raises FDIC insurance to $250,000.  The FDIC already covers 250k for retirement accounts anyways.  Seeing as a lot of the little guys on Main Street have actually managed to save and invest, this seems like a no brainer–thanks for throwing us a bone.  Who is to say that the estimated $50 Billion in the FDIC is enough to cover the little man’s losses?  What we have here ladies and gentleman is a giant accounting convention and we the taxpayers are only invited to the after party having footed the bill.  Couldn’t our elected officials just attempt to fix the immediate financial markets and leave the rest of the bullshit blundering pork spending for later.  I am reserching for the funds to continue to pay for the $1000 toilet seats as referred to in the movie, Independence Day.

The next big event is going to be for the Social Security Trust Fund-mark my words, as we have been warned for years that there is more money going out of the system than is coming in.  One does not need to have a doctorate in economy to figure out that those of us in our 40’s are going to get nada, nothing, el zippo.  Oh right- we were all encouraged to invest in the stock market in the first place, to invest for our retirements so we wouldn’t have to rely on the Social Security Trust Fund.   What about the likes of Ameritrade, ETrade, Scotttrade and Forex?  Are these mainstream Internet financial behemouths just as equally liable for this disaster in making it so easy for investors to hit the buy and sell button faster than a fly lands on a camels ass? 

I like my martini shaken, not our economy which is shaken and stirred up to the core.

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
Jean Paul Getty, 12/15/1892 – 06/05/1976
US oil industrialist

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What comes after a billion?  Don’t be a wise ass and answer a billion and one. 

Is it a trillion?  OK then…

Number of zeros U.S. & scientific community Other countries
3 thousand thousand
6 million million
9 billion 1000 million (1 milliard)
12 trillion billion
15 quadrillion 1000 billion
18 quintillion trillion
21 sextillion 1000 trillion
24 septillion quadrillion
27 octillion 1000 quadrillion

http://www.jimloy.com/math/billion.htm

The numbers are staggering. 

In a further effort to enhance our economy the LA Times is reporting http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hollywood2-2008oct02,0,6979043.story that the $700 billion financial bailout package includes $470 million worth of tax breaks over the next 10 years for movie and TV employers shooting here in the United States. Guess it makes it okay since the provisions were already part of a broad tax extension bill approved earlier by the U.S. Senate and then folded into the revised bailout legislation that passed Wednesday.  WTF? 

I was under the impression that $700 Billion was going into securities markets and relief.  Who knew it was going to the movie industry?  I guess when times are tough, people don’t go to the movies so the industry must surely be in a quandary- but as much as the securities industry to have a part of this bill.  SHAME SHAME SHAME.  

Where else is the money going to be frivolously hidden in this bill?  Want to bet some one knows?  Don’t they. 

Ahrcanum.

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$700 Billion, have we totally lost our minds?  Where is free market correction when you need it most?  $700 billion is something around a third of our federal budget.  The US Dollar Index- USDX currency markets have the dollar value on a spirling downwards tick.  If the fed raises rates the already fragile real estate market could collapse and if it lowers rates the dollar could collapse.  Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

Oil prices and other goods and services costs have to go up to counteract the decrease in the dollar value-INFLATION.  The US debt is well into the TRILLIONS with us owing China a huge chunk.  China instead of sitting on the dollars when they sell stuff, buys American interest bearing Treasury Bills and Treasury bonds.  Should Congress order the Fed to buy the debt back?  Everyone likes a Sale!  Money on sale, money on sale!  The buy back could be at a discounted rate but then it would further erode the value and increase the debt.  That won’t work and in the real world, sale items can not be returned with out a receipt. 

Oooooopps, –, the Fed isn’t owned  by the American people now is it?  http://www.federalreserve.gov/generalinfo/faq/faqfrs.htm  It is owned by bankers.  

 

  • Lazard Brothers Bank of Paris
  • Israel Moses Sieff Banks of Italy
  • Warburg Bank of Hamburg, Germany and Amsterdam
  • Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York
  • Lehman Brothers Bank of New York
  • Goldman Sachs Bank of New York
  • Chase Manhattan Bank of New York (the Rockafellers)
  • Rothchild’s Bank of London & Berlin

It seems the Fed may have created more problems than it was supposed to prevent. Yikes, the money supply is increasing and the value decreasing.   Let’s print more money!  As for the SEC- jeeze oh weeze Louise, what happened to enforcing the laws on the books?  Could it be that when WTC 7 burned in NYC on 9-11 it took with how investment banks may have operated to split up top shares of initial public offerings when the high tech boom was occurring and other hints of information that might have fortold of this economic panic?  

 “Sovereign nations that cannot meet their financial obligations typically resort to the currency printing press. The inevitable result is debasement of the currency. This is the course the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve have taken. The unfolding bank solvency crisis and the attempts to prevent a systemic collapse have accelerated the debasement of the dollar. Its purchasing power is falling rapidly, and soon foreign investment in the dollar will also begin falling. When substantial foreign investment starts to flee the currency for safety elsewhere, the Federal Reserve will be forced to monetize the U.S. debt instead of selling treasury.” bonds.”  http://dinapharm.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=101 {this link sells survival crap but offered a consise statement }

What it all boils down to is the printing of more and more money with little value.  How to increase the value?  That’s the billion/trillion dollar question.  Hey, remember the idea of the AMERO?  Let’s introduce a new currency to solve some problems.  Ironically, unsubstantiated rumors on the net are “circulating in the Kremlin today states that the US Secretary of the Treasury has informed the China Development Bankthat the US has shipped $800 Billion of a new currency called the Amero, which is to be based upon the merging of the economies of The United States, Mexico and Canada into what is termed as The North American Union.  The current American debt obligation to China, currently based on the US Dollar, is now estimated to be the staggering sum of $2.5 Trillion, and which this new Amero will be exchanged for $400 Billion of this debt as the current American currency is set to be devalued by 50 percent before the end of the year.”  http://www.nworeport.com/ussends.htm   WHAT?  Okay, cite the source, but holy crap batman!

Maybe its all another case of shock and awe and to paraphrase author Naomi Klein, a “Rise of Disaster Capitalism,” providing exciting market opportunities in the wake of our financial crisis.   I’ve been to both countries and live in the US and since the people are all so nice everywhere, we could integrate Canada, USA, and Mexico into a North American Union to compete?  Good as reason as any.  All those troops serving a Brigade Homeland Tour, now on active duty, won’t have to worry about the borders any more.  We’ll be border-less just like the European Union.  We’ll all just be friends and get along splendidly.  The military will have more time to concentrate on countering terrorist threats just like they have participated by interdicting drugs and illegal aliens for decades.  I wonder if the Blackwater guys will mind being paid in the Amero?

Is is a major inconvenience to exchange currency at the border, problem solved with the AMERO!  The Europeans have done it with the EU, and supposidly The African Union Group of Eminent Persons has a plan to introduce a bank of all African currency by 2010, named Gold Mandela.  Why not the USA? 

President Bush has already hinted at this over the years and historically there is key legislation already in place- starting with NAFTA.  Mexican and Canadian trucks zip on thru US soil in the fast track with the Trusted Traveller Program. http://www.dhs.gov/xtrvlsec/crossingborders/  What’s another Executive Order?  Between the Military Commissions Act 2006, and the John Warner Defense Approprates Act 2007, and a list of Civil Disturbance Statues our President may have no problems convincing us that a North American Union is the way to achieve economic stability.  We’re already in a State of Emergency, let alone fighting the War on Poverty, the War on Drugs, the War on Terrorism, the Wars on Whatever.  Will the tax-paying citizens have run out of money and energy to fight a War against a NEU or Amero? 

The things is, that if we abandon monetary nationalism –the almighty dollar, and move towards adapting to regional currencies, we could be going down a path to one world currency and globalization.  Is that bad?  A New World Order, ring a bell?  ding, ding, ding. 

Label it what you wish– from A New World Order, to World Law, Global Democracy, Internationalism, A New Economic Order, Global Free Trade, or the International Monetary System.  Throw in the mix phrases like Global Citizenship, Global Warming, Unity in Diversity, Inter Faith-ism and Solidary and all reflect a big shift in who holds economic power.  It’s like a Star Trek episode, we come from the Federation of Earth.  Things like a $700 billion dollar bail out (or rescue- if you prefer the term) is going to reshape America. 

For the better, I pray.  

I question whether conspiracy is a foot, but damn I sure don’t want the shoe to fit.

Ahrcanum.

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I love my country.  What I am becomming wary of, is its deterioration and potential reliance on some invisible power.  The Brigade Homeland Tour is beginning today or perhaps later this week.  No matter the date the US Army is on hand and available to assist with any “civil unrest” as quoted by the www.armytimes.com .  Are we talking about civil unrest as in Hurricane Katrina, a terrorist attack, bank failures, weakening economies, elections?   Just who gets to decide when to activate consequence management teams that requires more than the local police or National Guard?   

Ah, but what about the Posse Comitatus Act?  The Posse Comitatus statute generally prohibits federal military personnel and units under federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized.  Authorized by whom?   You may remember, that The Posse Comitatus Act is often mentioned when it appears that the Department of Defense is treading on thin water or interfering in domestic disturbances. 

With little fan fair from the media, the Army has been authorized and ready, having just completed  a mission rehearsal in mid September at Fort Stewart.  The Army is now on active duty and ready to protect Americans on American Soil. 

US Army announced “that the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team (BCT) will be under the day-to-day control of US Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command (NORTHCOM), as an on-call federal response force for natural or man made emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.  These soldiers will also learn how to use non-lethal weapons designed to “subdue unruly or dangerous individuals” without killing them.”  Gee, I feel better already.  OMG- these troops just finished a tour in Iraq, we’re talking some bad ass mother f’ers here.  

Was it the Patriot Act, the John Warner Defense Appropriation Act, DOD, etc.,  that allowed for the obvious and blatant disregard of the Posse Comitatus Act??  Near as I can tell, President Bush Signed H.R. 4986, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 into Law where by under 18 U.S.C.983 ” the Attorney General may request that the Secretary of Defense provide emergency assistance if civilian law enforcement is inadequate to address certain types of threat involving the release of nuclear materials, such as potential use of a nuclear or radiological weapon.  Such assistance may be by any personnel under the authority of the Department of Defense, provided such assistance does not adversely affect U.S. military preparedness. ” So there we have it, the Attorney General and “any personnel under the DOD” gets to decide when things are haywire enough to require the Army to intervene.  Presently, Attorney General Michael Mukasey is busy appointing a prosecutor to investigate whether his predecessor Alberto Gonzales and others involved in the firings of nine US attorneys broke the law.   I guess we are safe.  (BTW-just when did having a job with the Federal Government preclude one from getting fired??}   

Oh Wait….what about the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Program Integration, DUSD (PI)???  “DUSD (PI) also takes every measure to ensure the most effective use of Total Force structure and its allocation among the components of the DoD and Active and Reserve units. ”  TOTAL FORCE STRUCTURE.  Aw, crap. 

So many commissions from the investigation of steroid use in baseball, to the 9-11 Commission, to who shot Kennedy, to if Clinton inhaled., etc.  The truth is that the US Army has been commissioned to active duty on home soil and the President of the USA is circumventing the Posse Comitatus Act, for better or worse.

Ahrcanum.

http://www.dhra.mil/website/fieldActivity/fieldActivity.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

 http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2008/09/posse-comitatus-on-merits.html

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