It can't happen here? Its happening here right now. By Ed Martin

Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_ed_marti_080128_it_can_t_happen_here.htm



William Cormier's article here on OpEdNews asks: If Bush is leaving office in less than a year, why are they still intent on destroying our privacy? The question that is the title of the article is not rhetorical. It has a basis in fact that raises some other questions. Why is Bush so completely unconcerned and uninterested in the campaign for the next president? Could it be that he knows there will be no next president? Why has Bush not made any comments about who his successor might be? Why has Bush not endorsed any of the candidates? And as Cormier asks, why is Bush continuing his attack on the people of the United States, setting in place draconian laws and systems, that if he leaves office, he won't be able to use? Is it that he knows he'll be using them? Why is Bush so goddam smug and happy all the time? Is it that he's just a grinning mental defective?

It looks like the answer to the questions is that Bush doesn't plan on leaving office. There are several ways he can do this. With an ass kissing Congress, he can declare martial law at any time. He can attack Iran at any time, to reinforce martial law. Time of war and all that, you know. With this Congress, he can issue an Executive Order that the 2008 elections are postponed indefinitely, and Congress will support him in this. They'll say, "Yes sir, Mr. Bush, whatever you say, Mr. Bush, here, let me bend over, again, for you, Mr. Bush, sir."

Or, he can make use of a little known provision in the Constitution, Article II, Section 3, that says, "he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, HE MAY ADJOURN THEM TO SUCH TIME AS HE SHALL THINK PROPER." That could be indefinitely, until he dies.

Congress is the only entity that has the power to enforce the two term only requirement of the Constitution. Bush can claim an extraordinary occasion and shut them down to prevent the enforcement of that requirement.

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Authors Bio: Ed Martin is an unindicted curmudgeon. He is not a Democrat, Republican, conservative, liberal, deist, atheist, or a member of any -ism.

:tinfoilhat:

The writers said it was "probably" his last SOTU address. I wrote and asked them if there was something they know that the people don't. What scenario could allow him another SOTU?

Because if he tries to stay, there will be blood in the streets. The only thing suppressing outright revolution is the promise of 1/20/09

I'd be happier if * promised to chop his own head off. What that promise worth, anyway?

We in Europe don't think highly of Bush. Personally, I'd like to see him go, soon. But I'm afraid he'll try and 'stay the course'. We've had our share of dictators in this part of the world, and Bush sure looks like one to me!

Wake up, America!

But almost no one that I know (offline) even cares about this.

I see oppression coming, but not a revolution.

Bush will not do something so foolish. The reason he is unconcerned with the campaign is that he doesn't give a rat's ass about it. All he cares about is getting the hell out of dodge because he hates the job.

Don't worry, he'll be gone when McCain walks up Pennsylvania Avenue from the inauguration.

* hates the job, and can't wait to get back to picking his nose at baseball games and getting drunk at celebrity golf events. Also, the fascists who want to rule this country realize that having him as their front man is actually detrimental to their cause, so deeply is he detested by 3/4 of the populace. Big Media will get McCain up to 45% or so in the polls by selling this ancient, uber-partisan DC lifer as "change", the e-voting companies will do the rest, and the final nail will be driven into the coffin of the Founders' experiment.

RIP

A long time ago (in a galaxy not so far away) I bought into the rhetoric that the initiation of impeachment hearings would be a wake-up call for this administration (meaning Bush/Cheney). Now I think it might (MIGHT) be a wake-up call for the Congress. Maybe...

We were founded as a federalist Republic and the "democracy" exists only in our ability to elect our representatives. More and more are finally realizing that "Democrat" and "Republican" mean nothing except to fool the fools who believe there are still two parties. More and more of our representatives are Republicrats. The Democrats call them DINOS and the Republicans call them RINOS. They are, simply, Republicrats.

To understand how what we have always said could never happen here has happened here you only need to look at Germany. It was founded as a federalist Republic. Which had similar provisions for basically suspending the Constitution and establishing a fascist government in which "democracy" no longer existed. Those who opposed their representatives were simply shoved into cattle cars and shipped off to Auschwitz along with the Jews. Germany took steps after the Nazis fell to ensure it could never happen again. The United States took steps after the Nazis fell to ensure that at the proper time it could and would happen here.

People need only look at the history of the Bush family to realize who set it all in motion. The Bush family. From Samuel Bush and his belief, shared by the most powerful families in the country, that fascism was some sort of ideal of federalism to Prescott Bush and his support of the Nazi Party and his conspiracy to overthrow the government and his establishment of what became known as the CIA to George HW Bush and his use of the CIA to establish puppet regimes of his own and remove those put in place by Prescott Bush, including those in Iraq and Iran, to George W Bush and his ability to finally turn the maniacal dream of oligarchy into reality the Bush family is intertwined in every adminstration since Roosevelt. There is no other Bush to continue the legacy. So they "adopted" someone who could. And he served them well while they groomed George W Bush. They knew the domestic policies of George HW Bush ensured he would not serve a second term. So they put their support behind Bill Clinton. They. The oligarchists. The Republicrats. And now they are putting their support behind Hillary Clinton. CINOS. Clintons in name only. Bushes in their agenda.

Bush doesn't need to overthrow the government at this point simply because in a way he already has. Our next president will be above the law as well. Which is why they want someone who will use the power wisely. For their interests. Not the interests of the American people.

And the only candidate who serves their interests is a fellow Republicrat. Hillary Clinton. Madame President.

Watch them work. And weep. She will prove to be what finally causes the fall of the American Empire. And she, and the Emperor and his Empress, will sit by and smile. It is our empire that is falling. Not theirs.

a kiss of death. Seen his poll numbers lately?