Old-line Republican warns 'something's in the works' to trigger a police state

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Oldline_Republican_warns_somethings_in_works_0719.html


Thom Hartmann began his program on Thursday by reading from a new Executive Order which allows the government to seize the assets of anyone who interferes with its Iraq policies.

He then introduced old-line conservative Paul Craig Roberts -- a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Reagan who has recently become known for his strong opposition to the Bush administration and the Iraq War -- by quoting the "strong words" which open Roberts' latest column: "Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran."

"I don't actually think they're very strong," said Roberts of his words. "I get a lot of flak that they're understated and the situation is worse than I say. ... When Bush exercises this authority ... there's no check to it. It doesn't have to be ratified by Congress. The people who bear the brunt of these dictatorial police state actions have no recourse to the judiciary. So it really is a form of total, absolute, one-man rule. ... The American people don't really understand the danger that they face."

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Roberts pointed out that it's old-line Republicans like himself, former Reagan associate deputy attorney general Bruce Fein, and Pat Buchanan who are the diehards in warning of the danger. "It's so obvious to people like us who have long been associated in the corridors of power," he said. "There's no belief in the people or anything like that. They have agendas. The people are in the way. The Constitution is in the way. ... Americans need to comprehend and look at how ruthless Cheney is. ... A person like that would do anything."

Roberts final suggestion was that, in the absence of a massive popular outcry, "the only constraints on what's going to happen will come from the federal bureaucracy and perhaps the military. They may have had enough. They may not go along with it."
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are there too many neo cons, top levels, in the military to keep the troops from 'having had enough'?

...of what is happening in this country. The neocons are embedded at high levels everywhere and the real question now is how can these people be stopped from having their way?

nt

:kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick:

and be removed from the corridors of power.

For your re-education, you can at least take some of them with you.

Things like this are the reason I really have ZERO tolerance for people who continue to support this administration (aka cabal). They are aiding and abetting the very destruction of our country.