The debate last night was a little disappointing to me, as with a great deal of other viewers. The questions asked were mainly soft and had little to do with true American concerns, and once again, Rudy McRomney got the most talking time, and interestingly enough, even Huckabee got more time than Ron Paul, whose fundraising isn’t what Ron Paul’s is.

The truly interesting thing I wanted to comment on however is in the TV show 24, of which I started watching the sixth season tonight.  I just noticed randomly that whenever the show is in CTU, the White House a street corner or home the TV is playing a fake Fox broadcast for the show. Whenever it is showing a terrorist house/building it is playing a broadcast from a fictional news organization called “CNS”. The really interesting thing is that the CNS logo bears a striking resemblance to the CNN logo. I actually thought it was a CNN logo at first. I think Fox is trying to subliminally put into the viewer mind that “CNN is the voice of the terrorists” and “FNN is the voice of America and the ‘good guys’”. I’m only two episodes in, and since Al-Assad has come to the light side of the show’s spectrum I’ll be interested to see if he’ll still be watching CNS or if hes going to start watching FNN, symbolizing his true convert to the good side.

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Even more scary than the possibility of Bush’s coup, at least in my opinion, is something I uncovered while reading The Creature From Jekyll Island today. I’ve always known a great deal about the United States entry into WWI and thought there wasn’t anything really shocking to it. Well, as it turns out, I was wrong.

I had known since AP Euro that the Lusitania was carrying ammunition and fitted for armaments, a fact which I despised the British for. I even knew of the orders the British made to fire upon German U-Boats instead of allowing a German Search Party to determine whether or not it was an enemy ship, forcing the Germans to pick back up Unrestricted Submarine Warfare and fire upon all ships without warning. I didn’t know, however, just how big of a set up the sinking of the Lusitania really was.

Because the British knew that unless the US could be brought into war, the Allies may lose, they had to figure out a reason to convince the American Public that America should enter the war. The way the British forced the Germans to pick back up Unrestricted Submarine Warfare increased the chances of an American merchant vessel being torpedoed.

The Lusitania was was fitted in May of 1913 with extra armor and revolving gun rings, so she could be used as a warship if needed. She was also used as a luxury liner. If the Germans saw the Lusitania they would certainly fire upon her.

It has also been determined that the Lusitania was carrying a great deal of munitions and war materials at the time of her sinking. The Germans knew all of this well before the Lusitania set sail and knew of the possible implications if she were sunk. The German embassy in Washington filed a formal complaint to the US government claiming that the ship was clearly in violation of international neutrality treaties. The response denied any knowledge of the cargo. The German embassy made a last ditch effort to prevent the impending catastrophe by placing ads in fifty East Coast newspapers warning Americans not to board the Lusitania. We’ve all seen the ad. Here’s a link in case you never took history class. What I’ve never heard until now was that the ad only made it into one news paper, the Des Moines Register on the requested date, because of threats of libel by the State Department. The fact that our government would deliberately keep the American people blind to the dangers of such a ship for ulterior motives scares the shit out of me. It makes me wonder just what else our government has done. The 9/11 truth movement will have a field day once they get their hands on this information.

Here’s a quote from Colin Simpson, author of “The Lusitania”, page 97:

“George Viereck [who was the editor of a German-owned newspaper at that time and who had placed the ads on behalf of the embassy] spent April 26 asking the State Department why his advertisement had not been published. Eventually he managed to obtain an interview with [Secretary of State, William Jennings] Bryan and pointed out to him that on all but one of her wartime voyages the Lusitania had carried munitions. He produced copies of her supplementary manifests, which were open to public inspection at the collector’s office. More important, he informed Bryan, no fewer than six million rounds of ammunitino were due to be shipped on the Lusitania the following Friday and could be seen at that moment being loaded on pier 54. Bryan picked up the telephone and cleared the publication of the advertisement. He promised Viereck that he would endeavor the President publicly to warn Americans not to travel. No such warning was issued by the President, but there can be no doubt that President Wilson was told of the character of the cargo destined for the Lusitania. He did nothin, but was to concede on the day he was told of her sinking that his foreknowledge had given him many sleepless hours.”

The Lusitania was ordered to rendezvous with a British destroyer, the Juno, just off the coast of Ireland for extra protection. When the Lusitania reached the point the destroyer was not there. The Juno had actually been called out of the area at the last minute. The Lusitania was forced to head straight into an area where German U-Boats were known to be operating without any protection, and travelling at 75% of her potential speed. She was ordered to cut back on the amount of coal she used in order to cut costs.

We all know what happened from there. The Lusitania was sunk on May 17, 1915 forever changing American public sentiment of the war.

I just read all this information and felt compelled to share it. I am truly getting more and more worried every day of what this government is capable and willing to do.

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Military Coup’s are unfamiliar territory in the United States, but with President Bush in office one may be just around the corner. In May of 2007 President Bush signed into law a presidential directive that gives him the power to declare a state of emergency in the United States and establish martial law without the consent of Congress. Under section 2E we get this:

“(e) “Enduring Constitutional Government,” or “ECG,” means a cooperative effort among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Federal Government, coordinated by the President, as a matter of comity with respect to the legislative and judicial branches and with proper respect for the constitutional separation of powers among the branches, to preserve the constitutional framework under which the Nation is governed and the capability of all three branches of government to execute constitutional responsibilities and provide for orderly succession, appropriate transition of leadership, and interoperability and support of the National Essential Functions during a catastrophic emergency;”

The statement I highlighted gives the power to the President to direct the entire nation, suspend elections, habeas corpus, declare martial law and surveil the American people. Comity is defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as:

1. An atmosphere of social harmony.
2. See comity of nations.
3. The principle by which the courts of one jurisdiction may accede or give effect to the laws or decisions of another.

Basically it means that each branch will be ceding powers to other branches in order to keep continuity in the Constitutional Government. This matter of comity is coordinated by the president however, and therefore it’s pretty safe to assume that the Executive Branch will be doing the least amount of power-ceding. The president can basically choose to take any power he wishes, and all of this can be done without the consultation of the American People or Congress for that matter.

The definition for a situation calling for NSPD-51 to be enacted is almost as vague as it could get. Under 2B:

” (b) “Catastrophic Emergency” means any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions;”
The “regardless of location” is probably the most frightening part of this clause. Seeing as such relative terms as “severely” and extraordinary” the President can declare an emergency for almost anything. Say in spring 2008 we declare war on Iran. Iran launches a counterattack which takes a few hundred American Lives. Under NSPD-51 Section 2b that could be categorized as a “Catastrophic Emergency”. Even a localized wildfire or hurricane could be classified as a national emergency. And considering no one but the President has the right to determine said emergency, we may be living under a dictator in the next year.

To truly consider the potential this directive has means one has to prepare for a revolution in the next year. Since I’ve learned of NSPD-51 I’ve been saving money for a gun. I won’t take the chance of catching myself unarmed in a coup d’etat.

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After watching that I shook my head like a cartoon. He is predicting exactly what happened in Iraq. It’s unbelievable. It’s almost stand-alone proof that Cheney and Bush went in for corporate profit. Saddam had WMD’s in ‘94 and we knew about it. Maybe Cheney used to be a good guy.

Sorry it took so long for an update. It slipped my mind. This one isn’t supposed to be long, I’ll update again soon.

Edit: Strange, the original copy went down, but thats why I love youtube. I replaced it.

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