Smells Like Martial Law...

[dionysusdevotee]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness

If I'm reading this correctly the president just gave the military resource allocation, including labor, priority over pretty much everything, regardless of state of emergency.

"Upon such approval, the Secretary of the resource department

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[samayam]

>it demonstrates the continuity of agenda that spans both parties, and the further descent into tyranny.
I think it just prompts a good cop bad cop discussion when you mean to say corrupt police force. Anything someone says in disagreement with the superlative is going to be taken as an assertion of the opposite - something I think we both did there. I do admit to some small glimmer of optimism that says that one side is happily in league with the devil and the other side is just reluctantly but inevitably bought off. Just on even days of the month though.

"defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq; and enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions regarding Iraq."
At the time there was much debate as to whether this included the right to invade or go to war. When it came time to fund the war that came of it, many congresspeople used the power of the purse strings to say that the resolution did not give that right and voted against funding the war that would pay for itself. Those people were later characterized as Flip Floppers for "changing their minds about the war."

[dionysusdevotee]

I don't follow your first point.

To the second. There is a difference between the authorization of the use of force and the right to go to war.
Regardless, its pretty clear that congress never told Bush that he could only use force in compliance with the UN. Just the opposite.

[samayam]

My first point is when you lead with "A is teh worst" it prompts someone to say "What are you kidding? B did X, Y, and Z!" which you are primed to hear as "B is teh worst." Instead of focusing on the system that keeps allowing A and B to do X, Y, Z and the rest of the alphabet we get stuck on trivia. We end up arguing about whether it's the crabs or the fleas that itch the most instead of taking a bath.

Sorry, I get carried away with my metaphors.

That said, however, the GOP has goose-stepped its way to fascism for the last thirty-plus years that I have watched, while the Dems seem to be pulled along more reluctantly. Maybe that's just my bias speaking. Ultimately they are both tools of the Control party, which maybe makes the friendly face on the puppet on the left all that much more sinister.

[dionysusdevotee]

I see your metaphor. Really what I'm saying is "the most recent is the worst". Flavor of the month happens to be Democrat.

So Clinton and Obama are the ones who sign the EO to impose martial law, but the Dems are the reluctant ones? The Democratic presidents, Carter, Clinton Obama, are horrific globalist fascists. Its just that their tactics are more opaque to the left anyway.