Comments | eldaradan: Oh, so that's what's going on.

eldaradan

Oh, so that's what's going on.

Oct 11, 2008 22:01

So, I've been in a bit of a media and internet blackout lately. I don't like what I'm hearing.

First, Naomi Wolf is crying "coup", since the US Army is apparently being domestically deployed, and under the Defense Authorization Act 2006, they can get away with an utterly unreasonable amount of shit ( Read more... )

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mercutio_bgq October 13 2008, 02:19:40 UTC

I never quite got where people got the idea that Bush wouldn't leave office in January. I've heard a lot of wild theories about things he's done while in office, and I fully expect him to file REAMS of paperwork on his final day pardoning all sorts of shady characters and trying to adjust executive power, but I have seen nothing to show that he would attempt to hold onto power. It would be damn near impossible, from my point of view. Congress would mobilize the military, and it would be done. Bush has such low approval ratings among Congress, the judiciary, and the military that he has no base with which to hold on to power.

The ONLY scenario where I could see it happening would be to fabricate a national tragedy right before the transition (something like a major war or 5,000+ casualty terrorist attack). And it would last 30 days at most.

calodar October 14 2008, 00:55:29 UTC

Congress can't mobilize the military. They report directly to the president. They also get fucked if they refuse to follow an order.

eldaradan October 14 2008, 10:13:07 UTC

Yes. Now, thanks to the Defense Authorization Act, US troops commanded to fire on US civilians have to do it--no, they don't have to follow illegal orders... but it's not an illegal order.

eldaradan October 14 2008, 10:11:30 UTC

Well, I'm one of the people who has had an idea that something like that is possible for some years. It wasn't necessarily 'obvious' before, but now, in case of the years of fear-mongering over the word 'terrorist' and an ever-expanding definition of the word, and after the Defense Authorization Act effectively reamed posse comitatus and the insurrection act, and after the extreme repression at the last two RNCs, after all that--now that the 3rd Infantry's first brigade is stationed ambiguously somewhere in America, according to the Army Times: "They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control" or other standard lurking terrorist attack threats... I'm more worried than I was before ( ... )

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