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19 May 2008 - 15 אייר 5768 by Huw
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Sigh, I remember the same exact story with the same exact wording being run in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. It is the story that will never go away. The interesting part is that there is some truth to the continuing stories.
See http://www.greatdreams.com/concentration-camp-locations.htm
Look particularly at the first part of that webpage. Note that most of the orders having to do with emergency preparedness actually date to the era of President John F. Kennedy. Note that almost every president since then has either renewed or issued a new version of the orders. Note that most orders have to simply do with what needs to be done in a disaster of any type. And, yes, some of the orders have to do with the possibly horrendous situation of another world war or multiple terrorist attacks.
May I remind you all that the biggest criticism of Katrina was that the Federal government DID NOT become involved soon enough? In fact, we criticize President Bush precisely because he DID NOT invoke the authority of several of those declarations and DID NOT send in troops, etc.?
In fact, in any of the several national disaster situations under which the order could have been invoked in the last forty-some years since the first order, they have never ever been invoked in full. And, when they have been minimally invoked, it has been about as great a disaster as the disaster. Does anyone remember that various incapable FEMA responses to being mobilized?
We, then, turn around and assume that a President will somehow invoke those orders (that have never been invoked, even when there was reason to do so), that the country will somehow not rebel, that the judiciary will somehow not react, that the Congress will be complicit and not revoke the orders, that the Pentagon will seamlessly obey (oh, yes, those Pentagon black helicopters). It is a plot born only in Hollywood or extreme conspiracy theory.
Oh, yes, darn, I forgot that since I was a teenager, there has been a news story at least once under every Presidency speaking in a scary voice about how this could be the President that will invoke every one of those orders at the same time to weave a seamless dictatorial control of the USA.
Color me disgusted.
I know those who say that Fascism will arise in the US from the Left, not the right. Others say that it will come draped in a flag and carrying a cross. And there is much outcry from all sides of the looney bin. (Here, too.)
I wonder if that constant outcry might not serve a corrective function? Imagine if such a constant outcry - public and loud - had been present in Germany *and* around the world in the 1930s.
Good point. on the constant outcry.
However, sometimes that outcry can be quite misused and manipulated. Does anyone remember a certain Presidential campaign in which the slogan was “Vote or Die!”? The year was 2004, and the author was P. Diddy. The looney bin struck in all its misinformed futility. The only proposal to re-establish the draft was by one DEMOCRATIC representative who was widely ignored by both parties. Nevertheless, the loony bin was convinced that it would be a REPUBLICAN who would re-instate the draft.
It seems odd to me to later claim victory over an issue that was not even on the agenda (except for that one Democrat), was being widely ignored by both parties, had never been proposed by the President, etc. It is arguing that we did not get a draft because we began objecting to one before anyone was even thinking of one (except for that one Democratic representative). But, then, arguing from silence and what might possible be is, indeed, the hallmark of the looney bin.