America’s Shadow Government by John Whitehead

The next President’s going to inherit something more than a financial catastrophe. He’s going to inherit a shadow government which is essentially run by elected officials that can assume a power at any moment. This so called shadow government has been a long time coming; it’s not a new development. It’s been building up over the years, and now all it’s going to take is the right event, such as a terrorist attack for those in power – non-elected bureaucrats, to assume power and emerge from the shadows. Again, very very secret. President Bush in 2007 in a very stealth like fashion issued two directives setting up the continuity of government, which he doesn’t even need a terrorist attack to essentially take over the government and become a dictator. All that has to be declared is a national emergency which can be a catastrophe of any sort including the crash of Wall Street and people and people rioting on Wall Street and around the country. This could trigger the so called shadow government from emerging from the shadows. Under these directives if Bush declares martial law and the shadow government emerges he’ll become a dictator in the sense that he doesn’t have to reconvene the Supreme Court or Congress and most likely he won’t. As anybody who has studies George Bush and his actions over the last seven to eight years, he is not one that respects the Constitution.

The idea of putting people in detention camps is not so far fetched. Because several years ago, a subsidiary of the Haliburton Corporation, which has done a lot of the private contract work, and made a lot of money off the tax payers backs in so called rebuilding Iraq – was given a $385 Million contract to build concentration or detention camps in this country, supposedly for, and this has been the argument for illegal aliens or illegal immigrants and those kind of people, but the language is so vague in the contract that it could mean anyone even people who are politically opposed, who exercise their free speech rights, either on the internet or through demonstrating or whatever, they could be considered a dangerous individual and be put in one of these detention camps.

This becomes even more disturbing with the recent news of the deployment of military personnel on American soil for the first time. Under NORTHCOM which is a military command unit which was set up in 2002 to take control, again, if there was a natural disaster or some kind of national emergency where we would need to declare essentially martial law. The scary thing, and this has been detailed in a recent ArmyTimes article, is that these troops on American soil right now are being trained in police tactics – the use of batons, road blocks, tasers even – they’re going to become police. Well this is in direct violation of the 230 year old Posse Comitatus Law which says you’re not supposed to be, in this country, putting the military on the streets to be policemen. It’s a very dangerous thing to do because policemen and military personnel are trained to do two separate things. The police are supposedly trained to keep peace. Military soldiers are trained to kill; they’re trained to fight the enemy. And that’s the danger of all this. And this is actually happening in America.