It’s All Over But The Rounding Up
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 2:03PM [Ed. Note: The Following article is by TDV Correspondent, Gary Kinghorn]
“None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Well, things are happening fast and furious now, and I’m not talking about Eric Holder. I’m talking about Senate Bill 1867, the “Indefinite Detention Bill”, passed by the Senate just recently. There are now no longer any pretenses about Constitutional rights for Americans. Those that falsely believe they are free will soon be getting educated otherwise.
As most of you have probably heard, SB 1867 puts the U.S. military in charge of the “battlefield” that is the United States, and gives them the right to round up any “terrorists”, which includes U.S. citizens, and to detain them indefinitely, without charge. The presumption of innocence has changed to a presumption of guilt, and you may never get the ability to have your story heard. According to normally state-friendly, Wired.com, “So despite the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a right to trial, the Senate bill would let the government lock up any citizen it swears is a terrorist, without the burden of proving its case to an independent judge, and for the lifespan of an amorphous war that conceivably will never end. And because the Senate is using the bill that authorizes funding for the military as its vehicle for this dramatic constitutional claim, it’s pretty likely to pass.”
Although Obama has claimed that he will veto the bill, the bill passed the Senate by an astounding 93-7 vote indicating that a veto override may be a mere formality. The bill must also be resolved with a similar bill passed in the House (H.R. 1540), but given the wide margin of passage in the Senate across both parties, again, there’s very little hope that the House will water down the details.
As Greg Hunter, of USAwatchdog.com poses, “My other big concern is if 93 Senators from both parties voted for this unconstitutional legislation, what do these folks see coming? What future scenario do they all see? Billionaire investor George Soros is not looking at a rosy future from his vantage point. He see’s global financial calamity coming. He recently said, “The global financial system is in a “self-reinforcing process of disintegration. . . .The consequences could be quite disastrous.”
Now right on the heels of SB 1867, Halliburton subsidiary KBR has issued a request for bids to staff the FEMA camps in each state around the country that it helped construct. (The leaked KBR document can be found here.) These detention camps, whose purpose has always been controversial, but whose existence was never denied, now look to be getting fully staffed for widespread use sometime in 2012. The question is for who? And for what?
Although the KBR document indicates this is a “CONTINGENCY PROJECT”, and we don’t know what the contingency is, the speed at which they are moving to ramp up the project even before the Indefinite Detention Bill becomes law leads me to believe they know more about what’s coming than they are letting on.
And now, in addition to the KBR proposal, we have the National Guard producing a slick recruitment video for FEMA camp staffers under the title “Military Occupational Specialty: Internment Resettlement Specialist”. (The video can be found here.)
These staffers are “Combat support soldiers, trained to fight…” So much for Posse Comitatus, I guess. I particularly like where the job description includes “ensuring the humane treatment of detainees, and to assist them in returning to a productive life.” I get all warm and fuzzy just thinking about how U.S. citizen-terrorists by the thousands will be rounded up and rehabilitated to proper ways of thinking and released back to be with the happy productive people of society. I bet the Nazi’s thought it would pretty much go that way as well. And if the detainees don’t come around so quickly, well, what’s a poor gun-toting psychopath to do?
What does it all mean? I don’t know, but a wicked wind this way blows. Jeff Berwick has stated, "we don’t need a piece of paper (e.g., the Constitution) to know that we’re free" (which is good, because the Constitution is irrelevant). But, if you are still living in the U.S. (and how far behind is Canada?), and your government has the legal authority to lock up whoever doesn’t agree with it, indefinitely, without charge, what exactly are you? I could name a lot of things before “free”. Naïve, potentially.
The good news is that the pretenses have been dropped, and anyone halfway paying attention should now know what they are up against, and should be thinking about a reasonable course of action. Like Janis Joplin says, “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.” Do you have anything left to lose?
Gary KinghornBio: Gary Kinghorn is currently a senior marketing manager at Cisco in Silicon Valley, and is a part time ex-pat in Argentina at Doug Casey's "Galt's Gulch" in Cafayate. He is a long-time student of the Austrian School of Economics and previously worked as a financial advisor at Citigroup/Smith Barney. He continues to follow and offer advice on the economy, geopolitical landscape and asset protection strategies.
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Reader Comments (10)
Did you notice the end: "In the Military Police Corp .. you will be providing both combat support and law enforcement... always upholding our motto: "Of the Troops and For the Troops""
When did the motto of the military become "Of the Troops and For the Troops"?
I guess they're really not pretending anymore to serve and protect the people of this country. It's all about serving and protecting the military itself. No surprise there.
Doesn't help that I'm a student...
http://youtu.be/cp069Y_P-9M
Keeping fear alive and well is also useful for keeping the masses from making changes. Tell them repeatedly that they live in a high tech surveillance society and they have no rights, and they will likely stay home and watch TV instead of trying to make any changes to the central banker stranglehold.
Endless central banker fiat money out of thin air buys the best human behavior experts in the world. They know exactly what needs to be said, and for how long, to keep consumerism in place and protected at all costs.
The transfer of consumerism over to lesser developed countries is what is happening right now. Consumerism will still remain alive and well n the US, although it will take on a more militarized bent and be focused on protected the environment, despite that the environment is just fine.
I haven't read it yet.
http://www.naturalnews.com/034404_preppers_collapse_bugging_out.html#ixzz1gXIazhXB