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[Kamayani Bali Mahabal]

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Swine Flu: Path to Martial Law?
Written by John Griffing

Could a form of martial law be imminent?  Obama appears ready to cross
the Rubicon, and all he needs is a killer virus.

Let’s connect some dots.

Remember President Obama’s Executive Order basing 80,000 active troops
at home for the first time in the history of the peacetime military
establishment to “help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal
with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and
chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or
high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack….”

Now connect that information to the recent announcement that the
military has established regional deployment locations all across the
United States to “assist civilian authorities in the event of a
significant outbreak of the H1N1 virus this fall, according to Defense
Department officials.”

Civil unrest and crowd control?  Significant outbreak of the H1N1
virus this fall?  What do they know that we don’t?

Swine flu has been made into a crisis in the minds of the public, even
though swine flu, or H1N1, is the most non-lethal “killer” virus ever
uncovered.   As a cataclysmic event demanding military assistance, it
ranks near zero.  It is doubtful whether swine flu could even be
classified as an “epidemic,” much less a “pandemic.”

Regular influenza, the common flu, kills 36,000 people every year.
The 1918 flu pandemic killed an estimated 50-100 million people
worldwide over a period of two years, approximately one-third the
population of Europe at that time.  Global swine flu deaths topped
just 1,000 this year.

But President Obama is predicting death tolls of 90,000 and possible
infection of up to half the US population.

While every life matters, in statistical terms swine flu is a
comparatively minor problem, which makes the hype by those in
government and the military all the more suspicious.

The National Guard is even practicing mock takeovers of public schools
in the event of an “H1N1 riot,” a description that elicits mixed
responses.   What kind of riot could arise out of a flu that has only
killed 1,000 worldwide?  Washington certainly seems to be looking for
some rationale for enhanced domestic military involvement, whether
credible or not.

Martial law has essentially been on the table since President Obama
took office, thanks to the Bush Administration’s dramatic revisions of
the Posse Comitatus Act —which limited deployment of the US military
at home—in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.  With impeccable timing,
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has gone before Congress asking for
the unprecedented authority to base 400,000 soldiers in communities
all across the United States.

A recent US Army War College Report even outlined the conditions under
which martial law could be introduced, listing:

    …unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning political and
legal order, purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive
public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human
disasters are all paths to disruptive domestic shock. [Emphasis
added.]

The CDC is finalizing quarantine regulations formulated during the
Bush years that provide for quarantining “a large group of persons”
suspected of having swine flu or other illnesses listed in an
executive order.   This means that President Obama can quarantine
anyone as long as they have an illness he determines to be dangerous.
These new regulations even permit "provisional" quarantine of persons
not actually carrying any virus.   In one section, the regulations
empower the president to quarantine anyone that does not agree to be
vaccinated, an ominous condition since recent investigations have
revealed that swine flu vaccines can cause serious medical
complications.   Thousands of doctors have voiced strong opposition to
the proposed swine flu vaccine, due to its association with
neurological disorders.   No matter, a bill before the Massachusetts
State Senate would permit authorities to enter homes and detain
without warrant citizens who do not agree to be forcibly vaccinated.
Iowa just released a new Orwellian quarantine policy directive that
states in the event of a swine flu outbreak, “your home and other less
restrictive alternatives are not acceptable.”  These moves appear to
be the result of federal incentives advancing mandatory vaccination.

The Army hasn’t missed a step, putting out ads for
“Internment/Resettlement Specialists.”  And, though most of the wild
claims about “FEMA camps” have been appropriately and properly
discredited, the fact remains that the Homeland Security Department
has signed a $385 million contract with Halliburton subsidiary KBR
Construction to build such facilities on an “as-needed” basis.

If you’re not already feeling nervous, revisit President Obama’s
spine-chilling campaign pledge:

    We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the
national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian
national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just
as well-funded.

With the Serve America Act, this alarming proposition has become
reality.  The broad authority given to this force is staggering.
Section 1505 gives the newly created National Civilian Community Corps
the power to address national “needs” related to “natural and other
disasters,” “infrastructure improvement,” “environmental stewardship
and conservation,” “energy conservation,” and “urban and rural
development.”  The legislation reiterates that the corps will “combine
the best practices of civilian service with the best aspects of
military service.”

 Nowhere have these two spheres ever been combined that tyranny has
not resulted.

If these recent events were mere coincidence, Americans could
peacefully go about their business.  But Obama is no ordinary
President.  This is the man who began his political career in the home
of terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, former members of the
notorious Weather Underground that plotted the deaths of 25 million
Americans in "re-education camps."

Even so, it sounds crazy, doesn’t it?  Mass internment and quarantine
of Americans?  Martial law used illegally to quell opposition to
government policies?  After all, this is America, not some banana
republic.

But this is not the America of even 10 years ago. This is President
Obama’s brave new America.  Differences of opinion are criminalized,
violating freedom of conscience in the deepest sense.  Freedom of the
press is assaulted with newspaper “bailouts” and diversity
requirements imposed on local radio stations. Children face the
possibility of weeklong, year-round education, effectively
circumventing parents and making children wards of the state.   Czars
govern in the place of elected officials.  Key private sector
companies are now under the direct control of the President.

The President has even proven willing to use healthcare reform to
target the elderly, recasting human life in terms of the collective
good.   The White House has even urged fellow citizens to inform on
opponents of Obama’s healthcare bill. In this environment, the
prospect of martial law doesn’t sound that far-fetched.

But isn’t this unconstitutional?  No matter.  The Constitution means
nothing to President Obama, who has repeatedly implied the need to
“break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the
Founding Fathers in the Constitution….”

Thomas Jefferson had a different view:

    Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism...In questions of
power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him
down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.

But when the President considers the Constitution to be nothing more
than an archaic suggestion, no travesty is unthinkable.  And the
unthinkable is only a manufactured flu pandemic away.  I desperately
hope I am wrong in connecting these dots, but in light of the
President’s stated agenda, and his known track record on ethical
issues, the possibility of abuses must be considered.  After all,
stranger things have happened.

American Thinker - 2009-09-06
http://www.australia.to/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14173:swine-flu-path-to-martial-law&catid=116:breaking-news&Itemid=202


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