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From: thomaswheat@hotmail.com (Thomas J Wheat)
Newsgroups: alt.politics
Subject: FEMA US Northern Command, Pentagon, Domestic surveillance
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Another hairbrained conspiracy file generated by
http://www.geocities.com/s011023
FEMA, CIA and the Pentagon and Domestic surveilance
also isn't this kind of coincidental,...... 1993 world trade center
bombed during military review and a major arm summit, 2001 same
scenario...check this page out man!
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1993
The first major study on transforming the military after the Cold
War reaffirms the "two-war strategy" - calling for military
preparedness to fight two regional wars simultaneously. In
January, Russia and the United States sign START II, calling for
halving each country's nuclear warheads. On Feb. 23 Arab terrorists
bomb the World Trade Center, killing six and injuring 1,000.
2001
January 2001
President George W. Bush asks for the largest defense budget
increase since the 1980s and orders review of the nation's military
capability.
Sept. 11, 2001
Al Qaeda terrorists attack World Trade Center
and the Pentagon,
killing 3,000. President Bush declares war on terrorism.
June 13, 2002
Bush withdraws U.S. from ABM treaty.
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quotation selections from The congressional quarterly Researcher
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for more info on domestic surveilance check out
this new york times
article: Becker, Elizabeth, "Bush Is to Propose
Broad New Powers In
Domestic Security," The New York Times, July 16, 2002, p. A1.
The Bush administration's domestic-security proposal calls for
possible changes to the law that could allow the military to operate
more freely within the United States.
9/13/02
"Pentagon officials traditionally have opposed exceptions to the
law, fearing domestic assignments could weaken the military's
readiness overseas. However, the terrorist attacks blurred that
distinction. "
"The administration, eager to strengthen local defenses against
terrorist attack, has asked for a review of the law's ban on domestic
military involvement."
Air Force Gen. Ralph E. Eberhart, who heads the
Northern Command,
created after Sept. 11 to boost domestic security, is
among a handful of military brass who advocate amending the law to
enhance the military's contribution to homeland defense. "My view has
been that Posse Comitatus will constantly be under
review as we mature
this command," he said.
The command, to begin operations Oct. 1 at its headquarters in
Colorado Springs, will deploy military personnel to back up domestic
agencies such as the FBI and the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA), as needed in emergencies. [11] [11] Quoted by Eric Schmitt, "Wider Military
Role in U.S. Is Urged," The New York Times, July 21, 2002.
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FEMA Executive Orders
http://www.trunkerton.fsnet.co.uk/
Some people have referred to it as the "secret government" of
the
United States. It is not an elected body, it does not involve itself
in public disclosures, and it even has a quasi-secret budget in the
billions of dollars. This government organization has more power than
the President of the United States or the Congress, it has the power
to suspend laws, move entire populations, arrest and detain citizens
without a warrant and hold them without trial, it can seize property,
food supplies, transportation systems, and can suspend the
Constitution Not only is it the most powerful entity in the United
States, but it was not even created under Constitutional law by the
Congress. It was a product of a Presidential Executive Order. No, it
is not the U.S. military nor the Central Intelligence Agency, they are
subject to Congress. The organization is called FEMA, which stands for
the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Originally conceived in the
Richard Nixon Administration, it was refined by President Jimmy Carter
and given teeth in the Ronald Reagan and George Bush Administrations.
FEMA had one original concept when it was created, to assure the
survivability of the United States government in the event of a
nuclear attack on this nation. It was also provided with the task of
being a federal coordinating body during times of domestic disasters,
such as earthquakes, floods and hurricanes. Its awesome powers grow
under the tutelage of people like Lt. Col. Oliver North and General
Richard Secord, the architects on the Iran-Contra
scandal and the
looting of America's savings and loan institutions. FEMA has even been
given control of the State Defense Forces, a rag-tag, often considered
neo-Nazi, civilian army that will substitute for the National Guard,
if the Guard is called to duty overseas.
THE MOST POWERFUL ORGANIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES.
Though it may be the most powerful organization in the United States,
few people know it even exists. But it has crept into our private
lives. Even mortgage papers contain FEMA's name in
small print if the
property in question is near a flood plain. FEMA was deeply involved
in the Los Angeles riots and the 1989 Loma Prieta
earthquake in the
San Francisco Bay Area. Some of the black helicopter traffic reported
throughout the United States, but mainly in the West, California,
Washington, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Colorado, are flown by FEMA
personnel. FEMA has been given responsibility for many new disasters
including urban forest fires, home heating emergencies, refugee
situations, urban riots, and emergency planning for nuclear and toxic
incidents. In the West, it works in conjunction with the Sixth Army.
FEMA was created in a series of Executive Orders. A Presidential
Executive Order, whether Constitutional or not, becomes law simply by
its publication in the Federal Registry. Congress is by-passed.
Executive Order Number 12148 created the Federal Emergency
Management
Agency that is to interface with the Department of Defense for civil
defense planning and funding. An "emergency czar" was appointed.
FEMA
has only spent about 6 percent of its budget on national emergencies.
The bulk of their funding has been used for the construction of secret
underground facilities to assure continuity of government in case of a
major emergency, foreign or domestic.
Executive Order Number 12656 appointed the National Security Council
as the principal body that should consider emergency powers. This
allows the government to increase domestic intelligence and
surveillance of U.S. citizens and would restrict the freedom of
movement within the United States and grant the government the right
to isolate large groups of civilians. The National Guard could be
federalized to seal all borders and take control of U.S. air space and
all ports of entry. Here are just a few Executive Orders associated
with FEMA that would suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
These Executive Orders have been on record for nearly 30 years and
could be enacted by the stroke of a Presidential pen:
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes
of
transportation and control of highways and seaports.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control
the
communication media.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all
electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to take over all food
resources and farms.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians
into
work brigades under government supervision.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all
health,
education and welfare functions.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates the Postmaster General to operate
a
national registration of all persons.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all
airports
and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to
relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate
areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over railroads,
inland waterways and public storage facilities.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of
Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders
into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic
or financial crisis.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to
enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial
support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all
aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise
and assist the President.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to
federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive
Orders issued over a fifteen year period.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness
Agency
to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of
production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries,
credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any
undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of
emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the
action for six months. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has
broad powers in every aspect of the nation.
General Frank Salzedo, chief of FEMA's Civil Security Division stated
in a 1983 conference that he saw FEMA's role as a
"new frontier in the
protection of individual and governmental leaders from assassination,
and of civil and military installations from sabotage and/or attack,
as well as prevention of dissident groups from gaining access to U.S.
opinion, or a global audience in times of crisis." FEMA's
powers were
consolidated by President Carter to incorporate: The National Security
Act of 1947, which allows for the strategic relocation of industries,
services, government and other essential economic activities, and to
rationalize the requirements for manpower, resources and production
facilities; The 1950 Defense Production Act, which gives the President
sweeping powers over all aspects of the economy; The Act of August 29,
1916, which authorizes the Secretary of the Army, in time of war, to
take possession of any transportation system for transporting troops,
material, or any other purpose related to the emergency; and The
International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which enables the
President to seize the property of a foreign country or national.
These powers were transferred to FEMA in a sweeping consolidation in
1979.
HURRICANE ANDREW FOCUSED ATTENTION ON FEMA. FEMA's
deceptive role
really did not come to light with much of the public until Hurricane
Andrew smashed into the U.S. mainland. As Russell R. Dynes, director
of the Disaster Research Center of the University of Delaware, wrote
in The World and I, "...The eye of the political
storm hovered over
the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA became a convenient
target for criticism." Because FEMA was accused of dropping the ball
in Florida, the media and Congress commenced to study this agency.
What came out of the critical look was that FEMA was spending 12 times
more for "black operations" than for disaster relief. It spent $1.3
billion building secret bunkers throughout the United States in
anticipation of government disruption by foreign or domestic upheaval.
Yet fewer than 20 members of Congress, only members with top security
clearance, know of the $1.3 billion expenditure by FEMA for
non-natural disaster situations. These few Congressional leaders state
that FEMA has a "black curtain" around its operations. FEMA has
worked
on National Security programs since 1979, and its predecessor, the
Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency, has secretly spent millions of
dollars before being merged into FEMA by President Carter in 1979.
FEMA has developed 300 sophisticated mobile units that are capable of
sustaining themselves for a month. The vehicles are located in five
areas of the United States. They have tremendous communication systems
and each contains a generator that would provide power to 120 homes,
but have never been used for disaster relief. FEMA's
enormous powers
can be triggered easily. In any form of domestic or foreign problem,
perceived and not always actual, emergency powers can be enacted. The
President of the United States now has broader powers to declare
martial law, which activates FEMA's extraordinary
powers. Martial law
can be declared during time of increased tension overseas, economic
problems within the United States, such as a depression, civil unrest,
such as demonstrations or scenes like the Los Angeles riots, and in a
drug crisis.
These Presidential powers have increased with successive Crime Bills,
particularly the 1991 and 1993 Crime Bills, which increase the power
to suspend the rights guaranteed under the Constitution and to seize
property of those suspected of being drug dealers, to individuals who
participate in a public protest or demonstration. Under emergency
plans already in existence, the power exists to suspend the
Constitution and turn over the reigns of government to FEMA and
appointing military commanders to run state and local governments.
FEMA then would have the right to order the detention of anyone whom
there is reasonable ground to believe...will engage in, or probably
conspire with others to engage in acts of espionage or sabotage. The
plan also authorized the establishment of concentration camps for
detaining the accused, but no trial.
Three times since 1984, FEMA stood on the threshold of taking control
of the nation. Once under President Reagan in 1984, and twice under
President Bush in 1990 and 1992. But under those three scenarios,
there was not a sufficient crisis to warrant risking martial law. Most
experts on the subject of FEMA and Martial Law insisted that a crisis
has to appear dangerous enough for the people of the United States
before they would tolerate or accept complete government takeover. The
typical crisis needed would be threat of imminent nuclear war, rioting
in several U.S. cites simultaneously, a series of national disasters
that affect widespread danger to the populous, massive terrorist
attacks, a depression in which tens of millions are unemployed and
without financial resources, or a major environmental disaster.
THREE TIMES FEMA STOOD BY READY FOR EMERGENCY
In April 1984, President Reagan signed Presidential Director Number 54
that allowed FEMA to engage in a secret national "readiness
exercise"
under the code name of REX 84. The exercise was to test FEMA's
readiness to assume military authority in the event of a "State of
Domestic National Emergency" concurrent with the launching of a direct
United States military operation in Central America. The plan called
for the deputation of U.S. military and National Guard units so that
they could legally be used for domestic law enforcement. These units
would be assigned to conduct sweeps and take into custody an estimated
400,000 undocumented Central American immigrants in the United States.
The immigrants would be interned at 10 detention centers to be set up
at military bases throughout the country.
REX 84 was so highly guarded that special metal security doors were
placed on the fifth floor of the FEMA building in Washington, D.C.
Even long-standing employees of the Civil Defense of the Federal
Executive Department possessing the highest possible security
clearances were not being allowed through the newly installed metal
security doors. Only personnel wearing a special red Christian cross
or crucifix lapel pin were allowed into the premises. Lt. Col. North
was responsible for drawing up the emergency plan, which U.S. Attorney
General William French Smith opposed vehemently. The plan called for
the suspension of the Constitution, turning control of the government
over to FEMA, appointment of military commanders to run state and
local governments and the declaration of Martial Law. The Presidential
Executive Orders to support such a plan were already in place. The
plan also advocated the rounding up and transfer to "assembly centers
or relocation camps" of a least 21 million American Negroes in the
event of massive rioting or disorder, not unlike the rounding up of
the Jews in Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
The second known time that FEMA stood by was in 1990 when Desert Storm
was enacted. Prior to President Bush's invasion of Iraq, FEMA began to
draft new legislation to increase its already formidable powers. One
of the elements incorporated into the plan was to set up operations
within any state or locality without the prior permission of local or
state authorities. Such prior permission has always been required in
the past. Much of the mechanism being set into place was in
anticipation of the economic collapse of the Western World. The war
with Iraq may have been conceived as a ploy to boost the bankrupt
economy, but it only pushed the West into deeper recession. The third
scenario for FEMA came with the Los Angeles riots after the Rodney
King brutality verdict. Had the rioting spread to other cities, FEMA
would have been empowered to step in. As it was, major rioting only
occurred in the Los Angeles area, thus preventing a pretext for a FEMA
response.
On July 5, 1987, the Miami Herald published reports on FEMA's
new
goals. The goal was to suspend the Constitution in the event of a
national crisis, such as nuclear war, violent and widespread internal
dissent, or national opposition to a U.S. military invasion abroad.
Lt. Col. North was the architect. National Security Directive Number
52 issued in August 1982, pertains to the "Use of National Guard
Troops to Quell Disturbances." The crux of the problem is that FEMA
has the power to turn the United States into a police state in time of
a real crisis or a manufactured crisis. Lt. Col. North virtually
established the apparatus for dictatorship. Only the criticism of the
Attorney General prevented the plans from being adopted. But
intelligence reports indicate that FEMA has a folder with 22 Executive
Orders for the President to sign in case of an emergency. It is
believed those Executive Orders contain the framework of North's
concepts, delayed by criticism but never truly abandoned. The crisis,
as the government now sees it, is civil unrest. For generations, the
government was concerned with nuclear war, but the violent and
disruptive demonstrations that surrounded the Vietnam War era prompted
President Nixon to change the direction of emergency powers from war
time to times of domestic unrest.
Diana Raynolds, program director of the Edward
R. Murrow Center,
summed up the dangers of FEMA today and the public reaction to Martial
Law in a drug crisis: "It was James Madison's worst nightmare that a
righteous faction would someday be strong enough to sweep away the
Constitutional restraints designed by the framers to prevent the
tyranny of centralized power, excessive privilege, an arbitrary
governmental authority over the individual. These restraints, the
balancing and checking of powers among branches and layers of
government, and the civil guarantees, would be the first casualties in
a drug-induced national security state with Reagan's Civil Emergency
Preparedness unleashed. Nevertheless, there would be those who would
welcome NSC (National Security Council) into the drug fray, believing
that increasing state police powers to emergency levels is the only
way left to fight American's enemy within.
In the short run, a national security state would probably be a relief
to those whose personal security and quality of life has been
diminished by drugs or drug related crime. And, as the general public
watches the progression of institutional chaos and social decay, they
too may be willing to pay the ultimate price, one drug free America
for 200 years of democracy."
The first targets in any FEMA emergency would be Hispanics and Blacks,
the FEMA orders call for them to be rounded up and detained. Tax
protesters, demonstrators against government military intervention
outside U.S. borders, and people who maintain weapons in their homes
are also targets. Operation Trojan Horse is a program designed to
learn the identity of potential opponents to martial law. The program
lures potential protesters into public forums, conducted by a
"hero"
of the people who advocates survival training. The list of names
gathered at such meetings and rallies are computerized and then
targeted in case of an emergency.
The most shining example of America to the world has been its peaceful
transition of government from one administration to another. Despite
crises of great magnitude, the United States has maintained its
freedom and liberty. This nation now stands on the threshold of rule
by non-elected people asserting non-Constitutional powers. Even
Congress cannot review a Martial Law action until six months after it
has been declared. For the first time in American history, the reigns
of government would not be transferred from one elected element to
another, but the Constitution, itself, can be suspended. The scenarios
established to trigger FEMA into action are generally found in the
society today, economic collapse, civil unrest, drug problems,
terrorist attacks, and protests against American intervention in a
foreign country. All these premises exist, it could only be a matter
of time in which one of these triggers the entire emergency necessary
to bring FEMA into action, and then it may be too late, because under
the FEMA plan, there is no contingency by which Constitutional power
is restored.
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