Bamford himself writes that Operation Northwoods “may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government.”

FEMA, whose main role is disaster response, is also responsible for handling U.S. domestic unrest.

From 1982 to 1984, Colonel Oliver North assisted FEMA in drafting its civil defense preparations. Details of those plans emerged during the 1987 Iran-Contra scandal. They included executive orders providing for suspension of the Constitution, the imposition of martial law, internment camps, and the turning over of government to the President and FEMA.

By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly
and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
1920 statement by John Maynard Keynes

We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Q: Senator Levin, you and other Democrats in Congress have voiced fear that you simply don't have enough money for the large increase in defense that the Pentagon is seeking, especially for missile defense, and you fear that you'll have to dip into the Social Security funds to pay for it. Does this sort of thing convince you that an emergency exists in this country to increase defense spending, to dip into Social Security, if necessary, to pay for defense spending -- increase defense spending?

Levin: One thing where the committee was unanimous on, among many, many other things, was that the -- we authorized the full request of the President, including the $18 billion. So I would say that Democrats and Republicans have seen the need for the request.

Q: Mr. Secretary, could you describe what steps are being taken -- defensive measures -- beyond force protection, and whether there's been any operational planning for homeland defense and as to --

Rumsfeld: Those aren't the kinds of things that one discusses.

The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Every member of Congress, every president, and every federal judge has sworn an oath to that. And the Constitution itself declares its supremacy. But the federal government has repeatedly evaded, avoided, and contradicted the Constitution.

Today, more than ever, the federal government is defining the parameters of its own power, and the courts are supporting the power-grab, according to Judge Andrew P. Napolitano in his new book, The Constitution in Exile: How the Federal Government Has Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land.

Thomas Jefferson once said that it is the natural order of things for government power to increase and human liberty to decrease. Now, best-selling author Judge Andrew P. Napolitano upholds that Jeffersonian tradition and shines a 1,000-megawatt spotlight on presidential, congressional, and judicial abuse of power.

o.p. by billybob
there is no justice. only money.

Don't fix it if it ain't broke, right? Well, once something breaks too much, and fixing doesn't seem to help. It is time for a new something.