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The Patriots
By Dr. Bob Bowman, Lt. Col., USAF, ret.
The United States is in trouble. We're in danger of becoming a fascist dictatorship where big government and big business combine to rule, and where the people are considered just a source of labor. The marriage of government and the investor class has succeeded in exporting our jobs, importing illegal aliens to provide a pool of cheap labor, and thus driving down wages for all American workers and destroying the middle class. Their foreign and military policies have led us into unnecessary wars of aggression to gain raw materials and enhance profits of the global robber barons. Their trade policies have resulted in capital flight, job loss, trade deficits, and the ownership of much of our infrastructure by foreign interests.
We've gotten into this fix because our presidents, of both parties, have been servants of the global investors, and because our representatives in Congress, again of both parties, have abdicated their Constitutional responsibilities and subjected themselves to an imperial presidency.
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Accordingly, "The Patriots" is not a political party, but a nonpartisan organization of patriotic Americans seeking to return our country to Constitutional government based on truth and in service of the people. For now, we operate as a project of the non-profit Institute for Space and Security Studies, a 501c(3) organization. Our immediate mission is to educate the American people on the issues. In the future, we may form a "Patriot PAC" to support candidates for public office and to promote specific legislation. We also intend to form a Patriot Caucus including members of Congress from all political parties. However, for now we are concentrating on public education.
The first question usually raised is, "Is this organization conservative or liberal?" The answer to that question is, "Yes." We have both conservative and liberal members, and both conservative and liberal ideas. But mostly, we are just patriotic Americans embodying the best of both conservatism and liberalism in the service of the American people. Few Patriots will agree with all of the following positions, but all ascribe to the basic devotion to Constitution, truth, and service to the people. That is what is important. The specific policy positions below are mine alone. I see them as a good basis for further discussion. They are all anathema to those currently in power.
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Interesting concept, obviously the Tally Ho Ho Ho crowd is gonna have trouble getting behind a group that will include Hagels and Pauls as well as Edwards and Obamas.
It kinda goes against the grain of the established group think.
Partisans are always full of shit to some degree.
What I found interesting was being reminded of a bit of history this afternoon. Did you know Hitler set about taking complete control by first legislating a consolidation of power in the event of national emergency, then creating an emergency?
I had forgotten it.
Interesting concept, obviously the Tally Ho Ho Ho crowd is gonna have trouble getting behind a group that will include Hagels and Pauls as well as Edwards and Obamas.
It kinda goes against the grain of the established group think.
Partisans are always full of shit to some degree.
What I found interesting was being reminded of a bit of history this afternoon. Did you know Hitler set about taking complete control by first legislating a consolidation of power in the event of national emergency, then creating an emergency?
I had forgotten it.
Your point? And Hitler did a bit more than that AND had his own army. He was raised to power just a few years after being convicted of Treason and imprisoned. The people in "the know" thought he was controllable.
Do some research on Stalin, you will find he too came to power because no one thought he was dangerous.
There is no one in this country with the kind of opportunity and resources Stalin and Hitler had, well the liberals through the democratic party have a strong presence in the rank and file of the Government work force, but they are not likely to be willing to support an overt Coup. There is a strong Conservative presence in the Military, but again, highly unlikely our military would support a coup.
THE BUSINESS PLOT TO OVERTHROW ROOSEVELT
In the summer of 1933, shortly after Roosevelt's "First 100 Days," America's richest businessmen were in a panic. It was clear that Roosevelt intended to conduct a massive redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor. Roosevelt had to be stopped at all costs.
The answer was a military coup. It was to be secretly financed and organized by leading officers of the Morgan and Du Pont empires. This included some of America's richest and most famous names of the time:
Irenee Du Pont - Right-wing chemical industrialist and founder of the American Liberty League, the organization assigned to execute the plot.
Grayson Murphy - Director of Goodyear, Bethlehem Steel and a group of J.P. Morgan banks.
William Doyle - Former state commander of the American Legion and a central plotter of the coup.
John Davis - Former Democratic presidential candidate and a senior attorney for J.P. Morgan.
Al Smith - Roosevelt's bitter political foe from New York. Smith was a former governor of New York and a codirector of the American Liberty League.
John J. Raskob - A high-ranking Du Pont officer and a former chairman of the Democratic Party. In later decades, Raskob would become a "Knight of Malta," a Roman Catholic Religious Order with a high percentage of CIA spies, including CIA Directors William Casey, William Colby and John McCone.
Robert Clark - One of Wall Street's richest bankers and stockbrokers.
Gerald MacGuire - Bond salesman for Clark, and a former commander of the Connecticut American Legion. MacGuire was the key recruiter to General Butler.
The plotters attempted to recruit General Smedley Butler to lead the coup. They selected him because he was a war hero who was popular with the troops. The plotters felt his good reputation was important to make the troops feel confident that they were doing the right thing by overthrowing a democratically elected president. However, this was a mistake: Butler was popular with the troops because he identified with them. That is, he was a man of the people, not the elite.
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What I found interesting was being reminded of a bit of history this afternoon. Did you know Hitler set about taking complete control by first legislating a consolidation of power in the event of national emergency, then creating an emergency?
I had forgotten it.
Good to see the level of awareness of the possibilities, I hope it's widespread across your nation.
Yep... the burning of the Reichstag (sp)... are you hip to False Flag operations?
What I found interesting was being reminded of a bit of history this afternoon. Did you know Hitler set about taking complete control by first legislating a consolidation of power in the event of national emergency, then creating an emergency?
I had forgotten it.
speak for yourself, dimbulb. I'll be going to see Dr Bowman speak, maybe you should climb out of your self imposed exile and join me.
nahhhhh, you might learn something.
Hitler claimed the act of a lone lunatic, Martinus van der Lubbe, was a part of a Communist plot to seize control of the German government. That act was the burning of the Reichstag which led to Hitler's suspension of the Weimar constitution, declaring that,
<blockquote>Thus restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press, on the right of assembly and association, and violations of the privacy of portal, telegraphic, and telephonic communications and warrants for house searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property rights are permissible beyond the legal limits other wise prescribed. - <i>The Coming of the Third Reich</i>, Richard J. Evans, pg 333</blockquote>
These restrictions were in effect until "further notice". This "Reichstag declaration" set the stage for the bloody, brutal suppression of political opposition that followed.
The sentiments of that declaration seem to be echoed in <a href=http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html>NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/NSPD 51</a>, which Dubbyuh signed without fanfare on 5/9/07.
This directive is disturbing in and of itself, but is even more so in light of Dubbyuh's behavior of late.
<blockquote> Friends of his from Texas were shocked recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the chest three times while he repeated "I am the president!" He also made it clear he was setting Iraq up so his successor could not get out of "our country's destiny." - <a href=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/viewpoints/stories/DN-geyer_31edi.ART.State.Edition1.4370227.html>Georgie Anne Geyer</a>, 5/31/07</blockquote>
And then there's this from the April 30th edition of <i>The Nelson Report</i>
<blockquote>Some big money players up from Texas recently paid a visit to their friend in the White House. The story goes that they got out exactly one question, and the rest of the meeting consisted of The President in an extended whine, a rant, actually, about no one understands him, the critics are all messed up, if only people would see what hes doing things would be OK etc., etc. This is called a bunker mentality and its not attractive when a friend does it. When the friend is the President of the United States, it can be downright dangerous.</blockquote>
Seems that the next step on his slide into oblivion is talking to the presidential portraits, in addition to whining about how unappreciated he is. We can only hope he doesn't drag the rest of the world down with him.
Your point? And Hitler did a bit more than that AND had his own army. He was raised to power just a few years after being convicted of Treason and imprisoned. The people in "the know" thought he was controllable.
Do some research on Stalin, you will find he too came to power because no one thought he was dangerous.
There is no one in this country with the kind of opportunity and resources Stalin and Hitler had, well the liberals through the democratic party have a strong presence in the rank and file of the Government work force, but they are not likely to be willing to support an overt Coup. There is a strong Conservative presence in the Military, but again, highly unlikely our military would support a coup.
My point is, didn't Bush just sign some executive order or some such giving the President sole authority to act in certain states of emergency?
And I'm not pointing a finger at Bush. I'm pointing a finger at the legislation itself, and what could happen. Has he signed into law something that can be abused in the future and used against "We, the people?"
I sometimes wonder if ANY of these damned politicians can see past the end of their own terms.
Look, I think Bush is capable of striving toward becoming an authoritarian dictator. So call me a fringebot.
But I also think Hillary is as or maybe even more likely to do the same. The executive order that Bush signed, the warrantless eavesdropping, the politicized DOJ, these are features of law and now tradition that Hillary will inherit in two short years.
NO president can be trusted to assert they are above the law via signing statements and 20 other "innovations" that Reagan and the Bush's have introduced.
Has it occured to any of ya'll that by 2016 we will more than likely have had a Bush or a Clinton as pres or VP for 36 years straight years? About 18% of the term of our nation? Almost two generations? Doesn't it occur that something is wrong with that? Something that would suggest a new dynasty instead of a democracy?
Granting expanded presidential powers is beyond foolish.
I tend to agree. However, on the other side of the coin, we have a legislature incapable of accomplishing anything preferring to spend their time engaged in petty partisan bickering.
The legislature is becoming less than worthless. That is a fact. But they pose little danger.
An executive dynasty that is above the law and the legislature and has packed the courts for 36 years poses a real danger. Not to mention the civil service appointments, military appointments and national security appointments.
