Blackwater Mercenaries: Coming Soon to Your Town

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Blackwater Mercenaries: Coming Soon to Your Town

September 11th, 2005 Administrator</em>-->

It is now obvious how martial law (not officially declared as such) will work in America in the wake of the devastation of New Orleans. Instead of federal troops or an influx of National Guard troops sent to â??restore orderâ?� (the latter mandated in our now anachronistic Constitution; see Article 1, Section 8) and empowered to â??suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions,â?� in Louisiana the state and federal governments have brazenly violated the Constitution by sending in Blackwater Security and other private goon squads. â??Heavily armed paramilitary mercenaries from the Blackwater private security firm, infamous for their work in Iraq, are openly patrolling the streets of New Orleans,â?� write Jeremy Scahill and Daniela Crespo. â??Some of the mercenaries say they have been â??deputizedâ?? by the Louisiana governor; indeed some are wearing gold Louisiana state law enforcement badges on their chests and Blackwater photo identification cards on their arms. They say they are on contract with the Department of Homeland Security and have been given the authority to use lethal force.â?�

Soon after Katrina slammed into New Orleans, the media reported the presence of Blackwater goons (and have no doubt, Blackwater hires â??special ops types from South Africaâ??s former apartheid regime,â?� according to James Ridgeway and others, people fairly characterized as murderous paramilitary goons). Initially, it was reported that Blackwater was hired to protect the property of New Orleansâ?? rich elite (and hotels and other businesses), but soon the company admitted it was â??helping the U.S. Coast Guard Sept. 1 with search-and-rescue missions, lending one of its Puma helicopters for the missionsâ?¦. [and] protecting facilities that house â??priceless art piecesâ?? and special landmarksâ?� from â??lootersâ?� who were mostly interested in water and food, not priceless art. â??We are preparing for a rather long deployment for this work,â?� Jack Serpas, who works for Securitas Security Services USA Inc., another â??securityâ?� firm, told Marguerite Higgins of the Washington Post on September 10.

â??As the threat of forced evictions now looms in New Orleans and the city confiscates even legally registered weapons from civilians, the private mercenaries of Blackwater patrol the streets openly wielding M-16s and other assault weapons,â?� note Scahill and Crespo, a fact that runs counter to Police Commissioner Eddie Compassâ?? assertion that only New Orleans law enforcement would carry and use weapons. In standard Bushian fashion, the Ministry of Homeland Security has feigned ignorance of this invasion of private security company goons in New Orleans. â??A spokesperson for the Homeland Security Department, Russ Knocke, told the Washington Post he knows of no federal plans to hire Blackwater or other private security,â?� write Scahill and Crespo.

Itâ??s like a scene out of Sinclair Lewisâ?? dystopic novel, It Canâ??t Happen Here. â??Gun toting militias terrorize the nation at a local level, with the redneck morons handed leadership roles in every community, with the right to summarily execute people who say the wrong thing. Resistors are threatened with imprisonment or death if they donâ??t go public supporting the party line,â?� opines Rob Kall for Op-Ed News. â??Lewis wrote his book in 1937, having see Hitlerâ??s rise to Power. Weâ??ve seen many articles describing how similarly the Bush administration has operated, starting with When Democracy Failed by Thom Hartmann. In 2002, Hartmannâ??s article seemed to reek of conspiracy theory and paranoia to some. Now, it is a frightening portent, characterizing too many parallels suggesting that we are much further along the dangerous road that Sinclair Lewis created as a fiction.â?� Kall continues:

An American city is under military rule, with citizens being dragged and handcuffed out of their homes, helpless, frail old women thrown around, manhandled, captured and thrown into transport trucks. FEMA has created â??detainment campsâ?� which people are not allowed to leave, where they get two meals a day, are not allowed to cook, canâ??t leave to go to churchâ?¦

As our illegitimate president and his cronies keep telling us, it is only a matter of time before a terrorist nuke takes out an American city. If this happens (and we are told repeatedly it is not a matter of if but when), the Bush administration, FEMA, the Ministry of Homeland Security, and the Pentagon will be ready, having field tested their â??responseâ?� in New Orleans. Expect Blackwater goons, experienced in killing â??insurgentsâ?� in South Africa and Iraq, to enter your houseâ??by way of kicking in the front door or pitching a stun grenade through the living room windowâ??and confiscate your weapons and haul you off to a FEMA concentration camp. Of course, they will bear special badges, issued by a corrupt or compromised local government, and thus it will be said the gun and Constitution nuts resisting will be going up against the will of the people (that is to say the will of our neolib plutocratic overseers who have decided the Constitution and a constitutional republic are no longer workable under the rubric of their globalist agenda).


Unfortunately, many Americans are so brainwashed (and afraid of al-CIA-duh, due to an unrelenting and highly organized campaign of fake terror alerts) they are unable to realize the threat (due in large part to a complicit media that soft pedals totalitarianism as â??compassionâ?�). For as Sinclair Lewis wrote in his prophetic novel, â??most of the easy-going descendants of the wise-cracking Benjamin Franklin had not learned that Patrick Henryâ??s â??Give me liberty or give me deathâ?? meant anything more than a high school yell or a cigarette slogan.â?� Many of them will come around when a goon trained by South Africaâ??s apartheid government shoves the muzzle of an M-16 in their faces, barking obscenities and smashing up the furniture. Of course, by then, it will be far too late.

pisshead Reviewed by pisshead on 09-13-2005. Blackwater Mercenaries: Coming Soon to Your Town Blackwater Mercenaries: Coming Soon to Your Town September 11th, 2005 Administrator</em>--> It is now obvious how martial law (not officially declared as such) will work in America in the wake of the devastation of New Orleans. Instead of federal troops or an influx of National Guard troops sent to â??restore orderâ?� (the latter mandated in our now anachronistic Constitution; see Article 1, Section 8) and empowered to â??suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions,â?� in Louisiana the Rating: 5

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Military Take-Over Of New Orleans A Harbinger Of The Future?

Chuck Baldwin | September 13 2005

The blame game has been in full swing ever since Hurricane Katrina crashed into the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast. Democrats want to use the disaster as a means to criticize the Bush administration. Republicans blame the Mayor of New Orleans and the Governor of Louisiana, both Democrats. However, one theme seems constant: the call for more involvement by the federal government.

For example, a Washington Post report dated Friday, September 9, 2005 begins, "The breakdown of local and state agencies that tried to respond to Hurricane Katrina has spurred fresh debate about whether disasters of such magnitude ought to be turned over to the U.S. military and other federal authorities to manage at the outset."

The Post quotes Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as saying, "The would-be first responders at the state and local level were themselves victims in very large numbers." The Post further reported Rumsfeld as saying, "the [federal] government would likely address again the question of 'lead responsibility' for the Defense Department in disaster response." The Post article also said, "He [Rumsfeld] noted that the issue was critical not only in responding to a natural catastrophe but also to a terrorist attack."

The Post story continued by saying, "Some homeland defense specialists have argued since Katrina struck that national plans must be revised to provide for a bigger and faster federalized effort, particularly in large-scale disasters."

The Post is not alone in highlighting the call for more federal involvement in America's domestic problems. The same day the Post report ran, the most influential newspaper in the U.S., The New York Times, also ran a major story on the subject. Furthermore, most every television and radio news outlet in the country has echoed the identical sentiment. One could even say that the media is clamoring for a federal government take-over of all domestic emergencies.

That the major media would demand more federal involvement in America's domestic affairs should not surprise us. After all, the vast majority of the media elite is composed of liberals who intrinsically believe that more government is always better no matter what the problem! What is disturbing (and somewhat new) is the fact that even conservatives have jumped on the "more federal government" bandwagon.

Instead of addressing the real weaknesses and needs of our nation, conservatives have abandoned their traditional principles of less government and more personal responsibility and have become nothing more than liberals in conservatives' clothing.

The lessons of New Orleans should be as obvious as the nose on one's face: 1) The total lack of foresight by city and state officials to address the engineering concerns of the levees surrounding the city, concerns that had been often expressed for many years; 2) that New Orleans (and even the state of Louisiana) has had more than its share of political corruption; 3) the absolute breakdown of morality and decency in the city of New Orleans, a breakdown that was encouraged by leaders at every level of the city; 4) the need of individuals to be self-reliant and personally prepared for unexpected emergencies. As with a host of America's major cities, many people within the city of New Orleans know only how to live day to day off the government teat and commonly demonstrate little appreciation for personal responsibility; 5) the refusal of the city of New Orleans to effectively deal with crime and criminals.

All of the above contributed greatly to the tragic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Instead of addressing any of the salient issues, however, the only thing that anyone seems to come up with is, "We need more involvement from the federal government." But before we go to seed on giving the federal government carte blanche to solve our domestic problems, we need to consider carefully what we would be getting.

Do we really want the U.S. military taking over domestic law enforcement responsibilities? Are we prepared for martial law? Are we prepared to surrender our freedoms and liberties under the rubric of "national emergency?" Are we willing to allow military forces to go house to house confiscating firearms (which they are doing in New Orleans)? In short, are we ready to discard constitutional government and turn America into a police state?

The answer to the above questions will determine what kind of nation will evolve in the near future, because you can be sure that there are more "national emergencies" lurking around the corner for our country. And if we are not careful, the sight of military forces going house to house confiscating firearms will be seen in every city in America, not just in New Orleans!

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to date they have provided 1 helicopter,rescued 121 people from their homes,they are working with the telephone company to repair communications infrastructure,they even donated 200 tons of food and MRE'S to L.A. and H-town.

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New Orleans: Dress rehearsal for lockdown of America

Carolyn Baker | September 13 2005

Good morning, Baghdad! Good morning, Kabul! The war has come home to America, right here, right now and so have myriad questions so disturbing that most Americans, even if they know what the questions are, are terrified to ask:

Why is Blackwater USA, the principal mercenary force outsourced by the Pentagon to fight in Iraq, now patrolling the streets of New Orleans?

Why the disgraceful, ghastly slowness of response by the federal government to the Katrina disaster?

Why FEMA's destruction of communication lines and implacable refusal to allow food, water, and medicine into the city? (http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/, September 6)

Why have reconstruction and clean-up contracts conveniently fallen, with perfect timing, to Halliburton and Bechtel, the two U.S. corporations most infamous for their expertise in rebuilding Iraq and worldwide whatever the U.S. military has blown up?

Mainstream media and the Internet are abuzz with stories of FEMA's "gutting" by the federal government as the agency became part of the Department of Homeland Security, as if FEMA were some sort of altruistic savior who could have rescued New Orleans if only it had been granted sufficient funding. In reality, FEMA's obstruction of assistance, not only from the likes of Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and several European nations, but from humanitarian organizations inside the United States is mind-boggling. Click here for a complete list of efforts blocked by FEMA.

In order to begin answering the endless disturbing questions, we must understand what FEMA actually is. In Sheila Samplesﾒ excellent September 10 article, she emphasizes the origins of FEMA in the 1980s under its architect, Oliver North. North's Operation Rex 84, or Readiness Exercise 1984, was a plan by which the the federal government would accommodate the detention of large numbers of American citizens during times of emergency. Through Rex-84, an undisclosed number of concentration camps were set in operation throughout the United States, for internment of dissidents and others potentially harmful to the state. Existence of the Rex 84 plan was first revealed during the Iran-Contra Hearings in 1987, and subsequently reported by the Miami Herald on July 5, 1987.

For decades since North's operation was disclosed, many dissidents have assumed that as in Nazi Germany, concentration camps were being secretly constructed for the incarceration of Americans. While this may be more than merely an assumption, there has been little speculation about what specific purpose such camps might serveâ??until the Katrina disaster. In the aftermath of the South Gulf Coast hurricane, we saw massive numbers of evacuees relocated throughout the nation.

In this particular disaster, most evacuees were poor and black, but since global warming's repercussions are intensifying daily, we can ultimately expect to see evacuees from all socio-economic groups, including the white middle class being relocated as a result of earthquakes, forest fires, floods, and tornadoes across the continent in the coming months or years. While the ruling elite are not willing to publicly admit the reality of global warming, they are fully aware of it, just as they are well-informed on the reality of Peak Oil. They know as well as progressives do that the juxtaposition of these two ecological phenomena guarantees both economic collapse and a plethora of natural disasters. (Please see my recent article The Not-So Gradual Collapse Of Empire.)

Particularly since 9â??11, FEMA has been very little about disaster relief and very much about "population management." Katrina has underscored what the federal government and virtually all Americans already knewâ??the chaos that results from natural disasters. What the federal government knows, but most Americans don't know is the pandemonium that will result as the consequences of Peak Oil exacerbate.

In the United States, all nonorganic food growers use commercial pesticides and fertilizers on agricultural products. These have either a petroleum or natural gas base, thus insuring that as petroleum and natural gas prices increase, so will food prices. Moreover, what happens when trucking companies go belly up from gas prices, when truckers can no longer afford fuel, and when their axles break because interstates are in disrepair as a result of the prices or shortages of the petroleum needed to build roads? What happens when the housing bubble bursts, when massive unemployment engulfs the nation, and when hundreds of thousands or millions of people must walk away from their mortgaged homes? Add to this, the likely crashing of the U.S. dollar and the certainty of more natural disasters. Anarchy may not even approach the description of such a scenario. Enter FEMA's mandate and machinery, thanks to Blackwater, to maintain order.

One of the harshest realities of Peak Oil, but as old as the infanticide practiced by ancient civilizations is "demand destruction," also known as population control. In a recent article, Mike Ruppert explained its integral role in a global energy crisis:

"Demand destruction" has become a priority not only to mitigate Peak Oil but also to mitigate global warming. The United States, with 5% of the world's people, consumes (wastes) 25% of the world's energy. How do you destroy demand? You collapse the economy. Homeless, unemployed "refugees" (what a cold, depersonalizing term) don't buy gas, take trips, fly on airplanes or buy consumer goods (made with energy and requiring energy to operate). They don't use air conditioning because they can't afford it. They are the embodiment of Henry Kissinger's infamous term "useless eaters," a phrase from the Nazi vocabulary. If energy demand destruction, as acknowledged by the Bilderbergers and the CFR [Council On Foreign Relations], is a priority, then the onlyâ??I repeat onlyâ??beast that must be tamed is the United States.

As we witnessed the American Apartheid of relocating masses of African-Americans to cities throughout the nation, how chilling was FEMA's promise of a $2,000 debit card for each person, then its decision to give these "useless eaters" a check for $2,000 when most have neither a checking account nor personal identification! In addition, the very fact that so many of these individuals are living from paycheck to paycheck, on the brink of homelessness, underscores the likelihood that many of them will be forced into bankruptcy which may accelerate freefall into homelessness as the Bush administration's Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention Act becomes law on October 17. Remember the USA PATRIOT Actâ??that 300-page piece of legislation passed in the middle of the night on October 26, 2001, which almost no members of Congress had a chance to read? You know, the one that shredded the Constitution and the Bill of Rights? How appropriate that the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention Act will become law almost four years to the day after the USA PATRIOT Act was passed.

It appears that FEMA did not think this one through, but, alas, things are not necessarily as they seem. Certainly, the ruling elite would not intentionally arrange for millions of indigent evacuees to suddenly "litter" the streets of America. A more likely scenario could be debt servitude. I can already hear the FEMA offer that no penniless refugee could refuse: "We'd like to give you a job helping to clean up New Orleans or the South Coast. We can't pay you the prevailing wage, however, since the president cancelled prevailing wage by executive order. We also notice that you have quite a bit of debt, but never fear, we will give you the opportunity to 'work off your debt' by coming to work for us until your debt is satisified." Will this be Readiness Exercise 2005, 2006, 2007, ad infinitum?

With every national emergency, the fascist agenda of this government will come more clearly into focus. On September 10, Tom Curry listed in his article, "Hurricane Spawns Flurry Of Deregulation," the Bush administration's most recent rulings in the name of hurricane and oil supply relief:

Starting last Wednesday and until next Wednesday, the federal Department of Transportation has eased rules on how many hours truckers can drive when transporting fuel.

The Environmental Protection Agency has suspended until next Thursday certain federal fuel standards in response to possible diesel and gasoline shortages. The suspended rules are designed to combat high ozone and sulfur emissions.

Bush has ordered suspension of provisions of the Jones Act, which requires transport of petroleum, gasoline and other petroleum products on U.S.-flagged ships while operating in U.S. coastal waters.

Senate Environment and Public Works chairman Sen. James Inhere, R-Okla., said Congress would need to waive a law that limits federal emergency road building funds to $100 million per state per emergency and that limits full federal funding to 180 days.

The House unanimously passed a bill allowing the Department of Education to waive the repayment requirement for low-income college students who received Pell grants. Normally if a college student drops out of school, he must pay back the unused portion of his Pell grant.

On Thursday, Bush suspended the Davis-Bacon law on all federally financed construction in areas hit by Hurricane Katrina. That law requires the federal government to pay the "prevailing wage" on construction projects, which is often higher than the local minimum wage. Suspending Davis-Bacon will allow the government to pay lower than prevailing wages, and Bush said, "will result in greater assistance to these devastated communities and will permit the employment of thousands of additional individuals."

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, saw a need for a new energy bill as a result of the hurricane. "When one hurricane, as massive as it was, can knock out about 20 percent of our (oil and natural gas) facilities, it shows how vulnerable we are," he said. In order to expand the long-term U.S. oil and gas supply, DeLay wants to open parts of the country that are currently off-limits to oil and gas drilling. Large swaths of the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts are under a federal moratorium on oil and gas exploration until the year 2012.

Congress does not need to approve these decisions. They have been pronounced by fiat, frighteningly reminiscent of Hitler's unilateral directives in Germany in the 1930s. As Sheila Samples notes, FEMA has not been gutted; it is the PATRIOT Act on crack!

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ooooooooooooo scary.