Coup d'Etat in America?

[whosinpower]

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO407B.html

Interesting read for those with the nerve to.

snip - Code Red Alert and Martial Law

The possibility of a code red terror alert has been announced time and again since September 11 2001, with a view to galvanizing public opinion across the country in support of an emergency situation, if and when it occurs. The terror alerts have become part of America's day to day life:

"at each threat condition , federal departments and agencies would implement a corresponding set of "Protective Measures" to further reduce vulnerability or increase response capability during a period of heightened alert. (see http://www.fema.gov/pdf/areyouready/security.pdf

Supported by a barrage of media propaganda, these repeated terror alerts have created an environment of fear and intimidation, a wait and accept attitude, a false normality. US citizens are led to believe that a military solution is required to protect democracy.

In other words, the possibility of an impending attack on America by this "outside enemy" has been accepted by the American public; this tacit acceptance has set the stage for the adoption of "the highest threat level": code red alert.

What the US public is not aware of is that a code red alert suspends civilian government, it triggers a whole series of emergency procedures. It is tantamount to a Coup d'Etat.

[trof]

1. Welcome to "The Land of the Lulled".

That's us.

[Canuckistanian]

2. Who would have figured that Orwell had the key..

Just use FUD - Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. But it won't work forever.
As mentioned in the The Top 10 Conservative Idiots:

But I'll tell you this - I'm sick of their bullshit. If America isn't attacked before the election, I'm voting for John Kerry. And if America is attacked before the election, I'm voting for John Kerry.

[whosinpower]

3. Well - vote all you want

But if it goes code red - it matters little because Kerry will no longer hold the reins of power.

Voting would be irrelevant. The nation would effectively be in a lock down situation. And here is my tinfoil shining through - but didn't I read somewhere that all foreign journalists stationed in the US must leave and reregister for their visa's? (something along those lines) The timing of this would effectively put them OUT of the country when election time rolls around.....where did I read that.......

[Soloflecks]

4. You're absolutely correct.

I'll scurry up the link in a minute. Before the journalists could register here. Going home the procedure can take from 3 weeks to 6 months! I don't believe in coincidence.

on edit, the link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1256599,00.html
A crackdown by US authorities on issuing visas to foreign journalists threatens to cause chaos for overseas broadcasters and newspapers just five months before the presidential election.
The new rules, which come into force next week, will ban overseas reporters and news crews stationed in the US from renewing their visas without leaving the country first.

Just five months before American voters decide who will be appointed to the most powerful office in the world, the US state department said it would no longer allow overseas journalists to renew visas from within the country.

From next week the estimated 20,000 foreign journalists stationed in the US, who used to be able to renew their visas with ease in any major city, will be forced to leave the country to do so.

Rather than applying to renew their visas in Washington or New York, they will be forced to leave the country and re-apply at a US embassy or consulate abroad, delaying their application for between four weeks and six months.

[Padraig18]

5. A *second* coup d' etat, you mean?

We already had one--- in 2000.