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According to a Department of Perpetual War (formerly the Department
of Defense) “news release,” NORAD “will contribute to security
operations” during the Super Bowl in Detroit. “The aerospace command
will fly Operation Noble Eagle air defense protection missions in the Detroit
and Windsor, Ont., Canada area, officials said. Windsor is just across the Detroit
River from Michigan. And NORAD has military assets from both Canada and the
U.S,” explains the American
Forces Press Service. “Operation Noble Eagle is a defense
and civil support mission started after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001,
to help protect the U.S. homeland.” In other words, the Pentagon is exploiting
a premier gladiatorial event watched by millions of Americans in order to get
folks accustomed to a “wider portfolio of missions,” as the Carlyle
Group-influenced RAND
corporation deems it, shorthand for ever-increasing militarization
of society.
“The Pentagon has … shown a disturbing interest in high-tech surveillance
of American citizens,” writes Gene
Healy of Cato. “And key figures in the Bush administration and Congress
have considered weakening the Posse Comitatus Act, the federal statute that
limits the government’s ability to use the military for domestic police
work.” In fact, the high tech militarization of the Super Bowl may be
considered part of an effort by the Straussian neocons and NORAD to put a final
nail in the coffin of the Posse Comitatus Act. “My view has been that
Posse Comitatus will constantly be under review as we mature this command,”
declared NORAD Gen. Ralph Eberhart
in September, 2002. (For more on the infusion of high-tech into the “security”
arrangements at the Super Bowl, see this
article.)
“Constitutional authority gives the president and Congress the right
to suspend Posse Comitatus during emergencies,” Juliette
N. Kayyem and Steven E. Roberts, writing for National Defense Magazine,
told us back in December, 2002. “The military services can freely participate
in domestic operations with no legal consequences. In fact, following progressively
sophisticated terrorism—highlighted by the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing—the armed forces increasingly supplement
and assist local and federal law enforcement agencies in the operational, logistical,
and technical aspects of anti-terrorism…. The military’s anti-terror
responsibilities during so-called ’special security events’ provide
the best example of this role. It has become commonplace for the armed forces
to help secure high-profile targets from terrorist attacks, such as the Super
Bowl and presidential inaugurals.” It is a stretch, to say the least,
to declare that the dead Osama bin Laden and his band of dour Muslim cave dwellers
are capable of “progressively sophisticated terrorism,” for as we
know, or should know if we pay attention, “sophisticated terrorism”
is strictly in the province of state intelligence and military operations, as
recently pointed out by General Leonid
Ivashov, former Chief of Staff of the Russian armed forces.
Nonetheless, Kayyem and Roberts write that “the likelihood of future
terrorist acts comparable to those of September 11 suggests that military participation
in national domestic security is here to stay. It would not be unreasonable
to assume that there might be limited situations, such as an attack with weapons
of mass destruction, when the military would need to expand its role from mere
support to active deployment.”
This reveals a complete lack of historical understanding, since the “active
deployment” of military forces in the “homeland” usually results
in military dictatorship. James Madison and the framers of the Constitution
understood the threat of standing armies well. “A standing military force,
with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty,”
Madison wrote. “The means of defense against foreign danger, have been
always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing
maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe,
the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.”
Bush, the cardboard cut-out of the Machiavellian Straussians, represents perfectly
the “overgrown Executive” and the eventual enslavement of the people
through gradual domestic use of the military.
Of course, the would-be slaves, by and large, remain blissfully unaware
of their impending slavery. It is nothing short of a stroke of genius to mix
police state imagery in with football imagery and thus make slavery palatable
to the masses. I have no idea if there will be a “terrorist event”
at the Super Bowl later this afternoon—really, it is not necessary, because
more distant events can be exploited—for instance the latest installment
of the Osama and al-Zawahri audio and video tapes and, more dramatically, the
Muslim riots over cartoons portraying the Prophet Muhammad. As for the latter,
it is not inconceivable that this is a NATO orchestrated event designed to up
the level of violence, as the “Venstre” (or so-called liberals)
are out of power in Denmark and the Danish People’s Party with its strong
anti-immigration policies are firmly entrenched. But then this is a subject
for another blog entry down the road.
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