Reply #51: Oh yes. They wanted a war down there and I believe they wanted and

[Nothing Without Hope]

STILL want racial and class divisions and even protests - preferably violent - around the country. The "need" for protection from those dark-skinned hordes of ravening "looters™" and baby-killers is consistently at the top of the list of excuses for the push by the Administration for military police power. This is a reprise of the way they used the 9/11 attacks and did (and do) everything they can to instill fear of "terra-ists™" creeping behind every tree to push through their war of choice and strip the country of constitutional checks on the power of the POTUS.

Under the chillingly dictatorial powers of the FEMA executive orders, Bush can declare martial law and call in federal troops whenever and whereever he pleases for "civil unrest." According to one of those executive orders, which he can activate with a stroke of the pen, Congress can't even REVIEW such a decision for six months. I urge you all to read and learn just how they have been planning these moves and how scary FEMA's powers really are. The fastest way to do so is by reading the following entire thread, including the important articles posted in the replies:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4790112
thread title: Missing A KEY POINT in *'s speech: POWER GRAB FOR POTUS AND MILITARY

Manipulating and magnifying the fears and prejudices of the American public has been a potent and effective route to power for the neocons, just as it always has been for aspiring totalitarian regimes. They are trying to make the aftermaths of the hurricanes their jumping-off place for their move for greater power and dismantling of constitutional protections.

To give you a clearer idea of the scope of what is moving here, please read this article, written in Dec 2003 as a response to Gen Tommy Franks' unusually - well - frank statement that one more hit (like 9/11) and the Constitution would be suspended. Read the whole article, please, but I'm going to give you the paragraph that sticks in my mind. Think of it when you see all the hyped and fabricated reports of "rampaging looters™" and "out of control roving gangs™" coming soon to get YOU!!! The neocon leadership thinks they can get us to view our fellow Americans as their next model of "terra-ists™" and scare us into letting them "protect us" from these non-existent hordes. Hey, look how well it worked for them since 9/11!

http://www.sptimes.com/2003/12/07/Columns/From_Tommy_Franks__a_.shtml

It was the Nine Years' War in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World that facilitated the seizure of power by the world reformers who then took control of nearly all human and social development. In 1984, George Orwell described Oceania as in a constant state of war with a changeable enemy who "always represented absolute evil." These inventors of the great dystopias understood the way governments use war and its associative fear and instability to consolidate power. Despotism thrives on insecurity. Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs puts safety right behind food, water and sleep. Humans naturally crave stability and are willing to sacrifice values such as liberty in its pursuit.