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Hi, I found an excellent article on the background of the
"Patriot Act" and plans to declare martial law in the US in
the Sydney Morning Herald:
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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/27/1027497418339.html
Foundations are in place for martial law in the US
By Ritt Goldstein
The Sydney Morning Herald
July 27 2002
Recent pronouncements from the Bush Administration and national
security initiatives put in place in the Reagan era could see
internment camps and martial law in the United States.
When president Ronald Reagan was considering invading Nicaragua he
issued a series of executive orders that provided the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) with broad powers in the event of
a "crisis" such as "violent and widespread internal dissent or
national opposition against a US military invasion abroad". They
were never used.
But with the looming possibility of a US invasion of Iraq, recent
pronouncements by President George Bush's domestic security chief,
Tom Ridge, and an official with the US Civil Rights Commission should
fire concerns that these powers could be employed or a de facto drift
into their deployment could occur.
On July 20 the Detroit Free Press ran a story entitled "Arabs in US
could be held, official warns". The story referred to a member of the
US Civil Rights Commission who foresaw the possibility of internment
camps for Arab Americans. FEMA has practised for such an occasion.
FEMA, whose main role is disaster response, is also responsible for
handling US domestic unrest.
>From 1982-84 Colonel Oliver North assisted FEMA in drafting its civil
defence preparations. Details of these plans emerged during the 1987
Iran-Contra scandal.
They included executive orders providing for suspension of the
constitution, the imposition of martial law, internment camps, and
the turning over of government to the president and FEMA.
A Miami Herald article on July 5, 1987, reported that the former FEMA
director Louis Guiffrida's deputy, John Brinkerhoff, handled the
martial law portion of the planning. The plan was said to be similar
to one Mr Giuffrida had developed earlier to combat "a national
uprising by black militants". It provided for the detention "of at
least 21 million American Negroes"' in "assembly centres or
relocation camps".
Today Mr Brinkerhoff is with the highly influential Anser Institute
for Homeland Security. Following a request by the Pentagon in January
that the US military be allowed the option of deploying troops on
American streets, the institute in February published a paper by Mr
Brinkerhoff arguing the legality of this.
He alleged that the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which has long been
accepted as prohibiting such deployments, had simply been
misunderstood and misapplied.
The preface to the article also provided the revelation that the
national plan he had worked on, under Mr Giuffrida, was "approved
by Reagan, and actions were taken to implement it".
By April, the US military had created a Northern Command to aid
Homeland defence. Reuters reported that the command is "mainly
expected to play a supporting role to local authorities".
However, Mr Ridge, the Director of Homeland Security, has just
advocated a review of US law regarding the use of the military for
law enforcement duties.
Disturbingly, the full facts and final contents of Mr Reagan's
national plan remain uncertain. This is in part because President
Bush took the unusual step of sealing the Reagan presidential
papers last November. However, many of the key figures of the
Reagan era are part of the present administration, including John
Poindexter, to whom Oliver North later reported.
At the time of the Reagan initiatives, the then attorney-general,
William French Smith, wrote to the national security adviser, Robert
McFarlane: "I believe that the role assigned to the Federal
Emergency Management Agency in the revised Executive Order exceeds
its proper function as a co-ordinating agency for emergency
preparedness ... this department and others have repeatedly raised
serious policy and legal objections to an 'emergency czar' role for
FEMA."
Criticism of the Bush Administration's response to September 11
echoes Mr Smith's warning. On June 7 the former presidential counsel
John Dean spoke of America's sliding into a "constitutional
dictatorship" and martial law.
Ritt Goldstein is an investigative journalist and a former leader in
the movement for US law enforcement accountability. He revealed
exclusively in the Herald last week the Bush Administration's plans
for a domestic spying system more pervasive than the Stasi network
in East Germany.
Copyright © 2002. The Sydney Morning Herald
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