I Wonder If Howard Dean Thinks This Is An "Interesting Idea" Too

This puts the "unhinged" into "unhinged." Courtesy of the folks at the DK, Martial Law Threat is Real: Good Thing the Military is Breaking Down

The looming collapse of the US military in Iraq, of which a number of generals and former generals, including former Chief of Staff Colin Powell, have warned, is happening none too soon, as it may be the best hope for preventing military rule here at home.

From the looks of things, the Bush/Cheney regime has been working assiduously to pave the way for a declaration of military rule, such that at this point it really lacks only the pretext to trigger a suspension of Constitutional government. They have done this with the active support of Democrats in Congress, though most of the heavy lifting was done by the last, Republican-led Congress.

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Meanwhile, last October Bush and Cheney, with the help of a compliant Congress, put in place some key elements needed for a military putsch. There was the overturning of the venerable Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which barred the use of active duty military inside the United States for police-type functions, and the revision of the Insurrection Act, so as to empower the president to take control of National Guard units in the 50 states even over the objections of the governors of those states.

Put this together with the wholly secret construction now under way--courtesy of a $385-million grant by the US Army Corps of Engineers to Halliburton subsidiary KBR Inc--of detention camps reportedly capable of confining as many as 400,000 people, and a recent report that the Pentagon has a document, dated June 1, 2007, classified Top Secret, which declares there to be a developing "insurgency" within the U.S, and which lays out a whole martial law counterinsurgency campaign against legal dissent, and you have all the ingredients for a military takeover of the United States.

As we go about our daily lives--our shopping, our escapist movie watching, and even our protesting and political organizing—we need to be aware that there is a real risk that it could all blow up, and that we could find ourselves facing armed, uniformed troops at our doors.

Uh yeah.

The best thing to be said about the DK is that some of the comments have the air of sanity about them:

• ERASE PLEASE! You really want to make it on O'Reilly's show, don't you. Or are you O'Reilly
  
• Kos! oh Kos? Your Davids...are making asses of you again
  
• This is completely absurd. I'm appalled by the total disconnect from rational and critical thinking that is evidenced by this diary.

And some commentators have discovered that the whole idea is the invention of, wait for it, a talk radio host! (I shit you not.) Read the lunacy here.

Which prompted these comments:

Holy Mother of God. I mean, okay.

So, Hal Turner seems to think there's a possibility this is real - I note that, while he speculates, he admits to having no proof either way.

And I sure as hell don't trust that white supremacist - but you'd think he'd be screaming for the Chimp to round up all us liberals.

So, still not running for the hills...

And...

Yeah, right? I said earlier that I wasn't going to talk about Reynold's Wrap.

But that whole website might as well be used to cover up Thanksgiving leftovers. Egads.

However, the sad fact is the vast majority of the commentators think it sounds plausible.

(Gleaned from Stubborn Facts)