"IT"
Is Happening Here!!
By Rob Kall
12 September, 2005
Opednews.com
I
woke up at 4:30 AM to a nightmare that is real. Paid mercenary killersBlackwater
paramilitary mercenariesthe ones that are hired to stalk the worst
danger zones of Iraqare roving the streets of New Orleans, armed
to the teeth, with permission to kill.
They have been purportedly
hired by the federal and Louisiana governments.
About three years
ago, I read Sinclair Lewiss book, It Cant Happen Here, which
describes how a hayseed good ol boy southerner managed by treacherous
handlers becomes president. They tear apart one after another American
institutionschools, health care, while at the same time appointing
politically loyal incompetents with no experience to manage all aspects
of US government and other bureaucracies. The media are totally controlled,
with uncooperative editors and reporters jailed or killed (Aug. 30th:
UN inquiry called for after 18th journalist killed by US troops)
Lewis describes
how towns and cities become militarized, how people are sent to jail
without trials, or with fixed trials by crooked, corrupt judges appointed
by the corrupt president and his cronies. (Jose Padilla and the Death
of Personal Liberty)
Gun toting militias
terrorize the nation at a local level, with the redneck morons handed
leadership roles in every community, with the right to summarily execute
people who say the wrong thing. Resistors are threatened with imprisonment
or death if they dont go public supporting the party line.
Lewis wrote his
book in 1937, having see Hitlers rise to Power. Weve seen
many articles describing how similarly the Bush administration has operated,
starting with When Democracy Failed by Thom Hartmann. In 2002, Hartmanns
article seemed to reek of conspiracy theory and paranoia to some. Now,
it is a frightening portent, characterizing too many parallels suggesting
that we are much further along the dangerous road that Sinclair Lewis
created as a fiction.
The thought of armed,
privately paid mercenaries roaming the streets of a major American city,
a city filled with Democrats, with poor, helpless African Americans
and the most independent, insistent upon being self-sufficient Americans
is horrifying. These guns for hired are reportedly authorized to not
only make arrests but also to use lethal force.
We know that when
hundreds of victims of the levee floodsNew Orleans residents and
touriststried to cross a bridge to safety, police officers from
Gretna, in the Jefferson Parish, fired over their heads and forced them
back into the flood ravaged, toxic water deluged city.
An American city
is under military rule, with citizens being dragged and handcuffed out
of their homes, helpless, frail old women thrown around, manhandled,
captured and thrown into transport trucks. FEMA has created detainment
camps which people are not allowed to leave, where they get two
meals a day, are not allowed to cook, cant leave to go to church
.
This can not be.
This must not be allowed. We must do all we can to end this. President
Bush has asked the nation to hold a vigil next Friday. And we must hold
one, but not quietly in our churches, temples and mosques. We must go
to the streets, raise our voices and tell these betrayers of democracy
that its over, that they cant do this. Tell your congregations
you dont want to sit in a building a passively allow this to happen.
Wake up your church, your synagogue, temple or mosque and lead them
to a local demonstrationa vigil that truly, spiritually supports
the victims of both Hurricane Katrina and the Levee Flood Bushs
incompetent appointees and stupid funding withdrawals caused.
America is at risk. You can no longer just read about it. You must do
something today, not just donating money or goods to the victims in
Mississippi and Louisiana. YOU are a victim of this disaster and you
have to ask yourself what youre going to do today, what you did
last week, what you will do next week to save the USA. Do you live in
another country? You can still support publications that tell the truth.
You can still contribute to private think tanks.
Send your legislators
this message. Write to your newspapers. Tell them to end the martial
law, the mercenaries and detainment camps.
Rob Kall is editor of OpEdNews.com, President of Futurehealth,
Inc, and organizer of several conferences, including StoryCon, the Summit
Meeting on the Art, Science and Application of Story and The Winter
Brain Meeting on neurofeedback, biofeedback, Optimal Functioning and
Positive Psychology.