Posted on 07/24/2007 3:27:40 PM PDT by SJackson
White House preparing to stage new September 11 - Reagan official 13:58 | 20/ 07/ 2007
WASHINGTON, July 20 (RIA Novosti) - A former Reagan official has issued a public warning that the Bush administration is preparing to orchestrate a staged terrorist attack in the United States, transform the country into a dictatorship and launch a war with Iran within a year.
Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, blasted Thursday a new Executive Order, released July 17, allowing the White House to seize the assets of anyone who interferes with its Iraq policies and giving the government expanded police powers to exercise control in the country.
Roberts, who spoke on the Thom Hartmann radio program, said: "When Bush exercises this authority [under the new Executive Order], there's no check to it. So it really is a form of total, absolute, one-man rule."
"The American people don't really understand the danger that they face," Roberts said, adding that the so-called neoconservatives intended to use a renewal of the fight against terrorism to rally the American people around the fading Republican Party.
Old-line Republicans like Roberts have become increasingly disenchanted with the neoconservative politics of the Bush administration, which they see as a betrayal of fundamental conservative values.
According to a July 9-11 survey by Ipsos, an international public opinion research company, President Bush and the Republicans can claim a mere 31 percent approval rating for their handling of the Iraq war and 38 percent for their foreign policy in general, including terrorism.
"The administration figures themselves and prominent Republican propagandists ... are preparing us for another 9/11 event or series of events," he said. "You have to count on the fact that if al Qaeda is not going to do it, it is going to be orchestrated."
Roberts suggested that in the absence of a massive popular outcry, only the federal bureaucracy and perhaps the military could put constraints on Bush's current drive for a fully-fledged dictatorship.
"They may have had enough. They may not go along with it," he said.
The radio interview was a follow-up to Robert's latest column, in which he warned that "unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the U.S. could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran."
Roberts, who has been dubbed the "Father of Reaganomics" and has recently gained popularity for his strong opposition to the Bush administration and the Iraq War, regularly contributes articles to Creators Syndicate, an independent distributor of comic strips and syndicated columns for daily newspapers.
From my reading of the EO, it’s more of a “freezure” than a seizure of assets and the President thinks it’s necessary for the following reason:
“...I find that, because of the ability to transfer funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this order would render these measures ineffectual. I therefore determine that for these measures to be effective in addressing the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 and expanded in Executive Order 13315, there need be no prior notice of a listing or determination made pursuant to section 1(a) of this order.”
So, even with the Clintons’ track record, I’d still support a President Hillary Clinton (God forbid) enacting this same EO.
Wow! This guy must be sleeping with Ron Jr...
Thanks, and another liberal supports the wrong side for keeping America safe.
He sounds like a San Francisco liberal.
Roberts suggested that in the absence of a massive popular outcry, only the federal bureaucracy and perhaps the military could put constraints on Bush’s current drive for a fully-fledged dictatorship.<<<
The anti crowd hates the Military and war, but are willing to call them out, to remove President Bush.
Ping.
Roberts suggested that in the absence of a massive popular outcry, only the federal bureaucracy and perhaps the military could put constraints on Bush's current drive for a fully-fledged dictatorship.Thank God for bureaucrats, here to save us all!
Don’t you love the suggestion of a military coup.
Before my time, I joined FR after Billy was gone...then again, he could be back in 2009 as the first lady.
OMG! These idiots go to far! The Michael Moore mentality that is crippling our nation!!
I can spell....are you the grammar police??
Gee who’s side are you on???
I’m not a troll....Why because I no longer like bush????? you be his sheeple
ur right how many of our soldiers were killed because of these iranians..n bush isin’t doin anything..he’s chicken too
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1869507/posts?page=86#86
You are not texting your best friend on the phone when posting here.
A well thought out response, with proper diction and spelling, can do wonders for your “street cred”.
And ur point is????? If you do not like the way I write,STUFF IT!
You said Jesus made the comment—He didn’t. Don’t you know that it’s wrong for you to make up things and put them in His mouth? [It’s wrong to do that to anyone, actually.]
God get over it!
My point is, you write like a retard. (I hate to put it that way, but it needs to be said.)
LOL, I was taking that from the lead article.
There was a big article the other day, from a liberal that caught a friends eye, it said that President Bush was going to use the Military against us.
When I googled the writer, it turned out he was an active nazi.
My mind stops with President Eisenhower, as a good military man to lead us.
She writes like a troll. Classic.
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