Officials Worry of Pre-Election Attack

AP ^ | 3-15-04 | TERENCE HUNT

[Agnes Heep]

There's no one they'd like to have out of office more than George W. Bush.

Volumes could not say more.

[inkling]

Thanks, Spain! Due to your cowardice, every democracy must anticipate slaughter of their civilians before each election. Way to let 200 of your countrymen die in vain.

[billorites]

Hell, if I'd known this a month ago I'd have voted for Osama in the primary.

[Recovering_Democrat]

During the Republican convention and/or in late October just before Election Day.

Look for a massive crackdown on any suspects...and by the way: John Kerry thinks the Patriot Act is a severe danger to America.

Al Qaeda? John Kerry says blame their attacks on George Bush.

[Tempest]

I don't think it needs to happen the spineless wimps are already shaking in there boots around here. Some of them even pose as conservatives and come here to bash President Bush.

[Izzy Dunne]

if Americans doubted Bush's ability to protect them or thought the war on Iraq played any part.

I'll wager Kash N. Kerry will be preaching about how such a strike would not have been made unless the Iraq war happened. It's all Bush's fault.

He will conveniently forget 9/11 (no Iraq war then), or the Kenya bombings, or WTC 93, or....

[VadeRetro]

Surrender-Monkey Power!

[oceanview]

I know from other threads that alot of freepers disagree, but I don't see a pre-election attack meaning that America would choose appeasement and go with Kerry. If most people wanted us to fold, Bush would have approval levels at 30% since all he has done is go on offense since 9/11.

[raloxk]

The press would love an attack to drive out Bush

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Wonder if Washington is thinking about conditions that might be justified to automatically postpone an election?
And for how Long?

[DBrow]

Hmm, exactly who are the "foregn leaders" who support a Kerry presidency?

On a serious note, what effect would the CFR have on a terrorist attack? The media is the biggest amplifier of terrorism.

[speedy]

Yes, a nice alliance between liberals everywhere and al-Qaeda. Enjoy your new partners, boys and girls.

[ambrose]

I agree that we'd see a rally-round-flag response in this country UNLESS the Islamists came in to the USA via Mejico...

[ysoitanly]

I have nothing to add to your insight. Well done.

[DBrow]

An actual attack that shut down or postponed a national election would have to be one heck of an attack.

OTOH, a mere rumor of an anthrax attack at a polling place may be sufficient in spreading panic and reducing participation, and the government would not respond quickly enough to matter. Of course, our media outlets would have to cooperate with the terrorists- no way would they do that to oust Bush.

[expatpat]

I guess one of the foreign leaders who told Kerry they want him to win is Osamam Bin Laden.

[newzhawk]

Is there any Soros money over there with the Spanish socialists? and is there a drive to influence other elections like the Carville group pulled in Israel and Russia back in 96 and 98?

[AntiGuv]

That question has already been answered resoundingly by the Supreme Court, in ex parte Milligan (1866).

"Martial law ... destroys every guarantee of the Constitution."

"Civil liberty and this kind of martial law cannot endure together; the antagonism is irreconcilable; and, in the conflict, one or the other must perish."

"If, in foreign invasion or civil war, the courts are actually closed, and it is impossible to administer criminal justice according to law, then, on the theatre of active military operations, where war really prevails, there is a necessity to furnish a substitute for the civil authority, thus overthrown, to preserve the safety of the army and society; and as no power is left but the military, it is allowed to govern by martial rule until the laws can have their free course. As necessity creates the rule, so it limits its duration; for, if this government is continued after the courts are reinstated, it is a gross usurpation of power. Martial rule can never exist where the courts are open, and in the proper and unobstructed exercise of their jurisdiction. It is also confined to the locality of actual war."

Presumably, an election may be similarly suspended only in the event that it is impossible to conduct the election. From that moment, the government authority will no longer be exercised under the auspices of the U.S. Constitution.

[VadeRetro]

I know from other threads that alot of freepers disagree, but I don't see a pre-election attack meaning that America would choose appeasement and go with Kerry.

I'm with you. I don't know anyone who would admit to wanting peace with Al Qaeda. I assume such people exist. I am sure this bloc will go 100 percent for Kerry, but I hope they are a distinct minority.