Can it be that Naomi Wolf's martial law threat has already achieved its purpose?

[clear eye]

In the following video posted on DU, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=207570&mesg_id=207570 , Wolf describes the unconstitutional steps taken to create the possibility of martial law. She implies that the purpose is to deny Obama and the Democrats control of the government. Another, to me more plausible, explanation for the very real actions she has reported comes to mind.

Is it possible that all this was put in place in order to clean out the Treasury and that the boom has already fallen? Could it be that Cheney/Paulson thought there would be more resistance to bankrupting the country to the extent that the Baby Boomers won't get anything like their expected Social Security, and all Obama's promised programs, including the ones to rescue the economy by public works projects and government-supported green industries will have to be abandoned? Is it possible that there are no further plans to "control" the populace because after Congress ignored us and passed the bill that drowned our Federal Government's financial ability to govern "in the bathtub", we didn't storm Washington or go on a General Strike?

Can it be that we just haven't grasped how severely weakened our gov't has been made--without money how can our agencies regulate anything?--and that the perpetrators are quite content to have the next government be Democratic in order to take the blame for the total lack of functionality?? In the power vacuum thus created what is to hamper a totalitarian multi-national corporatocracy with a figurehead government? In a conference call by NYU business economist Nouriel Roubini to numerous leaders of large businesses, Roubini responded to a question by, of all people, Michael Eisner, regarding what will happen if the Bailout (not yet passed at the time of the call) was not properly regulated and simply "injected capital" (econo-speak for gave money to) financial institutions without getting equity for the gov't in return or went overboard and gave much beyond what is required to free credit, while ignoring other economic rescue measures. Roubini, who had to be pressed to address the issue, described economic devastation for our country and people in dry economic terms, emphasizing that the countries which now hold most of our Treasury bonds, China and the Middle Eastern states, are more rivals than friends and have no strong reason to save the dollar if the vast overindebtedness of a badly run bail out threatens it.

{I can't give the link to the audio of the conference call because access to it requires a membership in Roubini's RGE Monitor. They had a free trial and I signed up as a "journalist" for DU. If you decide to sign up as well, the call I refer to is "conf_call_2008-09-24.mp3", but I have to warn you that he speaks almost exclusively in economese.}

I'm guessing that the powers behind all this build-up to martial law are quite content to have accomplished their agenda. Congress at gunpoint has been made to pick our pockets; we just haven't yet noticed that the rent money is gone. The $1T figure (if you include interest) may have borne no connection to any specific bail out numbers, but it conveniently matches our total borrowing power for the foreseeable future. There is no chance this time that New Deal style measures will be available to save us from Brazilian-style serfdom, since even the resources FDR had will not be available to the next President.

[dgibby]

1. Excellent Point!

I think Congress has been held hostage by the Bush Admin. since the anthrax attacks, so threatening martial law would come as no suprise. Regardless, the coup has most certainly been accomplished.

[clear eye]

6. Hey, dgibby, I thought I was the only one saying that

about the anthrax. Actually, we have no way of knowing how large a part that's been playing, because Rove and the Cheney staffers are masters at finding ways to put pressure on members of Congress when it really counts.

[aquart]

2. Yeah, yeah, they're brilliant masterminds.

That's the ticket.

[navarth]

3. scary.

[kayakjohnny]

4. I'm reluctant to respond as though I know what's going on and that I have enough information

to answer the ideas that seem to be emerging at an unrelenting pace.

[dhpgetsit]

5. Good questions

We have been swindled, bamboozled, and steamrolled. They have sabotaged our economy and our international standing. It will be a long time before we can completely recover.

I still think the time is now to arrest as many of them as possible, but many rats will escape to live in other corrupt nations, but we CAN take our country back.

We can elect responsible people.
We can tax the corporations and raise more money.
We can invest in people and infrastructure.
We can have an informed populace.

It may take decades but the bottom line is that our strength is as good as our resolve.
How much do you want it?