Dave Lindorff: Martial Law Threat is Real: Lucky that the Military is Breaking Down

Government Gone Underground

EXCERPT...

Constitutional Implications of the Secret Government

In fact, the most troubling questions about the "shadow government" are not it's precise location or it's capabilities; not the actual personnel assigned to survive or how that will be achieved. The most troubling questions are why the Bush administration felt compelled to keep Cheney and other cabinet officials rotating in and out of these secure facilities, preserving the executive branch of course, but without advising the Congress to reactivate their Bunker underneath the posh Greenbrier resort in West Virginia, or giving the Judiciary advice to take their similar precautions. Nevertheless, the Greenbrier bunker remains both a tourist attraction and an historical oddity.

Moreover, serious questions are raised about the supergrade government officials, and the GS-14 and GS-15s assigned to Mount Weather as "Shadow Cabinet" officials. Certainly, the actual cabinet went through their confirmation hearings in the Senate; however, until March 1, not even senior Senate officials in Bush's own party were even aware that such extensive "continuity of government" preparations were in effect, much less had they been provided the opportunity to publicly "advise and consent" to their shadow nomination.

The National Archives has the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence ensconced in airtight, fireproof containers ready to descend into their own bunkers should any threat be detected. The Bush administration has shown much less interest in preserving the meaning and intent of the documents with their COG plans.

Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) has also said as much. Surprised by the Washington Post's revelations, on Meet the Press he said that "I think the time has come for us to be asking a lot more questions." On Fox he was more actually more direct. Daschle stated that the Bush administration has a "constitutional obligation" to provide Congress with information and explained "that's the thing. You'd think somebody in Congress, one person in Congress somewhere, would know what they're doing and how many there are and what their role is and how the transition takes place and why a congressional and judiciary component are not included. Those are the kind of things I'm simply asking that we be provided the answers to."

SNIP...

If even RAND believes that managing congressional "sensitivities" are important in preserving constitutional government and protections, why had the Bush administration been completely silent on the matter for six months? Why, while Ashcroft's FBI routinely announces amorphous threats of further terrorist attacks, was the survivability of the federal branch most accountable to the citizens conspicuously ignored? Why, amid constant reports of Cheney's unavailability, did Congress not think to ask where he was and what he was doing? And also, just what are these bunkered bureaucrats up to?

CONTINUED BIG TREASON ...

http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/18984

Coup d'Etat in America?

by Michel Chossudovsky

EXCERPT...

A secret "Shadow government" under the classified "Continuity of Operations Plan" was installed on September 11, 2001.(See http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A20584-2002Feb... ). Known internally as "Continuity of Government" or COG, the secret Shadow government would become functional in the case of a red code alert, redeploying key staff to secret locations.

Code red alert would, according to FEMA, also preclude and repress any form of public gathering or citizens' protest which questions the legitimacy of the emergency procedures and the installation of a police state. The emergency authorities would also exert tight censorship over the media and would no doubt paralyze the alternative news media on the internet.

Code red alert would trigger the "civilian" Homeland Emergency response system. The latter is already in place including DHS Ready.Gov instructions, the Big Brother Citizen Corps, not to mention the USAonWatch or Neighborhood Watch Program which has a mandate to "identify and report suspicious activity in neighborhoods" across America.

CONTINUED...

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO407B.html