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2007-03-23 Home Front: Politix
Bush Paves the Way for Martial Law: 2007 National Defense Authorization Act overturns Posse Comi
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Posted by delphi2005 2007-03-23 11:08|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 The "The Intelligence Daily: The truth at your fingertips", huh?
Here's our author...

Robert Bruce "Bob" Avakian (Born Washington, D.C., March 7, 1943) is best known as the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, the largest Maoist group in the United States.

Bob attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he became involved in radical politics. He participated in the Free Speech Movement at the University of California—Berkeley that was led by Mario Savio. His political activities continued and he became spokesman for the Peace and Freedom Party, and an active supporter of the Black Panthers.

Bob Avakian was active in Students for a Democratic Society and was a leading figure in the Revolutionary Youth Movement II. In the Bay Area he worked to form the Bay Area Revolutionary Union. BARU expanded nationally by absorbing other Marxist-Leninist collectives coming out of the SDS. It became the Revolutionary Union.

Bob Avakian and the Revolutionary Union, along with others such as C. Clark Kissinger and Carl Dix, led the formation of the Revolutionary Communist Party in 1975. When Deng Xiaoping went to the United States to visit Jimmy Carter, the RCP led protests at sites throughout Washington, D.C.. Avakian and others participants in the march became engaged in a conflict with the police. Avakian and others arrested for the incident were charged with several counts of assault on a police officer. After a court granted Avakian and the other arrestees' request to be charged and tried together, their punishment exposure (the most severe possible sentence) was over 241 years. As a result, Avakian went to France in 1981.

Bob Avakian's current whereabouts are kept secret.

I think I'd be more worried abou "Bob" then Bush...
Posted by tu3031 2007-03-23 12:26||   2007-03-23 12:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like Bob has BDS.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2007-03-23 12:41||   2007-03-23 12:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Thank you tu3031 for providing some background on Bob Avakian. I was not familiar with him, but I found his writing ringing some red flags. I found the article originally on digg.com and felt it was worth posting to Rantburg. I was interested in hearing other peoples opinions. Mr. Avakian painted a very dark picture of the current administration and for the rest of the Americans.

Anytime anyone a author uses the word Bourgeois makes me question the author. The would have been the same if Proletariat was used. I automatically associate these words with writings espousing the positive benefits of a Socialist or Communist society, rather than the Representive Republic in place today. Neither of the former, I would like to see come to pass in the U.S., although at times, I see the U.S. sliding in that direction.

I think that if there was a Bio, Chem or Nuclear attack, it would be a no-brainer for who ever is in the Oval Office to restore security, regardless of their party affiliation. I only hope that what what ever administration is in place, handles security and aid; if God forbid, better than the fiasco after the Katrina flood.

What are the odds he is a Democrat and probably will vote for Hillary, if she gets the Democratic nomination?

Posted by delphi2005 2007-03-23 12:57||   2007-03-23 12:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Hint: when you encounter something like this,
"The Bush Regime's preparations for martial law are part of an extreme agenda. This is a regime that is setting out to create a world empire that is unchallenged and unchallengeable and has embarked on an endless war to bring this about. Along with this, they aim to restructure social relations in the U.S., doing away with many of the social and economic institutions that have characterized U.S. society since World War 2."
that's a tip-off that the author is a roaring moonbat.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D.  2007-03-23 13:44||   2007-03-23 13:44|| Front Page Top

#5 I was surprised not to see the words U.S. Hegemony.
The Libs tend to like this word when describing the U.S. international policy.
Posted by delphi2005 2007-03-23 13:51||   2007-03-23 13:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Where's Clippy?
Posted by Shipman">Shipman  2007-03-23 14:05||   2007-03-23 14:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Never mind. Ironical post thingy.
Posted by Shipman">Shipman  2007-03-23 14:07||   2007-03-23 14:07|| Front Page Top

#8 I rather suspect this has more to do with preventing a reoccurrence of Katrina's Governor Blanco vs The Feds than an attempt by the US Government to establish imperial hegemony over the United States.
Posted by SteveS 2007-03-23 14:21||   2007-03-23 14:21|| Front Page Top

#9 Mr. Avakian painted a very dark picture of the current administration and for the rest of the Americans.

Indeed it must suck to wake up every day and see the world through his eyes.
Posted by eLarson 2007-03-23 14:57|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2007-03-23 14:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Kind of reads like inverse Scrappleface.
Posted by TomAnon 2007-03-23 16:09||   2007-03-23 16:09|| Front Page Top

#11 Apparantly the Bush regime is fairly lax in their schedules because they've been preparing for Marshall law and shutting down elections since 2002 and have yet to institute their policies.

Certainly we'll see some tanks in the streets by the election of 2008. I'm certain the democratic hopefuls know they are wasting their time and will certainly be the first dropped into Guantanimo. I'm not sure why they don't all just flee to Europe (Canada would of course be conquered on day two).
Posted by rjschwarz 2007-03-23 19:14|| rjschwarz.com]">[rjschwarz.com]  2007-03-23 19:14|| Front Page Top

#12 Actually, Going all the way back through the 20th Century, US Presidents have always been aware that there might be a need for them to go "Lincoln" and take what amounts to unconstitutional authority.

Years after the fact, it usually results in some conspiracy theory buff pointing out both that it was done, and more importantly, how it was never repealed.

Off the top of my head is Operation Northwoods; then, the JFK executive orders authorizing federal control over all just about all business and communications; Richard Nixon combined all of JFK's orders into one.

They even got hypothetical. During the Ford Administration, the NASA Administrator was given absolute police authority over anyone who had met, been in contact with, or had anything to do with space aliens. It is still on the books, too.

Somebody needs to sweep this nonsense away.
Posted by Anonymoose 2007-03-23 20:05||   2007-03-23 20:05|| Front Page Top

#13 Another 5 million quran beaters, and we will have martial law, for a while.
Posted by Sneaze 2007-03-23 22:02||   2007-03-23 22:02|| Front Page Top

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