Former Reagan Official Warns of Threat to Constitutional Democracy.

I know some of you think that I may be a little paranoid, but I thought that this article is scary if you think about it. If a former Reagan official is speaking out about this, its gotta be bad. What do you people think of this? And yes, I do believe that the Keennedy assasination was a conspiracy and i'm still not sold that we landed on the moon. I'm kidding about the moon thing.

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Impeach Now
Or Face the End of Constitutional Democracy

By Paul Craig Roberts

counterpunch- July 16, 2007
Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a
year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state
at war with Iran.

Bush has put in place all the necessary measures for
dictatorship in the form of "executive orders" that are
triggered whenever Bush declares a national emergency.
Recent statements by Homeland Security Chief Michael
Chertoff, former Republican senator Rick Santorum and
others suggest that Americans might expect a series of
staged, or false flag, "terrorist" events in the near
future.

Many attentive people believe that the reason the Bush
administration will not bow to expert advice and public
opinion and begin withdrawing US troops from Iraq is
that the administration intends to rescue its unpopular
position with false flag operations that can be used to
expand the war to Iran.

Too much is going wrong for the Bush administration: the
failure of its Middle East wars, Republican senators
jumping ship, Turkish troops massed on northern Iraq's
border poised for an invasion to deal with Kurds, and a
majority of Americans favoring the impeachment of Cheney
and a near-majority favoring Bush's impeachment. The
Bush administration desperately needs dramatic events to
scare the American people and the Congress back in line
with the militarist-police state that Bush and Cheney
have fostered.

William Norman Grigg recently wrote that the GOP is
"praying for a terrorist strike" to save the party from
electoral wipeout in 2008. Chertoff, Cheney, the neocon
nazis, and Mossad would have no qualms about saving the
bacon for the Republicans, who have enabled Bush to
start two unjustified wars, with Iran waiting in the
wings to be attacked in a third war.

The Bush administration has tried unsuccessfully to
resurrect the terrorist fear factor by infiltrating some
blowhard groups and encouraging them to talk about
staging "terrorist" events. The talk, encouraged by
federal agents, resulted in "terrorist" arrests hyped by
the media, but even the captive media was unable to
scare people with such transparent sting operations.

If the Bush administration wants to continue its wars in
the Middle East and to entrench the "unitary executive"
at home, it will have to conduct some false flag
operations that will both frighten and anger the
American people and make them accept Bush's declaration
of "national emergency" and the return of the draft.
Alternatively, the administration could simply allow any
real terrorist plot to proceed without hindrance.

A series of staged or permitted attacks would be spun by
the captive media as a vindication of the
neoconsevatives' Islamophobic policy, the intention of
which is to destroy all Middle Eastern governments that
are not American puppet states. Success would give the
US control over oil, but the main purpose is to
eliminate any resistance to Israel's complete absorption
of Palestine into Greater Israel.

Think about it. If another 9/11-type "security failure"
were not in the works, why would Homeland Security czar
Chertoff go to the trouble of convincing the Chicago
Tribune that Americans have become complacent about
terrorist threats and that he has "a gut feeling" that
America will soon be hit hard?

Why would Republican warmonger Rick Santorum say on the
Hugh Hewitt radio show that "between now and November, a
lot of things are going to happen, and I believe that by
this time next year, the American public's (sic) going
to have a very different view of this war."

Throughout its existence the US government has staged
incidents that the government then used in behalf of
purposes that it could not otherwise have pursued.
According to a number of writers, false flag operations
have been routinely used by the Israeli state. During
the Czarist era in Russia, the secret police would set
off bombs in order to arrest those the secret police
regarded as troublesome. Hitler was a dramatic
orchestrator of false flag operations. False flag
operations are a commonplace tool of governments.

Ask yourself: Would a government that has lied us into
two wars and is working to lie us into an attack on Iran
shrink from staging "terrorist" attacks in order to
remove opposition to its agenda?

Only a diehard minority believes in the honesty and
integrity of the Bush-Cheney administration and in the
truthfulness of the corporate media.

Hitler, who never achieved majority support in a German
election, used the Reichstag fire to fan hysteria and
push through the Enabling Act, which made him dictator.
Determined tyrants never require majority support in
order to overthrow constitutional orders.

The American constitutional system is near to being
overthrown. Are coming "terrorist" events of which
Chertoff warns and Santorum promises the means for
overthrowing our constitutional democracy?

[Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate
Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and
Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor
of The Tyranny of Good Intentions. He can be reached at:
PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com ]