JohnQPublic
10th June 2013, 01:51 PM
Is This the REAL Reason for the Government Spying On Americans? (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/is-this-the-real-reason-for-the-government-spying-on-americans.html)
"To understand the scope, extent and reason that the government spies on all Americans, you have to understand what has happened to our Constitutional form of government since 9/11...The United States has been in a declared state of emergency from September 2001, to the present. Specifically, on September 11, 2001, the government declared a state of emergency...That declared state of emergency has continued in full force and effect from 9/11 to the present. President Bush kept it in place, and President Obama has also...Continuity of Government (“COG”) measures were implemented on 9/11..."
"...the White House has specifically refused to share information about Continuity of Government plans with the Homeland Security Committee of the U.S. Congress, even though that Committee has proper security clearance to hear the full details of all COG plans..."
"...Indeed, continuity of government plans are specifically defined to do the following:
Top leaders of the “new government” called for in the COG would entirely or largely go into hiding, and would govern in hidden locations
Those within the new government would know what was going on. But those in the “old government” – that is, the one created by the framers of the Constitution – would not necessarily know the details of what was happening
Normal laws and legal processes might largely be suspended, or superseded by secretive judicial forums
The media might be ordered by strict laws – punishable by treason – to only promote stories authorized by the new government..."
"To understand the scope, extent and reason that the government spies on all Americans, you have to understand what has happened to our Constitutional form of government since 9/11...The United States has been in a declared state of emergency from September 2001, to the present. Specifically, on September 11, 2001, the government declared a state of emergency...That declared state of emergency has continued in full force and effect from 9/11 to the present. President Bush kept it in place, and President Obama has also...Continuity of Government (“COG”) measures were implemented on 9/11..."
"...the White House has specifically refused to share information about Continuity of Government plans with the Homeland Security Committee of the U.S. Congress, even though that Committee has proper security clearance to hear the full details of all COG plans..."
"...Indeed, continuity of government plans are specifically defined to do the following:
Top leaders of the “new government” called for in the COG would entirely or largely go into hiding, and would govern in hidden locations
Those within the new government would know what was going on. But those in the “old government” – that is, the one created by the framers of the Constitution – would not necessarily know the details of what was happening
Normal laws and legal processes might largely be suspended, or superseded by secretive judicial forums
The media might be ordered by strict laws – punishable by treason – to only promote stories authorized by the new government..."