posse commitatas

Robert Gates and Nancy Pelosi spout differing, but equally dangerous, falsehoods on Face the Nation this morning.

Robert Gates used a very dangerous new phrase as to who the U.S. military and mercenary troops are fighting in Iraq and elsewhere (such as in the U.S.?) this morning on Face the Nation. We apparently are no longer fighting Sadam (he’s dead), nor are we fighting Al-Qaida in Iraq, and he would not say that we are fighting Shia militi or insurgents– and most interesting of all he did not say that we were combating terrorists – what he said is that we are fighting extremists.

You know what this is don’t you? This is another publicly audible click of the gears of the fascist propaganda machine pulling us toward the use of U.S. troops against the U.S. people. Language is a powerful tool and Gates use of this word “extreme” is the another shovel of dirt dug out to undermine the posse commitatas act which as of 01/19/04 in the

United States Code
TITLE 18 – CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

PART I – CRIMES
CHAPTER 67 – MILITARY AND NAVY

Section 1385. Use of Army and Air Force as posse comitatus

      Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly
 authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses
 any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or
 otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or
 imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

Major Craig T. Trebilcock writes that “posse comitatus today is more of a procedural formality than an actual impediment to the use of U.S. military forces in homeland defense.”

Please define extreme, Secretary Gates.

In my dictionary it defines it thusly:

extreme |ikˈstrēm|

adjective
1 reaching a high or the highest degree; very great : extreme cold.
2 [ attrib. ] furthest from the center or a given point; outermost

noun
1 either of two abstract things that are as different from each other as possible
2 Logic the subject or predicate in a proposition, or the major or minor term in a syllogism (as contrasted with the middle term).

We are all shit canned if it is the second meaning he intends, when it is used as an adjective, as I believe it was used by Gates, as an attribute.

furthest from the center or a given point; outermost

So we are fighting variance, diversity of thought, and view. This fight leads to a recursive self-cannibalism that eradicates the most divergent of views. After they are eradicated, then the more moderate view becomes the extreme and it is eradicated.

This is the same sentiment behind the incremental “cleansing” used by the Nazis to which Martin Niemöller referred to when he spoke his oft quoted poem,

“In Germany, they came first for the Communists,

And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;

And then they came for the trade unionists,

And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;

And then they came for the Jews,

And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;

And then . . . they came for me . . .

And by that time there was no one left to speak up.”

This famous and oft quoted statement is variously quoted and if you are interested in its absolute accuracy Professor Marcuse’s research is probably the most detailed and documented research that is easily accessible on the web.

And if you want to talk about keeping quiet and complicity in global level criminality, don’t forget to mention Face the Nation’s second guest this morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

If Nancy Pelosi is concerned about the safety of the American People or the welfare of the troops as she said she was this morning or she really believed in forwarding the mandate the American People gave in November 2006 she would act to topple the Bush regime that mocks our constitution, sabotages the structures of U.S. life that support our population, and sneers at the American People, she would PUT IMPEACHMENT BACK ON THE TABLE. This morning on Face the Nation she tried to put all the blame on Bush, and yet she is the person who took the only option the House of Representatives has for reeling in the treasonous actions of this administration off the table when she unilaterally took impeachment off the table. The House Judiciary Committee has neither the balls nor ovaries to do what is their constituional duty and put Pelosi back in her place to speak for the House and not rule the House.

As Impeach Them says,

“Keep those calls for Impeachment coming in to Congress!
We hear they are making a huge impact!
Capitol Hill Switchboard: (202) 224-2131 , (800) 828-0498″

If we don’t impeach Bush and Cheney now it will be nearly impossible to hold them to any standard of justice in the future for the war crimes, treason, and lies that have characterized their entire reign. The clock is running out. We must do this NOW. If not, well, then I guess I will see you in the camps. Check out how they are currently being used to keep women and children incarcerated in a prison that idenies access to U.N. human rights workers.