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USA TODAY, MARCH 19, 2020
Guard chief says 27 states have activated National Guardsmen.
The chief of the National Guard Bureau on Thursday compared the coronavirus crisis to hurricanes hitting all 54 states, territories and the District of Columbia simultaneously.
Governors in 27 states have activated Guardsmen for missions including medical testing, transportation and distributing food, Air Force Gen. Joseph Lengyel said.
There are 2,050 Guardsmen called to duty because of the virus, and that number is likely to double by the weekend, he said.
“This could quickly blossom in the next couple of weeks,” Lengyel said.Don’t want to self-quarantine? The sheriff could send armed guards to your house.
A 53-year-old man in Nelson County refused to follow medical advice. He recently checked himself out of a University of Louisville hospital against his doctors’ advice and told the local health department he would not comply with an order to isolate himself from others. On Saturday, the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office posted armed deputies outside the man’s house over the weekend to enforce the quarantine.
AND THAT SETS THE STAGE FOR THIS...
U.S. TROOPS WENT DOOR-TO-DOOR DURING HURRICANE KATRINA.
After Hurricane Katrina, armed National Guard soldiers patrolled hard-hit Louisiana, October, 2005.
REMEMBER...
The guard watched over voting along the eastern seaboard after Hurricane Sandy.
FEMA now in charge of coronavirus response.
Vice President Mike Pence said Trump has put Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in charge of the coronavirus response.
AS OF TODAY, FEMA "RELOCATION/QUARANTINE CAMPS" ARE PERFECTLY LEGAL AND CAN BE PUT TO USE DURING THIS PANDEMIC.
THE MEDIA-HYPED, FEAR-MONGERING CORONAVIRUS SCARE IS SERIOUSLY AFFECTING DAILY LIFE, THE ECONOMY AND ELECTION 2020.
Presidential campaigns canceling events in Miami and elsewhere.
Poll workers packing extra rubber gloves.
The Arizona debate will now be held without a live audience.
After weeks of early voting, with only days to go until Florida’s March 17 presidential preference election, a global outbreak of novel coronavirus and a continuing surge by former Vice President Joe Biden have dramatically changed the landscape of the presidential campaign both nationally and in the state.
Now, at a time the campaign should be bustling, it’s unclear what the Florida campaign will look like — or if it will even matter.
Biden’s campaign, which also nixed a planned event in Chicago, said it changed plans at the request of elected officials in both Illinois and Florida and after consulting with a newly established campaign committee on health. A press release suggested future events would also be held virtually.
The last day of early voting is Sunday, March 15.
Nearly 1 million voters in Florida have yet to return their mail ballots.
On Election Day, the CDC recommends voters avoid the morning, lunch-time and after-work rush, if possible. But Broward elections spokesman Steve Vancore said long lines are unlikely given that two-thirds of the vote may be in before polls open Tuesday.
WHAT IS CLEARED TO HAPPEN NEXT
House Resolution 6566, also known as the Mass Fatality Planning and Religious Considerations Act, would amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to mandate that FEMA immediately begin conducting "mass fatality planning" in preparation for a major event or series of events that may kill off untold numbers of people...like COVID-19.
IN THE CASE OF A "NATIONAL EMERGENCY", FEMA HAS THE ABSOLUTE POWER TO SUSPEND THE CONSTITUTION, SEND CONGRESS HOME OR QUARANTINE ALL OF WASHINGTON DC, MOVE ENTIRE COMMUNITIES INTO QUARANTINE AND TAKE OVER COMMUNICATION, TRANSPORTATION, FOOD DISTRIBUTION AND THE U.S. ECONOMY.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has broad powers in every aspect of the nation.
General Frank Salzedo, chief of FEMA's Civil Security Division stated in a 1983 conference that he saw FEMA's role as a "new frontier in the protection of individual and governmental leaders from assassination, and of civil and military installations from sabotage and/or attack, as well as prevention of dissident groups from gaining access to U.S. opinion, or a global audience in times of crisis."
FEMA's powers were consolidated by President Carter to incorporate:the National Security Act of 1947, which allows for the strategic relocation of industries, services, government and other essential economic activities, and to rationalize the requirements for manpower, resources and production facilities; the 1950 Defense Production Act, which gives the President sweeping powers over all aspects of the economy; the Act of August 29, 1916, which authorizes the Secretary of the Army, in time of war, to take possession of any transportation system for transporting troops, material, or any other purpose related to the emergency; and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which enables the President to seize the property of a foreign country or national.These powers were transferred to FEMA in a sweeping consolidation in 1979.
On July 5, 1987, the Miami Herald published reports on FEMA's new goals. The goal was to suspend the Constitution in the event of a national crisis, such as nuclear war, violent and widespread internal dissent, or national opposition to a U.S. military invasion abroad.
Lt. Col. North was the architect.
"Use of National Guard Troops to Quell Disturbances."
In the United States, around 460,000 so-called “citizen soldiers” serve in National Guard units across all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories, according to the National Guard Association of the U.S.
Louisiana and other Gulf Coast states called in National Guard units to help in the aftermath of Katrina and its flooding and mayhem.
In drought-stricken Western states, they’re battling wildfires. In flood-prone areas, they fill and stack sandbags.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry called up about 1,000 National Guard troops to patrol the border with Mexico amid an influx of young child migrants.
National Guard units, however, are increasingly called up for NATIONAL defense, as well. Several states’ Air National Guard wings helped patrol U.S. air space in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
More than half of all Guard members have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan – sometimes multiple times – as well as other foreign locations, according to John Goheen, spokesman for the National Guard Association.
“What the National Guard offers governors – whether in the case of Ferguson, Missouri's riots and looting or fighting wildfires – is units of disciplined, uniformed personnel,” he said. They “can be quickly trained to do things, to carry out missions.”
Steven P. Bucci, a retired Army colonel who is currently an analyst at the Heritage Foundation, pointed out, the United States, unlike most countries around the world, doesn’t have a national police force.
Instead, he said, “we’ve given that power through our constitution to the governors and the mayors, all the way down.”
One extreme possibility—something, no one appears to be discussing at this moment— would be for the federal government to step in and take control of the guard.
At least one 19th century federal law provides the legal basis for that, along with the 1952 Armed Forces Reserve Act, which, among other things, enables the federal government to supersede a governor’s authority and take control of the National Guard for a specific mission – a relatively rare act.
Since World War II, presidents have “federalized” National Guard for domestic law enforcement missions 10 times.
The decision to call in the Guard for law enforcement— state or federal—is fraught, given the constitutional and statutory restrictions that restrict the U.S. armed forces from having domestic police duties.
“Although the U.S. military is generally prohibited from exercising domestic law enforcement authority, a state National Guard unit may do so unless it’s called to federal service,” said Dunlap, who is also a retired Air Force major and former deputy judge advocate general. State law defines its exact law enforcement authority.
Here, from the National Guard Bureau, are some notable examples of National Guard deployments in U.S. history that were later “federalized”:
1957-58 – Little Rock, Arkansas President Dwight D. Eisenhower orders the takeover of National Guard troops that had been called up by Gov. Orval Faubus to keep black students from attending Little Rock’s all-white Central High School. Eisenhower also deployed U.S. marshals and paratroopers from the 101st Airborne Division to assist in maintaining order after rioting broke out.
1962 – Oxford, Mississippi After the University of Mississippi in Oxford flouts a court order and bars a black student from attending classes there, President John F. Kennedy federalizes Mississippi National Guard troops to prevent violence toward the student, James Meredith, and rioting in the broader community.
1963 – Tuscaloosa, Alabama A year after Oxford, Alabama Gov. George Wallace physically blocks black students from entering a University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa building, despite a court order. That prompts President Kennedy to take control of the Alabama National Guard to enforce the court order allowing black students to enroll.
1965 – Selma, Alabama President Lyndon B. Johnston federalizes the Alabama National Guard to protect peaceful protesters marching from Selma to Montgomery to protest racial discrimination. At an earlier march, protesters were brutally beaten by state police and deputies.
1968 – Detroit, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; Washington, D.C. Johnson orders deployment of thousands of National Guard units from those two states, and the federal district, to patrol streets and prevent rioting that erupted after the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.
[I NEVER UNDERSTOOD WHY THERE WAS NO RIOTING, NO LOOTING WHEN THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND HIS BROTHER WERE ASSASSINATED OR WHEN ASIAN, AMERICAN INDIAN OR WHITE CHILDREN/TEENS ARE KILLED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT, OR WHY THERE ARE NO RIOTS AFTER A BLACK-ON-BLACK KILLING OCCURS. SEEMS TO ME THAT THE "BLACK LIVES MATTER" MOVEMENT IS A FRAUD BECAUSE IT EXEMPTS SUCH DEATHS AS GANG-RELATED CRIMES, A BLACK POLICE OFFICERS KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY, ETC. WHAT WOULD THE MEDIA DO IF A "WHITE LIVES MATTER" FORMED AND RIOTED/LOOTED ONLY WHEN SOMEONE OF ANOTHER RACE KILLED A WHITE PERSON? THERE WOULD BE MSM MEDIA OUTCRY TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH.]
1970 – New York City After thousands of postal workers walked off the job, President Richard M. Nixon orders thousands of National Guard troops to help deliver the mail in the city’s financial district. Others sort mail and keep picketers from interfering.
1992 – Los Angeles, California Rioting erupts in Los Angeles after four white police officers are acquitted in the brutal beating of Rodney King, a black man. President George H. W. Bush calls up more than 10,000 California National Guard troops to help quell the unrest.
IT GETS EASIER FOR A POTUS TO 'CALL UP THE GUARD' AFTER EVERY ADMINISTRATION.
In April 1984, President Reagan signed Presidential Directorate Number 54 that allowed FEMA to engage in a secret national "readiness exercise" under the code name of REX 84. The exercise was to test FEMA's readiness to assume military authority in the event of a "State of Domestic National Emergency" concurrent with the launching of a direct United States military operation in Central America. The plan called for the deputation of U.S. military and National Guard units so that they could legally be used for domestic law enforcement. These units would be assigned to conduct sweeps and take into custody an estimated 400,000 undocumented Central American immigrants in the United States. The immigrants would be interned at 10 detention centers to be set up at military bases throughout the country.
BY PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORITY, AT A STATE'S REQUEST, IN CASE OF MASS PANIC, PANDEMIC, ECONOMIC COLLAPSE OR CIVIL UPRISING, THE GUARD CAN BE USED AGAINST U.S. CITIZENS.
THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION JUST DECLARED COVID-19 A PANDEMIC, EVEN THOUGH FEWER THAT 200,000 GLOBALLY HAVE FALLEN ILL FROM IT.
The crux of the problem is that FEMA has the power to turn the United States into a police state in time of a real or a manufactured crisis.
Lt. Col. North virtually established the apparatus for dictatorship. Only the criticism of the Attorney General prevented the plans from being adopted. But intelligence reports indicate that FEMA has a folder with 22 Executive Orders for the President to sign in case of an emergency.
In May 2007, G.W. Bush signed presidential security directives NSDP51 and HSDP20 to replace REX84.
The older REX84 was merely a directive to establish martial law in the event of a national emergency.
Bush granted himself far superior powers, including the power to suspend Posse Comitatus.
Everything done in government is done for a reason, and these two newer orders are no exception.
ALL THEY NEED IS A BELIEVABLE 'REASON' TO DECLARE MARTIAL LAW.
In military history, it's well known that if you control the food supply, you control the people.
WITH FEMA AND BUSH'S DIRECTIVES, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT EASILY ACCOMPLISHES THAT WITHIN A FEW SECONDS BY THE STROKE OF A PRESIDENTIAL PEN WHENEVER THEY PLEASE.
ENTER CORONAVIRUS, COVID-19
FIVE STATES HAVE DECLARED EMERGENCIES, CLEARING THE WAY FOR THE "KATRINA TREATMENT" OF THEIR RESIDENTS: CONTAIN, DISARM, HOLD HOSTAGE.
"New York's governor has announced that troops will be sent into a town north of the city in an attempt to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
The National Guard will deliver food to quarantined individuals in New Rochelle, where a one-mile (1.6km) "containment zone" will be enforced.
The area has seen "the largest cluster" of US cases, Andrew Cuomo said as he announced the measures on Tuesday.
There are more than 1,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the US so far.
New York state has 173 active cases, the most in the US, and 108 of them are in Westchester County where New Rochelle is located.
China - where the virus was first detected - has seen a total of 80,754 confirmed cases and 3,136 deaths. But it recorded its lowest number of new infections, just 19, on Tuesday."
WHO, IN THEIR RIGHT MIND, WOULD DECLARE AN EMERGENCY OVER 173 CASES OF ANYTHING IN A POPULATION OF MILLIONS?
GLOBAL ECONOMIC DISASTER?
Stock markets plunge as WHO confirms pandemic.
Officials in Boston canceled the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade Monday citing health concerns. In a statement, Mayor Marty Walsh said the decision to cancel the parade "is being made out of an abundance of caution to ensure that we are doing what is needed to keep the residents of Boston safe and healthy."
Harvard University (and several other major colleges) , which is approximately three miles away from Boston, announced Tuesday that it was moving all of its classes online and that students were not to return to campus after the end of spring break.
Sporting events, political rallies, speaking engagements, classes, entire businesses are shutting down over this super-hyped virus.
Not even in SARS, MERS, EBOLA, Zika, Swine Flu outbreaks did we see such hysterical reactions at this level!
OPERATIONS TROJAN HORSE, REX 84, GARDEN PLOT AND OTHERS WERE IMPLEMENTED TO TEST THE WATERS ON AMERICANS' WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT MARTIAL LAW.
AMERICANS WERE WILLING.
THEY NEVER FLINCHED WHEN "ROUNDUP LISTS" WERE REVEALED, EVEN AFTER THE FIASCO OF THAT "NO-FLY LIST" WHICH LISTED NUNS, INFANTS, CHILDREN.
From 1967 to 1971, the FBI kept a list of over 100,000 people to be rounded up as subversive, dubbed the "ADEX" ( Administrative Index) list. (1)
Reagan's Attorney General William French Smith became aware of the abuses of the Emergency Mobilization Preparedness Board operating under the National Security Council.
He admonished McFarlane, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, who theoretically chaired the planning group.
In a letter dated August 2, 1984, Smith responded to a request by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to review, for form and legality, a draft Executive Order revising the powerful EO 11490, assigning emergency preparedness functions to federal departments and agencies. The Attorney General said that apart from the legal review by the Office of Legal Counsel,
"...I believe that the draft Executive Order raises serious substantive and public policy issues that should be further addressed before this proposal is submitted to the President.
In short I believe that the role assigned to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on the revised Executive Order exceeds its proper function as a coordinating agency for emergency preparedness."
"This Department and others have repeatedly raised serious policy and legal objections to the creation of an `emergency czar' role for FEMA. Specific policy concerns regarding recent FEMA initiatives include the abandonment of the principle of `several' agency responsibility and the expansion of the definition of severe emergencies to encompass `routine' domestic law enforcement emergencies. Legal objections relate to the absence of Presidential or Congressional authorization for unilateral FEMA directives which seek to establish new Federal Government management structures or otherwise task Cabinet departments and other federal agencies."
TOO LATE.
By forming the EMPB (Emergency Mobilization Preparedness Board) , Ronald Reagan made it possible for a small group of people, under the authority of the NSC ( National Security Council), to wield enormous power. They, in turn, used this executive authority to change civil defense planning into a military/police version of civil security.
This nation now stands on the threshold of rule by non-elected people asserting non-Constitutional powers. Even Congress cannot review a Martial Law action until six months after it has been declared. For the first time in American history, the reins of government would not be transferred from one elected element to another, but the Constitution, itself, can be suspended.
The scenarios established to trigger FEMA into action are generally found in American society today; economic collapse, civil unrest, drug problems, terrorist attacks, and protests against American intervention in foreign countries.
All these premises exist, so it could only be a matter of time until one of these triggers the "national emergency" necessary to bring FEMA into full, unbridled action, but, under the FEMA plan, there is no contingency by which Constitutional power is RESTORED.
WHAT BETTER TIME TO EXECUTE THIS THAN BEFORE ELECTION 2020?
HOW EASY TO DEPOSE A SITTING U.S. PRESIDENT.
REMEMBER THIS IN 2012?
Hurricane Sandy and the 2012 Election
Was it hurricane Sandy that won it for President Obama?
WILL CORONAVIRUS WIN IT FOR BIDEN?
YES, COVID-19 IS REAL, BUT IT'S LESS DEADLY THAN SARS, MERS, EBOLA,THE SWINE FLU.
IT IS NOT A "NATIONAL/GLOBAL EMERGENCY" SINCE THOUSANDS TO MILLIONS MORE HAVE DIED FROM FLU SEASON 2019-2020, AS REPORTED BY THE CDC THEMSELVES.
WHY THE MEDIA PUSH, THE W.H.O. PANDEMIC DECLARATION, THE CIVIL PANIC?
IN YESTERDAY'S PANDEMIC DECLARATION, WHO STATED:
"..calling the outbreak a pandemic does not mean the WHO is changing its advice about what countries should do.
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on governments to change the course of the outbreak by taking "urgent and aggressive action".
Several countries have demonstrated that this virus can be suppressed and controlled," he said.
"The challenge for many countries who are now dealing with large clusters or community transmission is not whether they can do the same - it's whether they will."
"..calling the outbreak a pandemic does not mean the WHO is changing its advice about what countries should do.
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on governments to change the course of the outbreak by taking "urgent and aggressive action".
Several countries have demonstrated that this virus can be suppressed and controlled," he said.
"The challenge for many countries who are now dealing with large clusters or community transmission is not whether they can do the same - it's whether they will."
THEN STOP THE MEDIA HYPE AND DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE WITHOUT THE RELENTLESS DRAMA!
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END NOTES, SOURCES:
-- (1) Donner, Frank (1980). The Age of Surveillance: The Aims & Methods of America's Political Intelligence System. New York: Alfred Knopf. p. 166.
-- SEE THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY'S projects:
SHAMROCK, MINARET, Trailblazer, Thinthread, Turbulence (NSA), PRISM, ECHELON
AND FOLLOW THE LINKS.
-- FBI Secrets by M. Wesley Swearingen
Publication date 1995
//WW
CURRENT TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS WORLDWIDE, UPDATED DAILY:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cathaypacific.com/cx/en_US/travel-information/travel-preparation/travel-advisories/notice-regarding-travel-restrictions.html
College closings: More than 100 colleges cancel in-person classes and move online.
ReplyDeleteUSA TODAY, Mar.11, 2020.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2020/03/11/coronavirus-college-closings-list-online-classes/5022256002/
The list:
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2020/03/10/list-of-colleges-closed-online-because-coronavirus/5013436002/
CHINA SAYS PEAK OF CORONAVIRUS EPIDEMIC HAS PASSED AS NEW CASES DECLINE AND MORE THAN 60,000 HAVE RECOVERED. Newsweek, 3/12/2020.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.newsweek.com/china-says-passed-peak-coronavirus-epidemic-covid-19-1491863
of the 121,000 cases across the globe, 66,216 people have recovered as of Wednesday morning, MAR. 11, 2020, according to a case tracker that Johns Hopkins University manages. Around 4,300 people worldwide have died from COVID-19. About 80% of COVID-19 cases are mild, research shows.
ReplyDeleteData suggests that COVID-19 does not transmit as efficiently as the flu, which can be transmitted widely by people who are infected but not yet showing symptoms.
We don’t even talk about containment for seasonal flu – it’s just not possible. But it is possible for COVID-19.
--World Health Organization's director-general, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---3-march-2020
OHIO WILL CANCEL ITS PRIMARY ON MARCH 17.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/states-that-have-postponed-primaries-due-to-coronavirus
H.R. 6566 (112th): Mass Fatality Planning and Religious Considerations Act was NOT enacted into law.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr6566/text
“H.R. 6666 — 116th Congress: COVID-19 Testing, Reaching, And Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act.” www.GovTrack.us. 2020. October 9, 2020
is still in 'debate'.
Bills numbers restart every two years. That means there are other bills with the number H.R. 6566.
The Tea Room should have been more vigilant when reading bills.
Mea culpa.