VL-IV (15) Tubal Nuances, pages 355/356, 370/371, 377/378

[Robin Landseadel]

On Apr 21, 2009, at 1:41 PM, rich wrote:
>>      such appraisals are the result of these readers' failure to
>>      apprehend the historical depth the novel offers, and their
>>      refusal to take seriously the endpoint of the history it
>>      relates. There has yet to be a critic who, like the ghost of  
>> Walter
>>      Rathenau in Gravity's Rainbow, is able to "see the whole shape
>>      at once,"  the continuing pattern of executive aggrandizement
>>      so carefully interwoven into the exposition of Vineland
> _______
> and this was before W.--though w/ Cheney around you knew he had a
> hardon for increasing the blood flow (so to sopeak) to the executive
> branch.
> who knew about these "signing statements"--where the prez can just say
> i'm not gonna go along with this law/that law. crazy scary
>
> rich
>

If you'd like to be even more crazy/scared:

	President Regan signed Presidential Director Number 54 in

	April of 1984 that allowed FEMA to activate a secret national

	readiness exercise. This exercise was given the code name

	REX84. The purpose of the exercise was to test FEMA's ability

	to assume military authority. REX 84 was so highly guarded that

	special metal doors were installed on the fifth floor of the FEMA

	building in Washington, D.C. The only people that were allowed

	to enter the premises were ones who had a red Christian cross

	on their shirt.* The exercise required the following.....

	• Suspension of the Constitution of the United States
	• Turning control of the government over to FEMA
	• Appointment of military commanders to run state and local
	  governments
	• Declaration of Martial Law

http://www.freedomfiles.org/war/fema.htm

* Remember that riff about "Red Christer Pins" earlier in the book?
> On 4/21/09, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> it is hard to believe but FEMA was once a well-run organization (i'm
>> thinking Clinton appointee James lee Witt--a man w/ true background  
>> in
>> disaster mgmt--see aftermath I think of Hurricane Andrew in Florida)
>> before the bumblers Joseph Allbaugh (almost a cartoon cutout--check
>> out the hairdo) and eventually Michael Browne got their hands on it.
>>
>> background of the head of FEMA in 1984 was a Reagan insider, friends
>> of the lovely Edwin Meese (the American Hermann Goring). booted out
>> for corruption (good gosh!)
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_O._Giuffrida