REX 84 / crypto-fascist rumblings

[Jemmy Bloocher]

Excellent, thanks. The words 'one nation' give me chills. Actually just
hearing DC speak these days makes me nauseous.
On 26 Sep 2015 17:35, "Thomas Eckhardt" <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> '[...] long lines of civilians at the gun shops [...]. and the pawnshops,
> and all the military traffic on the freeways, more than Hector could ever
> remember [...] troops in full battle gear, and that queer moment the other
> night around 3:00 or 4:00 A.M., right in the middle of watching Sean
> Connery in The G. Gordon Liddy Story, when he saw the screen go blank,
> bright and prickly, and then heard voices hard, flat, echoing.
> "But we don't actually have the orders yet," somebody said.
> "It's only a detail," the other voice with a familiar weary edge, a
> service voice, "just like getting a search warrant." Onto the screen came
> some Anglo in fatigues, about Hector's age, sitting at a desk against a
> pale green wall under fluorescent light. He kept looking over to the side,
> off camera.
> "My name is -- what should I say, just name and rank?"
> "No names," the other advised.
> The man was handed two pieces of paper clipped together, and he read it to
> the camera. "As commanding officer of state defense forces in this sector,
> pursuant to the President's NSDD #52 of 6 April 1984 as amended, I am
> authorized --what?"'
>
> Vineland. 339.
>
> According to David Thoreen, this chilling vision of a military coup whose
> real sponsors are "off camera" is part of a history of "executive
> aggrandizement" told in VL. I note the pointed reference to Richard --
> "When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal" -- Nixon's
> "Plumbers", I note Oliver North's Iran-Contra and Continutity of Government
> (which could not be discussed publicly during the Iran-Contra-hearings, see
> Wiki on "REX 84" or Bill Moyers' "The Secret Government" on Youtube)
> activities, and once again recommend Thoreen's essay to the list:
>
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20101116080155/http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/thoreen24.htm#10
>
> (Thank you, John Krafft!)
>
>
> Now for the real world:
>
> "If these people are radicalized and don’t support the United States, and
> they’re disloyal to the United States, as a matter of principal that’s
> fine, that’s their right. It’s our right and our obligation to segregate
> them from the normal community for the duration of the conflict."
>
> – General Wesley Clark in a MSNBC interview
>
> https://youtu.be/eaPwqokBn9M
>
>
> "'The Army just wouldn’t stand for it. The general staff would not allow a
> prime minister to jeopardise the security of this country and I think
> people would use whatever means possible, fair or foul to prevent that. You
> can’t put a maverick in charge of a country’s security.
>
> 'There would be mass resignations at all levels and you would face the
> very real prospect of an event which would effectively be a mutiny.'"
>
>
> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/british-army-could-stage-mutiny-under-corbyn-says-senior-serving-general-10509742.html
>
> An unnamed British general on the possibility of Jeremy Corbyn becoming
> Prime Minister. I suspect that threatening a military coup is illegal but
> it seems that the general can not be identified and that therefore no
> action will be taken.
>
>
> And, while I'm at it:
>
> "Cameron will tell the NSC: 'For too long, we have been a passively
> tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we
> will leave you alone. It’s often meant we have stood neutral between
> different values. And that’s helped foster a narrative of extremism and
> grievance.
>
> 'This government will conclusively turn the page on this failed approach.
> As the party of one nation, we will govern as one nation and bring our
> country together. That means actively promoting certain values.'"
>
>
> http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/13/counter-terrorism-bill-extremism-disruption-orders-david-cameron
>
>
> "One nation"?
>
>
> Related music:
>
> http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xe3k7_laibach-geburt-einer-nation_music
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJMP0FEz51U
>
>
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