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September 21, 2001
Dear Newswatch Magazine Listeners/Readers:
T he following headline and partial article
appeared in the Los Angeles Times, final edition, Saturday
Morning, March 31, 1962, front page:
U.S. TO PROPOSE END OF NATIONAL ARMIES
Plan for U.N. Peace Force Ready to Be Submitted at
Geneva
GENEVA (UPI) - The United States will submit to the
Geneva disarmament conference a plan calling for elimination
of national armies and their replacement by a United Nations
force, reliable sources said.
Think what happened in America on September 11, 2001. Terrorists
took down both towers of the World Trade Center. People were killed
from 62 nations. Over 5,400 still missing, not counting the known
dead. A wing of the Pentagon, 5 floors high, was destroyed. One plane
crashed and did not reach its destination - the White House or Camp
David. Another Boston flight was canceled. It now appears it was to be
high-jacked also.
Now notice what the American Standard, June 1962,
headlined:
Walker Charges Defense Dept. Creating
"Police-State" Army
Dallas - In a speech recently, former General Edwin
A. Walker charged that the Kennedy Administration has issued orders
for "counter-insurgency" training in the nation's military
forces. … this "clearly implies and substantiates the
administration's intent to prepare troops within EVERY STATE
for putting down opposition in any area to administration
policy - social, political or economic."
Walker reminded his listeners that, "This is the pattern
and the necessity in the development of a police state.
This is preparing the Army for its job under the United Nations
program #7277, which provides - States would retain
ONLY those forces required for the purpose of maintaining internal
order."
As further evidence that the Kennedy Administration sees the need
for "counter-insurgent" troops to suppress any opposition to
its own policies, Walker said: "Some may imagine that
'counter-insurgency' is intended to put down communism itself as an
internal threat. But never forget that the Kennedy
Administration has repeatedly declared that communism is NOT an
internal threat."
Therefore, counter-insurgency must be against something
else. "The use of the term 'resistance groups'
shows WHAT it is against. Resistance forces are always native to a
country and try to preserve independence. In our country,
this means native [U.S. citizens] who are opposed to communism
[or world government]."
IF THIS WERE NOT ENOUGH, look what appeared in the July 1958, U.S.
News & World Report:
WHAT BUSINESS CAN EXPECT
Martial Law - Rationing -
Price, Material Controls
Businessmen who worry about "stand-by
control" for the next war are in for a shock.
"Control" isn't the word for what IS NOW PLANNED.
If bombs drop [or terrorists blow up buildings] on
U.S. cities, a DICTATORSHIP WILL TAKE OVER.
Martial law, NATION-WIDE, will be invoked.
Government will give orders, force people
and businesses to OBEY. Nothing like it has ever been seen in the U.S.
A military dictatorship, swift and
complete, will take hold at the very moment of any big atomic attack
[or terrorist attack] on American cities. This is the word from top
official sources in Washington…The old idea of "standby
controls," which has been worrying some businessmen, no longer
has any place in official planning.
Instead, the President will simply take
control - of businesses, banks, goods, prices, wages, just about
EVERYTHING - and worry about legal authority later.
Martial law will be clamped on the entire country.
This will be the President's first official act after bombs [or
terrorism] start falling.
With that act, the President will assume
almost unlimited war powers. Dictatorship from
Washington, or from the President's nearby hideaway, will be backed BY
MILITARY FORCES.
At once, the nation will go on a war footing. RULES
ALREADY WRITTEN. Businesses will be blanketed by regulations, already
written and ready for issue. Raw materials will be rationed. Tools,
trucks, supplies will be subject to seizure.
Banks will be given orders by Government. Money will be rationed.
Depositors, if necessary, will be limited in how much they
can draw out of the bank. … Prices and wages will be frozen. Rents
will be controlled. Goods will be rationed. Censorship will be imposed
at once. Credit will be controlled. Trains, trucking lines, airlines
and ships will be permitted to carry only priority passengers or
freight. Factories will be told what to produce. Industry will be
ordered to expand some facilities, abandon others. Electric power will
be shifted from non-essential uses. Farmers, under martial law, may
see their livestock, land and crops commandeered for military use.
Doctors and hospitals might have to give up medical supplies, and take
orders from Government.
In bombed-out areas, martial law will bring strict
discipline, enforced by GUNPOINT by whatever armed
forces are available. The Federal Civil Defense Act will come into
full effect, empowering authorities to requisition property, including
private homes and automobiles. In these areas, people
[private citizens] will be subject to draft for whatever LABOR is
needed.
SUSPENSION OF RIGHTS.
INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES WILL DISAPPEAR FOR THE TIME BEING.
Habeas corpus, which protects a citizen against
imprisonment without due process of law, will be suspended. SO
WILL FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Spreading rumors might get a
person into trouble.
Outside of disaster areas, the plan is to apply
martial law more subtly. Civilian agencies, rather than military
authorities, will carry out the usual controls, INCLUDING rationing, restrictions
on travel, draft of manpower and ANTI-HOARDING
orders.
No President of the past had the sweeping authority
NOW PLANNED under an atomic emergency. Abraham Lincoln imposed martial
law during the Civil War, but only on certain sections of the country.
The Constitution of the United States uses the term Unalienable
Rights. WHY? Unalienable means that which CANNOT be
separated, surrendered or taken away. Inalienable means that
which SHOULD not be separated, surrendered or taken away. Our
Constitution says that our rights CANNOT - not should not - be taken
away, even under martial law. That will be ignored.
Truly the Beast of Revelation 13 is rising and will probably
conquer America in the next war when we surrender our
"unalienable rights."
Sincerely,
David J. Smith
