QUESTION:
There was an article in the August 23, 1993 Spotlight, which I would like to read a little of to Awareness and ask It to comment. It’s titled: "Martial Law for America?"
Is Puerto Rico a testing ground for military takeover of the United States? Civil libertarians are concerned about the current use of National Guard troops in Puerto Rico to enforce civilian law and are fearful that the U.S. Commonwealth in the Caribbean is being used by the administration of President Bill Clinton as a testing ground for the use of the military in the event of a National Emergency being declared in the United States. The Spotlight was the recipient of a "Project Censored Award" for publishing one of the nation’s top ten most unreported or censored stories of 1990. The popular weekly’s exclusive dealt with the legislation introduced that year by Senator Phil Graham of Texas and Newt Gingrich of Georgia which allowed for the suspension of the nation’s Bill of Rights by the declaration of a National Emergency. By Executive Order, the President declares a National Emergency which in the case of the Graham/Gingrich legislation, was to control the widespread sale and use of illicit drugs. The legislation called for the establishment of detention centers for civilian detainees and the arrest of civilians without just cause and without due process.
COSMIC AWARENESS::
This Awareness indicates these would be the concentration camps that have been mentioned previously, these detention centers. Continue…
STATEMENT CONTINUES:
The legislation never made it out of committee of either the House or Senate due to its exposure by the Spotlight. It has not been reintroduced in either House of Congress. Currently Puerto Rico is spending a million dollars a month to use National Guard troops to augment civilian police. Abuses such as illegal searches end seizures have been reported. While those on the U.S. mainland who would be appalled by such misuse of the military have been unaware of this experiment in enforcing civil law, National Guard troops have been patrolling on foot Puerto Rico’s beaches armed with M-16’s and driving through shopping plazas, parking lots and the streets of the Commonwealth capitol of San Juan in military vehicles as if they were civilian police cars. The guard has been there since Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Hugo in 1989. While over the years the National Guard has been used to quell riots such as the recent outbreak of violence in Los Angeles and invading victims of natural disasters, it is the first time such troops have been deployed to assist civilian police in enforcing civil law. In fact, the use of the military to enforce civil law in the United States raises serious questions about Posse Comitatus Act violations, it being a violation of the Constitution to use the military to enforce civilian law. Already executive orders by every president since World War ll permit a chief executive to virtually turn the nation into a military dictatorship with the declaration of a National Emergency. As an example, President Bill Clinton in view of the recent World Trade Center bombing in New York City and the subsequent discovery of an alleged plot to bomb several other targets in the New York metropolitan area and to assassinate a number of political figures could declare a National Emergency to control terrorism. If such action was taken, civil law as Americans know it would be suspended and the military would take control under the direction of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) which was given such power during the administration of President Jimmy Carter by the issuance of Executive Order 12148. This sinister purpose for FEMA was exposed for all to see during the recent devastation in Southern states that resulted from Hurricane Andrew. It was discovered FEMA was totally unprepared to deal with a full-blown natural disaster and calls to the agency for communication equipment brought out multi-million dollar mobile command centers designed to maintain order and to coordinate FEMA control of the United States during the declared National Emergency. According to Puerto Rican National Guard officials, at any given time from one thousand to eight thousand members of the National Guard including soldiers who saw combat in the Persian Gulf are assigned to crime fighting operations in the commonwealth using weapons and equipment supplied by the U.S. government. It would appear from this that the Clinton administration is allowing the Pentagon, not the Justice Department, to determine what constitutes gross violation of civil law. The Coalition of Human Rights group in Puerto Rico plan to bring a Class Action against the Commonwealth government for violation of the Constitution.
It goes on, but the gist of the article is: Is what’s going on in Puerto Rico a test for what they would like to bring down in America?
COSMIC AWARENESS:
This Awareness indicates that as with most of the projects of this type, there are several purposes; this being one of the purposes, to watch and to see how this project could be re-applied for use in the United States. Its primary purpose, of course, being said to keep peace in the Puerto Rican setting, while a new civilian government is put in charge.
This Awareness indicates that these both are the two primary purposes; the one being stated, the other being unstated, but it is also seen that much of the action in Somalia is also being monitored and recorded as to its application in other countries for purposes of subduing the population and confiscating weapons, such as may occur in future situations in various places of the world.
These are what, in military terms are called "dry runs," or practices wherein troops are brought in to practice war or practice war situations, to see how they do. This Awareness indicates that in Somalia, for example, the confiscation of guns as that which will give them considerable information when and if it is used in the United States or other countries where guns are prevalent.
The information then is put into programs, and used for the future purposes that would confiscate guns from other countries. The lessons learned, in other words, applied from one situation, are evaluated and re-applied in the next or similar situations.
This Awareness indicates that the activities in Puerto Rico do not tend to offend most Americans because they see this country or state as being somewhat apart from the United States, failing to recognize it is governed by the same rights and by the same Constitution. Therefore, the people are more tolerant of violations to the Constitution if it occurs in Puerto Rico, than if for example it were to occur in Indiana or one of the mainland states.
This Awareness indicates the problem is that when a precedence is created in a place like Puerto Rico, that precedence then becomes a background or pattern by which it can be re-applied to mainland states.
