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Top Constitutional Scholar: Secret Bush Memos Reveal Plan For “Massive Military Takeover Of US”
Expert says Yoo memos instigate “Law by fiat”, “Fuhrer’s law”, “constitutes treason”
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Thursday, March 26, 2009
A top constitutional scholar has said that recently released Justice Department memos prove that nefarious elements within the Bush Administration were planning a massive military takeover of the country and that the documents should be used to bring charges of treason.
In an interview with author Naomi Wolf, legal expert Michael Ratner explains how the move toward total elimination of First, Fourth and Fifth amendment rights, as outlined in the memos, cannot be taken in isolated relation to terrorism related prosecutions and instead represents a smoking gun of a larger intention toward the general population.
“The memos revealed how massive the takeover of our democracy was to be — that this wasn’t just going to be a few individuals here or there who suffered the arrows of a police state.” Ratner says.
“These memos lay the groundwork for a massive military takeover of the United States in cahoots with the president. And if that’s not a coup d’etat then, nothing is.”
The nine DOJ memos, released earlier this month, were mostly written by former assistant attorney general John Yoo. They reveal how the rights of all American citizens have been effectively stripped away under the auspices of the so called “war on terror”.
They argue for a broad range of powers under the office of the president that cannot be restricted by any law or constitutional right or treaty.
They argue that the legal rights of anyone considered a terrorist suspect can be completely rescinded by the president, that the president may order the military to operate in the U.S. without constitutional restrictions, that the prohibition on unreasonable search and seizure takes a back seat to fighting terrorism domestically, and that the president can, in the name of wartime restrictions, limit free speech.
Read our previous summary of the memos here.
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Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, describes the legal arguments made in the memos as “Law by fiat”, underscoring the historical precedent of such attempts to subvert long established legal protections and processes.
“If you are familiar with the history of dictators, coups and fascism (as I know you are), they (the planners) prefer a veneer of legality.” Ratner explains.
“Hitler killed 6 million Jews with a veneer of legality — getting his dictatorial powers through the Reichstag and the courts. These memos gave the Bush administration’s [lawless] practices the veneer of legality.”
“Who has suspended the law this way in the past? It is like a Caesar’s law in Rome; a Mussolini’s law in Italy; a Fuhrer’s law in Germany; a Stalin’s law in the Soviet Union. It is right down the line. It is enforcing the will of the dictator through the military.”
Ratner believes that the memos provide ground for charges of treason against Bush Administration officials such as Dick Cheney and the president himself.
“I do think that a plan to control the military, use it in the United States contrary to law and the Constitution and employ it to levy a war or takeover that eliminates the democratic institutions of the country constitutes treason, even if done under the president of the United States.”
“The authority given by these memos that could be used to raid every congressional office, raid and search every home, detain tens of thousands, would certainly fit a definition of treason.”
Perhaps most importantly, Ratner acknowledges the fact that the details outlined in the memos were, to a great extent, actively implemented.
“Here they crept right up and actually implemented part of the plan, with Padilla, with the warrantless wiretapping. Yet they are saying in the White House and in Congress that it is looking backward to investigate the authors of these memos and those who instructed Yoo and others to write them.”
“But investigation and prosecutions are really looking forward — to say we need the deterrence of prosecution so this does not happen again.” Ratner states.
As we have previously outlined, we have not seen any deviation from the Bush-era war on terror policies by Obama.
There has been no repeal of Patriot Acts I and II by the Obama administration. Nor have we seen a reversal of Bush’s signing statement that would effectively repeal the John Warner Defense Authorization Act, legislation that stemmed directly from the opinions and counsel offered in the previously secret Justice Department memos.
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March 26th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
The fact that Dick Cheney had a last minute fallout with GWB on the issue of pardoning of S. Levi, is an indicator how Bush was being manupulated by Cheney and Bush could not take it in his last days. All these secret memos are brain child of Cheney and not for that village ideot Bush.
HAHAHAHA Reply:
March 29th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
The Totalitarian take over idea of the USA has existed for a long time and Alex JOnes likely adopted it. So without putting my trust in anyone’s writing, I can tell you that there is such an agenda still present at this time, regardless of what truth this article may or may not hold. Obviusly the consequences of that would be the destructions of the original ammendments and constitution!
Tom Reply:
March 30th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
The idea HAS existed for a long time. Alex Jones REPORTED it, he didn’t adopt it. Why the suspicion over a “writing”. Writing has existed for a long time, also, and it’s how we communicate! The truth of this article is in the videos that YouTube posts daily. The growing amount of proof reaches the sky! The destruction of the ‘original amendments and constitution’ as you put it is happening every day. You can’t fight them in court when they change and destroy the documents that allow us to fight them in court. So what in the heck does HAHAHAHAHAHAHA mean, anyway?
March 26th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
The three most common “links” and “proofs of facts” that PrisonPlanet’s propagandist writers use:
1. Their own articles
2. A website site containing speculative, baseless opinion
3. An article containing speculative, baseless opinion
you have already lost Reply:
March 26th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
I agree. The United States Department of Justice is a pretty speculative source.
Helena Reply:
March 26th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Nice try troll. Funny how most of the articles I’ve seen link to oh…newspaper articles, the DoD’s site documents, other government agency documents. etc etc etc
gjk Reply:
March 26th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Looks like the sheep, Helena and “you have already lost,” are too far brainwashed by Alex Jones and the internet.
harry balsagnia Reply:
March 26th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
y are you on this site then if you think it’s all speculative baseless info.
get lost goof
Rush Reply:
March 26th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Ditto! (check’s in the mail)
STFU, gjk, and 454 are trolls Reply:
March 26th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
you guys really need to find a better site to spew your random BS, your reply’s are so off topic and ill logical its sad,
i know this site isn’t perfect, and there are some crazy people here, but most of us readers are intelligent sound minded people.
Seeing threw your pathetic dis-info and doubt mongering is easier then you think.
STFU, gjk, and 454 are trolls Reply:
March 26th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
you guys really need to find a better site to spew your random BS, your reply’s are so off topic and ill logical its sad,
i know this site isn’t perfect, and there are some crazy people here, but most of us readers are intelligent sound minded people.
Seeing threw your pathetic dis-info and doubt mongering is easier then you think.
MARK OF THE BEAST Reply:
March 27th, 2009 at 7:07 am
WATCH IT 454. YOU JUST MAKE MY GUEST LIST.
March 26th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
You don’t know that with certainty. Once again the President is completely responsible for anyone under him. He is the commander in chief. He is however regulated by the congress, the judicial system, and vica versa. The is how our constitution is supposed to work. These people if it’s true are traitors to the constitution and it’s time to demand that this be investigated completely and with haste and if true they need to be rounded up and tried. No one is above the law even the police.
STFU, gjk, and 454 are trolls Reply:
March 26th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
you guys really need to find a better site to spew your random BS, your reply’s are so off topic and ill logical its sad,
i know this site isn’t perfect, and there are some crazy people here, but most of us readers are intelligent sound minded people.
Seeing threw your pathetic dis-info and doubt mongering is easier then you think.
tempney beholderfield Reply:
March 26th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
That really great man. I think many people feel that way too.
March 26th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Everything’s fine.
The military will make sure they take care of every American’s worries. You can trust the government.
ps
Again,
Please just trust the government.
Shadow Reply:
March 26th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Sure you can trust the government….just ask any American Indian.
March 26th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Dear 454,
If you would like a better understanding of what is going on, please visit:
http://www.youtube.com/user/WatchThemWiggle
Only with knowledge, may truth rule and justice prevail.
fgsdfg Reply:
March 26th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
LMFAO!! The internet, Google and YouTube have dumbed-down truthers irrevocably. It’s on a webpage, Google and YouTube, so it MUST be true.
LMFAO!!
ConcernedHuman Reply:
March 27th, 2009 at 4:04 am
Why do people have to lie?
Tom Reply:
March 30th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
fgsdfg – are you stupid? Videos are an EXCELLENT form of PROOF. Truth seekers go to those websites because they are the most truthful. YouTube shows videos of things that have happened. You can’t fake a video. The common man on the street doesn’t have Jumanji or LOTR-style technology. And you HAVE to go to the internet for the truth because you will never get it on your TV or in your newspapers. They are controlled by the global elite. (That isn’t news to you, is it?!! )
March 26th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
What about all the good things Hitler did?
Set the model for gun control world wide…
Created the Volkswagen…
A vegetarian…
A dedicated Family man…
Spiffy Hair do…
March 26th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
The links provided are powerful government evidence that we are under tyranny – oh where oh where is the mass media in this?
March 26th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Ratner is for real.
March 26th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
They can take away away the rights of my STRAWMAN, but they can’t take away my rights as a human being. Look into it, it’s the answer to all of this.
peace
zerostate Reply:
April 8th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
I like this guy!
March 26th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
By racist white Nazi’s, I presume you are referring to the fact that most of BO’s staff are JEWISH?????????? Ask the Palestinians who the REAL terrorists are!!!
Jedi1 Reply:
March 27th, 2009 at 1:00 am
Ever see Braveheart? what is black is white and what is white is black. Glad ya didn’t leave the Pope out of the equation, that IS the SS!…your council of Trent is coming soon!
Porky Pine Reply:
March 27th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
ADOLPH has 6 letters. HITLER has 6 letters. was his middle name BARNEY?
March 26th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
2 Grey Apache-Type attack helicopters flying LOW over North Hollywood, CA right now.
tempney beholderfield Reply:
March 26th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
dont ask dont tell , must be leave.
March 26th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Put arnie in a cell with no windows. Along side Bush and Cheney.
March 26th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Disinformation is EVERYWHERE!
All sites including this one are filled with lies and misinformation in a feeble attempt to sway your models of truth to confuse you and help bring your state of mind closer to the acceptance of this NWO.
Think for yourself!
Weigh the information and decide for yourselves the truths and lies.
Lies are EVERYWHERE. BE AWARE!
tempney beholderfield Reply:
March 26th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
none supports those idiots here man cmon
March 26th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
(fact) Chemtrails are real.. believe me (H5n1- can be spread this way).. (you still trust big brother?–haha) (fact) left and right wing politicians are one of the same and want to divide the populus and see us fight and bicker while their hidden agenda comes to fruition. (fluoride) is a neuro toxin and is in most municipal drinking water (amongst other toxic heavy metals -cancer producing) (fact) GMO’s, MSG’s antibiotics, hormones, preservatives are in everything we eat today (Where did this cancer come from?) (fact) thimerasol-mercury preservative is in all modern juvenile vaccines………….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMBZDwf9dok
tempney beholderfield Reply:
March 26th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Has anyone noticed a weird spike in the number of people coming down with bad bronchitis. I haven’t heard of chemtrails etc here but have noticed the bronchitis numbers are up.
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER Reply:
March 27th, 2009 at 10:08 am
Yes. Absolutely! Asthma in children is going balistic. The military ops are partially responsible. It is a side effect of a weather modification project. See weather modification patients for the Hughes Corporation 1998. Cant say more.
Lonnie Reply:
March 26th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Counted Six Chem-trails in the sky over Los Angeles this evening. Look to be created all about the same time, or relatively close.
Philly Reply:
March 26th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
THEY ARE BOMBARDING PHILADELPHIA ALMOST DAILY. THE SHEEPLE DONT EVEN LOOK UP. PEOPLE ARE GETTING SICK AND DONT EVEN CARE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....annel_page
1984 Reply:
March 27th, 2009 at 11:25 am
Yeah. The elite are poisoning everyone. Including THEMSELVES!
March 26th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Ill be back…with prison camps.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Asta La FEMA baby…so thats what this bugger was realy saying I always thought he said Asta La vista baby…must get my hearing sorted out.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
I wouldn’t trust the government to run American Idol.
March 26th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
I had planned to run for congress in Tennessee but I give up! We are beyond trying to enact change through politics. Our economy is in the toilet hopelessly swirling its way down to the septic tank. Our foreign policy sucks! We invade any country that has natural resources we might be able to use, steal, or otherwise profit from while the real threats to our security are ignored. Our government has classified anyone who disagrees with them as terrorist enemies of the state! Protestors, activists,journalists who critizise the administration, and supporters of third party candidates are all terrorists! Anyone else think that is fundamentally fucked up? The government has spent ten trillion of your tax dollars to bail out the same banks that screwed up in the first place. They left you out twisting in the wind with a bill that will burden your grandchildren. The truest thing I ever heard George Bush say was in his very last press conferance as president when he said “Wall Street got drunk and we got the hangover!” What are we supposed to do? If you ask the administration, they will tell you to shut up and take it like a dirty girl. I say fuck that! I know that I have no hope of winning an election in this crooked political game. Diebold admitted that their electronic voting machines discard votes and can be subjected to vote theft programs and noone in our administration cares. They allow it to happen because they benefit from the corruption. We are hopelessly lost! Voting for change doesn’t work. Talking about change is nothing more than campaign rhetoric. If we ever want real change, we will have to fight for it! The court system is useless! The political system is fatally flawed! The only thing left is revolution! We need another million man march but this time we need three, four, or five million good hard working Americans. We need every gun owner in this country to march on Washington! Im not advocating blood shed but I think it is time that the beurocratic assholes know that the lowly surf class means business and we will not take anymore of their shit! Click on my name to visit my site.
March 26th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
“And if that’s not a coup d’etat then, nothing is.”
We ain’t seen nothing yet.
March 26th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Oh but now everything’s OK right? I have no doubt that Bush was working toward the destruction of American civil liberties. That has been an ongoing project for the past 60 years, by BOTH parties. The problem is that people want to play the partisan ‘GOTCHA!’ game. The lefties are particularly bad about this. They are still having masochistic fantasies about Richard Nixon (though he was further to the left than Bill Clinton.
Whatever Bush was working on, Obama is continuing. So rather than sitting around telling yourself campfire horror stories about ‘what might have happened’ if those vile Republicans had got their way, open your eyes to the ongoing project of American destruction by their brothers in arms, the Democrats.
Ken
http://www.LaserGidedLoogie.com
March 26th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Peter Schiff calls Ben Bernanke Chairman a tool!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neNrW-XHmPs
March 26th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
You think this is conspiracy? You think these people are trolls? You don’t think is real and is happening right now? Or you just don’t want to believe? It’s ok…I don’t blame you for being scared and using your natural defense mechanisms to discredit the facts, but this is very real. I urge you, but cannot force you, to heed what is going on, wake up and pull your head out of the sand. If you do not, it will soon be too late.
March 27th, 2009 at 12:54 am
What about bulshevek? that makes the holocuast look like jonestown.
March 27th, 2009 at 2:26 am
It is a Germanic death cult this NWO. I wonder why so many J-E-W-S were invited?
March 27th, 2009 at 2:27 am
Ben SHALOM Bernanke wants to know why his J-E-W-I-S-H buddy Madoff was stealing from his own people? Not nice Madoff, only the Goyim are to be swindled!!
March 27th, 2009 at 2:37 am
The Entertainment for this Evening and your viewing pleasure is: The Destruction of the US Constitution, brought to you with limited commercial interruption by the Democrats and Republicans who should be called what they actually are: Communists and Fascists.
So, you all got rid of a Fascist President and “elected” a Communist one, and expect “Change”????????
You Americans that keep voting for Democrats and Republicans are the dumbest gotdamn creatures in the Universe. You are scientific fucking marvel, you exist without a friggin’ brain!
And for all those “ready for Revolution”, your army is coming from THEM?
Gotdamn laughable!
It’ll be like the three fucking stooges have a revolution.
Now THAT should be entertaining.
I can’t wait to see it.
March 27th, 2009 at 2:53 am
The Military will keep the supply lines open during a time when Civilian Suppliers will try o hold back food to facilitate increases in price. That happened during the Great Depression. Dairy Farmers dumped their milk in the streets to manipulate supply and demand.
The general populace will not be able to afford the price increases so the Military is going to override the Civilian Supplier’s and Truck Driver’s ability to go on strike. U.S. Military is a friend; they are you.
March 27th, 2009 at 2:56 am
The Military will keep the supply lines open during a time when Civilian Suppliers will try o hold back food to facilitate increases in price. That happened during the Great Depression. Dairy Farmers dumped their milk in the streets to manipulate supply and demand.
The general populace will not be able to afford the price increases so the Military is going to override the Civilian Supplier’s and Truck Driver’s ability to go on strike. U.S. Military is a friend; they are you.
Oops…forgot to say great post! Looking forward to your next one.
March 27th, 2009 at 4:33 am
Maybe an amendment that would not allow lawyers to work in public office would suffice.
March 27th, 2009 at 5:49 am
I’m getting the sense that we are in ‘the wild wild west’. Every man woman and child must fend for themselves. Strip away rights and all the while adding wonderful new POLICIES and laws to strip away the rest of the rights as humans. Slavery is alive and well and being TWEEKED. If I were an african american, especially one who had slave ancestors, i think that my BLOOD would be at about BOILING tempurature right about now. This is all simply new form of slavery, under fancy nice little names(YOUTH BRIGADE).
I truly hope that there are as many infuriated folks out there as I think there are
March 27th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Nothing new here. Everybody was waiting for Dubbya to suspend the election and crown himself emperor. The one thing we should be concerned for is that how much farther will it be carried by BHO?
March 27th, 2009 at 9:02 am
I read some of the John Yoo memo and found it to be riddled with faulty reasoning and lies.
Saying that attack like this have never happened is an outright lie. Saying that the model eclipses the existing laws is a lie as well. Its obvious that they’re using this as an excuse to override constitutional protections. At the core of all matters these people are essentially stupid. In reading their memos I see that their psychopathic tendencies put them on an intellectual level just below the fluoride infested couch potato. The only reason they get anywhere is by the threat and by the gun. None of their arguments make sense. They lie often but they lie very poorly.
March 27th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
It won’t be exposed on FOX or any other news network for that matter. The headoffice of corruption won’t let it happen and most people want to be told lies anyway.
March 27th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
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george w Reply:
March 27th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
ANY S.S. angels among them!!!!
March 27th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
I love how the naysayers keep saying that it’s all a conspiracy theory and dismiss the great patriots and watchdogs like Jones, Bermas and all of their awesome researchers and guests.
Did any of you naysaying losers hear your beloved Limbaughs, O’Reillys, Olbermanns, Becks, Kings, Coopers telling you about this stuff?
No, you didn’t. It was the Infowarriors that were talking about all of this long ago. It all comes together nicely now doesn’t it. False flag terror attacks to take over the USA with a military coup. Just like Dubya’s granddaddy tried to do with the Business Plot.
Wake the hell up people.
March 27th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
TO HITLER WAS EVIL.
I’ll see your 30 million and raise you six million more. Magical numbers are endless.
March 27th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
death to the humans
March 30th, 2009 at 10:42 am
What’s so crazy about this is that, well, so much of what’s already happened in the USA would have sounded crazy just a few short years, or even months ago. I don’t know what to believe. Or who. The only truth is that money is what it’s all about. Period. Our leaders would (and probably have) sell us out for a buck. It’s what they do.
It’s what they do best.
G.O. Reply:
March 31st, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Too true.
March 31st, 2009 at 5:50 pm
how are we gonna fight the people who are causing this? We dont know who they all are. and the ones we do know. It doesnt do any good to speak about it . because they already know what we think about it. They just dont care what we think. The only way to fight them is to take them out
b4 they take us out and that will never happen. They have all the technology and we cant get to them. Ane they probly just read what I wrote and will probly kill me for saying it. We cant win! we cant win! we cant Win! WE cant win! Alot of people are going to die trying to stop them. There are not enough people willing to give there lives trying. For those of us who will . they will just kill us 1st. Then the rest will back off out of fear
April 2nd, 2009 at 5:18 pm
When Democracy fails…start voting from the rooftops. Gentlemen arm yourselves.
The policy to control the population has always been to first create an enemy (whether real or fake).
Then divide the population into smaller and smaller groups so you can tailor the lies to fit the group your talking to. Pro this / Anti that…matters not what the issue.
You’ve been played by every administration from Washington to the current one(and in every nation on earth). Hitler understood this fact as has every dictator in history…your just playing into their hands.
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:30 am
We all know what we have to do. Prepare yourselves as our soldiers prepare themselves; before stepping of the plane for Iraq or Afghanistan. Your time has come and the guarantee of going back home was not given. I want to see my child grow too but this is clearly not a guarantee anymore. When the call comes stand and shuffle to the hatch.
April 5th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Who is most responsible for this state of affairs? I will tell you: it is the mass media who have deliberately and shamefully derelicted their democratic duty to hold politicians and the institutions of state to account before the people. And who owns and controls the media? I would tell you in a single word, but that would probably get me censored on this site.
April 8th, 2009 at 11:57 am
There are 2 types of people. One believes that we react to crises after happenstance crises out of necessity. The other believes in Hegelian Dialectic. There is no in between.