Showing posts with label InfraGard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label InfraGard. Show all posts

Saturday, February 09, 2008

When, not if, martial law is declared

Digby of Hullabaloo quotes Matthew Rothschild of the Alternet:
One business owner in the United States tells me that InfraGard members are being advised on how to prepare for a martial law situation -- and what their role might be. He showed me his InfraGard card, with his name and e-mail address on the front, along with the InfraGard logo and its slogan, "Partnership for Protection." On the back of the card were the emergency numbers that Schneck mentioned.

This business owner says he attended a small InfraGard meeting where agents of the FBI and Homeland Security discussed in astonishing detail what InfraGard members may be called upon to do.

"The meeting started off innocuously enough, with the speakers talking about corporate espionage," he says. "From there, it just progressed. All of a sudden we were knee deep in what was expected of us when martial law is declared. We were expected to share all our resources, but in return we'd be given specific benefits." These included, he says, the ability to travel in restricted areas and to get people out. But that's not all.

"Then they said when -- not if -- martial law is declared, it was our responsibility to protect our portion of the infrastructure, and if we had to use deadly force to protect it, we couldn't be prosecuted," he says.
Deadly force to contain American citizens. Hmmm. And what if they use deadly force back?

Doesn't it sound like Bush and his cohorts know of some impending and ever so convenient terrorist attack? I suggest we watch for where Georgie and Dick go from now on to January 20, 2009. Just to observe if they take oddly timed vacations or start having trucks drive up to their secret undisclosed locations with lots and lots of canned food....