Is this what our October Surprise will be like...?

[peacetalksforall]

A military lock down?

My observation of this administration is that nothing is original about the right wing agenda - they borrow from facism, nazism, communism, dictatorships, and so on... In other words, they don't seem to be original.

Is this the way it will be for us if lock down is the October Surprise? This is from a CNN website on a special about the USSR and appears to be a verifiable news release.

"Yanayev to foreign leaders: Emergency measures are temporary
(As communist hard-liners attempted to stage a coup against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, his vice president, Gennady Yanayev -- who had assumed the title of acting president -- issued the following statement announcing emergency rule. The statement appeared in the August 20, 1991, editions of Pravda and Izvestia and has been translated from the Russian.)

Message to heads of state and government and to the U.N. secretary-general:

On instructions from the Soviet leadership, I hereby inform you that, as of August 19, 1991, in accordance with the U.S.S.R. Constitution and laws, a state of emergency has been introduced in certain localities of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for a period of six months. During that period, all power in the country is to be transferred to the State Committee for the State of Emergency in the U.S.S.R.

The measures that are being taken are temporary. They in no way signify a renunciation of the course aimed at profound reforms in all spheres of the life of the state and of society. These measures are unavoidable and are dictated by the vital need to save the economy from collapse and the country from hunger and to avert the growing threat of widespread civil conflict, which would have unpredictable consequences for the peoples of the U.S.S.R. and the world community as a whole.

The most important goal of the state of emergency is to ensure conditions that guarantee the safety of every citizen and his property. Provision is made for the elimination of unconstitutional, uncontrolled, and in essence, criminal military formations that are sowing psychological and physical terror in a number of regions of the U.S.S.R. and acting as catalysts for disintegrative processes."

(snip)

" G. Yanayev,
Acting President of the U.S.S.R."

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/24/1st.draft/pravda.html

[AndyTiedye]

1. Military Lockdown Using What?

Our military is rather occupied at the moment.