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smurfygirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 03:58 AM
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Bush is at northcom to oversee Granite Shadow
I don't like this....

Bush Heads To Colorado For Military Takeover Drill

Prison Planet | September 23 2005

Reuters reports,

President George W. Bush canceled his trip to Texas on Friday to avoid interfering with the move of a search-and-rescue team closer to the area where Hurricane Rita was to hit, the White House said.

Instead of traveling to San Antonio, Bush will go straight to Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he will visit the U.S. Northern Command.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the Federal Emergency Management Agency decided to reposition the search-and-rescue teams from San Antonio closer to the storm, "and we didn't want to slow that decision up in any way. So we made the decision that we would go straight to Colorado."

Our sources inform us that far from this being a change of plan, Bush is visiting Northcom for a reason. That reason is Bush overseeing (but certainly not controlling) a martial law takeover drill which is directly connected to Granite Shadow, which the Washington Post reported, "is yet another new Top Secret and compartmented operation related to the military’s extra-legal powers regarding weapons of mass destruction. It allows for emergency military operations in the United States without civilian supervision or control.

The article outlines the preparations for martial law takeover in the US. So Northcom are running a martial law takeover drill at the exact same time that Bush is visiting Northcom. Is this a coincidence?

The operation is taking place right now in Washington DC. To repeat, this is a drill, we do not claim it to be any more than that, though the implications are still sinister. Exercises would normally be cancelled in light of the hurricane but that hasn't prevented this exercise from going ahead

Just as ominous is the fact that Texas Governor Rick Perry has appeared on the news saying that the onslaught of hurricane Rita could provde terrorists with a chance to strike the US at its weakest point.

More details if and when they emerge.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2005/230905takeoverdrill.htm
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fooj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 04:03 AM
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1. A drill? Sure. That's it. It's a drill.
:scared:
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mirandapriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 04:09 AM
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2. I don't like it at all
every time they have a "drill", the real thing tends to happen simultaneously.
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dchill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 04:19 AM
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3. This so-called "drill"...
is just as "in your face" as putting Karl Rove in charge of post-Katrina "reconstruction"...

I just wonder if this "simulated" martial law will include "simulating" the shutting down of certain public gatherings. Wonder what the legal authority is under "simulated" martial law...
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Quakerfriend Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 04:44 AM
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4. Especially worrisome since he declared DC
a state of emergency last week. Is this all about the DC rally on 9/24??
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