Old article about a PARALLEL SHADOW GOV operating in the usa! you know?

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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/mar2002/shad-m04.shtml

[RoeBear]

1. A link would have been nice...

...I'm thinking we would be complaining if nothing was set up in advance if something awful happened to the majority of our elected officials.

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2. thats fine why is it being kept secret from everyone goverment?

[charlie]

5. Link

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/mar2002/shad-m04.shtml

You need to trim that post down to 4 paragraphs, help keep DU from being on the receiving end of copyright litigation.

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6. thankyou

[mhr]

3. The Program Is Continuity Of Government And Dates From The Cold War

When nuclear war was considered a realistic threat.

The shadow government was constructed to insure the stable transition of constitutional power in the event of a catastrophic attack.

The program was greatly expanded under Reagan.

What Bush is doing with it, I have no idea.

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4. this paragraph makes it unconstitutional!!

The most sinister characteristic of this secret government is that it consists entirely of executive branch officials, in complete violation of the separation of powers which is the heart of the US constitutional system. No one in the other two branches of government, the legislative and judicial, was included in the plans or even aware of them. In the event such an emergency government were to emerge, it would be an openly dictatorial regime, consisting solely of executive branch officials exercising military and police powers, without any legislative oversight or judicial check on their actions!

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8. mhr the prob is why only

select executive branch officials from one branch of goverment whilst the legislative and judicial branches are in the dark not good for open goverment.

[tanyev]

9. Cheney and Rumsfeld played central

roles in the project in the Reagan years.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0318-14.htm

Published in the March, 2004 issue of The Atlantic
The Armageddon Plan
by James Mann

At least once a year during the 1980s Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld vanished. Cheney was working diligently on Capitol Hill, as a congressman rising through the ranks of the Republican leadership. Rumsfeld, who had served as Gerald Ford's Secretary of Defense, was a hard-driving business executive in the Chicago area—where, as the head of G. D. Searle & Co., he dedicated time and energy to the success of such commercial products as Nutra-Sweet, Equal, and Metamucil. Yet for periods of three or four days at a time no one in Congress knew where Cheney was, nor could anyone at Searle locate Rumsfeld. Even their wives were in the dark; they were handed only a mysterious Washington phone number to use in case of emergency.

Rumsfeld and Cheney were principal actors in one of the most highly classified programs of the Reagan Administration. Under it U.S. officials furtively carried out detailed planning exercises for keeping the federal government running during and after a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. The program called for setting aside the legal rules for presidential succession in some circumstances, in favor of a secret procedure for putting in place a new "President" and his staff. The idea was to concentrate on speed, to preserve "continuity of government," and to avoid cumbersome procedures; the speaker of the House, the president pro tempore of the Senate, and the rest of Congress would play a greatly diminished role.

[ClayZ]

7. Shadow Song about a Shadow Gov.

http://www.eandgcomputers.com/peacepipe/media/jimhinde-shadowsongDSL.ram

www.jimhinde.com

Jim is a Vietnam Vet!