Paranoia grips the U.S. capital

[Stop_the_War]

Paranoia grips the U.S. capital
by Eric Margolis - Contributing Foreign Editor (Toronto Sun)

The film Seven Days In May is one of my all-time favourites. The gripping 1964 drama, starring Burt Lancaster, depicts an attempted coup by far rightists in Washington using a top-secret Pentagon anti-terrorist unit called something like "Contelinpro."

Life imitates art. This week, former military intelligence analyst William Arkin revealed a hitherto unknown directive, with the Orwellian name "JCS Conplan 0300-97," authorizing the Pentagon to employ special, ultra-secret "anti-terrorist" military units on American soil for what the author claims are "extra-legal missions."

In other words, using U.S. soldiers to kill or arrest Americans, acts that have been illegal since the U.S. Civil War.

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[K-W]

1. Dear God.

What on earth is wrong with these people.

[ooglymoogly]

2. this is a must see film for all democrats

7 days in may...it is riviting...and scary especially since it has come to pass

[Doc_Technical]

3. In the book and movie the special military unit was called..

ECOMCON

Emergency
COMmunications
CONtrol

My father asked me if I was afraid of terrorists, and I told him
that I was, except the terrorists I was afraid of wore very
expensive clothes, mostly had white skin, and lived in or near
Washington D.C.