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02/06/2005:

"Paranoia Grips the U.S. Capital"

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.
Full Article: commondreams.org

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Tuesday, February 8th, i posted:

the white midwestern, farmer "patriot" types have been saying this stuff for years and years - it is too bad that the polarity in the U.S. makes the "lefties" so unwilling to listen to ones who don't fit the P.C. category