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DICTATORSHIP POSSIBLE HERE</p>
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<p> By Lawrence Wilmot and Martin Mann
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Exclusive to The SPOTLIGHT</p>
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<p>Washington, DC -- Hidden in the bureaucratic maze Washington politicians
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call "our Constitutional system of government," a little-known federal
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agency is quietly making plans to turn the United States into a
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dictatorship.</p>
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<p> There are "stacks of blueprints" in the top-secret safe of the Federal
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Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) designed to convert American society
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into a "command system," a former deputy administrator of the agency has
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told The SPOTLIGHT's investigative team.</p>
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<p> In a private interview, allowing him to remain anonymous, this highly
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placed source confirmed that the procedures developed by FEMA to "suspend"
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the Constitution and to round up thousands of dissenters nationwide can be
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activated by a simple phone call from the White House.</p>
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<p> "Even people who have become aware of FEMA's existence and know
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something about its activities -- not many do -- think the word `Emergency'
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in its designation means it will go into action only in case of a natural
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disaster or perhaps a surprise nuclear attack," related this expert.</p>
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<p> "In reality, however, this outfit can be mobilized whenever the
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politicians occupying the White House decide they need special -- and
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extra-Constitutional -- powers to impose their will on the nation."</p>
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<p> As Liberty Lobby first revealed, FEMA's bureaucrats can then proceed
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to:</p>
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<p> * Take over all farms, ranches or timberland in order to "utilize them
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more effectively" as decreed in Executive Order (EO) 11490, the so-
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called omnibus emergency preparedness decree promulgated by President
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Richard Nixon on October 28, 1969.</p>
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<p> * Seize all sources of public power: electric, nuclear, petroleum, etc.</p>
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<p> * Freeze all wages, prices and bank accounts.</p>
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<p> * Take over all communications media.</p>
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<p> A FORCE OF FACELESS FEDS</p>
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<p> Such totalitarian measures can be imposed by bureaucrats under FEMA's
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direction, not just in the face of a cataclysmic upheaval, but "[w]henever
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necessary for assuring the continuity of the federal government in any
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national emergency type situation," decreed a subsequent White House ukase,
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EO 11921, issued by President Gerald Ford in April 1976.</p>
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<p> Can such a blueprint for tyranny be clamped on the United States by a
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force of faceless federal officials? It is the role of FEMA has been
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preparing for most intensively, says the former high agency administrator.</p>
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<p> "In recent years, despite talk of spending cuts, FEMA's budget has
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been steadily increasing," revealed this knowledgeable source. "It now
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stands at somewhere around $3 billion annually. I say `somewhere' because
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part of this agency's funding is appropriated under so-called black
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programs, submitted to Congress with the defense budget without an
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explanation of its purpose, aping the secret CIA appropriation."</p>
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<p> FEMA can draw on the defense budget and on the protection of the
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secrecy reserved for national security projects because it came into being
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under President Jimmy Carter in a move that merged the civil defense and
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disaster relief responsibilities formerly shared by the Pentagon, the
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Commerce Department and the General Services Administration under a single
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powerful agency.</p>
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<p> WHAT'S FEMA REALLY UP TO?</p>
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<p> But FEMA's real focus is not on disaster relief, knowledgeable sources
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say. An investigation of this little-known agency, conducted earlier this
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year by the General Accounting Office (GAO), the congressional watchdog
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unit, has found that less than 10 percent of FEMA's staff -- 230
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bureaucrats out of an estimated 2600 -- are assigned full-time to
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preparing for and dealing with major natural disasters such as storms or
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earthquakes.</p>
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<p> What, then, is FEMA really up to? The SPOTLIGHT's investigative team
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has obtained an advance copy of the GAO report on this secretive agency.</p>
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<p> The study's surprising findings have been reviewed with the help of
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well-placed confidential sources, in order to bring into full view, for the
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first time, the federal bureaucracy's secret blueprint for tyranny in
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America.</p>
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<p>Reproduced with permission from a special supplement to _The Spotlight_,
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May 25, 1992. This text may be freely reproduced provided acknowledgement
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to The Spotlight appears, including this address:</p>
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<p> The SPOTLIGHT
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300 Independence Avenue, SE
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Washington, DC 20003</p>
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