Bush Plans Another Coup d'Etat to Hang Onto Presidency
Commentary ~ July 12, 2004: In a desperate
attempt to hold on to an illegitimate presidency, the Bush administration
is preparing plans to postpone the November presidential elections
by claiming the threat of a terrorist attack would disrupt the process.
It seems ironic that the United States is fighting
a war in Iraq to export its brand of democracy at the same time
it is planning to cancel its own elections – and four years
after democracy in America was hijacked by George Bush.
According to reports from the Department of Homeland
Security, the agency is preparing "legal steps" to postpone
the election and can do so at a moments notice when the orders come
from the White House.
Newsweek Magazine reported that Ridge's department
asked the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel to analyze
what legal steps would be needed to permit the postponement of the
election were an attack to take place. According to the magazine,
Justice was specifically asked to review a recent letter to Ridge
from DeForest B. Soaries Jr., chairman of the newly created U.S.
Election Assistance Commission.
In late June, DeForest B. Soaries, Jr., head of Bush-created
U.S. Election Assistance Commission (USEAC), started talking about
"reviewing" possible scenarios in which the November elections
would be canceled, or delayed, in response to a terrorist attack.
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Soaries reportedly wants Ridge to seek emergency
legislation from Congress empowering his agency to make such a call.
AntiWar.com points out that Soaries, an unsuccessful
2002 Republican candidate for Congress, is also pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, New Jersey. His appointment
as secretary of state by former Governor Christine Todd Whitman
was celebrated at a two-hour February swearing-in ceremony described
by inSpire, Princeton Theological Seminary's alumni magazine, as
"a religious service, a rarity for government events."
According to the magazine, "Soaries later heard a high-ranking
official say he'd heard the word 'God' in the ceremony more times
than he'd heard it in his life to date."
