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
February 8th, 2005 at 9:32 am
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