New Bill (now old bill) Could Make Bush President For Life

[Force Commander]

Conspiracy theorists will enjoy this fun little ditty from 2005.

http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/bus ... r_life.htm

[AmpedNow]

The American people would not tolerate something like that at all...esp from a very unpopular president.

I wonder if there is any procedure for the other branches of government to handle something like this, should it happen. It probably will be attempted at some time in our country's very distant future, likely long after we're all gone.

[genlock]

That is what the 2nd Amendment is for.

[Arp2]

That is what the 2nd Amendment is for.

Yep.....without it, the entire document is nothing more than a "nice goal."

[Force Commander]

The American people would not tolerate something like that at all...esp from a very unpopular president.

I wonder if there is any procedure for the other branches of government to handle something like this, should it happen. It probably will be attempted at some time in our country's very distant future, likely long after we're all gone.

Most never study this in history class but it came surprising close to happening. Nixon was really looking into the possibility of what we would certainly think of as a coup. I have read about this in more than one publication. Check out this excerpt. It is from a conspiracy project, but does site news articles you can look up to research further.

http://www.modernhistoryproject.org/mhp ... alWarn05-4

On May 21, 1971, James Reston (CFR) wrote in an article that appeared in the New York Times:

"Mr. Nixon would obviously like to preside over the creation of a new world order, and believes he sees an opportunity to do so in the last twenty months of his first term."

In the summer of 1973, Republicans partial to Nixon had announced to the Washington media that they wanted Nixon to be elected to a third term and had organized a group known as 'The Committee to Repeal the Twenty-Second Amendment'. The movement sort of died within a couple of weeks. Then in October, came the rumor that Nixon may be considering a military coup to stay in office. Gen. Alexander Haig told the Congress during his confirmation hearings for the position of Secretary of State on January, 1981, that some people in Washington were "flirting with solutions which would have been extra-Constitutional". Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski warned the grand jury that if they decided to indict Nixon he might use force to remain in office. In June, 1982, Harold Evans, Watergate grand juror, appearing on a segment of the ABC-TV news show "20/20." said that Jaworski told them that if they indicted Nixon he might "surround the White House with armed forces."

On October 26, 1973, in a Washington Star article called "Has President Nixon Gone Crazy?" syndicated columnist Carl Rowan wrote: "...in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as 'commander-in-chief' to use military forces to keep himself in power." In another article called "The Pardon," in the August, 1983 edition of the Atlantic Monthly, Seymour Hersh, one of Nixon's Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote that in a December 22, 1973 meeting:

"He kept on referring to the fact that he may be the last hope, (that) the Eastern elite was out to get him. He kept saying, 'This is our last and best hope. The last chance to resist the fascists'. His words brought me straight up out of my chair. I felt the President, without the words having been said, was trying to sound us out to see if we would support him in some extra-constitutional action ...

(Secretary of Defense James) Schlesinger began to investigate what forces could be assembled at his order as a counterweight to the Marines, if Nixon -- in a crisis -- chose to subvert the Constitution. The notion that Nixon could at any time resort to extraordinary steps to preserve his presidency was far more widespread in the government than the public perceived..."

He felt it would be led by General Robert Cushman, the Marine Representative on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who had been loyal to Nixon ever since he had been his military aide while he was the Vice President under Eisenhower. Schlesinger, in July, 1974, believing the Washington contingent of Marines to be the probable force used in a coup attempt began developing a strategy to bring in the Army's 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

On August 2, 1974, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger admitted that General Haig had informed him that Nixon was considering the idea of surrounding the White House with troops. In an August 27, 1974 article in the Washington Post titled "Military Coup Fears Denied," the fact was revealed that:

"Defense Secretary James Schlesinger requested a tight watch in the military chain of command to ensure that no extraordinary orders went out from the White House during the period of uncertainty (and) that no commanders of any forces should carry out orders which came from the White House, or elsewhere, outside the normal military channels."

Tantamount to a military coup, and contrary to the Constitution, the Joint Chiefs of Staff sent a secret communiqué to all Commanders of the U.S. military forces around the world: "Upon receipt of this message you will no longer carry out any orders from the White House. Acknowledge receipt."

Rather than a plot by the Illuminati to militarily take over the government, it seemed to be more of an attempt by Nixon to keep from getting pushed out of office by the powers that actually run this country. In the end, he knew what kind of power he was dealing with and resigned his office on August 9th rather than risk what remaining credibility he had by trying to grab what he could not hold. His resignation also prevented an impeachment trial which may have allowed secret information to come to light.

[cgarison]

That is what the 2nd Amendment is for.

I was thinking "cold, dead fingers" but they those statements go hand & hand.