Will there be an election in the US this Year?
Such an event would suck out whatever gold remained in those central banks that were stupid enough to hold dollars instead of gold. This scenario should be nothing new to those who read this site. Since the publishing date of the interview with General Tommy Franks in “Cigar Aficionado,” I have written about the possibility that elections in the US could be postponed indefinitely in the case of a major terrorist attack that produced large casualties anywhere in the Western world. General Tommy Franks’ interview with Cigar Aficionado included the following statement regarding the potential aftermath of such an attack: ”It means the potential of a weapon of mass destruction and a terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event somewhere in the Western world – it may be in the United States of America – that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event. Which in fact, then begins to unravel the fabric of our Constitution.” This comment from Benjamin Franklin also deserves attention in the context of what General Franks says above: “If the citizens of a state give up their liberty to achieve safety, they will have neither.” An example of giving up liberty for assumed safety was the shameful shifting of votes last week to maintain the onerous “Patriot Act” which it is not. Do you know that since the mid 1990s the US National Security Agency (so secret they deny their existence) collects intelligence that every three hours is equal to everything stored in the entire library of Congress? I can only wonder if the draconian surrender of liberty post 9/11 by the US populace in their almost manic greed for personal safety really qualifies them for an elected head of state. What do you believe the result would be if Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Jefferson were subjected to the tenets of the Patriot Act or the long lines waiting to board commercial aircraft? Do you know that the original patriots of the 13 colonies did not initiate the Revolutionary War for independence because of some tea party in the harbor of Boston? They risked their lives and fortunes in war because British troops at security checkpoints groped and humiliated them while looking for weapons. What do you think a terrorist attack that prevents elections will do to the US dollar? Whatever happens to the US dollar happens to gold in the inverse and such an event would suck gold out of every central bank stupid enough to hold dollars and sell gold just as gold did in 1979. Get real and get real immediately! U.S. Mulling How
to Delay Nov Vote in Case of Attack WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior House Democratic lawmaker was skeptical on Sunday of a Bush administration idea to obtain the authority to delay the November presidential election in case of an attack by al Qaeda, U.S. counterterrorism officials are looking at an emergency proposal on the legal steps needed to postpone the presidential election in case of such an attack, Newsweek reported on Sunday. "I think it's excessive based on what we know," said Rep. Jane Harman of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, in a interview on CNN's "Late Edition." Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge warned last week that Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network want to attack within the United States to try to disrupt the election. Harman said Ridge's threat warning "was a bust" because it was based on old information. Newsweek cited unnamed sources who told it that the Department of Homeland Security asked the Justice Department last week to review what legal steps would be needed to delay the vote if an attack occurred on the day before or on election day. Exclusive: Election
Day Worries July 19 issue - American counterterrorism officials, citing what they call "alarming" intelligence about a possible Qaeda strike inside the United States this fall, are reviewing a proposal that could allow for the postponement of the November presidential election in the event of such an attack, NEWSWEEK has learned. The prospect that Al Qaeda might seek to disrupt the U.S. election was a major factor behind last week's terror warning by Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge. Ridge and other counterterrorism officials concede they have no intel about any specific plots. But the success of March's Madrid railway bombings in influencing the Spanish elections—as well as intercepted "chatter" among Qaeda operatives—has led analysts to conclude "they want to interfere with the elections," says one official. As a result, sources tell NEWSWEEK, Ridge's department last week 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. 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. Soaries noted that, while a primary election in New York on September 11, 2001, was quickly suspended by that state's Board of Elections after the attacks that morning, "the federal government has no agency that has the statutory authority to cancel and reschedule a federal election." Soaries, a Bush appointee who two years ago was an unsuccessful GOP candidate for Congress, wants Ridge to seek emergency legislation from Congress empowering his agency to make such a call. Homeland officials say that as drastic as such proposals sound, they are taking them seriously—along with other possible contingency plans in the event of an election-eve or Election Day attack. "We are reviewing the issue to determine what steps need to be taken to secure the election," says Brian Roehrkasse, a Homeland spokesman. —Michael Isikoff |
What do you think a terrorist attack that prevented elections this
fall in the US would do to the dollar? Please remember whatever happens
to the dollar happens to gold in the inverse.