PRESENTATION OUTLINE
DEVELOP A PARAMILITARY FORCE
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2007
- Makes it easier for president alone to declare public emergency
- Billion dollar contract between Dept. Of Homeland Security & Blackwater created to increased employment
- in event of natural disaster or PUBLIC EMERGENCY
ECHOS OF THE PAST
1. TSA officials ordered people to drink milk based products
-Blackshirts forced civilians to drink laxatives at gunpoint
ECHOS OF THE PAST
1. Order 17 was issued making private contractors immune from what would otherwise be war crimes.
-Nazis also sought laws that protected their paramilitary from prosecution for war crimes
ECHOS cont...
2. Paul Bremer issued Order 17
-Nazis sought laws protecting paramilitary from prosecution for war crimes
ECHOS
2.TSA officials requested people to drink gross liquids
-Blackshirts forced civilians to drink laxatives at gunpoint
THE UNTOUCHABLES
" Blackwater has openly declared it's forces above the law," -Scahill
THE UNTOUCHABLES "Blackwater has openly declared its forces above the law,"
- Scahill.
THE UNTOUCHABLES
- can't be held accountable for Pentagon's Uniform Code of Military Justice
-can't be sued in civil court
THE UNTOUCHABLES
-can't be held accountable to Pentagon's Uniform Code of Justice
-can't be sued in civil court
"You can't close down a democracy without a paramilitary force,"
-Naomi Wolf
"You can't close down a democracy without a paramilitary force,"
-Naomi Wolf