How I know there will be a MIHOP attack in the US soon.

[hang a left]

I can just feel it. It is NOT like all those other times that I have felt it before, so quit saying that.

Here is my rationalization:

The Patriot Act renewal, with all those nice little upgrades, being kicked to the curb twice. This is a HUGH piece of this administration's agenda. Bushco is not getting the support they need from legislators on both sides of the aisle, as well there are calls for the Patriot Act to sunset.

The Iran War plans have been ready for a while now. They know exactly where, when, and how it will be started (fake UN planes, anyone), how it is to be executed, and who is kicking in extra talent. ** recessed Bolton to the UN so that their ducks could be in a row in time to launch 'Operation Fuck Up Iran Too'.

Very recently there was a massive disease, quarantine type exercize outside of Denver, (I have searched and searched and can't remember where I read it. Maybe someone has that handy)that involved FEMA and the Military (forget which branch).

Yesterday, Rumfu*kusall told us we have never been safer.

They are gunning for us. They need this. They are laying the groundwork. Take that to the bank.

:tinfoilhat:

[dogday]

1. There was one day before yesterday in Texas City

as well....

[atommom]

2. Don't remember the source, but there was also a drill in Nebraska recently

[On Par]

3. There Are Terrible Towels All Over Pittsburgh !

...and I've seen it myself!

News reports are, the towels have spread as far west of Detroit ! I tell you, it's a epidemic!

[atommom]

6. I'm not scared, unless the bad guys figure out how to wet the towels down

and snap us with them. THAT could lead to a deadly showdown.

[Leopolds Ghost]

16. We are the terrible, terrible Dems with the siamese towel,

With a terrible Dem on each end.

Don't mess with the Dems, or your martial-law ass will be choked by the towel of the Dems with the siamese towel, with a terrible Dem on each end!

--paraphrasing Dr. Seuss

[FreedomAngel82]

31. What do you mean by "terrible towels"?

I'm confused. I have heard of these reports happening. I started thinking about that too. Of course the people who talked to the press from the places denied it was anything big. But why else would they be doing something like that? :shrug:

[Ezlivin]

4. Rumor has it: Assassination of Bush by "Iranian" terrorist, followed by

Cheney's public ascension to the leadership position he's held all along. Soon after taking the reins, President Cheney will initiate Martial Law. After pumping the public's emotions to a fevered pitch over the martyrdom of Bush, he'll lead us to a war with Iran which will escalate into a nuclear exchange.

For fuel we'll burn the Constitution and libraries.

That's my EOTW story.

[FreedomAngel82]

32. I've also heard those rumors

Maybe this is why Bush keyed on Iran so much in his SOTU address. I thought that mighty strange.

[Punkingal]

5. I have been thinking the same thing lately...

I just have a generally bad feeling going on. I flew from Nashville to Vegas on Wednesday, and it was the first time I have ever not enjoyed flying, because of this nagging feeling I have that something bad is about to happen. It totally PISSES ME OFF that I have to feel like this.

[hang a left]

7. It took me a long time to make this post....

And I had to edit it many times. I would like a little more attention and some more responses.

[CornField]

8. Okay, I'll play

Let's say that there is another terrorist attack (regardless of who perpetrates it), what can we, as citizens, do differently this time around?

How can we demand better news coverage?
How can we demand better government oversight/investigation?
How can we steady the panic that we know will sweep the nation?

I mean no offense to the OP, but simply making a prediction does us little good. What we need to do is the same thing those on the opposite side of the fence are doing or have already done -- we need to plan.

Some suggestions:

We need to use the DU research forum (or some other area) to our advantage.

We need to keep track of military and emergency services training exercises -- documenting their aspects and scope.

We need to watch prominent places within our nation (Chicago, Tulsa, NYC, San Fran, Dallas, Houston, etc.) and keep watch over certain locals within those places (i.e., Sears Tower).

If it happens again, we need to be able to pull all that information quickly and effectively and distribute it widely (in and outside the states). How different would the "no one could have ever imagined someone using an airliner for a terrorist attack into a building" statement have gone if, in the minutes following, all the contradicting information we have now could have been blasted to the press?

[hang a left]

10. Wow!

Awesome idea. How would you like to start a thread and we can pool our resources?

[CornField]

12. I started a thread in the Research Forum

to keep a watch list on military training exercises:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=358&topic_id=2984&mesg_id=2984

[hang a left]

13. good job!!

I will keep an eye out. Hope others do to.

[hang a left]

14. I think it would be a good idea to start a thread in GD

and link to your research thread. Alot more people would see it and could contribute. What do you say?

[Marie26]

15. Good suggestions

I added a military exercise to your page. ("Cyber Storm" - do they get these names from video games?) Rationally I know nothing is going to happen, but intuitively I feel something will. So... even if it is crazy, it's a good idea to do something proactively instead of just worrying about it.

[FreedomAngel82]

34. I've been more paranoid lately

My higher senses have been more paranoid lately. I used to be pretty paranoid but I'm now am not anymore and it's started up again. :shrug: I'm a high sensitive so I dunno.

[Marie26]

38. Me too

I normally don't worry about this kind of stuff, but I've had a sense of dread the last few days. It started w/the SOTU address & has just gotten worse since then. I can't justify it, but can't shake it off either.

[Leopolds Ghost]

17. Tulsa? naah... the HOMEGROWNS already bombed Tulsa

And OK City, too!

To paraphrase the National Security Experts, "they wouldn't have the imagination to try the same attack twice."

[LunaC]

25. The ingredients for a NUCLEAR CONFLICT are already in place!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x218099

[FreedomAngel82]

33. And wouldn't it work against Bush?

Around the election even my own dad was saying "we haven't been hit since 9/11." I of course said "not yet anyways" being the "consperiacy theorist" I am. He was kinda quiet after that.

[Frank Cannon]

9. Then all Bush has done to fight terror will have FAILED

All the money we've spent, all the freedoms we have lost, all the sturm und drang and handwringing and duct tape and plastic will have all been for nought. This administration will have proven themselves to be the worst catastrophic failure in American history.

And that really would be the ONLY take-home message.

[hang a left]

11. Not necessarily...

Not if the attack was in the form of some type of epidemic (read virus)where they could use there little martial law and quarantine procedures they have been practicing.

[annabanana]

20. good. . ANOTHER B*sh failure...

Third big one.. 9/11 . . . Katrina.... and whatever it is..

[FreedomAngel82]

36. But how else would get into Iran?

[Jara sang]

18. Yeah when the military conducts "domestic excerises"

That's when you know you are fucked.

[AntiFascist]

19. Careful you'll get spied upon then placed into internment....

okay, where'd you get the cool smiley?

[Telly Savalas]

22. Actually such speculation is very useful for the far right.

It's a great distraction from the things they really are doing (Iraq occupation, boosting child poverty, leaving Americans without health insurance, ignoring the 4th Amendment.) And since such prophecies have a pretty low batting average with regards to accuracy, it helps discredit the leftwing blogosphere.

I bet the White House is pleased when this sort of thing gets posted.

[AntiFascist]

23. Sorry, never intended to support them...

and if you'd search my other posts (since you donate to DU) I don't think they would be so pleased with them either, although possibly you may spread the rumor that I am just enforcing conspiracy theory that "discredits the leftwing blogosphere." What do you think of the Fitzgerald investigation into the Plame outing, anyway?

[Bushwick Bill]

21. Here Is Some Information.

THE GLOBAL BATTLEFIELD - WE ARE STANDING ON IT

The Evolution of the Bush-Rumsfeld War Doctrine - Roadmap to Martial Law

<snip>

“We now confront an enemy who will attempt to engage us not only far from US shores, but also at home. Terrorists will seek to employ asymmetric means to penetrate our defenses and exploit the openness of our society to their advantage. By attacking our citizens, our economic institutions, our physical infrastructure, and our social fabric, they seek to destroy American democracy. We dare not underestimate the devastation that terrorists seek to bring to Americans at home.

“To defeat 21st Century threats, we must think and act innovatively. Our adversaries consider US territory an integral part of a global theater of combat. We must therefore have a strategy that applies to the domestic context the key principles that are driving the transformation of US power projection and joint expeditionary warfare.”

Each section of this ten-year strategy outline for the Department of Defense is headed by an italicized quote from Reich Fuehrer Bush. This is what must be borne in mind as part of any analysis of this document, which is scaring the bejesus out of a lot of civil libertarians. Because it is - and I will describe exactly how as we go along - it is a roadmap to martial law.

But it is also an outline of a strategy of abject failure. It is a strategy so ambitious, so insanely grandiose, and so interdependently complicated in any attempt to put it into practice, that time, expense, and mind-boggling complexity at every scale will render the reality a ragged effigy of its own feverish ideal.
http://stangoff.com/index.php?p=173

Cheney's Plan: Nuke Iran
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6734

On the pandemic front.

Total Health Tyranny.
http://tinyurl.com/cgy73
The Avian Flu Fright Is Politically Timed.
http://tinyurl.com/araqu
Pretext For More Martial Law: Bird Flu.
http://tinyurl.com/9v4ut
Martial Law and the Avian Flu Pandemic.
http://tinyurl.com/98ktc

[Justice Is Comin]

24. Watch for one Monday hal

they will not want the news to be focused on that hearing.

[electron_blue]

26. Yes, my thoughts, too. Which is why Bush grinned so much in his SOTU

It really looked like he knew about some practical joke we were being set up for.

How else can you explain the "US is addicted to oil" bizarreness?

[SeveneightyWhoa]

27. You just feel it, huh?

Yes, and a lot of Americans felt that taking Saddam out "just felt right."

Truthiness strikes again.

[Marleyb]

28. I have the feeling they have something planned

but that they are going to blow it and get caught....just like 9/11 only this time everyone is watching for it. This will be the final nail in the coffin, everyone will realize what they have been up to and their whole tower of evil will come down in a huge and final crash.

[BeHereNow]

29. Cheney's nuke preparation:

Posting for the thousandth time...so no, you are not imagining things.
It's only a conspiracy if it is a secret- nothing secret about
what is published...
From August 2005, American Conservative article by Philip Giraldi.

""In Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the administration who brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for Iran. The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney's office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within Iran there are more than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected nuclear-weapons-program development sites. Many of the targets are hardened or are deep underground and could not be taken out by conventional weapons, hence the nuclear option. As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States. Several senior Air Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the implications of what they are doing – that Iran is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attack – but no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections."

BHN

[BeHereNow]

30. The operative sentence in relation to your post...

"As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually
being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States."

Hello- if that is not a LIHOP or MIHOP statement, I don't
know what is.
BHN

[Viva_La_Revolution]

35. Oh yes, must save their career over saving the freaking

United States and the Constitution they swore to uphold. F*cking Pussies apparently. :mad:

[FreedomAngel82]

37. And now look at what they're talking about

Bush talking about Iran most of the time in his speech. I think his speech was just about Iran but he had to throw some other silly things in there. What was up with human hybrid animals? Wha? That was the strangest thing I've ever heard in my life. The whole speech was so weird. Maybe we should go back and listen again. Sometimes he does send little signals with body language and such.