This is a coup: the Homeland Security takeover of US elections
On a scale of importance from 1 to 10, with 10 being the most important, this breaking development is a 500.
By Jon Rappoport
On Friday, the traditional day of the week for quietly
releasing big news that will hopefully be ignored by the public---and
also obscured by the Fort Lauderdale Airport shooting---the chief of
Homeland Security announced that his office will be taking over US
elections.
If you can't see the coup in progress, you need to keep looking until the message comes through.
Read carefully---ABC News reports. My comments are in brackets:
"Citing increasingly sophisticated cyber bad actors and an
election infrastructure that's 'vital to our national interests',
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson announced Friday that he's
designating U.S. election systems critical infrastructure..."
[Also known as: "we're taking over."]
"'Given the vital role elections play in this country, it is
clear that certain systems and assets of election infrastructure meet
the definition of critical infrastructure, in fact and in law'," Johnson
said in a statement. He added: 'Particularly in these times, this
designation is simply the right and obvious thing to do'."
[Also known as: "we're taking over."]
"The determination came after months of review and despite
opposition from many states worried that the designation would lead to
increased federal regulation or oversight on the many decentralized and
locally run voting systems across the country. It was announced on the
same day a declassified U.S. intelligence report said Russian President
Vladimir Putin 'ordered' an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S.
presidential election."
[Also known as: "we needed an excuse, a fake cover story for our takeover, and Russia is it."]
"Such a change [in who controls the US election process] does
not require presidential action [or Congressional approval], and only
requires the secretary [of DHS] to first consult with the assistant to
the president for homeland security and counterterrorism."
[Also known as: "this is a coup by the White House."]
"Johnson said election infrastructure included storage
facilities, polling places and vote tabulation locations, plus
technology involved in the process, including voter registration
databases, voting machines and other systems used to manage the election
process and report and display results."
[Also known as: "We're taking over every significant aspect of the national election process."]
"The designation [of US elections as critical infrastructure]
allows for information to be withheld from the public when state, local
and private partners meet to discuss election infrastructure security -
potentially injecting secrecy into an election process that's
traditionally and expressly a transparent process. U.S. officials say
such closed door conversations allow for frank discussion that would
prevent bad actors from learning about vulnerabilities. DHS would also
be able to grant security clearances when appropriate and provide more
detailed threat information to states."
[Also known as: "we can intercede in the election process and
determine its outcome without any need to pretend we're being
transparent; only people we approve will know the details of how we run
elections; secrecy works."]
"The Obama administration has proposed international cyber
rules for peacetime that would expressly note that countries shouldn't
conduct online activity targeting critical [US] infrastructure, which
will now also include election systems."
[Also known as: "in case there is any doubt, elections systems in America will be property of the federal Executive Branch."]
This is a coup.
This is equivalent to declaring a national state of
emergency, including martial law: the DHS, if it deemed it necessary,
could utilize armed agents to enforce the new directive and take over
states' offices that resist.
Election-processes belong to the states. But not anymore.
And of course, with this awesome new power, the DHS could intercede, behind the scenes, in the voting process and rig elections.
There is an additional aligned factor at work in this op: the
proposed elimination of the Electoral College---yet another measure
designed to "federalize" the election process.
Most people are entirely ignorant of the fact that the
Constitution was a pact among states. With reluctance, the independent
states agreed to relinquish certain specified powers to the newly
created central government, while retaining all other powers.
The Electoral College was, therefore, a natural invention,
because the states would maintain crucial influence in determining the
outcome of presidential elections. State Electors would cast their
presidential votes based on which candidate won in their state.
Eliminating the Electoral College now would add one more
layer of federal control over the whole country, and take control from
the states. More centralization.
Imagine it. Only the popular vote counts. The states are
dumped. And on top of it all, the Dept. of Homeland Security has the
power to run the election process as a piece of "critical
infrastructure."
Rigging the vote in New York and California, plus a few other
populous states, would decide the election. And in time, no one would
think about "New York" or "California" as separate entities---because
they wouldn't be. They would just be "more land and people" that are
part of "wholly unified" America.
This is perfect for the "unity politicians" who spout empty
rhetoric every chance they get---"we're all in this together." As I
tirelessly point out, such slogans are nothing less than covert ops, and
their goal is roping in as many dullards as possible under a messianic
banner of A Better Life for All under a Beneficent Government.
Also known as: we the rulers decree, you the people submit;
your survival depends on us; we give and take as we will, and that shall
be the whole of the law.
Eventually, why have presidential elections at all? Just
allow the DHS to determine which candidate will best serve the needs and
desires of the controllers.
It's cleaner, simpler, and more direct.
It's a coup.
Will Trump cancel it?
Obama is basically challenging him to do it---which would create one more firestorm in the press directed at Trump.
"See, the new president just stopped the DHS from protecting
our sacred free elections. Trump is exhibiting more treasonous
cooperation with his Russian masters...he's leaving the door wide open
for their secret invasion against our liberties..."
The timeline is clear. One: Hillary will surely win the
election. Two: Trump won the election. Three: Trump won because Russia
"hacked the election" in his favor. Four: We must protect our national
election process from foreign hacking. Five: Homeland Security must put
itself in charge of national elections.
Stay tuned.
A coup just occurred.
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