- Continuity in Representation Act of 2003 (Introduced
in House)
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- HR 2844 IH
- 108th CONGRESS
- 1st Session
- H. R. 2844
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- To require States to hold special elections to fill vacancies
in the House of Representatives not later than 21 days after the vacancy
is announced by the Speaker of the House of Representatives in extraordinary
circumstances, and for other purposes.
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- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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- July 24, 2003
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- Mr. SENSENBRENNER (for himself, Mr. DREIER, Mrs. MILLER
of Michigan, Mr. COLE, Mr. CHABOT, and Mr. PAUL) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on House Administration
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- A BILL
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- To require States to hold special elections to fill vacancies
in the House of Representatives not later than 21 days after the vacancy
is announced by the Speaker of the House of Representatives in extraordinary
circumstances, and for other purposes.
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- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
- SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
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- This Act may be cited as the `Continuity in Representation
Act of 2003'.
- SEC. 2. REQUIRING SPECIAL ELECTIONS TO BE HELD TO FILL
VACANCIES IN HOUSE IN EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES.
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- Section 26 of the Revised Statutes (2 U.S.C. 8) is amended--
- (1) by striking `The time' and inserting `(a) IN GENERAL-
Except as provided in subsection (b), the time'; and
- (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
- `(b) SPECIAL RULES IN EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES-
- `(1) IN GENERAL- In extraordinary circumstances, the
executive authority of any State in which a vacancy exists in its representation
in the House of Representatives shall issue a writ of election to fill
such vacancy by special election.
- `(2) TIMING OF SPECIAL ELECTION- A special election held
under this subsection to fill a vacancy shall take place not later than
21 days after the Speaker of the House of Representatives announces that
the vacancy exists, unless a regularly scheduled general election for the
office involved is to be held at any time during the 51-day period which
begins on the date of the announcement of the vacancy.
- `(3) NOMINATIONS BY PARTIES- If a special election is
to be held under this subsection, not later than 14 days after the Speaker
announces that the vacancy exists, the political parties of the State that
are authorized to nominate candidates by State law may each nominate one
candidate to run in the election.
- `(4) EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES-
- `(A) IN GENERAL- In this subsection, `extraordinary circumstances'
occur when the Speaker of the House of Representatives announces that vacancies
in the representation from the States in the House exceed 100.
- `(B) NO APPEALS IN HOUSE- An announcement made under
subparagraph (A) shall not be subject to appeal in the House. In the case
of a death, the Speaker may lay before the House such documentation from
Federal, State, or local officials as he deems pertinent.
- `(C) JUDICIAL REVIEW- If any action is brought for declaratory
or injunctive relief to challenge an announcement made under subparagraph
(A), the following rules shall apply:
- `(i) Not later than 2 days after the announcement, the
action shall be filed in the United States District Court having jurisdiction
in the district of the Member of the House of Representatives whose seat
has been announced to be vacant and shall be heard by a 3-judge court convened
pursuant to section 2284 of title 28, United States Code.
- `(ii) A copy of the complaint shall be delivered promptly
to the Clerk of the House of Representatives.
- `(iii) A final decision in the action shall be made within
3 days of the filing of such action and shall not be reviewable.
- `(iv) The executive authority of the State that contains
the district of the Member of the House of Representatives whose seat has
been announced to be vacant shall have the right to intervene either in
support of or opposition to the position of a party to the case regarding
the announcement of such vacancy.'.
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- <http://thomas.loc.gov/>http://thomas.loc.gov/
- plug in HR 2844
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- Greenbrier And The Coming War: History Repeating
Itself?
- By George Paxinos
- 4-17-2
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- Someone recently sent me an email about a story that
is apparently making the rounds again after many years, having been published
in the Washington Post way back in 1992.
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- Now the reason this story interests me, is because it
may prove to have interesting historic parallels in the sense of events
of, before and since September 11, having historic precedents, too, way
back to the 1930s.
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- If we look at the FBI/BATF massacre of the Branch Davidians
at Waco, Texas, we can find many parallels to the Nazi massacre of Jews
in the Warsaw Ghetto.
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- OK, you may say, but so what? - the Israelis are reported
to recently have studied that same Warsaw Ghetto Massacre and used precisely
those tactics against the Palestinians - so what's new? - that humans never
learn, and always seem to want to pass on the kick they themselves received
to someone else?
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- No, the interesting point is that so far events since
the stolen vote by George W. Bush also seem to have parallels, indeed their
very parallel roots, in the step-by-step assumption of control of power
in Germany in the 1930s, by Adolf Hitler:
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- We have the Reichstagsbrand, the burning of Germany's
Parliament, which was also attributed to terrorists, parallelled in the
events of September 11, the burning of the World Trade Center and, as the
media have until now hastened to assure us, the Pentagon, which latter
story is now emerging for the scam it is. We have the mass roundups of
allegedly definitely-identified suspects only days after those events (even
though between seven and eleven, by various reports, of those identified
have proved to be still alive and well elsewhere in the world, their identity
papers having once been stolen). We have detention of rounded-up suspects
held without trial and with recourse neither to families nor to lawyers,
in clear violation of the US Constitution. We have draconic new legislation
rushed through in the hysterical aftermath of September 11, laws obviously
well-sculpted and that well in advance of what now looks, to an ever-increasing
number of observers, to be events anticipated far in advance of their happening
and, worse, planned in their execution by the unelected Shadow Government
itself, in order to profit certain corporate minorities related to people
in Government, mainly the Carlye Group, shareholders of which included
the Bush and Bin Ladin Families. And we hear rumours of hundreds of detention
facilities having been either reactivated and refurbished, or else newly-created,
across the United States.
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- Now let us look back at history, let us go back 69 years
and look at the year 1933: Here is an excerpt from the book Der Zweite
Weltkrieg (The Second World War) by Polish Historian Janusz Piekalkiewicz
(ECON Verlag GmbH, 1985, ISBN 3 430 17479 1):
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- I quote from this book in German and give a free translation:
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- Der Zweite Weltkrieg von Janusz Piekalkiewicz (Ausschnitt)
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- S21: Am Montag, dem 30.Januar 1933, ernennt Reichspräsident
von Hindenburg den "unbekannten Gefreiten des Ersten Weltkrieges",
Adolf Hitler, zum Reichskanzler. ... Am Freitag, dem 3.Februar 1933, erläutert
Hitler der Reichswehrführung seine Pläne: Ausrottung des Bolschewismus,
Kampf gegen den Versailler Vertrag, Eroberung von "Lebensraum".
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- Nach dem Reichstagsbrand vom Montag, dem 27.Februar 1933,
hebt Hitler am nächsten Tag durch eine Notverordnung sämtliche
in der Verfassung garantierten Freiheitsrechte auf.
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- An diesem 28.Februar 1933 entsteht mit der Herausgabe
der Notverordnung das eigentliche Grundgesetz des NS-Regimes: Die Freiheit
und Unverletzlichkeit der Person, der Wohnung, des Briefgeheimnisses, dazu
die Meinungs-, Versammlungs- und Vereinsfreiheit sowie die Gewährleistung
des Eigentums werden "bis auf weiteres" außer Kraft gesetzt
und dabei der verfasssungsrechtliche Ausnahmezustand hervorgerufen, der
erst im Mai 1945 mit dem Zusammenbruch des Dritten Reiches endet. ...
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- S23: Am Montag, dem 20.März 1933, entsteht auf Anordnung
von Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler das KZ-Lager Dachau, das erste
von 22 Lagern mit insgesamt 165 Außenstellen, die während der
NS-Herrschaft errichtet werden. Im Frühjahr 1933 befinden sich allein
in Preußen bereits etwa 25'000 Personen in Schutzhaft. Bis zum Sommer
1933 entstehen zahlreiche große KZ-Lager wie Oranienburg, Esterwegen
und Papenburg. The Second World War by Janusz Piekalkiewicz (Excerpt)
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- P21: On Monday, the 30th of January, 1933, [German] Reichspresident
von Hindenburg names the "Unknown Corporal" of the First World
War, Adolf Hitler, as German Chancellor. ... On Friday, Febrauary 3, Hitler
addresses the German Military Command, explaining his plans to eradicate
Boshevism, fight the Treaty of Versailles, and conquer additional territory
for German expansion.
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- The day following the Reichstagsbrand, [the fire which
burned down the German Parliament building] of Monday, February 27, 1933,
Hitler issues an emergency decree suspending all guaranteed Constitutional
Rights.
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- On this day, the 28th of February 1933, by issue of this
emergency decree, the de-facto Constitution of the National Socialist regime
comes into being: Freedom and Inviolability of Person, Domicile, Correspondence,
also Feeedom of Expression, Right of Assembly and Right of Association,
as also too Right of Ownership, are abrogated "until further notice"
and a State of Emergency declared, which only ended in May of 1945 with
the collapse of the Nazi regime. ...
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- P23: On Monday, the 20th of March, 1933, by order of
Reichsführer of the SS Heinrich Himmler, the Concentration Camp Dachau
was created, the first of 22 camps with 165 subsidiaries to be built during
the Nazi era. In Spring of 1933, already alone in Prussia 25,000 people
had been placed under "preventive detention". By summer, numerous
large concentration camps such as Oranienburg, Esterwegen and Papenburg
had been built.
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- See any parallels, folks? - over 1,200 individuals to
date in secret detention, somewhere in the United Sttes - THAT WE KNOW
ABOUT - and several hundreds of people in dog-pounds in Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, under conditions of sensory-deprivation torture in contravention
of all civilised conventions of war and peace?
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- So what has this got to do with the price of eggs?
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- Well, to date, following in the steps of his apparent
mentor, Good Old Adolf, Good Ole Boy George W. still has another step to
take, and that is eradication of any possible opposition, be it of democratically
elected, or of military provenance, because Good Ole Adolf did just that:
He was afraid of opposition by Ernst Roehm and his three million Brown
Shirts who helped him get his Nazi Party into power, so thought fit to
eliminate its leadership under the accusation that they were homosexuals,
and so he got them together at a place called Wiessee, and then went over
with his thugs one night - his self-named "Night of the Long Knives"
- and those he did not eliminate on the spot, he captured and shot later,
estimated as somewhere between 200 and, by our old teacher, an escaped
German Jew, perhaps up to 600 men, claiming that only he had the right
to pass the death sentence on them, "for the good of the German people".
And in the secret detention camps in the USA and Cuba, military tribunals
can execute anyone detained there without normal process of law, by decree
of Good Ole Dubya - sound similar at all to Good Old Adolf?
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- For further info on this see "Night of the Long
Knives": http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERnight.htm
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- Now, the entire Bush scenario up until now, from the
Clinton era with its Waco/Warsaw Ghetto, then Bush's Reichstagsbrand 1933/WTC2001,
seems to be following in the steps of Adolf Hitler, and, should the pattern
ring true to form, might the next thing on the agenda be the elimination
of Ernst Roehm's SA - or, in this case, the US Congress and Senate as a
whole?
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- Surely, I acknowledge that this is pure speculation on
my part, but, anyhow, it can do no real harm, and might actually do some
good, because anticipating that Nazi pattern which Bush appears to be following,
will help spike his wheels on any further anti-democratic moves.
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- From what little I know of US law, the only Amendment
he has not yet touched or abrogated is the Second Amendment. Why? Because
he is frightened of the average good Armed and Responsible American Citizen.
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- My own expectation is, that when internal trouble is
instigated by Government plants, necessitating the calling-out of the National
Guard, he is going to ask the various militias and gun-groups to deputise
as lawkeepers, all armed, of course, and something they will likely do
with alacrity, being given a badge and a licence to kill by the Good Ole
Boy Govt making them feel really good and likely bringing out the inner
psychopath of the sometime weekend soldier. And then, when "order"
is restored, having them shipped off to "further training" or
maybe the quelling of "riots in other areas" - and of course
perhaps passing, on their way there, through the gassing facilities of
places like the new Denver International Airport (see http://www.anomalous-images.com/christo.html)
and never being seen again by man, woman, kids nor beast ...
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- If this article, recently making the rounds of the internet,
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- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/july/25/brier1.htm
- The Ultimate Congressional Hideaway By Ted Gup Sunday,
May 31, 1992; Page W11 The Washington Post
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- was reprinted anywhere in the media recently, then something
is just not right; if the website you got it from is a stooge site with
wide distribution, we must look at this issue carefully:
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- WHY should anyone encourage the spread of an article
about a government secret facility for the protection of the nation's legislators
NOW, if it were still (mostly) secret, and, if not, then why underscore
it at precisely this time?
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- The public's memory span is notoriously short, and any
issues raised at any particular time must be raised for a reason, before
other succeeding events take prominence in their minds: if you want to
raise an issue, you must inject it into their minds, and then keep it warm.
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- OK - here's MAYBE the scenario as I see it:
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- Take approaching deadlines, say:
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- 1. War on Iraq.
- According to the experts, either April/May or else from
September on, in-between, it is too hot.
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- Take another deadline:
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- 2. Rising Criticism of Bush
- I heard on the BBC World Service the other night some
US Congressman (forget the name) saying that Bush's plans for war on Iraq
should be examined critically, as he is usurping the right of the Congress
to declare war, which he has no right to do unilaterally himself. The Representative
spoke of clear-cut "mission creep", the gradual expansion of
US hostilities beyond their stated objectives, which were "retaliation"
against the "perpetrators" of Septemper 11, to which this Representative
had also given his assent - at the time.
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- So it is unlikely that the average American Citizen is
going to take particularly kindly to an endless war of attrition on the
US and its red-blooded sons, a war of open-ended and indeterminate length
and which "might not end in our lifetimes" as Donald Rumsfeld
put it, and of equally indeterminate cost to the US taxpayer of "untold
billions of dollars" yet to come, as George W. Bush phrased it, and
especially not when hundreds, perhaps thousands, of body-bags come hurrying
home, all draped in the same colours now mandatory in your front garden
if you don't want to be picked up as suspicious by Homeland Security?
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- Now say that there would be NO conventional war on Iraq,
but a full-blast nuclear attack? Then all US troops would have to do would
be to walk in and mop up both or all three countries? Surely no taxpayer
is going to complain about a "humanitarian" rescue and relief
operation after the enemy has been eliminated?
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- Now, Congress and the Senate would certainly oppose a
nuclear war on those countries now at this time, especially without adequate
provocation; certainly there would be SOME public disquiet in it all, UNLESS
the elected Representatives were held incommunicado, or de-facto so, perhaps
their communications from some safe retreat broken by a "greater national
emergency", and the de-facto Government run by:
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- http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/mar2002/shad-m04.shtml
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- BUT what IF ... "In Retaliation" for some "Nuclear
Attack" on the USA? - perhaps an attack that was "Proven"
to be BOTH from Iraq AND from Iran, and likely with delivery sytems "Proven"
to only possibly have come from North Korea - the pre-defined "Axis
of Evil" by George W. Bush?
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- A nuclear attack on the USA would raise public anger
to the point where any nuking, even of all sixty or so countries already
named by the US Administration which require the cleaning-out of their
"terrorist" inhabitants, would be accepted without demur nor
bad conscience by the US public - especially if such a heinous attack were
to wipe out the US elected government itself and only one brave soul were
left pushing the buttons of Hell way ahead of his natural time, Our Hero,
Good Ole Dubya himself?
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- In the case of a simple incommunicado-holding of Representatives,
for the public, it would of course be nice to know that your favourite
Representative is hiding safely in some luxury out-of-the-way place, wouldn't
it? So maybe you tell them way in advance that you have just such a spot
already in mind?
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- That there would be any strategic value in the information
of its exact geographical location being published, would also be a moot
point, because NO country would/could likely target a nuclear missile directly
there ... UNLESS there were another September 11 "attack" and
an unfortunate direct-hit on that slumbrous facility, in which case the
Shadow Government would be in full control now, wouldn't it? The public
now knows where their Senators and Congresspersons went, and the "fact"
that the "Axis of Evil" just "happened" to score a
"direct hit" on that place would suit the Bush Administration
down to the ground. But, worse than this, such a deed would be the further
logical step in this game-ploy used so successfully by Adolf Hitler in
eliminating any remaining opposition to him, in the Night of the Long Knives.
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- To get both Houses to evacuate Washington DC and to flee
to some retreat willingly, there would have to be adequate cause, perhaps
a small nuke quite near DC, then their voluntary evacuation, callup of
reserves, declaration of martial law, state of national emergency, roundup
of certain individuals, patriotic Bush speech denouncing both Iraq and
Iran and a quick "retaliatory" strike decimating both countries,
and maybe even North Korea "For supplying the delivery systems"?
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- That would kill many birds with one stone; also a fortuitous
nuke on the Greenbrier or other facility would allow events to move at
an unprecedented pace unimaginable just at this moment by anyone.
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- The scenario of http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/nov2001/coup-n07.shtml
would become past and accepted history within days.
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- IF the Greenbrier becomes a CURRENT theme, then look
for an "Attack" near DC soon.
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- OK, this is paranoid, but maybe, just maybe, by anticipating
events as unfolding on some recognisable pattern, we can save at least
some lives, if not many, and that is always worth the risk of being called
a kook, especially if that kook remembers some history which most others
today have unfortunately forgotten.
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- - George
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- "Without a doubt, a very real threat of another
perhaps more devastating attack still exists." - Vice-President Dick
Cheney, speaking in New York, 2002-05-16
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- "I think that the prospects of a future [terrorist]
attack on the U.S. are almost a certainty." - Vice-President Dick
Cheney, speaking on Fox News, 2002-05-19
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- How does he know? Is he aware of plans for another "terrorist"
attack? Maybe around August? In time to declare a state of national emergency,
suspend normal government, suppress calls for the impeachment of the President
(and himself) and cancel the November congressional elections?
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