A Caesar In Our Future?

Paul Craig Roberts
Activist Post

In a speech to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, November 23, 2010, Peter Dale Scott gave a history
of the various directives concerned with government continuity during a
state of emergency. He showed that these directives could be used to
supersede the Constitution.

The ease with which both the Bush and Obama regimes were able to set
aside the due process protections of the Constitution that prohibit
indefinite detention and execution without conviction in a trial
indicate that Professor Scott’s concern is justified that these
directives could result in executive branch rule.

Scott describes how the executive branch efforts to provide government
continuity in the aftermath of a nuclear attack dating from the
Eisenhower administration were gradually converted into executive or
national security (later Homeland Security) orders that confer secret
powers to the White House for any event that the executive branch
considers to be an emergency.