{"id":435,"date":"2005-02-06T18:32:07","date_gmt":"2005-02-07T01:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/?p=435"},"modified":"2005-03-08T00:19:06","modified_gmt":"2005-03-08T05:19:06","slug":"ss-usa-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2005\/02\/ss-usa-style\/","title":{"rendered":"SS USA-Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the old Nazi SS? Guess what? Seems we now have SS part II, or as Rumsfeld calls it SSB.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views05\/0206-25.htm\">Paranoia Grips the U.S. Capital<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Life imitates art. This week, former military intelligence analyst William Arkin revealed a hitherto unknown directive, with the Orwellian name &#8220;JCS Conplan 0300-97,&#8221; authorizing the Pentagon to employ special, ultra-secret &#8220;anti-terrorist&#8221; military units on American soil for what the author claims are &#8220;extra-legal missions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Instead of being fired for the grotesque military-political fiasco in Iraq and the shameful torture scandals, Rumsfeld has just managed to create a new, Pentagon spy\/special ops organization, blandly named &#8220;Strategic Support Branch,&#8221; that will replace or duplicate many of the CIA&#8217;s tasks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rumsfeld&#8217;s new, massively funded SSB will become the Pentagon&#8217;s CIA, complete with commando units, spies, mercenary forces, intelligence gathering and analysis, and a direct line to the White House. The Pentagon has just effectively taken over the spy business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now, George W. Bush, who clearly believes he holds the mandate of heaven after being re-elected by the less mentally active half of American voters, has decided to &#8220;unleash&#8221; special forces and all sorts of irregular units, including mercenaries, uniformed bounty hunters, and mutants sporting t-shirts proclaiming &#8220;kill &#8217;em all, let God sort &#8217;em out.&#8221; These militarized thugs and video arcade Rambos are sure to run amok, dragging America&#8217;s once good name ever deeper into the mud.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Both at home and abroad, folks &#8211; it&#8217;s all in the open. Who among you still refuses to see?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the old Nazi SS? Guess what? Seems we now have SS part II, or as Rumsfeld calls it SSB. Paranoia Grips the U.S. Capital &#8220;Life imitates art. This week, former military intelligence analyst William Arkin revealed a hitherto unknown directive, with the Orwellian name &#8220;JCS Conplan 0300-97,&#8221; authorizing the Pentagon to employ special, ultra-secret &#8220;anti-terrorist&#8221; military units on American soil for what the author claims are &#8220;extra-legal missions.&#8221; &#8220;Instead of being fired for the grotesque military-political fiasco in Iraq&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2005\/02\/ss-usa-style\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}