Is President Bush going to be the last American President? On the 17th of October 2006 he signed two very significant documents: The Military Commissions Act and the National Defence Authorisation Act. The most significant part of the first is that it removes Habeas Corpus from the American Constitution (in much the same way that the EU’s preferred Corpus Juris system will remove it from ours); and the second revokes the Posse Comitatus Act 1878, which prevents the President of the USA from deploying troops for civil matters and stops the army, navy and air force from acting in a police role. These new laws allow the President to impose Martial Law at his sole discretion.

As pointed out by many politicians, Cynthia McKinney amongst them, the US constitution was robust enough to deal with terrorists before these Acts were passed, so why the need for this sledgehammer? General Tommy Franks is on record as stating that America is only one more terrorist act away from martial law. With some polls, including those done by CNN and NBC, showing that around 80% of Americans believe that the US govt. was involved in 9/11, it doesn’t stretch the imagination to think that one more ‘act of terrorism’ is on the way. That would give the current administration the excuse it needs to suspend the democratic process and impose martial law. And under the Security & Prosperity Partnership (instrumental in the formation of the North American Union) troops from the US, Canada and Mexico could help enforce martial law, and whilst this is happening the US, Canada and Mexico could be formally merged (without recourse to any democratic process) and thereby prevent anyone else becoming the next President of the USA. If this is what President Bush and ‘The Crazies’ have planned, then they only have 12 months left to carry it out. 2008 could be a very eventful year.

It’s not suggested that the above scenario will happen. It’s merely trying to point out that these completely unnecessary Acts – not just the two mentioned above, but also the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act (another Constitution killer) – have been passed; which begs the question: why? And with the US being the hub of international trade, as well as the world’s ‘policeman’, the global ramifications if these laws are implemented will be enormous. The whole world will change overnight.