Homeland Security Enlists Clergy to Quell Public Unrest if Martial Law Ever Declared
August 17th, 2007Yes, friends, the concentration camps represent the path to salvation. Praise the Lord!
Via: ksla:
Could martial law ever become a reality in America? Some fear any nuclear, biological or chemical attack on U.S. soil might trigger just that. KSLA News 12 has discovered that the clergy would help the government with potentially their biggest problem: Us.
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Gun confiscation is exactly what happened during the state of emergency following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, along with forced relocation. U.S. Troops also arrived, something far easier to do now, thanks to last year’s elimination of the 1878 Posse Comitatus act, which had forbid regular U.S. Army troops from policing on American soil.
If martial law were enacted here at home, like depicted in the movie “The Siege”, easing public fears and quelling dissent would be critical. And that’s exactly what the ‘Clergy Response Team’ helped accomplish in the wake of Katrina.
Dr. Durell Tuberville serves as chaplain for the Shreveport Fire Department and the Caddo Sheriff’s Office. Tuberville said of the clergy team’s mission, “the primary thing that we say to anybody is, ‘let’s cooperate and get this thing over with and then we’ll settle the differences once the crisis is over.'”
Such clergy response teams would walk a tight-rope during martial law between the demands of the government on the one side, versus the wishes of the public on the other. “In a lot of cases, these clergy would already be known in the neighborhoods in which they’re helping to diffuse that situation,” assured Sandy Davis. He serves as the director of the Caddo-Bossier Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.
For the clergy team, one of the biggest tools that they will have in helping calm the public down or to obey the law is the bible itself, specifically Romans 13. Dr. Tuberville elaborated, “because the government’s established by the Lord, you know. And, that’s what we believe in the Christian faith. That’s what’s stated in the scripture.”
Civil rights advocates believe the amount of public cooperation during such a time of unrest may ultimately depend on how long they expect a suspension of rights might last.
Research Credit: LM
I suppose this tendency of the churches to play Step ‘n Fetchit for the government is historic. Down through the ages there have certainly been plenty of people who have remarked on the role of religion in providing the ideological basis that supports oppressive social and economic systems–in effect transforming the (sometimes) spiritual teachings of the pure religion into bald and barefaced State-worship.
So why am I almost always shocked whenever I attend church and find that I’ve walked into a kind of a country club whose membership is mainly intent on upholding the prerogatives of their (advantaged) class, and who understand very well that government is the mechanism that has both created and assured their advantaged positions.
Upholding and increasing State power is what they’re all about. THIS is their religion.
So it’s not at all surprising that the government would turn to it’s natural allies, when the time comes to set up a police state. I guess all those Good Shepherds will be busily shepherding their flocks into concentration camps, in anticipation of reaping advantages for themselves, in the way of maintaining positions of relative privilege and preferential treatment. Maybe they can all get jobs as technical consultants, when it comes time to design gas chambers and crematoriums.
Trust me, these folks would be just fine with that.