Martial Law Coming --
One City at a Time.
By Don Harkins,
The Idaho Observer
City councils all across the country are passing emergency powers ordinances-all of which are
nearly identical in form and content. The ordinances empower the nation's unelected city
administrators (city managers) to take complete control of town functions during a declared state of
emergency. The ordinances also turn municipal emergency administrators into agents of the federal
government in the event of a declared state of national emergency.
The Idaho Observer became aware of this serious threat to our way of life in the winter of 1998
and by the time we printed, "Has your city adopted this 'emergency' ordinance (The Idaho Observer,
April, 1999)" the problem had become much worse.
While most sovereignty-conscious Americans are awaiting some overt sign that will signal the
commencement of a brave new age of global socialism, the infrastructure for our collective
enslavement is quietly being laid, city by city, all across this still sleeping nation.
We believe that almost every city council in America has adopted such sweeping emergency
powers or is seriously considering granting themselves those powers.
The replacement of elected government officials with unelected administrators is metropolitan
government. Metropolitan government was exposed in the late 50s by Jo Hindman (Terrible 1313,
Terrible 1313 Revisited, The Metrocrats and Blame it on Metro) and Joe Spenner in the early 90s
(Rockefeller Regionalism: The Shadow Behind Oregon's
LCDC). This unconstitutional form of government is being implemented all over the
country-particularly in the nation's more densely populated areas such as Chicago, New York, Los
Angeles, Portland and Seattle.
Metro government is pitched to citizens as a way to reduce taxes by streamlining government
services in overlapping city, state and county jurisdictions. Unwitting citizens then vote to provide for
the hiring of "expert professionals" to eliminate costly redundancies in government services. Once in
office, these unelected "experts" begin exercising ever-increasing amounts of policy-making power
over an ever-widening spectrum of municipal activity.
The true purpose of metropolitan government, as stated by its architects, is to replace elected
officials who are answerable to the citizen at the voting booth with hired professionals who are
answerable only to those few people in a community who are able use their power and influence to
secure the appointment of preferred professionals.
According to several municipal emergency powers ordinances we have seen, the city manager,
upon assumption of emergency powers in a declared state of emergency, is empowered to shut down
utilities, close stores, barricade streets, declare curfews, ration food and other necessary items and
mobilize police agencies and soldiers. The non-elected city manager will also be the point man to
interface with federal agencies such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA).
In a declared state of national emergency, FEMA has been granted, through legislation and
executive orders such as EO 12919, the power to take control of and administrate crises on a
national level. FEMA will dictate the activities of your emergency-empowered administrator and will
allocate emergency funding to your community based upon its level of cooperation with federal
agencies.
While most of America sleeps and while those of us who are awake are awaiting an obvious sign
that the New World Order has arrived, the groundwork for the military occupation of America is
being laid by our local leaders.
Strength in numbers
Between readers of The Idaho Observer and other concerned Americans all over this country who
subscribe to alternative publications and monitor email lists, there is at least one of us in almost every
town from coast to coast. However loosely affiliated, we represent the only group of Americans who
are positioned to stop the quiet construction of occupational machinery in our beloved country.
Go to your city hall. Find out if your city has passed an emergency powers ordinance or if passage
of such an ordinance is being considered. The ordinance will be publicly available at city hall as a part
of your city's municipal code. Some cities have a website that posts city codes and other public
information.
Make two copies of the ordinance, keep one for your records and send the other to: The Idaho
Observer, PO Box 1353, Rathdrum, Idaho 83858-1353. Include your name and a phone number
where you can be reached in case verification becomes necessary. We will then, on a map of the
United States, stick pins in the towns whose elected officials have passed model ordinances that give
dictatorial power to an unelected city manager or city administrator during a declared state of
emergency.
We need to have copies of these ordinances postmarked as soon as possible so that we can
process this information and alert the nation before summer. It is our duty as Americans to expose the
machinery that is being built to facilitate the occupation of our sovereign states by federal forces.
Please take charge of finding the emergency powers ordinance in your city and help us in this most
urgent endeavor.
If your county has placed its official business online, email the ordinance to: { HYPERLINK
observer@dmi.net }observer@dmi.net. If you have any questions about what to do, contact
The Idaho Observer at: (208) 255-2307.
The Idaho Observer
PO Box 1353
Rathdrum, Idaho 83858
observer@dmi.net www.proliberty.com/observer
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Feds Threaten To Take Over Ohio Police Department: Could Your Town Be
Next?
(The following is part of a special investigation by LEAA into the ever-expanding role the
Clinton/Gore Justice Department is taking in controlling local law enforcement. .... More
information will also be published in the next edition of LEAA's magazine, SHIELD.
Additionally, LEAA is sharing information with Calibre Press' Street Survival Newsline who
are helping bring this important news to law enforcement officers across the country)
A legal battle is now being waged in U.S. District Court in Columbus, Ohio, pitting the legal weight
and limitless financial resources of the U.S. Justice Department against that town's right to control its
own police department. At stake is no less than the fate of local agencies everywhere to control their
own destinies versus an emerging pattern by the ... Justice
Department aimed at federalizing municipal police departments.
Unfortunately, Columbus isn't the first victim. Already federal takeovers of departmental policy
have occurred in Steubenville, Ohio, and in Pittsburgh, Penn. The police administrators in these two
cities were, more or less, forced to sign consent decrees admitting their departments had participated
in a pattern of civil rights violations and therefore needed the federal government to come in and run
all future operations. What sets Columbus apart, what makes them different from these other two
cities which acquiesced, is that this municipality has a contract with the local police union and can't
make a deal with the devil without approval of FOP
members - and thankfully they're fighting. The city's 30-year history of collective bargaining with
rank-and-file legally forbids the city from exposing its officers to many of the changes demanded by
the DOJ.
Therefore, since Columbus and the police union have decided not to sign the consent decree, the
Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the city to recoup all federal grant money awarded
over the years. Some would call this extortion. Bill Capretta, president of the Capitol City Lodge
No. 9 of the Fraternal Order of Police in Columbus, says the lawsuit is the "latest step in a Justice
Department campaign to impose federal (law enforcement) standards on police departments
nationwide."
....
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From: William B. Rogers, MD
Bill Rogers
Tyler, TX
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http://www.leaa.org/columbus.html