Military Coup in the USA, 2012

Much can be said about what is currently happening in New Orleans at the moment: there is plenty of information already circulating the web.

Instead, I point you to an article by Jan Frel on September 5, 2005 Alternet News.

I cite:

"In 1992, then-Joint Chief of Staff Colin Powell picked among dozens of entries in an essay competition at the National Defense University an imagined military coup of 2012 scenario. It starts with the growing dependence of the U.S. government on the Pentagon for civilian rescue operations and institutional assumptions that the military should partake in nation-building in foreign countries. Read it, if you have the time."

Here's a snip from the scenario:

It wasn't too long before 21st-century legislators were calling for more military involvement in police work. Crime seemed out of control. Most disturbing, the incidence of violent crime continued to climb. Americans were horrified and desperate: a third even believed vigilantism could be justified. Rising lawlessness was seen as but another example of the civilian political leadership's inability to fulfill government's most basic duty to ensure public safety. People once again wanted the military to help.

Hints of an expanded police function were starting to surface while we were still at the War College. For example, District of Columbia National Guardsmen established a regular military presence in high-crime areas. Eventually, people became acclimated to seeing uniformed military personnel patrolling their neighborhood. Now troops are an adjunct to almost all police forces in the country....

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The future is now.