A Specific Type of Continuity
Conservative Treehouse,
by
Sundance
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
7/22/2023 12:46:35 PM
In roughly the past fifty years, the term “continuity of government” has been used with increased frequency describing how the United States of America, a constitutional republican system of government, contains internal mechanisms to protect the executive branch in the event of crisis, attack or disruption of leadership by adversaries.
The term ‘continuity of government‘ became much more common in the aftermath of 9-11-01 (snip)
Within the very brief discussion period that led up to the 10-26-01 Patriot Act [pdf here], literally a structural reform of the entire domestic terrorist apparatus that created the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/22/2023 12:49:49 PM (No. 1518060)
FTA:
We the People are the threat, and those who control the DC power centers that determine the continuity of government, will not accept any modification or diminishment of their mission. This is how they justify their conduct in very real terms, including through application of law. This is also why the people who operate these systems are very visible with their conduct and do not have any reservations about showing their omnipotent mindset.
From their perspective, they are doing what they do, running government how they run government, maintaining the continuity the system was designed to protect, and we are what they consider futile and irrelevant voices.
Both the Republican and Democrat leadership hold this same view. This “continuity of government” is the core of their UniParty alignment.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/22/2023 6:50:10 PM (No. 1518231)
Continuity has turned into Nameless Faceless Crooked Bureaucrats doing the bidding of CROOKED Politicians, like JOEY!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/22/2023 9:04:04 PM (No. 1518292)
Continuity of government. Was that when GWB skedaddled out of town on AF1 and spent hours hiding up in the clouds from passenger planes?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
minuteman 7/23/2023 6:29:23 AM (No. 1518391)
This mindset predates the Patriot act. It is prevalent among government workers. Including military leaders. Even in the 1990’s I knew flag officers who clearly thought their duty was to the government rather than the Constitution and the people.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 7/23/2023 8:57:54 AM (No. 1518489)
Our 'continuity of government' has led us to a nameless faceless leader that never received a single vote in 2020. It's a given that Biden is NOT at the helm which begs the question, 'Who's in charge?'. Maybe it's Obama, but that's it. Nobody really knows. This is not representative government. This isn't governing at all.
Meanwhile we continue to lose our rights, our safety, our wealth, our freedoms, and our very lives.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
chance_232 7/23/2023 10:41:24 AM (No. 1518593)
Of course this is what would happen. It's human nature and the nature of welding power. It happens in corporations, charitable organizations, churches and homeowners associations. It's why the level of incompetence, waste, red tape and corruption increases over time and with growth. It's why charitable organizations and governmental organizations and programs continue to exist long after they no longer serve a purpose. It doesn't help when the voters or customers ask for it, expect it or don't care.
Even if you could clean house and reform the entire government, the game playing would have started up before the reforms took effect. Infact, the reforms would have been enacted with protections in place.
Please fire me, I've accomplished my mission said no one ever.
Every 20 years, every politician and government employee over GS7 should resign or be shot.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Geoman 7/23/2023 1:08:08 PM (No. 1518713)
Not all government-related continuity exercises and activities are sinister. As a senior executive within two large federal agencies, I participated in numerous continuity "table top" exercises, before and after 9/11, with a key purpose of continuing the provision of services to the public and the industries regulated by the agency, services that the agency was tasked to provide. In fact, the official term my agency used was "continuity of operations planning", or "COOP" which was all about ensuring the on-going provision of services. Each agency has its designated COOP sites, both above and below ground. My theory was that service provision outfits were always COOPed above ground, so were expendable in a real crisis, like a shooting war. For the FAA, COOP would include ensuring the operations of air traffic control, airport improvement funding and oversight for approved airport development projects, regulating pilot and air crew training and qualifications, and safety inspections intended to benefit the traveling public. There were no exercises where the American people were considered a threat or were viewed as an enemy. My experience was pre-Obama, so I'm not disputing that things have changed because of the bad actors that have been intentionally drawn into the Executive Branch post 2008. Even the Trump administration appeared to have its share of bad actors, particularly among the "hold-over" political appointees, who traditionally resigned during a change of administration, especially when that change included a different political party. Trump was slow to purge the Obama hold-overs, who worked to stymie his policies from the start. If he gets re-elected in '24, perhaps he will send the hold-overs packing on day one, which is normal. The democrats have used a dirty trick called "nesting" to prevent the expulsion of bad actor political appointees. Nesting is where a political appointee is re-classified as a "career" employee, without the benefit of a competitive hiring process. Career employees are not required to submit resignations at the change of an administration, including when a different political party is ascendent. Rooting out the nested employees is difficult but not impossible.As is typical for these type of articles, Sundance offers no viable plan for how the American people can deal with a rogue government. Since 1788, when the Constitutional framework for our system of government was ratified and became effective, the American people have had but one recourse to a runaway government, operating outside of its Constitutional boundaries, but it appears that recourse shall never be mentioned, much less used. Sundance would also have us believe that there is no difference between democrats and republicans, which implies that voting no longer determines "who's on first." Looking at Supreme Court justice appointments over the passed 20 years or so, the reality is that they are not interchangeable, at least not yet.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
asparagus 7/23/2023 2:24:51 PM (No. 1518750)
#7's comments seem on the mark, but maybe not the whole story.
The term, "continuity of government" has been glommed onto by many pundits, some seem to be spinning yarns unsupported by the publicly-available legal docs, and others are dismissed as conspiracy theorists. Anybody interested in the topic should read a Newsweek article from Marck 18 2020 (early in the spread of Coronavirus SATS-CoV-2), entitled, "Exclusive: Inside The Military's Top Secret Plans If Coronavirus Cripples the Government". It is written by a columnist that frequently writes stuff that appears to indicate they have inside sources (maybe not all the facts they assert are correct).
It describes a range of actions, and while it is based on a scenario that the Coronavirus incapacitates the civilian leadership, but the plans precede the arrival of SARS-CoV-2, and the procedures can be triggered by other events, from natural disasters to acts of war, and things in between.
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