10 November 2015
Commentary By John W. Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute
The Deep State: Unelected Shadow Government Is Here To Stay:
"America's next president will inherit more than a bitterly divided nation teetering on the brink of financial catastrophe when he or she assumes office. He will also inherit a shadow government, one that is fully operational and staffed by unelected officials who are, in essence, running the country.
To be precise, however, the future president will actually inherit not one but two shadow governments.
The first shadow government, referred to as the COG or the Continuity of Government, is made up of unelected individuals who have been appointed to run the government in the event of a 'catastrophe'.
The second shadow government, referred to as the Deep State, is comprised of unelected government bureaucrats, corporations, contractors, paper-pushers, and button-pushers who are actually calling the shots behind the scenes right now.
The first shadow government, COG, is a phantom menace waiting for the right circumstances - a terrorist attack, a natural disaster, an economic meltdown - to bring it out of the shadows, where it operates even now. When and if COG takes over, the police state will transform to martial law.
Yet as I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War On The American People, it is the second shadow government, the Deep State, which poses the greater threat to our freedoms. This permanent, corporatized, militarized, entrenched bureaucracy is unaffected by elections, unaltered by populist movements, and beyond reach of the Law.
This is the hidden face of the police state.
These two shadow governments, which make a mockery of representative government and the 'reassurance ritual' of voting, have been a long time in the making. Yet they have been so shrouded in secrecy, well hidden from the eyes and ears of the American people, that they exist and function in contravention to the principles of democratic government.
As the following makes clear, these shadow governments, which operate beyond the reach of the Constitution and with no real accountability to the citizenry, are the reason why "we the People" have no control over our government.
The COG shadow government plan was devised during the Cold War as a means of ensuring that a nuclear strike didn't paralyze the federal government.
COG initially called for three teams consisting of a cabinet member, an executive chief of staff and military and intelligence officials to practice evacuating and directing a counter nuclear strike against the Soviet Union from a variety of high-tech, mobile command vehicles. If the president and vice president were both killed, one of these teams would take control, with the ranking cabinet official serving as president.
This all changed after the September 11, 2001, when it became clear that there would be no warning against a terrorist attack. Instead of waiting until an attack occurred to mobilize part-time bureaucrats and activate evacuation schemes, George W. Bush opted to change COG and establish a full-time, permanent shadow government stationed outside the capital, run by permanently appointed (not elected) executive officials.
COG has since taken on a power - and a budget - of its own. ..."
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