"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government, owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people." ― Theodore Roosevelt
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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 COG or 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 transition 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 the 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.
Comment: Russia's involvement in Syria has certainly turned this situation on its head. Expect more loud whining from the American imperialists:
Hysterical demonization campaign of Putin and Russia - The Pentagon's empire of whining