Who Knows What Evil Lurks In The Hearts Of The Bush Administration?
The Shadow Government Knows

"Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government."

Henry Kissinger
May 21, 1992
Bilderberg Conference, Evian, France


Deep in an underground cave in the mountains of Virginia, a secret group of 100 are assembled, led by Vice President, Dick Cheney. Living there for a three month rotation, they are sworn never to reveal their mission or whereabouts. Their instructions are to answer any inquiry with, "It's a business trip."

There are two of these secret subterranean cities. One under Weather Mountain in Virginia and the other under Raven Mountain in Pennsylvania. These are not your ordinary bat-filled damp caverns. They have filtered air, sidewalks, public transportation, phones, TV, luxurious suites and dormitories. They generate their own power, are fully stocked with food and medicines, a water supply and even a small lake, fed by an underground spring. They are not the domain of Lamont Cranston or Batman's alter-ego, Bruce Wayne, but the headquarters of the "shadow government".

On March 1, 2002, President Bush announced that, unbeknownst to Congress, it had activated this parallel shadow government six months earlier in the hours following the attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. on 9-11. Established in its present form by Richard Nixon, during the Cold War, with Executive Order 11490, it was to provide for the continuity of government, or COG, in the event Washington was hit with a Soviet nuclear attack or any other national emergency. Just what would qualify as an "other national emergency" is left unspecified. The announcement explains the mysterious whereabouts of Dick Cheney and his intermittent absences. With the continued threats of more terrorist attacks, he and 70 to 150 civilian managers staff this government-in-waiting, which will be in place as long as there is a War on Terror, or in other words, indefinitely. It's funded by a black budget, thereby avoiding any government oversight.

Among the provisions of E.O. 11490 are the registration of the civilian population, selecting, training and determining the skills of the people to provide the labor necessary to maintain services and defense, and relocation to camps to provide housing. Does that sound familiar to anyone who studied European history of the 1930s?

Our founding fathers, in their infinite wisdom, recognized the tendency of power to corrupt, so they provided, in our Constitution, a system of checks to balance the power that would fall to any one man or branch of government. While the Bush administration has brought avoiding our Constitutional provisions to an art form, the shadow government is their masterpiece, since it contains only executive branch departments. Without the legislative or judicial checks, what we have is a virtual dictatorship.

And so, deep beneath the earth in a secure location, a shadow government waits to ensure a continuance of government. That government however, won't be American democracy.

10-18-03