October 2, 2008, U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Brad Sherman [D-CA] asks:
"But why are we bailing out the Bank of China? Why are we bailing out the Saudi royal family?...
The only way they can pass this bill is by creating and by sustaining a panic atmosphere...
A few Members were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted ``no.''
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Congressman Brad Sherman: Martial Law if We Voted No [1]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6KRXnYgu5I
Congressman Brad Sherman: Martial Law if We Voted No [2]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55lOhYw8Lxk
Congressman Brad Sherman: Martial Law if We Voted No [3]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHFUa4SpPBU
Sherman's speech on the 1st proposal (or 2nd if you count the proposal published on Sept 20th) of the Bailout bill (September 29th 2008): Best on Bailout Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXGv6qSwuPs
Alex Jones interviews Brad Sherman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egXhZMaY26w
Sherman's Blue Paper on the Bailout
http://bradsherman.house.gov/081001comprehensive_article.pdf
171 Heroes vs 263 Traitors
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2008-681
Paul Craig Roberts: It takes the trouble off the banks and puts it on the taxpayers
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PLbWau3rsag&NR=1
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CONFUSION WITH CONGRESSIONAL MARTIAL LAW
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared -congressional martial law- on Sept 27, 2008. Which is a procedural blanket that removes the rule requiring at least one day between the time a Bill is introduced in the House and the day a vote is taken.
Listen to congressman Michael Burgess [R-TX] addressing congressional martial law on Sept 28: "I understand we're under martial law as declared by the Speaker last night."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=l7B4laX1E70
Read the BLANKET MARTIAL LAW RULE THROUGH MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29TH
http://rules-republicans.house.gov/ShortTopics/Read.aspx?id=220
That IS NOT the Martial Law that Brad sherman was referring to.
Brad Sherman was specifically referring to Martial Law IN AMERICA, IN THE NEAR FUTURE, not the Sept 27-29 procedural blanket.
Sherman would later confirm the nature of the threat (a National Emergency) on the Alex Jones show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egXhZMaY26w
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TRANSCRIPT
That's what I call fear mongering--unjustified, proven wrong.
We've got a week; we've got 2 weeks to write a good bill. The only way to pass a bad bill: Keep the panic pressure on.
Now, what has the Senate done to this bill? First, they've added pork to it in the hope that that would buy off some votes. Second, they've created a double hostage situation. Now, we already know that the first bill was a hostage situation. When Paulson announced this crisis, he basically sent a ransom note, and that ransom note read, ``We've got your 401(k), and you'll never see it alive again unless you send us $700 billion in unmarked bills.'' So we had one hostage situation.
There's the AMT patch, a necessary tax provision that Congress passes every year. Without this patch, the AMT tax, which is designed to fall only on the wealthy, will hit another 20 million American households. Everyone knows we have to pass this. We sent it to the Senate for them to pass. Instead of passing it, they created a hostage situation. They refused to pass it. They put it on this bill. So now we're being told, if you don't send $700 billion to Wall Street, we're going to tax 20 million American families in a way no one in Congress wants to do.
That's totally phony. If we vote down this bill, the Senate will pass the AMT patch bill that we sent them just like they do every year.
There has been some attempt to tell the American people that this bill isn't going to cost anything permanently because, in 2013, we're going to get the money back from the financial services industry. Nothing could be further from the truth. All the bill says is that the President has to send us a proposal to tax the financial services industry. Now, keep in mind, if the President has any good ideas in 2013, he'll send them to us or she'll send them to us. If the President is only sending us
revenue ideas because they have to send them and they don't want to send that proposal, well then, they're going to send it with a note, saying, ``I'm required to give you this proposal, but I think it's a bad idea.'' What do you think we're going to do with a Presidential proposal that is disparaged by the President?
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