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By the executive branch's refusal to respond to attempts by those constitutionally responsible for oversight, they bring a thread attempting a discussion of their planning and possible motives, on a politics discussion forum, on themselves, since they refuse to disclose their presidential transition and "Continuity of Government" planning.....even to duly elected officials with the authority and security clearances to conduct inquiry on our behalf. I don't think the posts that you speak of should be a definitive barometer of the appropriateness of this thread, in this forum.

The title of the thread may play to sensationalism, but it is, given the supporting material presented in the OP, and in this and my previous post, grounded in the root concern and reasonable reaction. If the executive branch is doing all of this secret planning and drilling that they appear to be doing, related to "Continuity of Government" and secret "transition planning", related to the transfer of the office of the presidency to a newly elected president, eight months from yesterday, it seems fitting to wonder "out loud", if we should do some visible organizing/planning related to the Jan. 20, 2009 transition, ourselves.

I've provided reports of the Continuity of Gevernment drills, as far back as the '80's, that VP Cheney participated in. Given that they won't disclose what they are planning, but because there appears to be a flurry of it, going on for quite some time, complete with secret and semi-secret executive orders, and their track record for inaccurate and misleading statements on matters related to national security, over the last six years, why wouldn't we be suspicious of the motives and intent of the president and vice-president?

Here's how it works, here. The folks who don't want to react in ways I, myself, would expect all of my fellow Americans to react to the constant challenges by the executive branch, to constitutional authority.....the lawful attempts by our elected officials to find out, on our behalf, WTF the executive branch is doing, and why..... react instead by shooting the messenger, eye rolling, and by attempting, too often successfully, to make the argument and it's well sourced support, seem deficient, not on it's merits, but via "drive by" attempts to make the ideas advanced seem unimaginable. ridiculous, or both.

This is a political discussion forum. It is quite logical, given the breakdown in our federal government checks and balances and the accountability that the checks were envisioned and intended to foster....make visible to the people, that a well documented set of concerns would emerge for discussion in this venue.

Where else would they be discussed in the context of what is at stake....the people's right to know, amidst an ongoing threat to usurp congressional authority by the executive branch. Transfer this to a less respected venue, and those who attempt to end this as a legitimate political discussion and set of concerns, are encouraged to react the same way, whenever they object to discussion on the merits of the argument.

This exercise on a politics discussion forum is an expected and a normal extension of events taking place in Washington.

It can end up being a "town meeting", or a target of ridicule, more fitting of a discussion of say, a coverup by government of aliens landing in Roswell, NM in 1947, I've worked to make it legitimate, and some others post with the purpose of making it illegitimate as an appropriate political discussion.

I think some of us are responding to valid concerns, and I provide evidence that our valid concerns are shared with elected officials thwarted in their official attempts at congressional committee oversight: