If we didn't see this coming perhaps we should have, and now it's official. The US Army is training the 1st Brigade Combat team for domestic operations in the United States.
http://current.com/...
Yes folks, this domestic control team will be ready for action in..wait for it...wait for it...OCTOBER, right before the November Presidential Elections! My first thought was, this makes no sense. Domestic peace keeping operations fall under the jurisdiction of the National Guard. But then I remembered the Section 1076 of the 2007 National Defense Authorization Act know as The Insurrection Act Rider and State Control of the National Guard. Specifically:
The law clears the way for the President to execute martial law, commandeer National Guard units around the country and unilaterally authorize military operations against the American people in the event of an executive declaration of a "public emergency."
In itself this is repulsive. I thought this was one of the reasons our forefathers fought the Revolutionary War i.e. to get British combat troops off US soil. Indeed I wasn't alone.
A few weeks later, on September 29, Leahy entered into the Congressional Record that he had "grave reservations about certain provisions of the fiscal Year 2007 Defense Authorization Bill Conference Report," the language of which, he said, "subverts solid, longstanding posse comitatus statutes that limit the military’s involvement in law enforcement, thereby making it easier for the President to declare martial law." This had been "slipped in," Leahy said, "as a rider with little study," while "other congressional committees with jurisdiction over these matters had no chance to comment, let alone hold hearings on, these proposals."
Still, by a vicious stretch of the imagination, maybe, perhaps, someday, somehow, we will have a domestic emergency that would warrant the deployment of federal US combat troops on US soil. You know, if a tsunami hits the entire eastern seaboard, nukes go off in multiple US cities, hostile aliens from outer space begin attacking all the Walmarts etc. But like they say, the devil is in the details.
"One key USNORTHCOM planning assumption,"is that the President will invoke the new Martial Law powers if he concludes state and/or local authorities no longer possess either the capability or the will (my emphasis)to maintain order."
http://www.projectcensored.org/...
The "will" to maintain order? Now under what possible conditions would state and local authorities not have the "will" to maintain order??? Hmm, the cancellation of national presidential elections perhaps or some other form of power grab that ensures the current squatters in the White House don't have to leave and be subject to prosecution for breaking national, international and constitutional laws. We are WAY through the looking glass on this one folks.
For what it's worth, we should alert as many folks as possible as to what is going on. I don't maintain any hope that the wording in this fascist document will be changed but if we can raise it into the spotlight, it may get a lot more attention than in 2007, especially in light of the fact that national elections are right around the corner.
A recommend would be nice if this hasn't already been blogged to death.