Effective October 1st, the First Brigade Combat Team of the Third Division, will be stationed within the borders of the United States and one of their responsibilities will be civil unrest and crowd control.
I've been thinking about this particular deployment since I heard about it over a week ago. Why is it that for the first time ever, a regular Army Brigade is being deployed inside the US for this type of mission?
I thought we were short on troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have so many troops now that we can spare some for controlling the civilian population here in the US? What about the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878?
According to the Act, this prohibits the use of the military for law enforcement purposes. In other words, the government can't use the military against US citizens.
Now forgetting that nobody seems to notice that this is going on ( I haven't seen anything on CNN,MSNBC,ABC,CBS, or NBC concerning this) why would they be deployed now, within a month of a national election?
I can only come up with two reasons. One is that they expect rioting "if" something were to happen to Senator Obama prior to the election, and the other is if Senator Obama has a double digit lead, like he has now, and the exit polls all say he won but we wake up the next morning to hear that John McCain has pulled off a miracle win.
In other words, they steal another election from us. I for one am very concerned about this deployment and the implications that it brings to mind and I would like somebody in the Democratically controlled House or Senate to start asking questions. This needs to be brought into the light of day so that they will be afraid to pull this crap.
If we don't do something, don't be surprised if they steal another one and you wake up to the military on every street corner.