This is very bad in the wrong hands.
No! No! They’re here to take over NYC and put all Arab-Americans behind barbed-wire like in the Denzel Washington/Bruce Willis vehicle: “The Siege”!!!
To keep the Dim riots in check when McCain wins?
Hey, someone need to perform crowd control when the run on banks kicks into high gear.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092110/posts
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/
This comes weeks after US Govt issued a call for all its agencies to write or update succcession plans to ensure operations.
And while agencies are really noting al Qaeda patterns of activity that predated other big attacks
Not that I am wearing a tin foil hat...
I don’t think this is a good precedent, but it is possible that it is because of the chance of a major terrorist attack around the time of the elections. There have been a number of significant arrests and also strange events (sudden shut downs of Pakistan and British airports, for example) that make me think that there is something brewing. I don’t think the terrorists have a very good chance of pulling it off, but I suspect these units are going to be on hand just in case.
We need the military at home to protect our borders and deport the hordes of illegal aliens/invaders who roam across the country and kill a shocking number of Americans as well as drain our resources.
When I was in the service in the late 1960’s, We in the First Army trained for riot control. We practiced formations in moving mobs around. If I recall we had seven levels of force available to use. We started off by moving mobs with fixed bayonets and could end up in firing live rounds. Deploying the military is not a new practice in American history. It’s been done often.
Based in Ft. Hood,TX.
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We need a part of the military that is prepared to bring expertise to a situation such as a domestic nuclear explosion or an EMP attack, and we need a specially trained force that can fill in when a city’s or a region’s police force and firefighter force is dead or effectively destroyed and their equipment and infrastructure eliminated.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w
“They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack.
Training for homeland scenarios has already begun at Fort Stewart and includes specialty tasks such as knowing how to use the “jaws of life” to extract a person from a mangled vehicle; extra medical training for a CBRNE incident; and working with U.S. Forestry Service experts on how to go in with chainsaws and cut and clear trees to clear a road or area.
The 1st BCT’s soldiers also will learn how to use “the first ever nonlethal package that the Army has fielded,” 1st BCT commander Col. Roger Cloutier said, referring to crowd and traffic control equipment and nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals without killing them.”
What happened to Posse Comitatus????????
Keep the military OUT of domestic areas. PERIOD.
Is “homeland” anything like “Fatherland?”
Preparing for post-election insurrection?
This is nothing new. Every 1950’s sci-fi flick shows giant spiders, bugs, aliens battling the US army on our home turf.