Sealing Time Newsletter - US News Alert - 20,000 Army Troops Deployed for 'control" in US
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Hi friends,
There has been a lot of talk recently of "change." This recent article in the Army Times reflects one "change" that I think anyone concerned about their freedom and the constitution should be aware of. 20,000 US Army Troops are preparing to be deployed across the United States for various stated purposes, with several of them involving different aspects of "control." In part they will be working in some capacity as, or more likely at first, with law enforcement. This is a very disturbing trend that the "Posse Comitatus Act
" was designed to protect against. When President Bush signed the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act he attached a signing statement (Executive Order) stating that the Executive Branch did not feel bound by the changes made in that Act. With this single action President Bush has effectively made the Posse Comitatus Act of no effect by Executive Order. After the main article excerpts there are links to several more articles on this subject listed below it. If there is one thing I see when reading these it's that change is coming, and soon.
Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1
(20,000 Troops Prepare for Active Deployment Across the United States)
(excerpts below)
The 3rd Infantry Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys. Now they're training for the same mission ' with a twist ' at home. Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks. It is not the first time an active-duty unit has been tapped to help at home. In August 2005, for example, when Hurricane Katrina unleashed hell in Mississippi and Louisiana, several active-duty units were pulled from various posts and mobilized to those areas. But this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities. After 1st BCT finishes its dwell-time mission, expectations are that another, as yet unnamed, active-duty brigade will take over and that the mission will be a permanent one. 'Right now, the response force requirement will be an enduring mission. How the [Defense Department] chooses to source that and whether or not they continue to assign them to NorthCom, that could change in the future,' said Army Col. Louis Vogler, chief of NorthCom future operations. 'Now, the plan is to assign a force every year.'
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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. The package is for use only in war-zone operations, not for any domestic purpose. (yet) 'It's a new modular package of nonlethal capabilities that they're fielding. They've been using pieces of it in Iraq, but this is the first time that these modules were consolidated and this package fielded, and because of this mission we're undertaking we were the first to get it.' The package includes equipment to stand up a hasty road block; spike strips for slowing, stopping or controlling traffic; shields and batons; and, beanbag bullets. 'I was the first guy in the brigade to get Tasered,' said Cloutier, describing the experience as 'your worst muscle cramp ever ' times 10 throughout your whole body. 'I'm not a small guy, I weigh 230 pounds ... it put me on my knees in seconds.' The brigade will not change its name, but the force will be known for the next year as a CBRNE Consequence Management Response Force, or CCMRF (pronounced 'sea-smurf'). -Army Times 2008-09-30
Learn more:
- Army Times - Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1
- Washington Post - Pentagon to Detail Troops to Bolster Domestic Security
- Pastor Chuck Baldwin (Crossroad Baptist Church) - U.S. Army Troops To Serve As U.S. Policemen? (Quite an interesting article from a civil and religious liberty standpoint.)
- Wikipedia -Posse Comitatus Act
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