[CitizensTruth] [MCM] Army, Air Force poised for action HERE

[Hal Snyder]

The subversion of Posse Comitatus is accomplished. Bush's army  
crosses the Rubicon.

A personal note:

I was at an election judges' class last night in Cook County, IL.  
I've participated in election-day judging for several years.

This was the first time trainees were ushered into a darkened room  
with a projection screen on, told where to sit, and to identify  
ourselves by first name when asking a question. It was also the first  
time the instructor mentioned crowd control as something we should  
concerned with.

This gave it a completely different feel from the reunion setting of  
previous classes where people sat where they pleased, and many of the  
judges and instructors knew each other and visited briefly as equals  
before the start of class.

I don't know if this was a policy change or just something about the  
class I was in.

A favorable contrast - about half last night's class were student  
judges; in the past we had maybe a half dozen students, with the  
majority of the class well into senior citizen status.

Begin forwarded message:


> From: Mark Crispin Miller <mark.miller at nyu.edu>

> Date: October 10, 2008 10:32:46 AM CDT

> To: newsfromunderground at googlegroups.com

> Subject: [MCM] Army, Air Force poised for action HERE

>

> If, say, thousands of would-be voters, told that they aren't  

> registered, don't slink home

> on this Election Day, but stick around, their numbers growing, and  

> start making noise,

> with some of them recording such protests on video, and posting  

> them on YouTube--

> what might happen, in this nation where, we often tell ourselves,  

> elections are quite

> orderly and peaceful, and not resolved by "tanks in the streets"?

>

> Be sure to read the harrowing interview with David Antoon, reported  

> in Naomi Wolf's

> piece, below.

> MCM

>

> Flight exercise today around D.C.

>

> The Associated Press

> Posted : Thursday Oct 9, 2008 7:53:26 EDT

> http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/10/ap_exerciseflights_100908/

>

> WASHINGTON - The Air Force is planning a one-day flight exercise in  

> the Washington area.

> Aircraft will perform a series of training flights starting early  

> Thursday. The North American Aerospace Defense Command and other  

> agencies are coordinating the flights.

> Civil Air Patrol aircraft and Coast Guard helicopters will take part.

> Officials say the exercise, called Falcon Virgo, refines the  

> command's interception and identification operations. It also helps  

> with testing visual warning systems.

> Similar exercise flights have been held throughout the country.

>

>

> Thousands of Troops Are Deployed on U.S. Streets Ready to Carry Out  

> "Crowd Control

>

> By Naomi Wolf, AlterNet

> Posted on October 8, 2008, Printed on October 10, 2008

> http://www.alternet.org/story/101958/

>

> Background: the First Brigade of the Third Infantry Division, three  

> to four thousand soldiers, has been deployed in the United States  

> as of October 1. Their stated mission is the form of crowd control  

> they practiced in Iraq, subduing "unruly individuals," and the  

> management of a national emergency. I am in Seattle and heard from  

> the brother of one of the soldiers that they are engaged in  

> exercises now. Amy Goodman reportedthat an Army spokesperson  

> confirmed that they will have access to lethal and non lethal crowd  

> control technologies and tanks.

>

> George Bush struck down Posse Comitatus, thus making it legal for  

> military to patrol the U.S. He has also legally established that in  

> the "War on Terror," the U.S. is at war around the globe and thus  

> the whole world is a battlefield. Thus the U.S. is also a battlefield.

>

> He also led change to the 1807 Insurrection Act to give him far  

> broader powers in the event of a loosely defined "insurrection" or  

> many other "conditions" he has the power to identify. The  

> Constitution allows the suspension of habeas corpus -- habeas  

> corpus prevents us from being seized by the state and held without  

> trial -- in the event of an "insurrection." With his own army force  

> now, his power to call a group of protesters or angry voters  

> "insurgents" staging an "insurrection" is strengthened.

>

> U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman of California said to Congress, captured on  

> C-Span and viewable on YouTube, that individual members of the  

> House were threatened with martial law within a week if they did  

> not pass the bailout bill:

>

>

> "The only way they can pass this bill is by creating and sustaining  

> a panic atmosphere. Š Many of us were told in private conversations  

> that if we voted against this bill on Monday that the sky would  

> fall, the market would drop two or three thousand points the first  

> day and a couple of thousand on the second day, and a few members  

> were even told that there would be martial law in America if we  

> voted no."

>

> If this is true and Rep. Sherman is not delusional, I ask you to  

> consider that if they are willing to threaten martial law now, it  

> is foolish to assume they will never use that threat again. It is  

> also foolish to trust in an orderly election process to resolve  

> this threat. And why deploy the First Brigade? One thing the  

> deployment accomplishes is to put teeth into such a threat.

>

> I interviewed Vietnam veteran, retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and  

> patriot David Antoon for clarification:

>

> "If the President directed the First Brigade to arrest Congress,  

> what could stop him?"

>

> "Nothing. Their only recourse is to cut off funding. The Congress  

> would be at the mercy of military leaders to go to them and ask  

> them not to obey illegal orders."

>

> "But these orders are now legal?'"

>

> "Correct."

>

> "If the President directs the First Brigade to arrest a bunch of  

> voters, what would stop him?"

>

> "Nothing. It would end up in courts but the action would have been  

> taken."

>

> "If the President directs the First Brigade to kill civilians, what  

> would stop him?"

>

> "Nothing."

>

> "What would prevent him from sending the First Brigade to arrest  

> the editor of the Washington Post?"

>

> "Nothing. He could do what he did in Iraq -- send a tank down a  

> street in Washington and fire a shell into the Washington Post as  

> they did into Al Jazeera, and claim they were firing at something  

> else."

>

> "What happens to members of the First Brigade who refuse to take up  

> arms against U.S. citizens?"

>

> "They'd probably be treated as deserters as in Iraq: arrested,  

> detained and facing five years in prison. In Iraq a study by Ann  

> Wright shows that deserters -- reservists who refused to go back to  

> Iraq -- got longer sentences than war criminals."

>

> "Does Congress have any military of their own?"

>

> "No. Congress has no direct control of any military units. The  

> Governors have the National Guard but they report to the President  

> in an emergency that he declares."

>

> "Who can arrest the President?"

>

> "The Attorney General can arrest the President after he leaves or  

> after impeachment."

>

> [Note: Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi has asserted it is possible for  

> District Attorneys around the country to charge President Bush with  

> murder if they represent districts where one or more military  

> members who have been killed in Iraq formerly resided.]

>

> "Given the danger do you advocate impeachment?"

>

> "Yes. President Bush struck down Posse Comitatus -- which has  

> prevented, with a penalty of two years in prison, U.S. leaders  

> since after the Civil War from sending military forces into our  

> streets -- with a 'signing statement.' He should be impeached  

> immediately in a bipartisan process to prevent the use of military  

> forces and mercenary forces against U.S. citizens"

>

> "Should Americans call on senior leaders in the Military to break  

> publicly with this action and call on their own men and women to  

> disobey these orders?"

>

> "Every senior military officer's loyalty should ultimately be to  

> the Constitution. Every officer should publicly break with any  

> illegal order, even from the President."

>

> "But if these are now legal. If they say, 'Don't obey the Commander  

> in Chief,' what happens to the military?"

>

> "Perhaps they would be arrested and prosecuted as those who refuse  

> to participate in the current illegal war. That's what would be  

> considered a coup."

>

> "But it's a coup already."

>

> "Yes."

>

> Naomi Wolf is the author of Give Me Liberty (Simon and Schuster,  

> 2008), the sequel to the New York Times best-seller The End of  

> America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot (Chelsea Green, 2007).

>

> © 2008 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved.

> View this story online at: http://www.alternet.org/story/101958/

>

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> http://www.alternet.org/rights/101958/ 

> thousands_of_troops_are_deployed_on_u.s._streets_ready_to_carry_out_ 

> %22crowd_control%22/?page=entire

> Thousands of Troops Are Deployed on U.S. Streets Ready to Carry Out  

> "Crowd Control"

> By Naomi Wolf, AlterNet

> Posted on October 8, 2008, Printed on October 10, 2008

> http://www.alternet.org/story/101958/

> Background: the First Brigade of the Third Infantry Division, three  

> to four thousand soldiers, has been deployed in the United States  

> as of October 1. Their stated mission is the form of crowd control  

> they practiced in Iraq, subduing "unruly individuals," and the  

> management of a national emergency. I am in Seattle and heard from  

> the brother of one of the soldiers that they are engaged in  

> exercises now. Amy Goodman reportedthat an Army spokesperson  

> confirmed that they will have access to lethal and non lethal crowd  

> control technologies and tanks.

> George Bush struck down Posse Comitatus, thus making it legal for  

> military to patrol the U.S. He has also legally established that in  

> the "War on Terror," the U.S. is at war around the globe and thus  

> the whole world is a battlefield. Thus the U.S. is also a battlefield.

> He also led change to the 1807 Insurrection Act to give him far  

> broader powers in the event of a loosely defined "insurrection" or  

> many other "conditions" he has the power to identify. The  

> Constitution allows the suspension of habeas corpus -- habeas  

> corpus prevents us from being seized by the state and held without  

> trial -- in the event of an "insurrection." With his own army force  

> now, his power to call a group of protesters or angry voters  

> "insurgents" staging an "insurrection" is strengthened.

> U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman of California said to Congress, captured on  

> C-Span and viewable on YouTube, that individual members of the  

> House were threatened with martial law within a week if they did  

> not pass the bailout bill:

>

> "The only way they can pass this bill is by creating and sustaining  

> a panic atmosphere. Š Many of us were told in private conversations  

> that if we voted against this bill on Monday that the sky would  

> fall, the market would drop two or three thousand points the first  

> day and a couple of thousand on the second day, and a few members  

> were even told that there would be martial law in America if we  

> voted no."

>

> If this is true and Rep. Sherman is not delusional, I ask you to  

> consider that if they are willing to threaten martial law now, it  

> is foolish to assume they will never use that threat again. It is  

> also foolish to trust in an orderly election process to resolve  

> this threat. And why deploy the First Brigade? One thing the  

> deployment accomplishes is to put teeth into such a threat.

> I interviewed Vietnam veteran, retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and  

> patriot David Antoon for clarification:

> "If the President directed the First Brigade to arrest Congress,  

> what could stop him?"

> "Nothing. Their only recourse is to cut off funding. The Congress  

> would be at the mercy of military leaders to go to them and ask  

> them not to obey illegal orders."

> "But these orders are now legal?'"

> "Correct."

> "If the President directs the First Brigade to arrest a bunch of  

> voters, what would stop him?"

> "Nothing. It would end up in courts but the action would have been  

> taken."

> "If the President directs the First Brigade to kill civilians, what  

> would stop him?"

> "Nothing."

> "What would prevent him from sending the First Brigade to arrest  

> the editor of the Washington Post?"

> "Nothing. He could do what he did in Iraq -- send a tank down a  

> street in Washington and fire a shell into the Washington Post as  

> they did into Al Jazeera, and claim they were firing at something  

> else."

> "What happens to members of the First Brigade who refuse to take up  

> arms against U.S. citizens?"

> "They'd probably be treated as deserters as in Iraq: arrested,  

> detained and facing five years in prison. In Iraq a study by Ann  

> Wright shows that deserters -- reservists who refused to go back to  

> Iraq -- got longer sentences than war criminals."

> "Does Congress have any military of their own?"

> "No. Congress has no direct control of any military units. The  

> Governors have the National Guard but they report to the President  

> in an emergency that he declares."

>

> "Who can arrest the President?"

> "The Attorney General can arrest the President after he leaves or  

> after impeachment."

> [Note: Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi has asserted it is possible for  

> District Attorneys around the country to charge President Bush with  

> murder if they represent districts where one or more military  

> members who have been killed in Iraq formerly resided.]

> "Given the danger do you advocate impeachment?"

> "Yes. President Bush struck down Posse Comitatus -- which has  

> prevented, with a penalty of two years in prison, U.S. leaders  

> since after the Civil War from sending military forces into our  

> streets -- with a 'signing statement.' He should be impeached  

> immediately in a bipartisan process to prevent the use of military  

> forces and mercenary forces against U.S. citizens"

> "Should Americans call on senior leaders in the Military to break  

> publicly with this action and call on their own men and women to  

> disobey these orders?"

> "Every senior military officer's loyalty should ultimately be to  

> the Constitution. Every officer should publicly break with any  

> illegal order, even from the President."

> "But if these are now legal. If they say, 'Don't obey the Commander  

> in Chief,' what happens to the military?"

> "Perhaps they would be arrested and prosecuted as those who refuse  

> to participate in the current illegal war. That's what would be  

> considered a coup."

> "But it's a coup already."

> "Yes."

> Naomi Wolf is the author of Give Me Liberty (Simon and Schuster,  

> 2008), the sequel to the New York Times best-seller The End of  

> America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot (Chelsea Green, 2007).

> © 2008 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved.

> View this story online at: http://www.alternet.org/story/101958/

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