<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The subversion of Posse Comitatus is accomplished. Bush's army crosses the Rubicon.<div><br></div><div>A personal note:</div><div><br></div><div>I was at an election judges' class last night in Cook County, IL. I've participated in election-day judging for several years.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't know if this was a policy change or just something about the class I was in.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Mark Crispin Miller <<a href="mailto:mark.miller@nyu.edu">mark.miller@nyu.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">October 10, 2008 10:32:46 AM CDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:newsfromunderground@googlegroups.com">newsfromunderground@googlegroups.com</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>[MCM] Army, Air Force poised for action HERE</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>If, say, thousands of would-be voters, told that they aren't registered, don't slink home</div><div>on this Election Day, but stick around, their numbers growing, and start making noise,</div><div>with some of them recording such protests on video, and posting them on YouTube--</div><div>what might happen, in this nation where, we often tell ourselves, elections are quite</div><div>orderly and peaceful, and<i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>not</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>resolved by "tanks in the streets"?</div><div><br></div><div>Be sure to read the harrowing interview with David Antoon, reported in Naomi Wolf's</div><div>piece, below.</div><div>MCM</div><div><font size="+2"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="+2"><b>Flight exercise today around D.C.</b></font></div><div><br></div><div>The Associated Press<br>Posted : Thursday Oct 9, 2008 7:53:26 EDT<br></div><div><a href="http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/10/ap_exerciseflights_100908/">http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/10/ap_exerciseflights_100908/</a></div><div><br></div><div>WASHINGTON - The Air Force is planning a one-day flight exercise in the Washington area.<br></div><div>Aircraft will perform a series of training flights starting early Thursday. The North American Aerospace Defense Command and other agencies are coordinating the flights.<br></div><div>Civil Air Patrol aircraft and Coast Guard helicopters will take part.<br></div><div>Officials say the exercise, called Falcon Virgo, refines the command's interception and identification operations. It also helps with testing visual warning systems.<br></div><div>Similar exercise flights have been held throughout the country.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font size="+2" color="#000000"><b>Thousands of Troops Are Deployed on U.S. Streets Ready to Carry Out "Crowd Control</b></font></div><div><br></div><div>By Naomi Wolf, AlterNet<br>Posted on October 8, 2008, Printed on October 10, 2008<br></div><div><a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/101958/">http://www.alternet.org/story/101958/</a><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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:<br><br><br>"The only way they can pass this bill is by creating and sustaining a panic atmosphere. 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."<br><br>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.<br><br>I interviewed Vietnam veteran, retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and patriot David Antoon for clarification:<br><br>"If the President directed the First Brigade to arrest Congress, what could stop him?"</div><div><br>"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."<br><br>"But these orders are now legal?'"<br><br>"Correct."<br><br>"If the President directs the First Brigade to arrest a bunch of voters, what would stop him?"<br><br>"Nothing. It would end up in courts but the action would have been taken."<br><br>"If the President directs the First Brigade to kill civilians, what would stop him?"<br><br>"Nothing."<br><br>"What would prevent him from sending the First Brigade to arrest the editor of the Washington Post?"<br><br>"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."<br><br>"What happens to members of the First Brigade who refuse to take up arms against U.S. citizens?"<br><br>"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."<br><br>"Does Congress have any military of their own?"<br><br>"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."<br><br>"Who can arrest the President?"<br><br>"The Attorney General can arrest the President after he leaves or after impeachment."<br><br>[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.]<br><br>"Given the danger do you advocate impeachment?"<br><br>"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"<br><br>"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?"<br><br>"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."<br><br>"But if these are now legal. If they say, 'Don't obey the Commander in Chief,' what happens to the military?"<br><br>"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."<br><br>"But it's a coup already."<br><br>"Yes."<br><br>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).<br><br>© 2008 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved.<br>View this story online at: <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/101958/">http://www.alternet.org/story/101958/</a><br><br><br><br>=========================<br><br><br>In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.<br><br>You are receiving this message because you are signed up to be on Baltimore News Network's News List. To be removed, please send a reply message with REMOVE in the subject line.<br><br>For information about Baltimore News Network, Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization, or to make a donation to BNN via PayPal, visit <a href="http://baltimorechronicle.com">http://baltimorechronicle.com</a>.<br></div><div align="center"><br></div></span></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div align="center"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/rights/101958/thousands_of_troops_are_deployed_on_u.s._streets_ready_to_carry_out_%22crowd_control%22/?page=entire"><span></span>http://www.alternet.org/rights/101958/thousands_of_troops_are_deploy<span></span>ed_on_u.s._streets_ready_to_carry_out_%22crowd_control%22/?page=enti<span></span>re</a><br></div><div align="center"><font size="+2"><b>Thousands of Troops Are Deployed on U.S. Streets Ready to Carry Out "Crowd Control"</b></font><br><font size="+2"><b></b></font></div><div align="center"><font size="-1"><b>By Naomi Wolf, AlterNet<br>Posted on October 8, 2008, Printed on October 10, 2008</b></font></div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/101958/"><font size="-1"><b>http://www.alternet.org/story/101958/</b></font></a><br><font size="-1"><b></b></font></div><div align="center">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 <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2008/10/2/amy_goodmans_latest_column_invasion_of_the_sea_smurfs"><span></span>reported</a>that an Army spokesperson confirmed that they will have access to lethal and non lethal crowd control technologies and tanks.<br></div><div align="center">George Bush struck down <a href="http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/%E2%80%9Dhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act%E2%80%9D"><span></span>Posse Comitatus</a>, 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.<br></div><div align="center">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.<br></div><div align="center">U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman of California said to Congress, captured on C-Span and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaG9d_4zij8">viewable</a> on YouTube, that individual members of the House were threatened with martial law within a week if they did not pass the bailout bill:<br></div><div align="center"><br></div><blockquote align="center" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">"The only way they can pass this bill is by creating and sustaining a panic atmosphere. 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."<br></blockquote><div align="center"><br></div><div align="center">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.<br></div><div align="center">I interviewed Vietnam veteran, retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and patriot David Antoon for clarification:<br></div><div align="center">"If the President directed the First Brigade to arrest Congress, what could stop him?"<br></div><div align="center">"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."<br></div><div align="center">"But these orders are now legal?'"<br></div><div align="center">"Correct."<br></div><div align="center">"If the President directs the First Brigade to arrest a bunch of voters, what would stop him?"<br></div><div align="center">"Nothing. It would end up in courts but the action would have been taken."<br></div><div align="center">"If the President directs the First Brigade to kill civilians, what would stop him?"<br></div><div align="center">"Nothing."<br></div><div align="center">"What would prevent him from sending the First Brigade to arrest the editor of the <i>Washington Post?</i>"<br></div><div align="center">"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."<br></div><div align="center">"What happens to members of the First Brigade who refuse to take up arms against U.S. citizens?"<br></div><div align="center">"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."<br></div><div align="center">"Does Congress have any military of their own?"<br></div><div align="center">"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."</div><div align="center"><br></div><div align="center">"Who can arrest the President?"<br></div><div align="center">"The Attorney General can arrest the President after he leaves or after impeachment."<br></div><div align="center">[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.]<br></div><div align="center">"Given the danger do you advocate impeachment?"<br></div><div align="center">"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"<br></div><div align="center">"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?"<br></div><div align="center">"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."<br></div><div align="center">"But if these are now legal. If they say, 'Don't obey the Commander in Chief,' what happens to the military?"<br></div><div align="center">"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."<br></div><div align="center">"But it's a coup already."<br></div><div align="center">"Yes."<br></div><div align="center"><i>Naomi Wolf is the author of </i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Give-Me-Liberty-Handbook-Revolutionaries/dp/1416590560/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223476716&sr=8-1"><i><span></span>Give Me Liberty</i></a><i> (Simon and Schuster, 2008), the sequel to the New York Times best-seller </i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/End-America-Letter-Warning-Patriot/dp/1933392797/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223476716&sr=8-2"><i><span></span>The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot</i></a><i> (Chelsea Green, 2007).</i><br></div><div align="center"><font size="-1"><b>© 2008 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved.<br>View this story online at:</b></font><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><font size="-1"><b><a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/101958/">http://www.alternet.org/story/101958/</a></b></font></div></span></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>