1st brigade homeland tours

Tango3 · Jan 26, 2015

Northcom :Brings a whole new meaning to "state side" assignment. And just in time too!
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/
Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1

3rd Infantry’s 1st BCT trains for a new dwell-time mission. Helping ‘people at home’ may become a permanent part of the active Army
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.

BUSH AIN'T LEAVIN IS HE?

BAT1 · Sep 24, 2008

Oh boy, this ain't good. Just got off P/P and they will hit the streets Oct 1st. They will field for the first time a new non lethal package for crowd control right here in this country. This is against Section 1385 of the Posse Comitatus act and carries a two year prison term for violators. This has been repealed in its entirety by HR 4986 The National Defense Authorozation Act back to the state to the state of the Insurrection Act of 1807.
www.prisonplanet.com/us-troops-in-homeland-crowd-control-patrols-from-october1st.html.#comments

Jayde · Sep 25, 2008

I was just gonna post the links to this article. Beat me to it. This is just not good news, no matter which way you cut it. Scares the crap outta me, and I'm not even in the US...

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/0...eland_090708w/

For more than 100 years — since the end of the Civil War — deployment of the U.S. military inside the U.S. has been prohibited under The Posse Comitatus Act (the only exceptions being that the National Guard and Coast Guard are exempted, and use of the military on an emergency ad hoc basis is permitted, such as what happened after Hurricane Katrina). Though there have been some erosions of this prohibition over the last several decades (most perniciously to allow the use of the military to work with law enforcement agencies in the "War on Drugs"), the bright line ban on using the U.S. military as a standing law enforcement force inside the U.S. has been more or less honored — until now. And as the Army Times notes, once this particular brigade completes its one-year assignment, "expectations are that another, as yet unnamed, active-duty brigade will take over and that the mission will be a permanent one."

After Hurricane Katrina, the Bush administration began openly agitating for what would be, in essence, a complete elimination of the key prohibitions of the Posse Comitatus Act in order to allow the President to deploy U.S. military forces inside the U.S. basically at will — and, as usual, they were successful as a result of rapid bipartisan compliance with the Leader’s demand (the same kind of compliance that is about to foist a bailout package on the nation).
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kansasrebel · Sep 25, 2008

Funny about the timing. On a bunch of different websites they are talking about something big happening on Oct 7. Something that will make 9/11 pale in comparison. Coincidence or just luck on the timing? You decide. And good luck to everyone I think we're going to need it soon.

Seacowboys · Sep 25, 2008

kansasrebel said: ↑

Funny about the timing. On a bunch of different websites they are talking about something big happening on Oct 7. Something that will make 9/11 pale in comparison. Coincidence or just luck on the timing? You decide. And good luck to everyone I think we're going to need it soon.
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Yea, timing is everything....like when we transported all those prison containers to Gitmo a year before our war on Terror...somebody is either playing with the crystal ball or playing with loaded dice.

Jayde · Sep 26, 2008

kansasrebel said: ↑

Funny about the timing. On a bunch of different websites they are talking about something big happening on Oct 7. Something that will make 9/11 pale in comparison. Coincidence or just luck on the timing? You decide. And good luck to everyone I think we're going to need it soon.
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We're not the only ones that smell fish on this one.

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/0...eland_090708w/

For troops to be deployed, a condition has to exist that, “(1) So hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States within the State, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the constituted authorities of that State are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; or (2) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws. In any situation covered by clause (1), the State shall be considered to have denied the equal protection of the laws secured by the Constitution.

Is the Bush administration and Northcom waiting for such a scenario to unfold, an event that completely overwhelms state authorities, before unleashing the might of the U.S. Army against the American people?

The deployment of National Guard troops to aid law enforcement or for disaster relief purposes is legal under the authority of the governor of a state, but using active duty U.S. Army in law enforcement operations inside America absent the conditions described in the Insurrection Act is completely illegal.

With the promise of an “October surprise” on behalf of Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda being bandied about by the media and the potential for civil unrest should a complete collapse of the U.S. economy unfold, the presence of U.S. troops inside America, returning fresh from kicking down doors, arresting “insurgents” and taking them to internment camps in Iraq, should put Americans on alert and provoke urgent questions about the legality of U.S. Army units engaging in law enforcement operations against American citizens.
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BTW, seacowboy, I hadn't heard about the containers to Gitmo before. Interesting...but definitely not surprising.

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