Sorry for my week long hiatus. I have so much to blog about and share from our fabulous Thanksgiving week with family and friends, but that will have to wait a little bit longer as I am still way behind on necessary house wife duties. I've already done 10 loads of laundry since Sat. and have about 3 more to go, so you get the idea.
This story was reported today on numerous sites, including Drudge. I think this may be what rightsoup was referring to. Maybe, maybe not, but it is another troubling "blip" on the radar of things that are coming and will be interesting to say the least.
WASHINGTON -- The US Department of Defense plans to deploy 20,000 troops nationwide by 2011 to help state and local officials respond to terror or nuclear attacks and emergencies, The Washington Post said Monday.
Citing Pentagon officials, the newspaper said the plan calls for three rapid-reaction forces.
The first 4,700-strong unit, built around an active-duty combat brigade, is based at Fort Stewart , Georgia , and is already available for deployment, according to General Victor Renuart, commander of the US Northern Command, it said.
Two additional groups will later join nearly 80 smaller National Guard and reserve units made up of about 6,000 troops to support local and state authorities nationwide, The Post said.
They will all would be trained to respond to domestic chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or high-yield explosive attacks.
The newspaper said that civil liberties groups and libertarians had expressed concern that the plan could undermine the Posse Comitatus Act, a 130-year-old law restricting the military's role in domestic law enforcement.
Rightsoup.com did have this to say about the plan.
In a Sept. 8th article from the Army Times, it was reported that a force of 3,000 troops, the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, were to be stationed on active duty at Fort Stewart Georgia for the purposes of helping with “civil unrest and crowd control”. After a wave of critical media attention (mainly from the activist blogs) they chose to change the language of that mandate, yet they continued to train with weapons both lethal and “non-lethal” for crowd control operations. Prison Planet reports that
“During numerous urban warfare drills, troops were trained to raid, arrest and imprison U.S. citizens in detention camps as well as taking over public buildings and running checkpoints. During role playing exercises, actors playing prisoners would scream “I’m an American citizen, I have rights” as they were being dragged away by troops.”
Obama promised such a force during the presidential campaign, so this announcement shouldn’t surprise anyone. We’re going to get “change” that’s the equivalent of death by a thousand cuts to our Bill Of Rights. Why not just mandate that all able-bodied citizens be armed? It’s not a new idea!
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