US Military Plans For (Domestic) Terrorism

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US Military Plans For (Domestic) Terrorism

 

 

 

 

We have been saying for many, many months that it would only be a

matter of time before the American people themselves would become the

object of this phony war on terror. Did you really think that we were

joking? That it would NOT happen? Think again, and this time, think

seriously about it, before it is too late.

 

Nice timing here by the Bush gang. Just as Americans are beginning to

wake up to the fact that they really have been lied to by their

pathological leaders, the trap is already closing. Try to protest now,

and you will quickly be labeled a " domestic terrorist " .

 

 

 

 

Copyright 2005 Pierre-Paul Feyte

 

P I C T U R E O F T H E D A Y

 

USA TODAY Poll: 57% Say War Has Made USA More Vulnerable to Terrorism

Cindy Sheehan to Be Arrested Thursday

 

PODCAST!

 

PART TWO: Interview with Laura Knight-Jadczyk

 

 

 

US Military Plans For (Domestic) Terrorism

 

Monday, 8 August 2005

 

 

 

The US military is for the first time making its own plans for dealing

with domestic terrorist attacks.

 

Under the plans, quick-reaction forces will be prepared to deal with

15 potential scenarios, including simultaneous bomb attacks.

 

 

 

The civilian authorities would usually expect to plan for and provide

the vast majority of the resources and personnel for major domestic

emergencies.

 

Now military resources such as sniffer dogs will be easier to deploy.

 

The Department of Defense has not traditionally taken a major role in

domestic operations.

 

 

 

The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 prevents the military from taking part

in any law enforcement, an important part of traditional " states' rights " .

 

The department has stressed that the new plans are just a way of

providing specialist help for the civilian authorities where units are

closer to the scene of an attack or other emergency.

 

 

 

The Department for Homeland Security takes the lead in dealing on a

national basis with terrorist attacks.

 

 

 

Planning process

 

A Department of Defense spokesman said: " It is vital to the defence of

our nation that we plan for contingencies and actions necessary to

deter, prevent and defeat current and emerging threats at home and abroad.

 

 

 

" This planning process is an extremely complex process encompassing

numerous organisations including combatant commands, the Joint Staff,

the Office of the Secretary of Defense and sometimes outside agencies

before the plan is presented to the Secretary of Defense for approval.

 

" Traditionally, DoD resources and capabilities are provided only when

local, state, and federal resources and capabilities have been

exceeded or do not exist. "

 

 

 

These resources might typically be sniffer dogs specialising in

detecting explosives or search and rescue teams to find bodies in rubble.

 

Admiral Timothy Keating, head of the Northern Command, was quoted in

the Washington Post as saying: " In my estimation, [in the event of] a

biological, a chemical or nuclear attack in any of the 50 states, the

Department of Defense is best positioned - of the various eight

federal agencies that would be involved - to take the lead. "

 

 

 

Comment: We have been saying for many, many months that it would only

be a matter of time before the American people themselves would become

the object of this phony war on terror. Did you really think that we

were joking? That it would NOT happen? Think again, and this time,

think seriously about it, before it is too late.

 

 

 

USA TODAY Poll: 57% Say War Has Made USA More Vulnerable to Terrorism

 

 

 

By Richard Benedetto, USA TODAY

 

 

 

WASHINGTON ¡ª American attitudes toward the war in Iraq continue to

sour in the wake of last week's surge in U.S. troop deaths, a USA

TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll shows. (Related: Poll results)

 

 

 

An unprecedented 57% majority say the war has made the USA more

vulnerable to terrorism. A new low, 34%, say it has made the country

safer. The question is critical because the Bush administration has

long argued that the invasion of Iraq was undertaken to make the USA

safer from terrorism.

 

 

 

Comment: Nice timing here by the Bush gang. Just as Americans are

beginning to wake up to the fact that they really have been lied to by

their pathological leaders, the trap is already closing. Try to

protest now, and you will quickly be labeled a " domestic terrorist " .

 

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Flashback: US moves on to high terror alert

 

Guardian

March 19th 2003

 

 

 

Mr Ridge announced a tightening of controls at airports, railways and

ports, as well as around nuclear and chemical plants, the White House,

and monuments and landmarks across the nation. New York's mayor

Michael Bloomberg fleshed out the city's own plan, Operation Atlas,

including a significantly increased police presence and the use of

radiation sensors on Manhattan streets.

 

 

 

Setting out the thinking behind Liberty Shield, Mr Ridge said al-Qaida

remained the " principal threat, " but said " Iraqi state agents " or even

just " disgruntled individuals may use this time period to conduct

terrorist attacks against the United States and our interests " .

 

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Flashback: LOOK INWARD, AMERICA

 

News

03/26/2003

 

 

 

It has become painfully obvious that America faces a threat from

within. The threat comes not just from terrorists who have managed to

penetrate America's porous borders - the 9/11 terrorists, for example

- though that danger is real enough. It also comes from disgruntled

Americans - converts to militarized Islam or to radical

anti-Americanism. In a sense, these folks are more dangerous, because

they often enjoy full rights as U.S. citizens: Not only do our laws

protect them, but so does our culture.

 

 

 

Comment: Are you one of the 61+% of Americans that is " disgruntled " at

the way your government is governing the country? Are you sick of the

lies and propaganda peddled as truth? Are you considering exercising

your " constitutional right " to protest and demand that something be

done? You may find that you have left it a little too late. A cabal of

fascist warmongers has long since taken control of the USA, and no

dissent will be tolerated. Remember the words of George Bush: " you are

either with us or you are with the enemy " , now who do you think those

words were really directed at?

 

 

 

But seriously, you still think we are joking, right? We mean, who is

really going to believe that the " greatest Democracy on earth " would

arrest one of it's citizens - say for example the mother of a US

soldier killed in Iraq - for the mere act of protesting against the

government, and claim that she is a threat to national security, or,

to put it another way, a domestic terrorist...

 

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Cindy Sheehan to Be Arrested Thursday

 

 

 

by David Swanson

Mon Aug 8th, 2005

 

 

 

Cindy Sheehan phoned me from Texas a few minutes ago to say that she's

been informed that beginning Thursday, she and her companions will be

considered a threat to national security and will be arrested.

Coincidentally, Thursday is the day that Rice and Rumsfeld visit the

ranch, and Friday is a fundraiser event for the haves and the have

mores. Cindy said that she and others plan to be arrested.

 

 

 

UPDATE:

 

I got Cindy on the phone and she continued to maintain that the threat

of arrest was real, but said that it came to her via Diane Wilson. I

spoke to Diane, who said that it came from Texas State Rep Lon Burman,

a Democrat. She said that he was not speaking on behalf of or

communicating any information from the Bush Administration or the

Secret Service or the Sheriff's Department. But she maintained that

what he had predicted was already starting.

 

 

 

Both Sheehan and Wilson said that the County Sherrif's deputies on

Saturday identified several areas as county property on which they

could stand. Now they claim that most of these area are private

property, and that they had not known that. So, this afternoon the

deputies forced Cindy and about 25 people with her onto one small area

on one side of a road.

 

 

 

Wilson said that they threatened arrest if anyone refused to move to

the proper small area. Cindy was skeptical of the claims about who

owned the land. " Can you believe that on the road to the President's

house they don't know exactly who owns it? "

 

 

 

Both she and Wilson said they expected they would get arrested

Thursday. Cindy said, " I think we need as many people here on Thursday

anyway, because Rice and Rumsfeld will be here....I'd rather not get

arrested, but I'm willing to, I'm willing to have them pick me up and

carry me away. "

 

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Authorities Getting Ready To Throw Anti-War Protestors From Bush Ranch

For Trespassing

[Guest guest]

There is no innocence. Your ignorance weakens all those around you, as does

your cowardice. If you're among those that have a bit more backbone, that sees

your participation, your resposibility, that refuses to be silent, that refuses

to pretend to be apathetic, then you have no choice but to call attention to

these shortcomings in those people around you that appear, or actually are,

ignorant or passive or imagine themselves innocent. There is no disconnection

from the political realities of our time. You can pretend to be disconnected,

but the consequences are the same. Any attempt to remain clear of political

concerns results in the destruction and crippliing of the people around you.

Any silence on your part, about the treachery committed against your fellow

citizens by inhuman and dictatorial government, causes, emboldens and deepens

that treachery. It's the apathy, the cowardice, the ignorance, the silence of

the Left that are directly responsible for the horrors we see and hear about

daily, and, not in any particular way, the leadership in the Dem party, or other

leaders in Left politics. Too many people see the leaders of their political

parties and affiliations, as " taking care of political matters for us. " so that

we can ignore those problems; so that we can wash our hands of them. We, you

and I, are directly responsible for the wars, the loss of our freedoms, the

deprivations faced by the poor, the degradation that continues to be heaped on

minority groups, and especially the Blacks, the increasing power of the Right in

our higher courts, the dumbing down of our education system, the chepening and

mind-numbing emptiness of entertainment and news media, etc. You can refuse to

become involved, or refuse to look for further or more effective ways of beoming

involved, but, whether you feel it or not, you can't escape your guilt and

shame.

JP

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califpacific

US Military Plans For (Domestic)

Terrorism

 

 

" Our bill of rights " <ourbillofrights

We have been saying for many, many months that it would only be a

matter of time before the American people themselves would become the

object of this phony war on terror. Did you really think that we were

joking? That it would NOT happen? Think again, and this time, think

seriously about it, before it is too late.

 

Nice timing here by the Bush gang. Just as Americans are beginning to

wake up to the fact that they really have been lied to by their

pathological leaders, the trap is already closing. Try to protest now,

and you will quickly be labeled a " domestic terrorist " .

 

 

 

USA TODAY Poll: 57% Say War Has Made USA More Vulnerable to Terrorism

Cindy Sheehan to Be Arrested Thursday

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

See also:

http://physics911.net/nuclearterror.htm

Tom

 

 

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