Special Report:Katrina/Rita Fallout Part One: Martial Law: Police State America

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Special Report:Katrina/Rita Fallout Part One: Martial Law:

Police State America - We're So Close Now

 

 

 

 

 

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Special Report:Katrina/Rita Fallout Part One

 

 

Martial Law: Police State America - We're So Close Now

 

Steve Watson / Infowars | Sept 27 2005

 

For years we have warned that the police state is coming, how Martial

Law will become the norm, how ancient laws, rights and freedoms are

being overturned and replaced with repressive mechanisms of control.

 

For years we have presented the evidence, the Army War College

documents, the domestic military takeover drills, the draconian

legislation, officials left right and centre calling for more

centralized military control domestically.

 

For years people refuted the evidence, or passed it off as being

intended for something else, or simply refused to believe it. Now

everything we warned you about is happening.

 

In the wake of the recent natural disasters on American soil,

dangerous precedents have been set. We have been forced to watch how

in times of crisis we must submit and follow the orders of Federal

Commanders, no matter whether they deny us basic human rights or not.

 

Whether it be a state attack, a terrorist attack, an accident or a

natural disaster matters not anymore, the outcome will be the same. We

are just one event, ANY event away from Martial Law.

 

Getting rid of Posse Comitatus - Setting the precedent

 

" In a police state the police are national, powerful, authoritarian.

Inevitably, national governments yield to the temptation to use the

military to do the heavy lifting….once the military is used, however

minor initially, the march toward martial law … becomes irresistible. "

- Representative Ron Paul of Texas - June 25 1997.

 

The Posse Comitatus Act is a recognition that the framers of the

Constitution had a deep distrust of centralized power, particularly

centralized military power that might be used against the people.

State militias were preferred over a national army. In times of major

disaster or emergency, it has been state governors - not the president

- who call out that state's contingent of the national guard.

 

We have witnessed over a long period of time how Posse Comitatus is

systematically being erased. After 9/11 this was particularly

accelerated. All the so called " experts " were calling for changes to

long standing laws, in order to " protect " us. This led to scores of

lower level Government officials pleading for exactly what the

criminal elements higher up wanted all along.

 

Take the following AP report from November 2001:

 

" Our way of life has forever changed, " wrote Sen. John Warner, R-Va.,

in a letter last month to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. " Should

this law now be changed to enable our active-duty military to more

fully join other domestic assets in this war against terrorism? "

 

So let's get this right, " terrorists " attack us because they " hate our

freedoms " and the answer is to get rid of our freedoms?

 

Here's another mainstream report from 2002 documenting a senators call

to abolish Posse Comitatus and let troops arrest US civilians.

 

Here's former Homeland Security dictator Tom Ridge saying the same

thing. And here he is saying it again.

 

But before the war on terror it was clear that there was preparation

afoot for such eventualities. Nothing is under review, this has always

been the agenda. They were erasing Posse Comitatus 14 Years Ago. In

911: The Road to Tyranny Alex Jones presents footage of troops

training to put Americans into Concentration Camps. This footage

includes interrogations and a retired Marine admitting that in 1988 he

was kicking down doors in Norfolk, Virginia. The Marines would be

ordered to the local Police station where they would don Police

uniforms. They would then go to the local gun shop or dealers home and

" Take Them Down. "

 

In Alex Jones' feature Police State 2000 he covers Operation Urban

Warrior where actors posed as American citizens who were

Unconstitutionally seized from their homes by the military and police.

These Americans: were rounded up and confined behind barbed-wire.

 

The actors were told to demand to be let free and state that they had

rights. They were also told to demand food and water. The troops in

turn were taught to ignore them and to order them to behave in an

orderly fashion. " Civil disobedience will not be tolerated " was one of

the many disturbing statements heard to emanate from the military's

loud speakers.

 

Over the years there have been countless drills of this nature. The

media simply reports them as training for dealing with foreign

enemies, yet the volunteers and the participants are always told

differently.

 

Here's a report on another urban warfare drill entitled " The

Millennium Challenge 2002 " . This drill was conducted secretly across

26 States in 2002.

 

Earlier this year details of just one of many Military operations on

American soil was exposed in the run up to Lord Bush's coronation. A

secret counterterrorism program code-named Power Geyser. A small group

of super-secret commandos were hidden among 13000 police and troops

and " stood ready with state-of-the-art weaponry to swing into action. " .

 

There have been literally hundreds of these kind of operations in the

planning and going on for years now. Many designed to use the military

on the streets of American cities in direct violation of Posse

Comitatus. The Pentagon has a full Command in operation working on

these activities, the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).

 

Whilst Studying US COIN (Counter Insurgency) doctrine at University I

was subjected to weekly showings of videos where military operations

were carried out in purpose built mock American towns and cities. We

were also informed of how future Counter Insurgency would be

predominantly conducted from Military bunkers as they had developed

the technology to map out entire cities to pinpoint accuracy from

satellite images. The cities in the prototypes were of course all

American cities.

 

I remember asking the lecturer what the point was in developing this

technology for use in foreign insurgency wars in places such as the

mountains of Afghanistan, and why were the drills and testing of the

technology being carried out purely in American towns and cities. The

answer was of course that in the event of a major terror attack on US

soil these types of things would go into operation. The Pentagon does

indeed have " War Plans " drafted in the event of any type of terror

attack, which would be coordinated by Northcom in conjunction with the

Department of Homeland Security and would involve Martial Law and

thousands of troops on the streets.

 

According to respected military affairs analyst William Arkin,

Northcom has defined three levels of operations, each of which

triggers a larger set of authorized activities. The levels are

" extraordinary " , " emergency " and " temporary " . During emergencies, the

military can provide similar support, mostly in response to specific

events such as the attacks on the World Trade Center. It is only in

the case of extraordinary domestic operations that the unique

capabilities of the Defense Department are deployed. These include not

just such things as air patrols to shoot down hijacked planes or the

defusing of bombs and other explosives, but also bringing in

intelligence collectors, special operators and even full combat troops.

 

But as Arkin's article makes clear, Northcom is doing more than mere

coordinating. " Under the banner of 'homeland security', the military

and intelligence communities are implementing far-reaching changes

that blur the lines between terrorism and other kinds of crises and

will break down long-established barriers to military action and

surveillance within the US. "

 

He also said the Pentagon reviewed the Posse Comitatus Act and

determined that it would not be a violation to deploy the National

Guard to protect critical infrastructure in some circumstances. He

said he expects more presidential directives in the future to expand

the military's homeland defense role.

 

Then of course we have General Tommy Franks stating that a major

terror attack on US soil would mean the Constitution will likely be

discarded in favor of a military form of government.

 

Some say this is nothing new. In a speech to the Council on Foreign

Relations in January, former US senator Gary Hart said American

founders " created such an army and called it the militia:

citizen-soldiers under the immediate command of the various states

that can be deployed in times of emergency. Since the late 19th

century these militias have been known as the National Guard, and they

were created and given constitutional status as the first responders

and the first line of defense in the case of an attack on our homeland " .

 

This is clearly an alteration of reality. The reason why the founding

fathers employed militias and later created Posse Comitatus was that

they knew a centralized national army could be used in a future

environment to take over the country and take away the rights of everyone.

 

Police State infrastructure - Already in place (and in use)

 

We have further exposed how the infrastructure for a Martial Law

Police State is already in place, and in many cases is in use. We have

a whole archive on the revelations that FEMA has Concentration camps

set up and ready to go in the event of any emergency that is deemed

suitable for their use. As we have also seen recently, these camps

need not have barbed wire and observation towers, they can simply be

well guarded sports stadiums.

 

Detention centers are common features of any public protest event now,

as we recently saw at the Republican National Convention and G8 protests.

 

We have also exposed the development of police State weapons that make

Tasers look like water pistols. See this article on The Pentagon's

Secret Scream Sonic devices that can inflict pain--or even permanent

deafness. These type of devices that are routinely used in Iraq have

recently been in use in New Orleans in the Katrina aftermath.

 

The use of Unmanned drone aircraft has also been documented recently

in New Orleans. Again, such weapons are being used not only in foreign

reconnaissance but also domestically for spying on " citizens " and

controlling crowds. Industry representatives are enthusiastic about

the drones' potential.

 

" I believe we will see Predator and Global Hawk unmanned aerial

vehicles (UAVs) watching over major events, such as the Olympic Games

and the Super Bowl, in the not-too-distant future, " Brad Brown,

then-president of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems

International wrote earlier this year.

 

Alex's most recent film Martial Law: Rise of the Police State also

documents the use of huge corporate sponsored surveillance blimps. The

Department of Homeland Security is developing 900 ft long so called

" Super Blimps " for surveillance, intended to fly about 65,000 feet,

well above commercial airliner traffic.

 

 

We have also documented the rise in use of the national guard to break

up public events. On multiple occasions we have carried stories,

photos and video of tanks and armed troops on the streets of America.

We saw earlier this year how such deployments are used not only to

break up protests, but even something as insignificant as a rave in a

field.

 

Future technology under development includes robot police that have

the ability to run. Its like we are living in the Twilight Zone or in

a futuristic dystopian film. Yet when you mention these kind of things

to people they either don't believe you or simply laugh at you. Well

here's a wake up call, IT'S THE YEAR 2005, not 1955, and these things

are real.

 

Coming Next: Part Two, After Katrina...