Hence why I lost in the McQuaid spelling bee! On that day the word was "aisle". For the life of me, I couldn't fathom it! 
Posted on 01/24/2013 1:05:36 AM PST by TXnMA
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2009 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Jim Garrow shockingly claims he was told by a top military veteran that the Obama administration’s “litmus test” for new military leaders is whether or not they will obey an order to fire on U.S. citizens.
Garrow was nominated three years ago for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize and is the founder of The Pink Pagoda Girls, an organization dedicated to rescuing baby girls from “gendercide” in China. Garrow has been personally involved in “helping rescue more than 36,000 Chinese baby girls from death.” He is a public figure, not an anonymous voice on the Internet, which makes his claim all the more disturbing.
“I have just been informed by a former senior military leader that Obama is using a new “litmus test” in determining who will stay and who must go in his military leaders. Get ready to explode folks. “The new litmus test of leadership in the military is if they will fire on US citizens or not”. Those who will not are being removed,” Garrow wrote on his Facebook page, later following up the post by adding the man who told him is, “one of America’s foremost military heroes,” whose goal in divulging the information was to “sound the alarm.”
Garrow’s claim is even more explosive given that the country is in the throes of a national debate about gun control, with gun rights advocates keen to insist that the founders put the second amendment in the Constitution primarily as a defense against government tyranny.
It also follows reports on Sunday that General James Mattis, head of the United States Central Command, “is being told to vacate his office several months earlier than planned.”
Concerns over US troops being given orders to fire on American citizens in the event of mass gun confiscation first arose in 1995 when hundreds of Marines at 29 Palms, California were given a survey as part of an academic project by Navy Lieutenant Commander Ernest Guy Cunningham which asked the Marines if they would, “Fire upon U.S. citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the United States government.”
The survey was subsequently leaked because many of the Marines who took it were shocked by the tone of the question.
The US Military has clearly outlined innumerable civil emergency scenarios under which troops would be authorized to fire on U.S. citizens.
In July 2012, the process by which this could take place was made clear in a leaked US Army Military Police training manual for “Civil Disturbance Operations” (PDF) dating from 2006. Similar plans were also outlined in an updated manual released in 2010 entitled FM 3-39.40 Internment and Resettlement Operations.
The 2006 document outlines how military assets will be used to “help local and state authorities to restore and maintain law and order” in the event of mass riots, civil unrest or a declaration of martial law.
On page 20 of the manual, rules regarding the use of “deadly force” in confronting “dissidents” on American soil are made disturbingly clear with the directive that a, “Warning shot will not be fired.”
Given that second amendment advocates are now being depicted as dangerous terrorists by the federal government and local law enforcement, Garrow’s claim is sure to stoke controversy given that Americans are seeing their gun rights eviscerated while the federal government itself stockpiles billions of bullets.
Last week, Gloversville Mayor Dayton King warned that any federal gun confiscation program could lead to a “Waco-style standoff” in rural areas of America.
You are naive beyond belief. I trained in the Army in the late 60's on riot control. We trained how to move mobs using disciplined formations with fixed bayonets. There were seven levels of escalations before orders could be given to fire upon mobs with bullets.
Bush the first used IIRC about 20,000 to 25,000 regulars to quell riots in Los Angeles. Douglas MacArthur and George Patton used troops to fire upon the veterans in Washington, DC.
You are naive beyond belief. I trained in the Army in the late 60's on riot control. We trained how to move mobs using disciplined formations with fixed bayonets. There were seven levels of escalations before orders could be given to fire upon mobs with bullets.
Bush the first used IIRC about 20,000 to 25,000 regulars to quell riots in Los Angeles. Douglas MacArthur and George Patton used troops to fire upon the veterans in Washington, DC.
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Riot control is NOT the same thing as a large scale, i.e. nationwide, plan to disarm otherwise peaceful gun owners and/or round up Christians. There are way too many conspiracy theories floating around. That’s the thing about conspiracy theories. They usually take very small pieces of information and blow them out of proportion. They are also almost always wrong.
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I have stood on the Patriots' side of that very bridge, imagined the tyrannical government's troops approaching on the other side -- and asked myself if I would have been willing to fire that shot.
I answered, "yes!" -- but, then, I realized that I knew my family was safe and I was risking nothing.
Not so for the Minutemen -- everything they owned and loved was at risk -- but one of them pulled the trigger anyway...
"Lives, Fortunes, Sacred Honor..."
Deadpan...
With their friends and neighbors -- flying Old Glory -- in front of them, when it comes down to trigger time, you can bet the troops know who the fags and other Øbozo sympathizers among them are -- and the first rounds fired will be at them...
“Lives, Fortunes, Sacred Honor...”
That’s what it’s all about.
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AHA! You left out the "i" in "conservative"...
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AHA! You left out the "i" in "conservative"...
Hence why I lost in the McQuaid spelling bee! On that day the word was "aisle". For the life of me, I couldn't fathom it!
Also, I was having a "there's no 'i' in 'team' " moment. 
Training in the early 70’s was much the same.My personal belief, from what I know,yes I believe troops will fire if ordered.Sad but true.Straight leg infantry for six years,hopefully times have changed.If soldiers find out their loved ones have been killed,anger will prevail.
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