Posted on 02/19/2009 6:19:27 AM PST by iowamark
WTF?
Just the beginning folks.
It looks like the future is going to hold a lot of “spontaneous patriot syndrome”.
“It will be important for us to gain the trust and confidence of the residents of Arcadia,” said Kots. “We will need to identify individuals that are willing to assist us in training by allowing us to search their homes and vehicles and to participate in role-playing.”
Uh Huh.
They need practice in recruiting informers.
Good grief. Let’s put this in perspective. SE Afghanistan is absolutely crawling with backyard arms makers. More and more, our troops are finding themselves in urban environments around the world fighting the “Three Block War.”
Everything described in that article is stuff that our troops have had to deal with in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And what happens to the list of people who refuse to participate in this little exercise? Who don’t want a bunch of strangers pawing through their personal effects and taking video of their homes?
Passed on to local LEOs for further scrutiny? I’d be willing to bet on it.
“WTF?”
Just getting ready for the coming weapons ban/confiscation. Anyone still think it isn’t going to happen?
bump
I also recall learning something about “The Law of Effect,” too.
I also recall learning that it is unethical to use human subjects in any test, trial, or experiment without their knowledge and “informed consent,” and then only after they have volunteered to participate, with the understanding by all parties concerned that said “subjects: may at their discretion and without explanation leave the test, trial, or experiment at any time.
There was something else about this thing called the “Scientific Method,” too.
“Gosh, Wally, when I read the article, and then I think about all this, it sounds just like someone is setting up some sort of psychology experiment or something. You know, like in that book they have in the library. It's like maybe if somebody put plywood over the windows in Dad's office at work, and Dad would be real mad about that at first, but if they just leave it there long enough, pretty soon he'll just get used to it being like that, and gee, he'll even forget what it was like before they covered up his windows and then after a while he stops complaining about it, and after a longer while he doesn't even care. Hey! It's like he gets so used to it being like that that he doesn't even seem to notice.”
“Knock it off, will ya, Beave? Gee, everyone knows that that psychology stuff is just some kind of crazy science. Besides, ‘In science, if it only happens once, it never happened.’ I mean, take a chill pill, will ya? It isn't like this has happened before or is happening anywhere else . . . is it? Beave?”
(Mmmm-hmmmm. . . .)
Now that's not saying that the skills couldn't be used domestically. Our Founding Fathers had a healthy fear of standing armies.
are the residents allowed to role play resistance?
that could be a very interesting training excercise- give a dozen or so residents paintball guns and let them shoot back, and see how long the military lasts.
They aren’t even hiding it. Well, the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t know.
I’m trying to see your point. I’ve been a Guardsman and appreciate the need for realisitic MOUT traininig. Maybe I’ve grown more cynical but the described template makes me suspicious. Why an “arms dealer,” and not, say, a terrorist secreting a nuclear device? Trying hard to be P.C. is my guess.
I’ll keep an open mind but will also be watching closely.
I absolutely agree. Add to that the fact that we have muslim terrorist cells all over the place on our own soil!
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