Posted on 01/11/2010 7:45:15 PM PST by Pantera
AU72 wrote: “This is unconstitutional.”
And since when has that deterred the Won from an action?
“Yes, but the 90 million don’t have tanks, armored cars, armored planes and very large weapons.”
Sorry. That was my point in part.
Ping
“that worked well for the iraqi army a few years back...”
Funny thing about that, we’re still there trying to defeat them.
Big diff though is that we ain’t illiterate, under armed, nor living in a sand dune. This is home base for the government. They attack us, they have no where to run or hide. We built the systems and weapons they need, we know how to diable and distrupt them.
Complete with a widely-distributed, secure, tested, reliable, not Federally controlled, encrypted communication systems?
Else just a bunch of folks running around in the woods with no knowledge of what other groups are doing elsewhere and can be safely ignored and bypassed until the time is right to dispose of them...
“synchronization and integration of State and Federal military activities in the United States;”
Looks like they have been working on this one for awile.
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The Myth of Posse Comitatus
Major Craig T. Trebilcock, U.S. Army Reserve
October 2000
Major Craig Trebilcock is a member of the Judge Advocate Generals Corps in the U.S. Army Reserve. He is assigned as an operational law attorney with the 153d Legal Support Organization in Norristown, PA. His area of specialization includes the laws applicable to U.S. forces engaged in operations in both the United States and abroad. Major Trebilcock is a graduate of the University of Michigan (A.B. with high honors, 1982) and the University of Michigan Law School (J.D., 1985). His military education includes the Judge Advocate General Basic Course (1988) and Advanced Course (1992), U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (1997), and the U.S. Navy War College International Relations Seminar (2000). Major Trebilcock is a civilian immigration attorney with the firm of Barley, Snyder, Senft, & Cohen in York, PA.
The Posse Comitatus Act has traditionally been viewed as a major barrier to the use of U.S. military forces in planning for homeland defense.[1] In fact, many in uniform believe that the act precludes the use of U.S. military assets in domestic security operations in any but the most extraordinary situations. As is often the case, reality bears little resemblance to the myth for homeland defense planners. Through a gradual erosion of the acts prohibitions over the past 20 years, posse comitatus today is more of a procedural formality than an actual impediment to the use of U.S. military forces in homeland defense.
http://www.homelandsecurity.org/journal/articles/Trebilcock.htm
The lib governors will show... and then their actions rule.
I suspect the majority of these "troops" would desert the ranks if they were told to open fire on American civilians.
...And the hard-core "troops" who shoot US civilians will eventually be destroyed by the justifiably angry civilian population.
When the shooting does finally begin? It will be Americans versus obamanistas, just as it has always been in the debates at the local water cooler.
American military personnel will not shoot fellow Conservatives, but the obamanistas probably will.
However, the obamanistas will meet the same fate as Napoleon's troops did when they shot the civilians in Spain.
The Conservatives will defeat the obamanistas if it does come down to a Nationwide shoot-out.
The obamanistas would be wise to remember who THEY ARE DEALING WITH.
Once things get ugly, it is the cornered, pissed-off and well-armed American citizen protecting his family and his home who will win.
im in new york.....canada looking good. job hunting there.
operation arthropod
They are like the kkk was in the South. Where there is 10, 0 are fbi informants.
Pray for America! Obama is the opposite of Reagan and I don’t expect him to do anything to reduce the power of the federal government. They know their back is against the wall and they will LOSE BIG in Nov 2010. So, I expect them to do everything possible to bring socialism to America before then.
“Else just a bunch of folks running around in the woods with no knowledge of what other groups are doing elsewhere and can be safely ignored and bypassed until the time is right to dispose of them... “
BS
I just cannot see how the Conservatives in the military would open fire on the US civilian population en masse. If orders like that came down, I could see massive disobedience and desertions. There would even be Juan Martin Diez types in the ranks. Diez led the guerilla forces that eventually threw the French out of Spain.
Regarding the resilience of an angry and cornered civilian population, even Hollywood has noted that civilians turned guerilla fighters will defeat a hostile and invasive force once the shooting starts:
Some of my favorite movies regarding this topic of discussion:
Defiance
The Patriot
Red Dawn
Have no doubt, America.
You were duped in ‘06 and ‘08.
Those who do not value their freedoms,
neither understand nor likely deserve them.
friend of ours is fedleo. He once said he’d never enforce illegal orders upon US citizens. My reply was that the orders would come under dire circumstances. What if the economy collapsed and there were no jobs? Either obey orders or you are fired and maybe prosecuted. How many, with good values now, would sell out, knowing they need to feed and house and clothe their family? His gaze turned away and he essentially had no reply. That is what will happen to many LEO minds should things go very badly. Self-preservation kicks in.
wheninthecourse
member since 1/10/2010
Welcome to FR.
Looks like some community organizing.
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