Posted on 04/29/2010 8:55:07 AM PDT by tutstar
Will the senior command staff also inform everyone who participated which parts of the scenario was altered and which would be inappropriate to use of deadly force?
Thanks, I didn’t see it. Lots to do today and haven’t even gone all the way through the first page of replies.
something about advocating violent radicalization against the government comes to mind...
Here is a follow up notice by the publisher of the original article:
Army Preps for Tea Party 'Terrorists'
By Mark Alexander · Thursday, April 29, 2010
Publisher's Note: Regarding my essay, Army Preps for Tea Party 'Terrorists,' I was contacted by senior command staff at Ft. Knox on the afternoon of the date of publication. There was a security exercise at Ft. Knox this week, but an officer in the security loop altered the scenario "in order to make it more realistic." Those alterations were described in my essay, exactly as they appeared. The command staff informed me that the alterations were not approved at the command level and that the individual who circulated the scenario through official channels will "receive appropriate counsel." I was assured that the Command staff would not have authorized such a scenario.
Semper Fi,
TS
Washington D.C. may well be a foreign country. I'm only half kidding.
I knew this was going to happen sooner rather than later.
I’m just advocating following the Constitution....
Yeah....sure.
“Bailiff, whack his peepee.”
I have the utmost respect for a primitive man with an AK 47 and RPG.
Obama identified them as malcontents, "waving their little tea bags." Since then, the Obama administration and their Leftmedia sycophants have endeavored to characterize Tea Party attendees as rude, radical, racist, redneck, enemies of the state.
roger that.
Well, don’t expect the military to be on the side of the people. Historically, that isn’t what happens.
I hope that you are right.
>Not sure how many people may have seen this but it gives the President authority to order detentions at his ‘discretion’.
Indeed, that can be VERY disturbing.
>Also detainees do not need to be read their Miranda rights.
Then, I think it would be best if we memorized them beforehand.
>”The conflict over a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration in Arizona intensified Monday as vandals [left-wing opponents of the crackdown] smeared refried beans in the shape of swastikas on the state Capitol’s windows.”
So... Mexicans are Nazis?
The commie organizers who likely encouraged them to do it meant to imply that the people who wrote the AZ law were “nazis”. Meanwhile, they have far more in common with each other (nazis and commies) than with any other groups or movements, except of course for the radical islamists. All three hate Israel, America, freedom and Capitalism.
>>False, the president and congress can do anything they want.
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>No they cannot. US Military personnel have a legal, as well as a moral, obligation to disobey illegal orders. They know this full well and take it very seriously. The vast bulk of the US Military is NOT going to fire on it’s own people. More likely they will join them.
I think the point he was making is that the Congress and the President are acting as if they are not bound by the Constitution... and the simple matter is he’s right.
Where in the Constitution does it:
- Authorize the SELECTIVE taxation of individuals (AIG, etc)?
- Authorize the RETROACTIVE taxation of said individuals?
* Both are prohibited as Bills of Attainder and Ex Post Facto Law, respectively.
- National, Federally mandated healthcare?
* The ninth and tenth amendments reserve the rights not SPECIFICALLY given to the Federal government to the States or People themselves.
- The existence and funding of the BATF, a federal agency.
* We repealed the Amendment allowing for the federal prosecution of Alcohol related crime; Tobacco has never been so restricted; and the Second Amendment prohibits infringement on the keeping and bearing of arms... which is what the BATF does.
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