From Wikipedia : United States Northern Command : United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM, or informally just NORTHCOM) is a Unified Combatant Command of the United States military. Created on October 1, 2002 in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, its mission is to protect the United States homeland and support local, state, and federal authorities. The support that USNORTHCOM provides to civil authorities is limited by the Posse Comitatus Act which limits the role of the U.S. military in civil law enforcement. However, in case of national emergencies, natural or man-made, its Air Forces Northern National Security Emergency Preparedness Directorate will take charge of the situation or event.
” However, in case of national emergencies, natural or man-made, its Air Forces Northern National Security Emergency Preparedness Directorate will take charge of the situation or event. “
In the cynically misnamed “Food Safety Act” stealth-passed by the Lame Duck Congress late last year, there is a little-discussed provision which allows DHS *OR DOD* to seize control of all or any part of the national food chain or industry in the event of some unspecified, undefined, ‘emergency’....
Gets ya thinkin’, don’t it??