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Inside the Ring: Memo outlines Obama’s plan to use the military against citizens
Washington Times ^ | 5/28/2014 | Bill Gertz

Posted on 05/29/2014 9:02:21 AM PDT by mojito

A 2010 Pentagon directive on military support to civilian authorities details what critics say is a troubling policy that envisions the Obama administration’s potential use of military force against Americans.

The directive contains noncontroversial provisions on support to civilian fire and emergency services, special events and the domestic use of the Army Corps of Engineers.

The troubling aspect of the directive outlines presidential authority for the use of military arms and forces, including unarmed drones, in operations against domestic unrest.

“This appears to be the latest step in the administration’s decision to use force within the United States against its citizens,” said a defense official opposed to the directive.

Directive No. 3025.18, “Defense Support of Civil Authorities,” was issued Dec. 29, 2010, and states that U.S. commanders “are provided emergency authority under this directive.”

“Federal military forces shall not be used to quell civil disturbances unless specifically authorized by the president in accordance with applicable law or permitted under emergency authority,” the directive states.

“In these circumstances, those federal military commanders have the authority, in extraordinary emergency circumstances where prior authorization by the president is impossible and duly constituted local authorities are unable to control the situation, to engage temporarily in activities that are necessary to quell large-scale, unexpected civil disturbances” under two conditions.

The conditions include military support needed “to prevent significant loss of life or wanton destruction of property and are necessary to restore governmental function and public order.” A second use is when federal, state and local authorities “are unable or decline to provide adequate protection for federal property or federal governmental functions.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: armedbureaucracy; directive302518; directiveno302518; obama; surveillancestate; tyranny; tyrant
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To: mojito

FUBO!


21 posted on 05/29/2014 9:20:00 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: cherry
...urge people to vote Romney, but so many, including freepers, brought this on...

If Romney is the best the GOP can offer, I assure you that our Republic is already dead.

22 posted on 05/29/2014 9:24:10 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: mojito
The F'ing King has spoken...!
23 posted on 05/29/2014 9:24:24 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: cherry

Actually, the Rat Romney brought this on by attacking
CONSERVATIVES (eg. Palin and the Speaker and Sen Thompson)
and defending Obama.

Romney is the REASON Obama won in 2008 and 2012.

Americans have been cursed by Romney who has
given America gay marriage, RomneyCARE/ObamaCARE
and the undocumented Tyrant.


24 posted on 05/29/2014 9:29:08 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: mojito; All

I do not believe there will be an awful lot of commanders of our armed forces that will follow such immoral and un-lawful orders from civil authority...

What will happen is those commanders will be relieved and their deputies or other officers will be appointed in those positions to carry out those orders...

Now, what the troops down the chain of command will do, that may be anyone’s guess, but I would venture that most will not follow either...

The numbers will be decreased, but sufficient when deployed to trouble spots that are easy to quell, that other regions will fall into line defacto...

This will become the line of demarcation...Those areas “they” control will remain with the Union...Those they cannot will probably separate their association...

Everyone loses at this point...

Just my take...


25 posted on 05/29/2014 9:46:55 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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To: Sidebar Moderator

Duplicate - same source posted on Front Page yesterday.


26 posted on 05/29/2014 10:05:43 AM PDT by QT3.14
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To: GingisK
If Romney is the best the GOP can offer, I assure you that our Republic is already dead.
You're right .. we need more GOPers like:
... Nixon who gave us the EPA
... Bush 1 who lied and raised taxes
... or Bush 2, whose wars are still being fought
... or maybe - the most holy Ronald Reagan who raised taxes AND gave millions of illegals amnesty.
But I'd still vote for ANY Republican over any pinko-commie, America hating Dem.
27 posted on 05/29/2014 10:06:25 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Diogenesis

Well, there you go. The obvious defense is to make sure we all have a spare flag of, oh, say Egypt, Syria, Soddyland, Iraq. Turkey or take your pick of any 12th century Muzzie enclave. Just wave the appropriate flag from your window when the brownshirts parade thru-——and keep your rifle out of sight until you get a clear shot.


28 posted on 05/29/2014 10:31:36 AM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: Responsibility2nd

And I’m guessing there will be a couple divisions of all-Mexican wetback units, non-english-speaking, in the style of the old USSR who used units from another language speaking neighborhood when they needed to crack heads.


29 posted on 05/29/2014 10:34:53 AM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
more like this...


30 posted on 05/29/2014 10:58:57 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: caver

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3161081/posts?page=88#88

The youngins know what’s up.


31 posted on 05/29/2014 11:51:32 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: mojito

“U.S. official said the Obama administration considered but rejected deploying military force under the directive during the recent standoff with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his armed supporters.”

Probably the only reason it was rejected was political timing.


32 posted on 05/29/2014 12:07:15 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: knarf
“The question now is, “When will he/they implement this attack on the citizenry ?”

Obama said he would use the military for climate change at West Point. Maybe he will use climate change as the excuse.

Obama Vows to Battle Global Climate Change in West Point Speech
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3161409/posts

33 posted on 05/29/2014 12:36:21 PM PDT by FR_addict
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To: Spunky

Ping for later.


34 posted on 05/29/2014 12:37:53 PM PDT by Spunky (BIG GOVERNMENT MAKES SMALLER CITIZENS.)
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To: mojito

bttt


35 posted on 05/29/2014 4:27:26 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: mojito

“I’m surprised that the memo didn’t specify that force was only to be used against the Tea Party, western ranchers, and unauthorized groupings of white people.”

This is at the discretion of the POTUS. This means it will be directed against teaparty implicitly but not explicitly.


36 posted on 05/29/2014 5:43:11 PM PDT by staytrue
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To: nathanbedford; Colonel Kangaroo; Ditto; stevie_d_64; re_nortex

Amigos .... have a look .... multiple threads on this.


37 posted on 05/29/2014 6:44:58 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: mojito

Not necessary. That was already a given when patriots et al were formally labeled terrorists by the Pentagon, at the behest of the America haters in DC.

They have drawn the lines and made it quite clear who is on each side.

Some of your neighbors are or will be the new American Vichy. Collaborators. Whatever it takes to keep the free stuff coming to them. You are worth less than an EBT card.


38 posted on 05/29/2014 7:26:41 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: mojito
“Federal military forces shall not be used to quell civil disturbances unless specifically authorized by the president in accordance with applicable law or permitted under emergency authority,” the directive states.

This takes me back to discussions of Title X, Sections 331-333 when Clinton was President:

331. Whenever there is an insurrections in any State against its government, the President may, upon the request of its legislature or of its governor if the legislature cannot be convened, call into Federal service such of the militia of the other States, in the number requested by that State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to suppress the insurrection.

332. Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.

333. The President, by using the militia or the armed forces, or both, or by any other means, shall take such measures as he considers necessary to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy, if it—

  1. so hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States within the State, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the constituted authorities of that State are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; or
  2. opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.

In any situation covered by clause (1), the State shall be considered to have denied the equal protection of the laws secured by the Constitution.

There you have it, conditions so vague that any President, and especially Zero, can drive a bus through it. You can thank Abe Lincoln for this, as it's been around that long.
39 posted on 05/29/2014 7:34:56 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: mojito
I’m surprised that the memo didn’t specify that force was only to be used against the Tea Party, western ranchers, and unauthorized groupings of white people

Might be a run on spray tan sometime soon...

40 posted on 05/29/2014 10:48:57 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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