I spent almost 35 years of my life working in areas posted with these signs:
Posted on 07/14/2019 5:24:42 PM PDT by Kaslin
Wrap yourself in bacon too. It absorbed the heat. Bwaaahaaaaa!
I spent almost 35 years of my life working in areas posted with these signs:
Do people realize the optics and the backlash that would result should the government open fire on a large group of American citizens ... in any case and for any reason
Oh yeah! forgot about that.
And all that grease will help in wiggling out of the tinfoil wrap when it’s all over.
Time to enter the new paradigm. Military has been used for mob control to protect embassies and other sites including Brits in India. Many correctional people have military experience and extrapolated not to handle inmates inside.
Lastly, the US military should have been charged with this Jan 21, 2016 and we wouldn’t be leaking like we do.
Curtiss LeMay would do it in a heartbeat.
Curtiss LeMay would do it in a heartbeat.
Curtiss LeMay would do it in a heartbeat.
Curtiss LeMay would do it in a heartbeat.
It’s a good idea. If we can’t stop the storming of our border we can’t stop the storming of 51. It’s that simple.
(With apologies to Rod Serling):
Consider if you will an innocuous looking perimeter that is in public view. Behind it, picture two 12-foot electrified fences, topped with razor wire, 50 feet apart, with all manner of interesting sensors arrayed between the two fences.
The area between them is patrolled by teams of dogs, all trained to kill silently. With a single bite they can and will remove your sternum and your heart.
AFTER, they kill you, they emit a single bark to summon the guard force to fill out the paperwork, and the meat wagon to haul you away.
No weapons drawn, no shots fired.
You’ve just entered, and permanently checked out of, your personal Twilight Zone.
I did more than a few minutes in that service myself. I would not disregard that sign at a Minuteman III site, and I wouldn’t disregard it at area 51.
This whole thing is intended as a joke, but if anyone does show up, no lethal force is going to be used. Lots of ways to control crowds that don’t involve gunning people down, especially with advanced notice.
In addition to being a general deterrent to keep fools away, the “deadly force” part of the signage is really for those situations where some nut is going in at top speed in his car or something similar where it might be an attempted terrorist attack and a quick decision has to be made. Groom Lake has a long history of people walking a few too feet too close and people just get shooed away or at worst arrested by the local sheriff.
It is simple. ROEs only need to recognize this as an attack with declared hostiles and boom, that is it.
Actually, my friend, there are standing orders when lethal force is authorized. To prevent the access to a nuclear weapon or significant quantities of special nuclear material is one. While it is a good thing that the guards at Oak Ridge who did not shoot the nun who broke in, they were fired for failing to do their job.
Protecting certain categories of classified levels of information at the top secret compartmented level is another. Act like you are trying to break into a SCIF and you will be rapidly subdued by whatever means are required. In a rapidly escalating order, you will voluntarily submit - grinding your nose into the pavement with your obviously empty hands on your head, or you will be involuntarily subdued or incapacitated or you will be dead, but you will be subdued. We don't need to speculate on what kinds of information is kept under wraps at area 51 since we already know that the F117 and B2 were tested there when they were black programs.
Bite your tongue. Some of us want to be entertained with other people's stupidity and misery.
Here’s one way Trump can protect the border - move area 51 there.
Sweet. I’m loving it!
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