[jonascord]

If I recall, there was a Navy psychologist who was writing his Doctorate thesis, and, like all liberals who like to get freebies, figured that the Marines on base at MCB 29 Palms were put there for his personal research.

He passed around a questionnaire asking if, given an official order from the CinC, they would send troops out, house to house, IN CONUS, to confiscate all guns. The officers said yes, they would, since they were largely Liberal educated. The Enlisted men said no, they wouldn't.

The Brady Bunch started bragging about how the Marines would take all the guns, as soon as Clinton passed the word, and 8th & Eye was asking what the Eff was going on at 29 Palms, denying that the USMC could confiscate ANYTHING, due to the Posse Comitatus laws. The MSM quickly buried it, but it was one of the first times the Net started questioning the Media.

[archy]

If I recall, there was a Navy psychologist who was writing his Doctorate thesis, and, like all liberals who like to get freebies, figured that the Marines on base at MCB 29 Palms were put there for his personal research.

Pretty close. The questionaires were devised by a Lt. Cdr. Guy Cunningham, USN as part of the requirements for his Masters Degree program at the Naval Postgraduate School, Montery, California; see the link in my post #17 above for a full copy of the survey questions.

But it did not help still the resulting furore that on May 3, 1994, President Clinton signed a Presidential Decision Directive establishing "U.S. Policy on Reforming Multilateral Peace Operations". For an overview of the unclassified portions of PDD 25 go to the PDD 25 Summary *here*.