IMF warns of economic riots, police ready for civil unrest

worldnetdaily.com ^ | December 18, 2008 | Chelsea Schilling

[TonyStark]

Pentagon resources and U.S. troops may be used if needed to quell protests and bank runs during an economic crisis, the U.S. Army War College's Strategic Institute reported.

"Widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security," the War College study states.

Incidents of economic collapse, terrorism and disruption of legal order could require deployment of forces within the U.S., it said.

A "strategic shock" could require the nation to use "military force against hostile groups inside the United States."

[devistate one four]

Yeah, the old liberty tree will be moistened b4 too long and it won’t be pretty.

[redgolum]

Some of this is just a position paper. We have back up plans for everything.

And lets be honest, with the way things are going, it would be nuts not to have a plan to put down unrest.

[redgolum]

Look at the late unpleasantness in Argentina.

Things were getting better, but for a while after 2000 it was a mad place to be.

[redgolum]

Sadly, you are correct. And I have a lot of family in Law Enforcement.

But the Military is not all happy clappy red stater's. Many would be just fine going after anyone.

[TonyStark]

And lets be honest, with the way things are going, it would be nuts not to have a plan to put down unrest.

I *am* unrest.

[redgolum]

In some cases, yes.

But picture what would happen if the welfare checks stopped coming, or one of the bad guys in AQ got out a map and realized just how easy our transportation infrastructure to say, New York, would be to screw up.

It wouldn't have to be an anti Conservative crack down, there are a lot of other possibilities.

[PapaBear3625]

I was listening to Catherine Austin Fitts last night on the radio. She said the government would use “nonlethal weapons” — radiation, noise, whatever they have in their arsenal, and you’ll crawl back to where you came from.

The great weakness that a government labors under, is that all its weapons and forces depend on a bunch of secretaries and clerks going in to work and processing the purchase orders for the weapons and ammo, and payrolls for the forces. The clerks and secretaries live among the rest of us, and are subject to persuasion that working for the government is bad.

[EBH]

Didn’t Pelosi declare it over the current financial situation. As far as I know it has not been recalled.

[TonyStark]

Valuable pieces of machinery don't simply sit around, unguarded and ignored.

Wrong. When there is no capital, or external circumstances become exceedingly hostile, or the *tax regime overcomes the value of the asset*, it is abandoned.

[TonyStark]

It wouldn't have to be an anti Conservative crack down, there are a lot of other possibilities.

Not with a communist insurgent coup squatting in the White House.

I will say that, if the "FEMA camp" story is valid, what a joy it would be if they were filled with illegal aliens, leftist "community organizers", and welfare recipients. Ah, a right wing coup... I can dream, can't I?

[MD_Willington_1976]

go to gun-deals.com

squeky tries to keep prices up to date on ammo.

[hinckley buzzard]

All I have is a .40 cal pistol. That won’t help me when my nephew, the Marine, comes at me with his tank.

Keep your head down. He has to come out of that tank sooner or later.

[Neoliberalnot]

The US military can’t be turned on the citizenry if the POsse Comitatus law has any force.

[mountn man]

No she just warned of it. Some said she threatened it. But reading the actual wording, it read more like she was concerened that there would be a financial meltdown, requiring martial law to control the masses.

[DuncanWaring]

If you actually need to form a “volunteer civilian security force” whether it’s legal or not is the least of your problems.

[B4Ranch]

>Anyone know where I could get a good tactical sling<

Make one out of some web strapping and rivets.

[Travis McGee]

If you had gone around Germany in 1910, telling people that within a generation their country would have conquered Europe and would be shoveling “undesirables” into the ovens as fast as could be, they would have put you in an insane asylum.

No doubt!

[Travis McGee]

RE nonlethal crowd control methods: the Brits have done quite a bit of study of this going back to “the troubles” in Northern Ireland. What they concluded was that widespread employment of nonlethals (in those days, massive tear gas, water cannons etc) had very nasty unintended consequences. They might break up today’s mob, but the folks in the mob don’t just surrender, go home, and knuckle under to unpopular rule. They go home and dig up their guns, and start sniping stray soldiers. They also start making bombs. Massive use of nonlethals don’t end the problem, it ratchets it up to the next and more lethal level.

[PapaBear3625]

"Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge."
-- Machiavelli, "The Prince", Chapter 3.