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Guest Post: Military Rolls Tanks Onto St. Louis Streets...But Why?
Zero Hedge ^ | 6/23/2012 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 06/23/2012 12:38:08 PM PDT by JohnKinAK

Submitted by Brandon Smith from Alt-Market

Military Rolls Tanks Onto St. Louis Streets...But Why?

I have to say that this event, which is being labeled a "training exercise", makes very little sense to me. U.S. Army troops all the way from Maryland running open exercises in armored personnel carriers on the busy streets of St. Louis? I know Maryland is a small state, but is there really not enough room at Ft. Detrick to accommodate a tank column and some troops? Are there not entire fake neighborhood and town complexes built with taxpayer dollars on military bases across the country meant to facilitate a realistic urban environment for troops to train in? And why travel hundreds of miles to Missouri? At the very least, this is a massive waste of funds.

On the other hand, such an action on the part of the Department of Defense makes perfect sense if the goal is to acclimate citizens to the idea of seeing tanks and armed military acting in a policing capacity. Just check out the two random idiots the local news affiliate picked to interview in St. Louis on the subject. Both state that they think the exercise is a "great idea", because having the military on the streets would help to "reduce crime":

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/06/us-military-to-run-urban-exercises-in-north-st-louis-residents-hope-it-will-cut-down-on-crime/

I suspect that the news affiliate did not go out of its way to get any counter-opinions, even though they admitted to being contacted by those voicing concerns over martial law.

Even so, it's sad and simultaneously terrifying that there are plenty of mindless dupes out there who do not understand the dangers of the Army crossing the Rubicon and acting in a civil law enforcement capacity, never mind that they are completely ignorant of the fact that it violates the Posse Comitatus Act. One of the interviewees even points out that in some countries they don't use police at all; only military. This is true. We call those countries "tyrannies"...

Add to the mix the reality that the DOD refuses to respond to any further inquiries by the press concerning details of the training, and you get yet another suspicious instance of behavior on the part of the establishment that seems preparatory for domestic action. I believe that the high frequency at which these activity reports have been coming in over the past year is certainly cause for alarm...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
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To: bunkerhill7

I saw one a few weeks ago flying at less then 300 feet here in Connecticut. I couldn’t believe how low it was flying. It was a light blue color.


61 posted on 06/23/2012 3:58:22 PM PDT by peeps36 (America is being destroyed by filthy traitors in the political establishment)
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To: JohnKinAK

Maybe they can clean up the North side of the city and then roll in to IL and clean up East St. Louis. But my guess is that Obummer will have them roaming the streets of Clayton, Ladue, Frontonac and Town & Country where the really bad citizens of the St. Louis area live. If he would just clean out these people, their homes and bank accounts there would be no problems in the US.


62 posted on 06/23/2012 4:04:42 PM PDT by ncfool (OMG 2012)
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To: Romulus

Your assessment of what Guv Blanko (spelling intentional) in Looziana is perhaps the worst read of events I’ve seen this side of the Ed Schultz Show.


63 posted on 06/23/2012 4:12:31 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
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To: peeps36
did it look like this???

64 posted on 06/23/2012 4:14:45 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: JohnKinAK

This is to intimidate Missouri voters to vote for Air Claire McCaskill and the Choosen one.


65 posted on 06/23/2012 4:24:24 PM PDT by ncfool (OMG 2012)
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To: SuperLuminal
As recognition of that universally revered philosopher (now departed), Rodney, can't we just bend over, spread'em, and smile...

I'm not departed. I'm still here!

Oh, that Rodney...



Where there's a shell, there's a way.

25 years ago, we had Ronald Reagan, Johnny Cash, and Bob Hope.
Today we have Obama, no cash, and no hope!

If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.

Or you can get raw with these strings.

How about this gamechanger from America's Got Talent (which they SHOULD have won).

Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.

Do it!

66 posted on 06/23/2012 4:36:36 PM PDT by rdb3 (If you were tried in court for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?)
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To: Kartographer

Are they preparing for the imposition of “Martial Law”?


67 posted on 06/23/2012 4:40:20 PM PDT by bandleader
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To: Chode

It was a baby blue color and it didn’t have any writing on the sides. I never saw such a big plane flying so low in this part of the state. I could feel the ground vibrate as it flew over me.


68 posted on 06/23/2012 4:51:05 PM PDT by peeps36 (America is being destroyed by filthy traitors in the political establishment)
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To: JohnKinAK

St. Louis should send two batallions of gang bangers to Annapolis.


69 posted on 06/23/2012 4:51:40 PM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: peeps36
it was just a thought, i don't know if there are any private C130's out there or i'd say maybe it was company owned
70 posted on 06/23/2012 5:08:13 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: AppyPappy
These vehicles have wheels not tracks. They are not "tanks" as the term is ordinarily understood. They are apparently personnel carriers. Nobody drives tracked vehicles for hundreds of miles. They would never make it. I'd chalk this one up to media jerkoff incompetence.
71 posted on 06/23/2012 5:10:00 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: JohnKinAK

Suffering from the noise of APCs rumbling down the streets, or being consumed by hordes of unemployed political regulator zombies jonesin’ for their recreational drugs after the bond collapse?

Choices, choices. Enjoy the slide. ;-)


72 posted on 06/23/2012 5:10:00 PM PDT by familyop ("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: CodeToad
Forget it. Tanks are transported by rail or at best by flatbed truck. You don't run tracked vehicles over hundreds of miles of pavement. They fall apart. Read up on the problems of the Das Reich SS Panzer division responding to the D-Day invasion, when French resistance sabotaged all the flatbed cars of the railways in Southern France. Not that much has changed. .
73 posted on 06/23/2012 5:19:17 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: JohnKinAK

I’ve been reading this paranoic bullsh*t since Clinton in 1994:

*The ChiComms have a million troops in Texas.

*The army has a secret guillotine that can chop off 500 patroit’s head per hour.

* The Russians have 50 tank battalions hiding in Montana.

And now we have an army tank battalion in St. Louis.

So what? I heard that the US Air Force is planning a sortie to drop napalm on your army. Now what will your army do?


74 posted on 06/23/2012 5:36:52 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Public unions exist to protect the unions from the taxpaying public)
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To: eddie willers; JohnKinAK
Anyone that spells America with a K is a jerk.

A jerk, a realist or both.

Sadly this place is a pale semblance of the America I was born in. Even the Flag is different.

75 posted on 06/23/2012 5:57:21 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1250 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama is not a Big Brother [he's a Big Sissy...])
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To: Nifster

Not to panic. The photo is Russian tanks invading Czechoslovakia.

Nothing like that here, yet.


76 posted on 06/23/2012 6:02:02 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1250 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama is not a Big Brother [he's a Big Sissy...])
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To: hinckley buzzard
I'd chalk this one up to media jerkoff incompetence.

Say it isn't so!

77 posted on 06/23/2012 6:06:01 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1250 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama is not a Big Brother [he's a Big Sissy...])
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To: robowombat
the average American is just too stupid, lazy, self indulgent and uninformed to be able to understand the mission and functions of the armed forces.


78 posted on 06/23/2012 6:30:08 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc... not just pretty words...)
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To: USNBandit

i second that. she let all those people suffer cause she did not want pres bush to look good.
i will never forget watching the sheep go to slaughter aka as “the dome”.


79 posted on 06/23/2012 6:30:49 PM PDT by Donnafrflorida (Thru HIM all things are possible.)
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To: archy

Whe was that picture taken?


80 posted on 06/23/2012 6:50:41 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is, it is the only answer.)
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