Special
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Martial Law: Police State America - We're So Close Now
Steve Watson | Infowars | Sept 27 2005
For years we have warned that the police state is coming, how Martial
Law will become the norm, how ancient laws, rights and freedoms are
being overturned and replaced with repressive mechanisms of control.
For years we have presented the evidence, the Army War College
documents, the domestic military takeover drills, the draconian
legislation, officials left right and centre calling for more
centralized military control domestically.
For years people refuted the evidence, or passed it off as being
intended for something else, or simply refused to believe it. Now
everything we warned you about is happening.
In the wake of the recent natural disasters on American soil, dangerous
precedents have been set. We have been forced to watch how in times of
crisis we must submit and follow the orders of Federal Commanders, no
matter whether they deny us basic human rights or not.
Whether it be a state attack, a terrorist attack, an accident or a
natural disaster matters not anymore, the outcome will be the same. We
are just one event, ANY event away from Martial Law.
Getting rid of Posse Comitatus - Setting the precedent
"In a police state the
police are national, powerful, authoritarian. Inevitably, national
governments yield to the temptation to use the
military to do the heavy lifting, once the military is used, however
minor initially, the march toward martial law becomes irresistible."
- Representative Ron Paul of Texas - June 25 1997.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/news_alert_posse.html
http://www.prisonplanet.com/news_alert_posse.html
The
Posse Comitatus Act is a recognition that the framers of the
Constitution had a deep distrust of centralized power, particularly
centralized military power that might be used against the people. State
militias were preferred over a national army. In times of major
disaster or emergency, it has been state governors - not the president
- who call out that state's contingent of the national guard.
We have witnessed over a long period of time how Posse Comitatus is
systematically being erased. After 9/11 this was particularly
accelerated. All the so called "experts" were calling for changes to
long standing laws, in order to "protect" us. This led to scores of
lower level Government officials pleading for exactly what the criminal
elements higher up wanted all along.
Take the following report from November
2001:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/news_alert_112401_posse.html
"Our way of life has forever changed," wrote Sen. John Warner, R-Va.,
in a letter last month to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "Should
this law now be changed to enable our active-duty military to more
fully join other domestic assets in this war against terrorism?"
So let's get this right, "terrorists" attack us because they "hate our
freedoms" and the answer is to get rid of our freedoms?
Here's
another mainstream
report from 2002 documenting a senators call to abolish Posse Comitatus
and let troops arrest US civilians.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/news_alert_072202_martial.html
Here's former
Homeland Security dictator Tom Ridge saying the same thing.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/news_alert_072102_martial.html
And here he is saying
it again.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/news_alert_072902_martial.html
But before the war on terror it was clear that there was preparation
afoot for such eventualities. Nothing is under review, this has
always been the agenda. They were erasing Posse Comitatus 14 Years Ago.
In 911: The Road to
Tyranny Alex Jones presents footage of troops training to put Americans
into Concentration Camps. This footage includes interrogations and a
retired Marine admitting that in 1988 he was kicking down doors in
Norfolk, Virginia. The Marines would be ordered to the local Police
station where they would don Police uniforms. They would then go to the
local gun shop or dealers home and "Take Them Down."
http://infowars.com/tyranny.htm
In Alex Jones' feature
Police
State 2000 he covers Operation Urban
Warrior where actors posed as American citizens who were
Unconstitutionally seized from their homes by the military and police.
These Americans: were rounded up and confined behind barbed-wire.
http://www.infowars.com/videos.html#ps2000
http://www.infowars.com/newouwphotospg1.html
The actors were told to demand to be let free and state that they had
rights. They were also told to demand food and water. The troops in
turn were taught to ignore them and to order them to behave in an
orderly fashion. "Civil disobedience will not be tolerated" was one of
the many disturbing statements heard to emanate from the military's
loud speakers.
Over the years there have been countless drills of this nature. The
media simply reports them as training for dealing with foreign enemies,
yet the volunteers and the participants are always told differently.
Here's a report
on another urban warfare drill entitled "The Millennium Challenge
2002". This drill was conducted secretly
across 26 States in 2001.
http://www.vvdailypress.com/cgi-bin/newspro/viewnews.cgi?newsid1027266385,98471,2001
http://www.prisonplanet.com/news_alert_072402_urbanwarfare.html
Earlier this year details of just one of many Military operations on
American soil was exposed in the run up to Lord Bush's coronation. A
secret counterterrorism program code-named Power Geyser. A small
group of super-secret commandos were hidden among 13000 police and
troops and "stood ready with state-of-the-art weaponry to swing into
action".
http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/commandos_duty_on_us_soil.htm
There have been literally hundreds of these kind of operations in the
planning and going on for years now. Many designed to use the military
on the streets of American cities in direct violation of Posse
Comitatus. The Pentagon has a full Command in operation working on
these activities, the Joint Special
Operations Command (JSOC).
http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/commandos_duty_on_us_soil.htm#jsoc
Whilst Studying US COIN (Counter Insurgency) doctrine at University I
was subjected to weekly showings of videos where military operations
were carried out in purpose built mock American towns and cities. We
were also informed of how future Counter Insurgency would be
predominantly conducted from Military bunkers as they had developed the
technology to map out entire cities to pinpoint accuracy from satellite
images. The cities in the prototypes were of course all American cities.
I remember asking the lecturer what the point was in developing this
technology for use in foreign insurgency wars in places such as the
mountains of Afghanistan, and why were the drills and testing of the
technology being carried out purely in American towns and cities. The
answer was of course that in the event of a major terror attack on US
soil these types of things would go into operation. The Pentagon does
indeed have "War Plans" drafted in
the event of any type of terror attack, which would be coordinated by Northcom
in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security and would
involve Martial Law and thousands of troops on the streets.
http://www.infowars.com/articles/terror/war_plans_drafted_to_counter_terror_attacks.htm
http://www.prisonplanet.com/Pages/Jan05/290105HS_State.html
According to respected military affairs
analyst William Arkin, Northcom has defined three levels of operations,
each of which triggers a larger set of authorized activities. The
levels are "extraordinary", "emergency" and "temporary". During
emergencies, the military can
provide similar support, mostly in response to specific events such as
the attacks on the World Trade Center. It is only in the case of
extraordinary domestic operations that the unique capabilities of the
Defense Department are deployed. These include not just such things as
air patrols to shoot down hijacked planes or the defusing of bombs and
other explosives, but also bringing in intelligence collectors, special
operators and even full combat troops.
http://www.infowars.com/print/ps/creep.htm
But as Arkin's article makes clear, Northcom is doing more than mere
coordinating. "Under the banner of 'homeland security', the military
and intelligence communities are implementing far-reaching changes that
blur the lines between terrorism and other kinds of crises and will
break down long-established barriers to military action and
surveillance within the US."
He also said the Pentagon reviewed the Posse Comitatus Act and
determined that it would not be a violation to deploy the National
Guard to protect critical infrastructure in some circumstances. He said
he expects more presidential directives in the future to expand
the military's homeland defense role.
Then of course we have General Tommy Franks
stating that a major terror attack on US soil would mean the
Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of
government.
http://www.infowars.com/print/ps/franks_martial.htm
Some say this is nothing new. In a speech to the Council on Foreign
Relations in January, former US senator Gary Hart said American
founders "created such an army and called it the militia:
citizen-soldiers under the immediate command of the various states that
can be deployed in times of emergency. Since the late 19th century
these militias have been known as the National Guard, and they were
created and given constitutional status as the first responders and the
first line of defense in the case of an attack on our homeland".
This is clearly an alteration of reality. The reason why the founding
fathers employed militias and later created Posse Comitatus was that
they knew a centralized national army could be used in a future
environment to take over the country and take away the rights of
everyone.
Police State infrastructure - Already in place (and in use)
We have further exposed how the infrastructure for a Martial Law Police
State is already in place, and in many cases is in use. We have a whole archive on the
revelations that FEMA has Concentration camps set up and ready to go in
the event of any emergency that is deemed suitable for their use. As we
have also seen recently, these camps need not have barbed wire and
observation towers, they can simply be well guarded sports stadiums.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives_concentration_camps_old.html
Detention centers are common features of any public protest event now,
as we recently saw at the Republican National
Convention and G8 protests.
http://www.prisonplanet.tv/articles/september2004/010904complaintsswirl.htm
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2004/060804bodybags.htm
We have also exposed the development of police State weapons that make
Tasers look like water pistols. See this article on The
Pentagon's Secret Scream Sonic devices that can inflict pain--or even
permanent deafness. These type of devices that are routinely used in
Iraq have recently
been in use in New Orleans in the Katrina aftermath.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/080304secretscream.html
http://prisonplanet.com/Pages/Sept05/030905lasers.htm
The use of Unmanned drone aircraft has also been documented recently in
New Orleans. Again, such weapons are being used not only in foreign
reconnaissance but also domestically for spying on "citizens" and
controlling crowds. Industry
representatives are enthusiastic about the drones' potential.
http://www.infowars.net/Pages/Sept05/040905tech.htm
http://www.prisonplanet.com/301003drones.html
"I believe we will see Predator and Global Hawk unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) watching over major events, such as the Olympic Games
and the Super Bowl, in the not-too-distant future," Brad Brown,
then-president of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems
International wrote earlier this year.
Alex's most recent film Martial Law: Rise of
the Police State also documents the use of huge corporate sponsored
surveillance blimps. The Department of Homeland Security is developing
900 ft long so called "Super Blimps" for
surveillance, intended to fly about
65,000 feet, well above commercial airliner traffic.
http://infowars.com/martial_law_911.htm
http://prisonplanet.com/Pages/Aug05/270805blimps.htm
We have also documented the rise in use of the national guard to break
up public events. On multiple occasions we have carried stories, photos and video of tanks and
armed troops on the streets of America. We saw earlier this year how
such deployments are used not only to break up protests, but even
something as insignificant as a rave in a field.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/news_alert_071802_urbanwarfare.html
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/june2005/070605tanksinstreets.htm
http://www.infowars.net/Pages/Nov_04/111104_tanks.html
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/230805utahrave.htm
Future technology under development includes robot police that have
the ability to run. Its like we are living in the Twilight Zone or in a
futuristic dystopian film. Yet when you mention these kind of things to
people they either don't believe you or simply laugh at you. Well
here's a wake up call, IT'S THE YEAR 2005, not 1955, and these things
are real.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2004/171204useofasio.htm
