US Has been preparing to turn America into a military dictatorship

[realFedUp]

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/suppression.html

US Has been preparing to turn
America into a military dictatorship

(long read)

U.S. MILITARY CIVIL DISTURBANCE PLANNING: THE WAR AT HOME

By Frank Morales

Under the heading of "civil disturbance planning", the U.S. military is training troops and police to suppress democratic opposition in America. The master plan, Department of Defense Civil Disturbance Plan 55-2, is code-named, "Operation Garden Plot". Originated in 1968, the "operational plan" has been updated over the last three decades, most recently in 1991. The plan was activated during the Los Angeles "riots" of 1992, and more than likely during the recent anti-WTO "Battle in Seattle."

Current U.S. military preparations for suppressing domestic civil disturbance, including the training of National Guard troops and police, are part of a long history of American "internal security" measures dating back to the first American Revolution. Generally, these measures have sought to thwart the aims of social justice movements, embodying the concept that within the civilian body politic lurks an enemy that one day the military might have to fight, or at least be ordered to fight.

Equipped with flexible "military operations in urban terrain" and "operations other than war" doctrine, lethal and "less-than-lethal" high-tech weaponry, US "armed forces" and "elite" militarized police units are being trained to eradicate "disorder", "disturbance" and "civil disobedience" in America. Further, it may very well be that police/military "civil disturbance" planning is the animating force and the overarching logic behind the incredible nationwide growth of police paramilitary units, a growth which coincidentally mirrors rising levels of police violence directed at the American people, particularly "non-white" poor and working people.

Military spokespeople, "judge advocates" (lawyers) and their congressional supporters aggressively take the position that legal obstacles to military involvement in domestic law enforcement civil disturbance operations, such as the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, have been nullified. Legislated "exceptions" and private commercialization of various aspects of U.S. military-law enforcement efforts have supposedly removed their activities from the legal reach of the "public domain". Possibly illegal, ostensible "training" scenarios like the recent "Operation Urban Warrior" no-notice "urban terrain" war games, which took place in dozens of American cities, are thinly disguised "civil disturbance suppression" exercises. Meanwhile, President Clinton recently appointed a "domestic military czar", a sort of national chief of police. You can bet that he is well versed in Garden Plot requirements involved in "homeland defense".


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[dave123williams]

1. I dunno...

I'm trying to think of something scarier than anarchy in this country, and I'm coming up short.

Everybody's got a gun, and half of 'em voted for Bushco thinking it was to their benefit. Too scary to contemplate...

[Larkspur]

2. Gee, our military can't stop the Iraq insurgency, so how will they

manage 280 million Americans?

There is an old Roman saying, "Force without wisdom falls of its own weight." The Bush Admin has ADD disorder when it comes to large scale planning. If they do this, it will fall apart, just like our occupation of Iraq is.

[dbeach]

3. The history of the US govt rests on lies...

AND THE LIES GROW WITH BUSHCO..
its about the power that these elites can weild..Martial Law and a fascist society is almost here..
benign for now in a sense BUT again the history is power corrupts and govts turn on their people.

it could NEVER happen here until it happens..
the bush nazi comparisons are striking < prescott bush was investigated for nazi dealings..just a coincidence?} and throw in Operation paperclip. and the Nazis have had some controlls in the CIA[br /> since 1950 or so..