3rd Infantry’s 1st BCT to be used for "civil unrest" RIGHT HERE AT HOME anytime after today.

[thereismore]

What the hell is Constitution used for these days?

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/


The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys.

Now they’re training for the same mission — with a twist — at home.

Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.

...

After 1st BCT finishes its dwell-time mission, expectations are that another, as yet unnamed, active-duty brigade will take over and that the mission will be a permanent one.

...

They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack.

[amdezurik]

1. well, the first one to gas a granny

or shoot a kid will just be the first of them to commit treason here at home...

[Bobbieo]

3. Does not surprise me!!!

[sakabatou]

2. I'm getting chills from remembering "Vendetta"

[Bobbieo]

4. How about "horrific scenarios" like tornados, hurricanes, floods

and earthquakes?

[amdezurik]

5. That is what the National Guard is supposed to be for

Not the regular Army.

[thereismore]

11. Xactly! nt

[Bobbieo]

14. Where is the National Guard these days????

[amdezurik]

15. did you miss the 'supposed'?

and just because dumbaya wanted to avoid a draft and hide how expensive this invasion would be does not change what the real mission of the Guard is.

[sakabatou]

7. Dunno

I don't see "Day After Tomorrow" scenarios in my head.

[HillbillyBob]

9. OH like after Katrina when blackwater and some

unnamed armed services folks were using citizens as target practice?

[HillbillyBob]

8. I went to the same place, I saw the film a few weeks ago

nt

[Poseidan]

6. whoever authorized this

should be charged for their crimes.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

12. you know who did it. START IMPEACHMENT PROCESS NOW

- not too late-
President can be impeached even after leaving office. Impeachment process will aid efforts to prosecute him.

Sign online here:

http://impeachment.kucinich.us/petition/


Print a bunch of these out and have your friends sign them. Mail back to Kucinich

http://kucinich.us/impeachment/ImpeachmentPetition.pdf

[amdezurik]

13. Nancy the Queenie

OFF THE TABLE! OFF THE TABLE!

After all she has to protect her fortune before the country...

[AndyTiedye]

10. This is to Quell the Unrest that Is Likely to Ensue After they Declare McAin't the "Winner"

:scared:

[Igel]

16. The news in the article reduces to three points.

1. The unit that'll be assigned to Northcom for the next year. It replaces the unit that was assigned before.

2. The unit assigned will be active duty. The previous ones weren't.

3. It has a special "package" of equipment, whereas previous ones had general-use military equipment.

Northcom was established in 2002, but its functions were part of a joint task force before that. Finding what's actually different between 2001 and 2002 isn't a trivial matter (at least not for me).

It strikes me as another instance of, "I didn't know that, I know it now, and so it must be something new--and, since I distrust *, if it's new it must be malicious. I fear, and want others to join me." But it's not new, for the most part. Malicious? Perhaps, but then it would always have had the capacity for evil, an evil that's strangely lacking in the historical record. NORAD is part of Northcom these days.

Note that Northcom forces were involved in clean-up and surveillance ops after Gustav and Ike.

http://www.northcom.mil/
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/dod/northcom.htm