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Originally posted by neformore
Hmm.
Its a friend of a friend story.
Smacks of urban legend, and reads like it too.
BTW - what leads people to beleive that soldiers from the US will suddenly turn on their own people, families, homesteads etc?
Also I got more news for you, theres nothing in Montana.
Originally posted by kozmo
Yeah, the marines are hardasses, but their numbers are few. I personally know a few marines who have stated that would ignore orders to fire on US citizens. In fact, one stated to me that he would be likely to organize a resistance from within and seek to arrest officers who issue such orders as illegal. He assures me he's not alone.
Originally posted by jaamaan
Maybe that is why trooops of other nations are trained for the job.
Some poor man from a poor country would for sure do the job you are all talking about, specialy for a green card or the like.
That is the idea i have got trough the years.
Well guess what, Im a former marine with the same training and same weapons, and I dont care who you are, if you come to my house to endanger my rights or my family than you will be treated as an enemy, marine or not. You would think that the marines if anybody would see through this B.S. and stand up.
Originally posted by switching yard
I've been watching a BBC series via Netflix called "War of the Century" about the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Fairly early on in the conflict, both sides issued the "do as you are told or you will be shot" order to their own side. Both sides shot their own soldiers (the few who refused to commit atrocities) as a lesson to their infantry.
After that, both sides committed horrible atrocities in order to beat the other side into submission. The Nazis killed women and children on sight in the Ukraine and to this very day, ex-Nazis who participated are on camera talking about it as if it was simply "necessary".
Then you have the Mi Lai massacre in Vietnam and before that, in the Korean War, a similar massacre of women and children reportedly by U.S. Troops.
So, sadly, it seems that when pressured sufficiently, any troops from any country, including your own, could and probably would commit atrocities under certain circumstances. It is evil, but they all use the excuse "it was war and we had to do it".
Originally posted by unity1
Also I got more news for you, theres nothing in Montana.
MONTANA
Malmstrom AFB - UN aircraft groups stationed here, and possibly a detention facility.
Originally posted by detachedindividual
If the government wants US Military to control or police civilians, it will happen.
Soldiers would be fighting in the streets against "militants", fellow Americans who are deemed by the state to be "enemy combatants".
Regardless of moral opinions, the military will be fighting against an enemy on their home soil, once a few accusations have been made against anarchists or protesters, the average marine wouldn't think twice about "defending their country" from supposed home-grown terrorists.
A soldier wouldn't be posted in their home town. They don't compare a masked person ready to throw a Molotov in their direction to the neighbor they went to school with, otherwise they wouldn't be able to do the job in ANY country.
The idea that soldiers would simply "refuse" to fight against terrorists in their own country (when they couldn't see that the invasion of Iraq was for oil) is naive.
And I can guarantee there would be a false-flag attack to make them want to fight. Just as the majority of Americans were looking for an enemy to fight after 9/11, another act on American soil whereby massive home-grown terrorism was blamed, would incite the same fervent reaction from all branches of the military, and without argument.