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Originally posted by beautyndissonance
Okinawa, Japan.
Originally posted by Highlander64
reply to post by InformationAccount
I like your way of thinking, however
haven't they done research into this area and found majority of US forces would not bring themselves to fire upon their own people?
and if I remember correctly, the answer was to hire guns from a nation who would not be so hung up about shooting innocent Americans....?
Originally posted by InformationAccount
The miltary takes an oath to defend America against all enemies of the government Domestic or Foriegn.
So if you were a miltary commander how would you prepare to defend America from a domestic attack on the government?
Station troops inside American borders sure.
David Rockerfeller's 2002 "Memoirs" ISBN 0-679-40588-7 Chapter 27 "Proud Internationalist" Page 405:
"Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure — one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."
Originally posted by pianopraze
Not to mention Posse Comitatus.
The Posse Comitatus Act is an often misunderstood and misquoted United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed on June 18, 1878, after the end of Reconstruction. Its intent (in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807) was to limit the powers of local governments and law enforcement agencies from using federal military personnel to enforce the laws of the land. Contrary to popular belief, the Act does not prohibit members of the Army from exercising nominally state law enforcement, police, or peace officer powers that maintain "law and order"; it simply requires that any orders to do so must orginate with the President of the United States (and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces) or Congress.
The statute only directly addresses the US Army (and is understood to equally apply to the US Air Force as a derivative of the US Army); it does not reference, and thus does not implicitly apply to nor restrict units of the National Guard under federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States. The Navy and Marine Corps are prohibited by a Department of Defense directive, not by the Act itself. The Coast Guard, under the Department of Homeland Security, is exempt from the Act.
Originally posted by InformationAccount
Originally posted by beautyndissonance
Okinawa, Japan.
Fine, but not freshly combat trained
Think out of the kettle into the fireedit on 19-10-2011 by InformationAccount because: (no reason given)