Lawmakers Want to End Transfers of
Military Equipment to Police:
EXCERPT: "U.S. lawmakers alarmed by the aggressive police response to protests in Ferguson, Missouri, are pushing for Congress to limit the Pentagon's ability to provide civilian police departments with military equipment such as armored vehicles designed for the battlefield."
Retired Marine Colonel Warns of Pending Police State;
FEMA Classes Show Teaching That
Founding Fathers Were Terrorists
“Unfortunately, the master-servant relationship that once had the government answering to ‘we the people’ has been reversed. Government agents now act as if they are the masters and we are the servants. Nowhere is this more evident than in the transformation of police officers from benevolent keepers of the peace to inflexible extensions of the military hyped up on the power of their badge.” (Quote from Attorney John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute).
The militarized response to protests and media coverage in Ferguson, Missouri has forced the federal government to rethink its policy of sending military hardware to police departments.
SEE: http://www.infowars.com/feds-react-to-militarized-cops-in-ferguson/
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U.S. ARMY RELEASES ACTION PLAN FOR
CIVIL UNREST DURING FERGUSON RIOT
Additional Effort To Nullify Posse Comitatus Law
(Prohibiting Military Forces Being Used Against U.S. Citizens)
By Creating Exceptions To The First Amendment
of the Constitution
EXCERPTS:
On Friday, as the disturbances in Missouri reached a crescendo, the Department of the Army released an innocuously titled document,
ATP 3-39.33
SEE:
“The Constitution of the United States provides two exceptions for which the Posse Comitatus Act does not apply,” the ATP 3-39.33 document argues. “These exceptions are based upon the inherent right of the U.S. government to ensure the preservation of public order and to carrying out governmental operations within its territorial limits by force, if necessary.”
According to the Army the exclusions include a “sudden and unexpected civil disturbance, disaster, or calamity may seriously endanger life and property and disrupt normal governmental functions to such an extent that local authorities cannot control the situation” and the protection of federal property.
SEE ALSO:
MILITARY SAYS NO PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORIZATION
NEEDED TO QUELL “CIVIL DISTURBANCES”
(3) When permitted under emergency authority in accordance with Reference (c), Federal military commanders have the authority, in extraordinary emergency circumstances where prior authorization by the President is impossible and duly constituted local authorities are unable to control the situation, to engage temporarily in activities that are necessary to quell large-scale, unexpected civil disturbances because:(a) Such activities are necessary to prevent significant loss of life or wanton destruction of property and are necessary to restore governmental function and public order; or,(b) When duly constituted Federal, State, or local authorities are unable or decline to provide adequate protection for Federal property or Federal governmental functions. Federal action, including the use of Federal military forces, is authorized when necessary to protect Federal property or functions.
On page 17 of the document, a number of different scenarios are listed under which the military is forbidden involvement, although the broader power of quelling domestic disturbances without presidential or congressional authorization is claimed.
In essence, this policy change seeks to supersede Posse Comitatus, the 1878 law which forbids the military from being involved in domestic law enforcement “except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress.”
Under the Insurrection Act of 1807, the President may deploy armed forces domestically under extreme circumstances but Congress has to review the action every 14 days.
Under the War Powers Resolution of 1973, the President cannot commit troops to an armed conflict for a period longer than 60 days without an authorization from Congress of the use of military force or a declaration of war.
Under no circumstances in current US law is it legal for the military to deploy itself domestically without authorization from either the President, Congress or both.
In claiming this power, the Pentagon is effectively opening the door to a potential future military coup.
AND FROM U.S. ARMY MILITARY POLICE SCHOOL:
"CIVIL DISTURBANCE OPERATIONS":
EXCERPTS:
In 2012 a U.S. Army Military Police training manual covering “Civil Disturbance Operations”detailed using military assets domestically to quell riots, confiscate firearms and possibly kill Americans on U.S. soil during mass civil unrest.
“The manual also describes how prisoners will be processed through temporary internment camps under the guidance of U.S. Army FM 3-19.40 Internment/Resettlement Operations, which as we reported earlier this year, outlines how internees would be ‘re-educated’ into developing an ‘appreciation of U.S. policies’ while detained in prison camps inside the United States,” Paul Joseph Watson wrote on July 6, 2012.
