Army Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1

[XBoxWarrior]

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 man made emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.

~snip~

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.

(bolding mine)

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

It seems the war mongers are bringing the war home...just in case.

And the use of that word "Homeland", where have we heard that before?

Oh yeah, that German dude..."Heimat" = the 'homeland', what was his name?

Thoughts?

 

[WildCat]

Are you really claiming that Nazis invented the word "homeland"? Really!?

 

[Thunder]

are english speakers now not allowed to use the word "homeland"?

can we also no longer say "leader" a.k.a. fuhrer?

hamburger a.k.a. "hamburger"?

is everything semi-german now verboten?

 

[WildCat]

At any rate, "Fatherland" has a much stronger Nazi connotation.

 

[dudalb]

(bolding mine)

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

It seems the war mongers are bringing the war home...just in case.

And the use of that word "Homeland", where have we heard that before?

Oh yeah, that German dude..."Heimat" = the 'homeland', what was his name?

Thoughts?

Yeah, It might be a good idea if you had one instead of just blindly mouthing far left rhetoric.
As to War Monger, does that apply to Afghanistan as well as Iraq.
Not that you will answer this, since you are another fly by poster .

 

[dudalb]

And as ex US Army Grunt, I resent the implied comparasion with the US Army and Nazi Stormtroopers.
Stick to playing GTA4 on your X Box and stop making political commentary. You are not very good at it.
And some more time spent on your English Homwork would be a good idea also.

 

[Tailgater]

Another FAIL.

They are training.

 

[XBoxWarrior]

Are you really claiming that Nazis invented the word "homeland"? Really!?

Absolutely not. Just that this present administration has re-invented the word, and uses it like crack.

Let's recall...who created the Department of Homeland Security?

 

[XBoxWarrior]

Yeah, It might be a good idea if you had one instead of just blindly mouthing far left rhetoric.

I didn't think the Army Times was "Far Left Rhetoric"...Is it really?

As to War Monger, does that apply to Afghanistan as well as Iraq.
Not that you will answer this, since you are another fly by poster .

No fly boy here, I just have a job...It applies to all wars IMHO...Have we done anything productive in Afghanistan to catch that dude...what was his name...he had some relation to those planes back in '01 if I recall...NO!

Wanna ad hoc me? or my post? I think the Army Times is fairly clear on the topic, and they are usually not considered a Liberal rag.

 

[XBoxWarrior]

And as ex US Army Grunt, I resent the implied comparasion with the US Army and Nazi Stormtroopers.

No real comparison for the actual troops...just the way our dear leader has decided to use them against the American people. Get that?

Stick to playing GTA4 on your X Box and stop making political commentary. You are not very good at it.
And some more time spent on your English Homwork would be a good idea also.

I've never actually played an XBox...Can you comment on the use of American Army forces in the United States?

I recall we created the National Guard for that...but they are kinda busy in Iraq.

 

[dudalb]

It applies to all wars IMHO...Have we done anything productive in Afghanistan to catch that dude...what was his name...he had some relation to those planes back in '01 if I recall...NO!

The ignorance hurt. What part of "Al Quada was headquarted and based in Afghanistan " don't you understand?
Or are you just tossing off far left rhetoric without much thought because it is "cool" at the moment?
You do know that Obama will actually send MORE troops to Afghanistan,don't you?
As for all wars, does that Include World War 2?

Can you comment on the use of American Army forces in the United States?

I recall we created the National Guard for that...but they are kinda busy in Iraq.

Your ignorance of the way the US military works is staggering. Regular Military units are used in the US all the time..generally in disaster relief.

With your paranoia, it will not be too long until we see you on the Conspiracy page pushing 9/11 Truther woo.

 

[dudalb]

Another FAIL.

They are training.

Not to mention I get a feeling the rotation from the Middle East to the US for units is SOP.

 

[XBoxWarrior]

Not to mention I get a feeling the rotation from the Middle East to the US for units is SOP.

Did you even RTFA?

Get back with your Limpball talking points after you have?

 

[dudalb]

A thread has been started on this "Martial Law Is Coming" nonsense in the Conspiracy Theory section.

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=124749


If you would RTFA itself with any degree of understanding you would understand why your reading of sinsiter intent in this is pure nonsense.

 

[WildCat]

I didn't think the Army Times was "Far Left Rhetoric"...Is it really?

The Army Times said:

It seems the war mongers are bringing the war home...just in case.

And the use of that word "Homeland", where have we heard that before?

Oh yeah, that German dude..."Heimat" = the 'homeland', what was his name?

Thoughts?

 

[Gurdur]

Oh yeah, that German dude..."Heimat" = the 'homeland', what was his name?

Edgar Reitz.

Director of the film Heimat

Thoughts?

I saw the film in two 8-hour long blocks over one weekend. It was pure hell on the bum, real agony. Parts 1, 2 and 4 (each part being 4 hours long) were very good, Part 3 was as boring as hell.


Yes? Whadya wanna say?

 

[Normal Dude]

 

[Boo]

There is a very good reason to be alarmed at the posting of this Brigade.

US Constitution Article I, Section 8 states, “Congress shall have power... to provide for calling forth the Militia to execute laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections, and repel Invasions.”

For more than 100 years -- since the end of the Civil War -- deployment of the U.S. military inside the U.S. has been prohibited under The Posse Comitatus Act (the only exceptions being that the National Guard and Coast Guard are exempted, and use of the military on an emergency ad hoc basis is permitted, such as what happened after Hurricane Katrina). Though there have been some erosions of this prohibition over the last several decades (most perniciously to allow the use of the military to work with law enforcement agencies in the "War on Drugs"), the bright line ban on using the U.S. military as a standing law enforcement force inside the U.S. has been more or less honored -- until now. And as the Army Times notes, once this particular brigade completes its one-year assignment, "expectations are that another, as yet unnamed, active-duty brigade will take over and that the mission will be a permanent one."

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/09/24/army/

Since 9/11 we have witnessed the nibbling away of the very liberties and protections that made us different from other governments. While the military has been mobilized within the borders of the US it has either been in response to a civil disaster to provide aid when the civilian system is overwhelmed or during a time of war. The military is deployed on an as needed basis and the phrase "martial law" is almost always used to denote the event. There is a set time limit for when the active deployment will end and the unit stands down.

http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_mlaw.html

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/garden_plot.htm - This discusses the system that was already in place prior to Oct. 1st.

Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution: “Congress shall have power... to provide for calling forth the Militia to execute laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections, and repel Invasions.” I have yet to find where Congress authorized this deployment nor have I heard of any place within the US that the civilian government is in need of assistance in executing the laws of the Union, there is an active insurrection or our borders are under invasion.

Training is part of the mission for every unit that is deployed, it is not the sole mission of a deployed unit.

Thus, in the 2007 Pentagon spending bill it inserted a measure to amend the Posse Comitatus Act to clear the way for the domestic deployment of the military in the event of natural disaster, terrorist attack or “other conditions in which the president determines that domestic violence has occurred to the extent that state officials cannot maintain public order.”

The provision granted the president sweeping new powers to impose martial law by declaring a “public emergency” for virtually any reason, allowing him to deploy troops anywhere in the US and to take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of state governors in order to “suppress public disorder.”

The provision was subsequently repealed by Congress as part of the 2008 military appropriations legislation, but the intent remains.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/sep2008/mili-s25.shtml


With the undermining that has already happened to habeus corpus and the active deployment of US troops within it's own borders, we slide a little more down a slippery slope that ends with the US Constitution nothing more then failed dreams of a small group of men from a few hundred years ago.



Boo