Martial Law

[Kat Kanning]

Surpsied to see this on Free Market Network News, rather than Alex Jones or some such place.

http://www.freemarketnews.com/nview.php?nseq=672

PENTAGON PREPS FOR MARTIAL LAW AT HOME?

Aug 13, 2005 - FreeMarketNews.com

by staff reports
Martial law? According to a Washington Post story this week, it may not be so farfetched, as the Pentagon is actually already making contingency plans for such a condition. The front-page article was written by Post reporter Bradley Graham, from his recent tour of Northcom headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base. Graham cites sources working at the headquarters of the military's Northern Command (Northcom), located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Terrorist attacks would be used as the justification for imposing martial law on cities, regions or the entire country. The plans themselves are of course classified, but "officers who drafted the plans" gave him the details. According to the analysis of at least one website commentator, this seems "a deliberate leak conducted for the purpose of accustoming the American population to the prospect of military rule."

The new plans provide for what several senior officers acknowledged is the likelihood that the military will have to take charge in some situations, especially when dealing with mass-casualty attacks that could quickly overwhelm civilian resources. They outline 15 potential crisis scenarios, ranging from "low-end," ("relatively modest crowd-control missions") to "high-end" after as many as three simultaneous catastrophic mass-casualty events, such as a nuclear, biological or chemical weapons attack. In each case, the military would deploy a quick-reaction force of as many as 3000 troops per attack (9,000 total in the worst-case scenario), with more troops made available as needed.

The Post quotes Admiral Timothy J. Keating, head of Northcom: "In my estimation, [in the event of] a biological, chemical or nuclear attack in any of the 50 states, the Department of Defense is best positioned of the various eight federal agencies that would be involved] to take the lead." According to the article, about 1400 National Guard troops have been formed into a dozen regional response units, with smaller quick-reaction forces in each of the 50 states. Northcom may also mobilize four active-duty Army battalions, as well as Navy and Coast Guard ships and air defense fighter jets. In order to get around the limitations on using military for domestic policing (e.g., posse comitatus), the plans might call for using the National Guard, which is exempt from such limitations. "[Keating] cited a potential situation in which Guard units might begin rounding up people while regular forces could not," Graham wrote. - ST

[AlanM]

The military is not stripped, such that it can't impose Martial Law.
This really worries me. Why do we need to impose Martial Law for the reasons stated above? They are localized problems, should they occur. State Guards can handle it. Martial Law is the ultimate in control. ALL RIGHTS are suspended.

[AlanM]

The Post quotes Admiral Timothy J. Keating, head of Northcom: "In my estimation, [in the event of] a biological, chemical or nuclear attack in any of the 50 states, the Department of Defense is best positioned of the various eight federal agencies that would be involved] to take the lead." According to the article, about 1400 National Guard troops have been formed into a dozen regional response units, with smaller quick-reaction forces in each of the 50 states. Northcom may also mobilize four active-duty Army battalions, as well as Navy and Coast Guard ships and air defense fighter jets. In order to get around the limitations on using military for domestic policing (e.g., posse comitatus), the plans might call for using the National Guard, which is exempt from such limitations. "[Keating] cited a potential situation in which Guard units might begin rounding up people while regular forces could not," Graham wrote. - ST

If the 9/11 conspiracy theories are correct about the Gov. actually staging the "terrorist attacks", then one of the above attacks would be next, followed by Martial Law.

[Otosan]

If the 9/11 conspiracy theories are correct about the Gov. actually staging the "terrorist attacks", then one of the above attacks would be next, followed by Martial Law.

Maybe not "staging" the "terroist attacks" but just letting it happen?

[AlanM]

If the 9/11 conspiracy theories are correct about the Gov. actually staging the "terrorist attacks", then one of the above attacks would be next, followed by Martial Law.

Maybe not "staging" the "terroist attacks" but just letting it happen?

If they did the first, they will do the second. 

[KBCraig]

PENTAGON PREPS FOR MARTIAL LAW AT HOME?

But why is that martial law may not be so far fetched, as the Pentagon is actually already making contingency plans for such a condition?

The Pentagon has contingency plans for everything from a nuclear assault by China, to invasion by Lichtenstein. Planning for every possible scenario is part of what they do. And I'd much rather have them planning for a coastal assault by the Canadian navy, than actually engaging in overseas adventurism.

[EthanLeeVita]

I believe it was James Madison who said something like the objects of security abroad becomes the objects of tyranny at home.

[Humorrhoid]

This is also the topic on the DASSK website.

[kickinandtickin]

If the 9/11 conspiracy theories are correct about the Gov. actually staging the "terrorist attacks", then one of the above attacks would be next, followed by Martial Law.

Maybe not "staging" the "terroist attacks" but just letting it happen?

The difference (which doesn't really exist) between MIHOP and LIHOP was put to bed a long time ago.

The historical evidence within the US alone is overwhelming: Operation Gladio, the USS Liberty being attacked by Israel, the Gulf of Tonkin affair, and Operation Northwoods are just the few that come to mind without further research (all those in the last five to six decades).

Furthermore, a good reading of David Ray Griffin, Peter Dale Scott, Mark Gaffney and many others will demonstrate clearly that "continuity of government" planning was both integral and part of the 9/11 events ... that such planning grew out of the Republican/FEMA/military-intelligence nest after the 60's (in response to the anti-war protests, the civil rights protests, etc.), was integral to the Iran-Contra events (it was Ollie North's baby), and was continued under the Ford Administration by several high-level underlings -- fellows named Rumsfeld and Cheney --and that it was continued by them even while they worked in the private sector (Rumsfeld in the Searle pharmaceutical biz) .  Furthermore, it is all prepped and ready to go in the form of Presidential Declarations, aided and abetted by black budget operations, hidden corporations, military training, new technologies and weapons systems, prior PR planning and development, etc.

[watershed]

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