Pentagon Allocates More Troops to Homeland Combat Units
November 5th, 2008This might be enough troops to lock down a few square miles of ghetto southeast of the University of Southern California campus. But not much more than that.
Via: Prison Planet:
Northcom has announced that two more U.S. military units will be assigned for domestic homeland security missions, bringing the total number of combat ready service members operating inside the U.S. to around 4,700, as fears grow about the increasing militarization of law enforcement.
The announcement follows the controversy surrounding a September 8 Army Times report (revised on September 30), which revealed that the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, fresh from combat duties in Iraq, would be operating inside America for tasks including “civil unrest and crowd control,” a detail that was later denied by Northcom despite the concession that forces would be armed with both non-lethal and lethal weapons as well as having access to tanks.
“In the next three years the military plans to activate and train an estimated 4,700 service members for specialized domestic operations, according to Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of U.S. Northern Command, which was created in 2002 for homeland defense missions,” reports the Colorado Independent.
“It’s to help us manage the consequences of a large-scale event,” said Renuart. “We have one [unit] now trained and equipped and assigned to the Northern Command. We’ll grow a second one this calendar year of 2009 and a third one in the calendar year 2010 so we can provide the nation three sets of capabilities that could respond to an event of the size of 9/11 or larger.”
But as Mike German, national security counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union’s legislative office in Washington., D.C., points out, “This isn’t a military police brigade or a civil affairs brigade. This is actually a combat brigade being assigned a domestic mission.”
Here’s the problem: 4,700 troops aren’t going to stop any truly large-scale nationwide, errr, “unauthorized civilian actions” like what Washington & Jefferson & Adams & co. participated in some 232 years ago.
At the same time, don’t forget that these would be highly trained and excellently equipped US Army infantry units, capable of calling on near-unlimited support and backup and logistics.
Four words for anyone who thinks that one BCT ain’t worth much in the world of puttin’-on-the-hurt: air support and artillery.
4,700 armed criminals or goons or stocked-up survivalists is one thing. 4,700 average soldiers from most militaries or security forces in the world is another. 4,700 veteran US Army troops is something else completely. They have top-notch equipment, world-class training, combat experience in theater, and like any veterans, they’re incredibly hard to kill. Typical enemy:friendly casualty ratios for units like this in Iraq is on the order of 20:1.
You’d need to be near-suicidal to try to beat a force like this in head-to-head combat without comparable equipment, training, experience and material support.
If you’re looking at “pacifying” entire metro areas or more traditional peace-keeping roles like directing traffic, distributing food/water/aid packages or guarding convoys, you’d want a few more troops than this.
But look at the unit designation: Brigade Combat Team. This unit would be geared for rapid deployment to “trouble areas”, with the intention of quickly resolving whatever issue brought them there.
I’m guessing, as I’m sure many of you are, that the PTB are planning to off the new Prez, especially if he gets uppity like Kennedy did and try to wrest back control of the US’s finances from the Fed. Biden’s in their pocket, just like LBJ was. The combat team might just be conveniently in situ when the dirty deed is accomplished. It’ll be blamed on some hapless “white supremacist,” who gets offed immediately by the brave soldiers, who then help quell the ensuing riots. That’s my guess, and I’m sticking to it …
I think you’ve nailed it, Pookie. I am sure the PTB are scouring the internet trying to find their skinhead Lee Harvey Oswald as we speak. And the sad thing is, eventhough the public will be asking themselves, “where have I read this script before”, they will still swallow the official line.
I was going to erase this whole post after I wrote it, but well I decided against it.
It’s kind of odd (but interesting) to me how Pookie, my nephew and others are “picking up” on the “off the new Prez” vibes. My sister told me that when my nephew watched Obama’s speech in Chicago the other night he got the creeps, and said “they are going to off him.” My sister thought this was really odd for him to say this because unlike us, he did not see JFK, RFK, MLK and others assasinated, and did not know his Aunt Juanita (my sister) who registered black voters in the 1960’s and who died in a “car accident.” Seeing people “offed” for speaking up and out has been a large part of my formative experience.
In any case “they” have already tried to off him. Plane problems, the FBI turning off the metal detectors at an early rally, neo-Nazis in Denver.
This year in Denver was one of the largest gatherings of astrologists (ever) and many, many of them saw danger for the O. Some didn’t think he’d make it this far.
I like this explanation that one astrologer gave to Damocles which is REALLY an influence in a persons chart and is prominent in Obama’s:
“The Damocles of the anecdote was an excessively flattering courtier in the court of Dionysius II of Syracuse, a fourth century BC tyrant of Syracuse. He exclaimed that, as a great man of power and authority, Dionysius was truly fortunate.
Dionysius offered to switch places with him for a day, so he could taste first hand that fortune. In the evening a banquet was held, where Damocles very much enjoyed being waited upon like a king. Only at the end of the meal did he look up and notice a sharpened sword hanging by a single horsehair directly above his head. And so are we. Immediately, he lost all taste for the fine foods and beautiful boys, and asked leave of the tyrant, saying he no longer wanted to be so fortunate.
Dionysius had successfully conveyed a sense of the constant fear in which the great man lives. Cicero uses the story as the last in a series of contrasting examples towards the conclusion he had been building towards in this fifth Disputation, in which the theme is that virtue is sufficient for living a happy life. Cicero asks, “Does not Dionysius seem to have made it sufficiently clear that there can be nothing happy for the person over whom some fear always looms?”
The Sword of Damocles is frequently used in allusion to this tale, epitomizing the imminent and ever-present peril faced by those in positions of power. More generally, it is used to denote the sense of foreboding engendered by the precarious situation, especially one in which the onset of tragedy is restrained only by a delicate trigger or chance. Moreover, it can be seen as a lesson in the importance of fully understanding another person’s situation or experience.
And so we have the central image in Barack Obama’s chart: the Sun precisely opposite Damocles in the 12th house. While I don’t think that fear constantly looms over him, I do think he’s perfectly aware that sword is dangling by a single thread directly above his head. And so are we.”
In any case, I think O is not so naive to not know he has the sword of Damocles over him. Cripe, don’t we all feel that sword over our own lives?
The PTB is scrambling big time to remain in control of their ill gotten gain. But something tells me their time is up.
Chickens REALLY DO COME HOME TO ROOST at night. These chickens of the PTB are trying to come home to roost now too. But I think the coop door might be shut on them when they try to come home now, and CHOMP. Some big bad animal is going to eat them instead of vice verse.