Practice Joint Police-military Exercises

PRACTICE JOINT POLICE-MILITARY EXERCISES

choppersAt the beginning of his presentation the other night, my friend showed about half an hour of a 2.5-hour video called "Police State 2000" with investigative reporter, Alex Jones (1-888-253-3139), which shows video footage of various in-U.S.-cities military exercises, along with interviews with several police and military personnel involved in these exercises.

Troops donning gas masksThese are the ones where suddenly with no advanced warning to the populous, and sometimes even surprising the government and police, the military shows up in a U.S. city with troops descending from black helicopters, machine guns blazing (blanks), setting of charges complete with real fire, climbing atop building roofs, breaking down doors, arresting citizens (mock), setting up tent centers to house civilians, both for "safety" and for confinement of dissident citizens.

Troops unloading from transport planteWhat is amazing about this is that though this has happened in at least thirty U.S. cities and is reported in the local papers, the National Press never picks it up. The Seattle Times mentioned 21 cities when it reported on the occurrence there in its April 20, 1997 paper (p. A-15).

tankThese exercises are being done under the direction of President Clinton who has set aside the Posse Comitatus act by another unconstitutional executive order.

<quote>Title 18 US Code, PART I, Chapter 67,
§ 1385, The Posse Comitatus Act

§ 1385. Use of Army and Air Force as posse comitatus

Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

http://azstarnet.com/~rovedo/posse.html
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Green chopperThe police and government in these various areas are being told that these exercises are necessary to prepare for possible terrorist (foreign or domestic) activity or natural or man-made disasters which would overwhelm the local law enforcement capabilities.

My brother was involved in an exercise back in '93 in which the National Guard came to his high school and sealed off all entrances for a day.

The irony of these exercises is that they fuel a viscous cycle. The patriots see them as perfect evidence for a government way out of hand to the point that it becomes the enemy of freedom -- an enemy that must be fought with force if they should ever seek to remove the final check on government power -- the means of physical defense, e.g. guns, in the hands of citizens. Meanwhile, the government hears of such sentiments among the patriot grassroots of America and becomes alarmed at these "extremists" and carries out exercises such as mentioned above to prepare for that time when gun confiscations become necessary because of these extremist patriot "terrorists."

Was it Jefferson who said that it is the tyrant who fears guns in the hands of private citizens?