Special Army Unit to deploy is US

[Hgunner]

Special army unit ready to be deployed on American soil just before Nov. elections (Update)

Special army unit ready to be deployed on American soil just before Nov. elections (Update)

April 13, 5:16 PM · Anthony G. Martin - Conservative Examiner

Note: An update has been posted at the end of the article.

In October of this year, one month prior to the November midterm elections, a special army unit known as 'Consequence Management Response Force' will be ready for deployment on American soil if so ordered by the President.

(AP Photo/David Longstreath).

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The special force, which is the new name being given to the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry, has been training at Fort Stewart, Georgia and is composed of 80,000 troops.

According to the Army Times,

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.

The key phrase is 'may be called upon to help with civil unrest.'

This afternoon a local radio talk show host reported that he had been in contact with a member of the military. This military source stated that the armed forces have been alerted to the strong possibility that civil unrest may occur in the United States this summer, prior to the midterm elections of 2010.

The source described this as 'our long, hot summer of discontent' that could be eerily reminiscent of the summer of 1968 when riots broke out in many of our largest cities.

However, the summer of 2010 could well be much worse due to the players involved. In 1968 the major players were war protesters. This time, the outrage simmering beneath the surface of American society involves a broad cross-section of the heartland, and most of them are heavily armed.

It is highly unlikely that these citizens would ever initiate armed conflict of any kind. In their view, gun rights are for self-defense--and for defense against tyrannical government, which our Founders regarded as the most dangerous force on earth.

However, it has become clear that other groups may well initiate violence in order to start an 'incident' that would give Obama and a rogue Congress a reason to implement martial law, confiscate the citizens' guns, enforce curfews, and suspend all future elections until such time as it is deemed 'safe' to proceed with human liberty as encapsulated in the right to vote.

Tea Party members, for example, have been warned in recent days that members of Andy Stern's SEIU union and members of the organization formerly known as ACORN plan to infiltrate Tea Party gatherings in order to incite some sort of incident that could result in armed conflict.

In addition, all indications point to a humiliating defeat for the Democrats and Obama in November. Not only will the House in all likelihood transfer to Republican control, but it is increasingly possible for the Democrats to lose the Senate as well.

And there are Leftwing groups in this country that would use whatever means necessary to prevent that from happening.

ACORN has already gone underground, changing its name so as to fly beneath the radar screen. How many people will the group register to vote illegally?

And with Obama's plan to naturalize between 10 and 20 million illegal aliens, a brand new voter base for the Democrats will be in place prior to November.

Add to this the growing unrest over continued high unemployment, the coming spike in interest rates and inflation, and the still-boiling outrage over the manner in which Obama and the Democrats shoved ObamaCare down the throats of the citizens, and all of the ingredients are present for a major F-5 tornado to sweep across the heartland.

To what extent would soldiers use deadly force during such 'civil unrest' should the Consequence Management Response Team be utilized? During the anti-war riots of the 1960s they killed student protesters. What about now?

The military source cited by the radio host today was asked this very question. He would merely say that the culture of the U.S. military is changing--half support Obama and the other half are dead-set against him.

His conclusion? There is no way to know for sure if they would obey an order to open fire on ordinary citizens.

Update: The Cato Institute published this warning when the program was launched in its first phase in 2008 (the program has been updated and expanded since 2008). The Founders insisted that standing armies were never to be used against American citizens on our own soil, no matter what violations of this principle have occurred in the years following. In the spirit of the Patriots and of real journalists government must be questioned constantly and held to intense scrutiny in order to preserve liberty.

[Guest jackdm3]

They don't look American. And what language is that banner in?

[Daniel]

That picture is not of the unit in question.

[Daniel]

Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1 - Army News, news from Iraq, - Army Times

This link was referenced as substantiating the claims.. It does not list an 80k "brigade." Anyone thats been in the military should realize that is completely ridiculous.

[Guest 2HOW]

Camo and mask carrier are not U.S.

[Mike.357]

80,000 troops? Isn't that some crazy amount of people? Does the military even have that amount of personel for something like this?

[Guest gts]

I don't care if it is 80 troops. The fact that US troops are training to quell civil unrest is the real concern. If used, it would clearly be a violation of posse comitatus. Ooooops, I almost forgot, Bush and his Neo-Con congress took care of that already with Military Commissions Act.

Ask yourself, what kind of training could be going on? I envision some people playing the role of civilians in a contained area saying things like, "We are American Citizens, this is a violation of our constitutional rights, etc." And the soldiers are simply ignoring it and becoming numb to it. You know, just following orders.

This is not a good thing no matter how it is spun.

[Hgunner]

gts gets it, there may be technical details that may not be accurate, the picture, even troop strenght. But they are training troops to deploy against who? Us, you and me.

Doesn't that bother you is the least and doesn't it make you wonder what they may be up too.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

So, is the story for real?

[TripleDigitRide]

if you were in the position of these soldiers, would you rather obey orders by killing American citizens or spend time in jail? I'm sure the government will do a fine job at brainwashing enough of them into choosing option number one.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

They might as well get ready for that armed insurgence, because they will have one. Their parents will be so proud of them, won't they?

Any soldier that fires a shot at a US civilian can consider himself history. What part of his oath covers his ass after it's over? Just following orders is not an excuse.

[Guest gts]

if you were in the position of these soldiers, would you rather obey orders by killing American citizens or spend time in jail? I'm sure the government will do a fine job at brainwashing enough of them into choosing option number one.

Very good point, TDR.

I wonder how long they'll participate? Doing so will justify, and lead to, some severe recourse from the population.

[Daniel]

You may want to recall that the 82nd Airborne was sent to New Orleans following Katrina. The US Army had a huge presence in fact. I do not believe any soldiers shot people in the streets.

[Daniel]

In fact this is pretty old news that has been posted here before.

[Hgunner]

if you were in the position of these soldiers, would you rather obey orders by killing American citizens or spend time in jail? I'm sure the government will do a fine job at brainwashing enough of them into choosing option number one.

Well personally, I would like to think I had the balls to shoot the ...hole

that issued it.

If this story was about the Fed's sending 80K troops to our southern border to stop the influx of illegals and stop the (not being racist here)

Mexican/Drug cartel wars from spilling over into the US of A. I'd be all for it. We have American citizens being killed on their own land by invading illegals while our government sets idle and plots the use of force against its own citizens. ........

[Guest gts]

You may want to recall that the 82nd Airborne was sent to New Orleans following Katrina. The US Army had a huge presence in fact. I do not believe any soldiers shot people in the streets.

Instead they just went door-to-door confiscating the firearms of law abiding citizens.

[Daniel]

another old story.

[Hgunner]

You may want to recall that the 82nd Airborne was sent to New Orleans following Katrina. The US Army had a huge presence in fact. I do not believe any soldiers shot people in the streets.

That was aid in a natural disaster, not injecting specially trained combat troops into a already hot civil unrest situation. Of course that may be exactly what they want, a big bad messy situation with a lot of dead so that they can say. Well we can't have this happen again so we've go to outlaw guns. The use of US Troops to aid in a disaster ok, I can get that, helicopters to move supplies, medical treatment etc, ok. Not using Troops as a policing force to quell a riot or put down civil unrest, that's when riots turn into revolts.

[Guest jackdm3]

Kent State University

[Guest 6.8 AR]

I thought the New Orleans PD was doing that, anyway.

[Daniel]

That was aid in a natural disaster, not injecting specially trained combat troops into a already hot civil unrest situation. Of course that may be exactly what they want, a big bad messy situation with a lot of dead so that they can say. Well we can't have this happen again so we've go to outlaw guns. The use of US Troops to aid in a disaster ok, I can get that, helicopters to move supplies, medical treatment etc, ok. Not using Troops as a policing force to quell a riot or put down civil unrest, that's when riots turn into revolts.

101st Airborne Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Civil rights

Main article: Little Rock Nine

Members of the 101st Airborne escorting the Little Rock Nine to school

The Little Rock Nine were a group of African-American students who were enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in September 1957, as a result of The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the historic Brown v. Board of Education case. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, in direct opposition to the Court's ruling, activated and deployed the Arkansas National Guard to support the segregationists on 4 September 1957. The sight of a line of soldiers blocking nine black students from attending high school immediately polarized the city.

Attorneys from the U.S. Justice Department requested an injunction against the governor's deployment of the National Guard from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas in Little Rock. Judge Ronald Davies granted the injunction and ordered the governor to withdraw the National Guard on 20 September.[11]

As a result, elements of the division's 1st Airborne Battle Group, 327th Infantry (bearing the lineage of the old Company A, 327th Glider Infantry Regiment) were ordered to Little Rock by President Eisenhower to enforce the court injunction during the crisis. The division was deployed from September through November 1957, when they were relieved by the U.S. Marshals.

One example.

[Guest gts]

The age of the story is irrelevant.

Nope, not just the NO PD...

YouTube - National Guard Confiscating Guns in New Orleans

[Daniel]

Im not saying that its old so its irrelevant.. I am saying we have discussed it here before.

[saintsfanbrian]

Gents - if you haven't already secured an area to be in when the stuff hits the fan you should. It isn't a matter of if it's a matter of when.

[Hgunner]

One example.

And I remember states using the NG to put down riots in th 60's. but that was the states not the FED's. In your example the 101st was used to enforce a Federal Court order, can't deny that, however they were not engaged in putting down citizen by force. They were a show of force, makes one wonder, what if the Govenor had ordered the Ark NG to open fire on the 101st.