Not that I am a conspiracy theory nut or anything, but this seems kind of odd. Starting October 1st the battle hardened 1st Brigade Combat Team of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division is to be deployed WITHIN THE UNITED STATES. Some of their duties as stated in the Army Times are: 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 explosives.
Now on the surface that all sounds reasonable, but this is our dictator in chief breaking federal law: The Posse Comitatus Act, and the Insurrection Act. The Posse Comitatus Act is to "prohibit federal military personnel under federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress." And the Isurrection Act sates "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 under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."
The Constitution nor Congress have given the authority for bush to deploy the army within our borders. After 9/11 the opportunistic republican party scared congress into passing the patriot act which weakened the Posse Camitatus Act and the Isurrection Act, giving bush broad powers to deploy the military however he wished. This year however, Congress wanted to fix some of the problems with the patriot act and passed the 2008 Defense Authorization Bill, which repealed some of the patriot acts nastier bits, stripping the president of some of his powers to deploy the army.
I don't think/hope anything will come of this, but it does seem the timing of this is odd. It's one month before the election, three months before the most evil president we have ever had is to give up power, and right amidst the fall of Wall Street. But as with any conspiracy theory, coincidences are everywhere.
Now on the surface that all sounds reasonable, but this is our dictator in chief breaking federal law: The Posse Comitatus Act, and the Insurrection Act. The Posse Comitatus Act is to "prohibit federal military personnel under federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress." And the Isurrection Act sates "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 under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."
The Constitution nor Congress have given the authority for bush to deploy the army within our borders. After 9/11 the opportunistic republican party scared congress into passing the patriot act which weakened the Posse Camitatus Act and the Isurrection Act, giving bush broad powers to deploy the military however he wished. This year however, Congress wanted to fix some of the problems with the patriot act and passed the 2008 Defense Authorization Bill, which repealed some of the patriot acts nastier bits, stripping the president of some of his powers to deploy the army.
I don't think/hope anything will come of this, but it does seem the timing of this is odd. It's one month before the election, three months before the most evil president we have ever had is to give up power, and right amidst the fall of Wall Street. But as with any conspiracy theory, coincidences are everywhere.
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I don't think your paranoid to be alarmed. I hope we are just paranoid and not right. ran across this post http://ahrcanum.wordpress.com/ on topic
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