Welcome Home, War! Creating the “Domestic Surveillance State”
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“In September 2008, the Army’s Northern Command announced that one of the Third Division’s brigades in Iraq would be reassigned as a Consequence Management Response Force (CMRF) inside the U.S. Its new mission: planning for moments when civilian authorities may need help with “civil unrest and crowd control.”
This outrage was made possible by the Military Commissions Act (MCA), which essentially eviscerated the Posse Comitatus Act that, for almost 150 years, forbade the use of military forces on U.S. soil.
Not mentioned in the article is the soon-to-become-law Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Act (VRHTA), which could outdo even the MCA in its undermining of civil liberties. Having read the VRHTA, I found that, under it, it is actually conceivable that reciting the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence (“the right of the people to alter or abolish” “destructive” government) could be considered treasonous. I kid you not.
Finally, it is instructive to note that we now talk of “homeland security” as a given, since the creation of the DHS (originally OHS) in 2001. Yet few people realize that, after Hitler took power, the first agency he created was…the Department of Homeland Security (using that exact same phrase in German).
And they say it can’t happen here…
Peace.
Posted on 23-Nov-09 at 8:05 am | Permalinkgood points for a frightening situation. why don’t you post this to Civic
Posted on 28-Nov-09 at 9:02 pm | Permalink