Suburban Police Latest Weapon: Military War Wagons
Do cops really need this? In the suburbs?
Soldiers impose curfews and guard shops in attempt to control looters as death toll from disaster increases to more than 700
Martial law is defined as the imposition of military rule by military authorities on an emergency basis when the civilian government or civilian authorities fail to function effectively.
When the military is used in a police capacity, it is still subject to all the rules and processes that govern the police.
“We are rapidly moving toward a dangerous time in our history.”
Reassurance is fine as long as it’s well founded
To help advance the “synchronization and integration of State and Federal military activities in the United States”
Control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities
Posse Comitatus DOA
Schwarzenegger said he wants to study counter-insurgency strategies developed by the US military when Iraq was on the brink of civil war, and bring them back to the mean streets of California, where criminal gangs rule entire neighbourhoods, especially in large cities.
U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin calls for the imposition of martial law in Chicago.
Most Americans are unaware of the militarization phenomenon simply because it has been creeping along imperceptibly for many years.
For three days, Downtown was emptied of four-fifths of its population and replaced with 4,000 cops who spread out to different parts of the city when ordered to do so by some invisible democracy-hating high command.
Honduras’s interim leaders suspended key civil liberties last night in response to “calls for insurrection” by ousted president Manuel Zelaya, empowering police and soldiers to break up “unauthorised” public meetings, arrest people without warrants and restrict the news media.
In the videos here, we get an idea of what the federalized and militarized police in Pittsburgh really think of the First Amendment. The victims shown below are not government provocateurs or anarchists, but middle class students.
Once the areas are prepared for training, Soldiers will be flown to Troy via helicopters from Fort Campbell and dropped onto multiple locations within the city, such as they would in a real-world, combat scenario.
Beginning today, you may see Marine aircraft in the skies. They include the Cobra and Chinook helicopters and Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft.
More than 2,500 Pennsylvania National Guard service members moved into place for Operation Steel Kickoff, Sunday, an upcoming National Security Special Event in support of the international G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh, Sept. 20.
The Bedminster supervisors recently were asked about a helicopter seen in the area and police Chief Mark Ofner said it was an Army National Guard chopper working with Pennsylvania State Police officers on the ground.
In case of a swine flu pandemic the French government has a plan to introduce emergency measures that would gut legal protections for citizens, the daily Liberation reported Tuesday
