Pentagon devising scenarios for martial law in US

[struggle4progress]

According to a report published Monday by the Washington Post, the Pentagon has developed its first ever war plans for operations within the continental United States, in which terrorist attacks would be used as the justification for imposing martial law on cities, regions or the entire country.

The front-page article cites sources working at the headquarters of the military’s Northern Command (Northcom), located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The plans themselves are classified, but “officers who drafted the plans” gave details to Post reporter Bradley Graham, who was recently given a tour of Northcom headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base. The article thus appears to be a deliberate leak conducted for the purpose of accustoming the American population to the prospect of military rule.

According to Graham, “the new plans provide for what several senior officers acknowledged is the likelihood that the military will have to take charge in some situations, especially when dealing with mass-casualty attacks that could quickly overwhelm civilian resources.”

The Post account declares, “The war plans represent a historic shift for the Pentagon, which has been reluctant to become involved in domestic operations and is legally constrained from engaging in law enforcement.” <snip>

http://www.asiantribune.com/show_article.php?id=2620

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. Heil, Bush!

For, that is what this country is truly coming to, if this is allowed to happen.

Already we have the Military and the DOJ ignoring Supreme Court orders! Do you think the military will care if their acts are deemed unconstitutional?
hardly.

[MichiganVote]

2. Ominous

[cdb]

3. Oh I feel SO secure now...

The miltary will be taking care of me when things go badly. I wonder which internment camp I will be sent to? I hope its in the tropics....

[Beaver Tail]

4. And all they will have to do is

Create a terrorist threat to impose martial law. Hitler did it with the Reichstag. Bush would do it too.

[Son of California]

5. And this is, of coarse, why our forefathers, in all their wisdom

provided us with the Second Amendment -and precisely for this reason!

[havocmom]

7. Yep

Keep yer powder dry

[Lowell]

12. Amen.

And the United States has the best armed citizenry on the globe. Resisting tyranny is not only a responsibility, but a duty. Our forefathers were a lot smarter than this bunch we have now.

[wtmusic]

6. Their "historic shift" is throwing posse comitatus out the window?

That's kind of like the "historic shift" which decided to toss Geneva. There's a pattern here...

[struggle4progress]

8. The Cons have had Posse Comitatus in their crosshairs since ..

.. the days of King Ronald the Pretender, and they pushed hard during the Ollie days to eliminate it then ...

[Independent_Liberal]

9. Like I said earlier...

We need to watch out for those terror drills. It's hard to tell what the cons might try to pull.

Have any of you come up with any ideas as to how we might be able to thwart a second MIHOP?

[HawkerHurricane]

10. Old News.

The military has made plans for dealing with martial law since at least 1916. War Plans from 1916 to 1942 (color coded) involved every situation the Army and Navy could think of, including Communist/Anarchist uprisings, African American revolts, and Fascist coups...
There's some department in the Pentagon who's entire purpose is to come up with plans for the darndest stuff. Let me know when they start activating them...
(In the Summer of 1941, phase one of War Plan Orange was activated... we were getting ready for war with Japan. In December of 1941, after Pearl Harbor, War Plan Black for war with Germany was activated.)

The fact they have such plans I'll take as a given, the fact that BushCo is updating them doesn't surprise me... let me know if it looks like they're activating them.

[wli]

11. time to flee the country; Cheney is going to kill or enslave us all

This is seriously bad news.