“It’s Not a Conspiracy Theory… It Is Happening Right Now”

Mac Slavo
May 20th, 2013
SHTFplan.com




The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 was originally established to protect American citizens from the federal use of military troops to enforce and execute the laws of the land unless expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress. Since then, for over a century, this task has fallen upon local and federal law enforcement. But with the War on Terror taking center stage in the United States for the last decade, elements within the government have been working tirelessly to expand the mission of the US military on the domestic front.

First, they passed the Patriot Act, which gave the government sweeping new powers to categorize any individual as a terrorist, whether they are operating on foreign lands or here at home. In 2011, as America brought in the New Year, they signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act, which made it possible for American citizens who were categorized as domestic terrorists under the Patriot Act to be detained and imprisoned indefinitely without charge or trial.

Finally, last week we learned that, as President Obama came under fire for the many scandals rocking his administration, the government was quietly moving to give the Department of Defense unprecedented authority on U.S. soil, effectively nullifying Posse Comitatus.

Eric Blair of Activist Post writes:

First, the senate is debating an expansion of the already broad powers of the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF) so the U.S. can essentially engage any area in the world in the war on terror, including America. Which brings us to the second development: the Pentagon has recently granted itself police powers on American soil.

Assistant Secretary of Defense Michael Sheehan told Congress yesterday that the AUMF authorized the US military to operate on a worldwide battlefield from Boston to Pakistan. Sheehan emphasized that the Administration is authorized to put boots on the ground wherever the enemy chooses to base themselves, essentially ignoring the declaration of war clause in the US Constitution.

While Americans were distracted with three developing scandals pushed by both wings of the mainstream media, sinister developments were taking place behind closed doors. In essence, the US military has granted itself the power to deploy troops on the streets of America without approval from the President or Congress, and the AUMF, which was originally designed to target the terrorists responsible for 9/11, has been expanded to give the government authority to use military assets on the domestic front without a declaration from Congress.

Charlie McGrath of Wide Awake News explains:

Thanks to the hard work of Eric Blair at Activist Post we understand that Washington D.C. has been very busy eroding your freedom.

In fact, Senator Angus King went so far as to say that the hearing he was involved in was the most astonishing and disturbing hearing he has ever seen.

Even John McCain, war hawk John McCain, came out and said the government has gone way beyond its authority.

What are they talking about? The AUMF – Authorization to Use Military Force.

This piece of legislation that was put into place way back when we started the war on terror that is now turning from foreign enemies to YOU. Don’t be shocked by that, because you are on the list if you are a freedom minded, free thinker that believes in a Constitutional Republic.

They are changing the wording of this thing so that the military can be used on the streets of this country.

It’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s not some kind of a fancy fantasy that may come true down the road.

It is happening right now, in the guise of other news events that are not news events.

Even more terrifying is the fact that West Point has come out recently and said that you – if you have a theory that the federal government is trying to take over and implement a national police force – you could fall into the category of a domestic terrorist.

A domestic terrorist that can be dealt with by military force…

The only conspiracy here is what the government is telling us.

This legislation is real. The militarization of America is in full force. We are the targets.

And don't forget where a fair chunk of public sentiment is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2diNojgJF9c

In all honesty, I don't know what the difference would be if they go door to door taking guns, just another group of armed criminals doing the looting.

On the other hand, if there is a big push for the door to door gun confiscation without a ten year long purge of pro-freedom types within the military, then what we have is a boots on the ground force that will be more prepared to back up the freedom fighters when the feds and their local designated forces make their moves like they did in New Orleans.

My take on New Orleans, and probably the number one reason I was kept out of the deployment is that once we saw local police pulling stunts like the Danziger bridge massacre and those numerous incidents of aiming rifles at people coming off the refugee buses as they were were being "processed", then regardless of whether or not their authority to commit acts of abuse came from a civilian authority or not, it would be necessary to assert federal authority on the part of the military command and remove the police from the situation, if not neutralize them.

This gets to the subject of what is coming down the pipe, and nobody can realistically expect the entire military command structure at the Pentagon to sit things out as some situation in some city gets out of hand while incompetent and brutally corrupt local authorities commit to actions which would have the logical consequence of starting major uprisings.

We saw this in Los Angeles in the early 1990s, where the LAPD was viewed by the military as having caused most of the problems they got themselves in with the local population, and then when military personnel were restricted to five rounds per man to go in and play target dummy duty at fixed location security while LAPD ran around playing rambo. The directives for military involvement in the anticipated second set of riots had the officers been acquitted again in the Rodney King case involved some demands for asserting military authority to contain situations, removal of LAPD and direct federal oversight of further policing operations there for an indefinite period of time.

That was requested, belatedly, and denied during the Katrina deployments. The thing is, we have precedents for such action, complete blueprints for it as coordinated with Special Forces advisers, down in Southern Mexico. There have been incidents on video where the Army shows up one morning to the police HQ in a town and just takes them all in to custody, then formally disarms them and begins patrolling the streets as they attempt to sort out which officers are loyal to which drug cartels and other criminal groups.

This just goes to illustrate what I have been posting for a long time about the upcoming revolution; it is more likely than not that we will not be directly involved in the early stages, and nobody but the central players in the groups most directly involved will even know what the sides are. Sure, there are people with personal agendas and vendettas, but that does not account for big picture side taking or how other people in other organizations decide to interpret their oaths.

What nobody can depend on in any of these scenarios is planning based on "the cavalry will come over the hill to save us". There most likely be no help at all coming if you mix it up with bad guys sporting what they figure is sufficient authority to put you down. At that stage, realistic decisions need to be made regarding how to behave when the operations environment is both personally hostile, and enemy held turf with numerous enemy loyalist elements holding the reigns of power. That gets to the ugly point of the gray area of pretending to get along while resisting, and that "pretending to get along" reaches so far into collaboration that those who need your help in the fight for freedom might view you as a betrayer. Other points that gets to involve realistic expectations and resources for cooperation with those who are willing and able to assist, what those goals should be, and how much assistance is warranted for each situation that pops up.