The Patriot Act 2, Immigration and NORTHCOM

Canada is part of NORTHCOM according to Rumsfeld and Bush.

For those who are confused, NORTHCOM is the foundation of Patriot Act 2 and the continental "integration" of military command structures, immigration, police and intelligence. Oh yeah, and trade.





Now this is worth pause, and thought.



Also see:

US Threatens Canada's Airspace: Ignores International Law



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no northcom has nothing to do with any laws, northcom is a military zone of defense, or the US northern command, youre way off on this, way off.

You need to read the material. References are made explicitly to policing immigration etc.

sofi, youre wrong, its not any such thing, its mission is defense of north america and assist in civil support(disaster assistance missions) and counter drug/terrorism missions, its only 1200 people for the whole continent, not enough to police anything, they only come if fema, batf, fbi, or any federal agency is having trouble.

Okay - I will research more. ...Someone talked about it (credibly) on another thread earlier - and I did some quick reading. It does sound like it has the capacity to snowball - "defense of north america and assist in civil support and counter drug/terrorism missions" covers a WHOLE lot of territory as we've learned through the Patriot Act and other anti-terrorism measures...

...If you have something concrete, would like links. Thanks.

I found the web site of NORTHCOM and I also found this,



Its under Homefront.

www.northcom.mil...

I am curious - since the US has a unified command that covers all of these items for every region of the globe - does that mean that we are infringing on the rights of every country in the world?

NORTHCOM is significant because it is the final nail in the coffin for the already weakened 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibited the U.S. military from participating in law enforcement activities on U.S. soil. This was put in place because of the obvious need to protect Americans from the temptation to control citizens with military force and to essentially turn the U.S. into a military dictatorship. There are reasonable exceptions that have been made throughout history, such as when the military lends "passive assistance", like equipment, to law enforcement.

A big reason why the military needs to barred from civilian confrontations is that law enforcement is specifically trained to deal with the public and to use force as a last resort--the military typically will be quick to use force.

Posse Comitatus was weakened twice in the 90's under Clinton to allow military participation to protect Americans against terrorism, but NORTHCOM is much broader and much more dangerous--especially because it extends to ANYWHERE in North America and there is no Presidential approval required before acting.

The military can now assist in non-military events such as "crisis management, consequence management, and other domestic civil support." In addition, in the event that the national threat level is assessed to be red, Northcom will be a big part of coordinating the emergency government.



globalresearch.ca...

Maybe that's what the rest of the world means when they talk about "US military expansionist policies."

Sorry namehere - NORTHCOM obviously needs some serious scrutiny.


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You know after reading the thread header yesterday I go right on an email and sent it Ottawa. I'm not fooling myself that it would make a difference or even be viewed from the top.

However, if enough people were to send Ottawa something indicating the type of concerns that are directly related to soficrow's iimportant quote and, well that's better than none I would think.
Another thing, this US Ambassador to Canada - Salucci or whatever his name is, does he just carry that gun around, or does he get to shoot people (countries) with now and then.

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