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Originally posted by Vitchilo
They are already putting chips on soldiers in Iraq so they can put robots who kill anyone who doesn't have a chip who's hostile...
[edit on 27-10-2006 by Vitchilo]
Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird What?
No one lives in cities, the U.S. is a suburban society.
Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird When Alas Babylon was made in the 50s, the US was clearly divided like that. You had farm lands and rural areas, and you had cities. Suburban sprawl was just about to take off.
Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird Unfortunately for Titor he kept that type of division in his story, so that now it doesn't even make sense since the US is no longer like that
Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird Now you have cities, suburbs, and then rural areas (which are QUICKLY diminishing - lol, you try finding farmland in Florida)
It generally prohibits Federal military personnel and units of the United States National Guard under Federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress. The Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act substantially limit the powers of the Federal government to use the military for law enforcement. [...] The John Warner Defense Authorization Act, signed October 17, 2006 (Section 1076) has effectively repealed this Act.
On June 22, 2006, the Congress modified the Insurrection Act as part of the 2007 Defense Appropriations Bill. Section 1076 of the new law changes Sec. 333 of the "Insurrection Act," and widens the President's ability to deploy troops within the United States to enforce the laws. Under this act, the President may also deploy troops as a police force during a natural disaster, epidemic, serious public health emergency, terrorist attack, or incident, or other condition, when the President determines that the authorities of the state are incapable of maintaining public order. The bill also modified Sec. 334 of the Insurrection Act, giving the President authority to order the dispersal of either insurgents or "those obstructing the enforcement of the laws." (Like applying the unconstitutionals laws of Military Comissions Act and Patriot Act 1&2)
The new law changed the name of the chapter from "Insurrection" to "Enforcement of the Laws to Restore Public Order."
Originally posted by Vitchilo
The posse comitatus act is now nullify!
It generally prohibits Federal military personnel and units of the United States National Guard under Federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress. The Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act substantially limit the powers of the Federal government to use the military for law enforcement. [...] The John Warner Defense Authorization Act, signed October 17, 2006 (Section 1076) has effectively repealed this Act.
Does the civil war start in such a way that those willing will have time to
remove themselves to safer locations.
JohnTitor
Yes. You will be forced to ask yourself how many civil rights you will give up to
feel safe.
From JT:The Arab countries appear to have weapons of mass destruction. Do they use them against America?
Not against America but they are used against each other.
The Times November 04, 2006
Six Arab states join rush to go nuclear
By Richard Beeston, Diplomatic Editor
Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, UAE and Saudi Arabia seek atom technology
[...]
All want to build civilian nuclear energy programmes, as they are permitted to under international law. But the sudden rush to nuclear power has raised suspicions that the real intention is to acquire nuclear technology which could be used for the first Arab atomic bomb.
Originally posted by EnronOutrunHomerun
BirDMan_X - Please tone your language down and attempt to contribute to the discussion, apart from #-this and #-that....
Please familiarize yourself with the content of this thread:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
It will not be tolerated!
www.chattanoogan.com...
Bush Prepares To Impose Martial Law
posted November 2, 2006
The Republican re-writing of the Insurrection Act gives Bush the authority to declare martial law. For the first time since 1878, the president has the power to deploy troops within the United States. Bush and future presidents now have a power that, in other countries, is reserved to the dictator. [Another interesting Titor quote: "The President in 2009 was interested only in keeping his/her power base."]
Despite the unprecedented and shocking nature of this new law, there has been no outcry in the American media and little reaction from our elected officials in Congress.
The law states that "the President may employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in Federal service when he determines that the authorities of the State "refuse" or "fail" in maintaining public order, "in order to suppress, in any State, any domestic violence or conspiracy."
This means the president can take guardsmen from any state, over the objections of local governmental entities; ship them off to another state; conscript them in a law enforcement mode; and set them loose against "disorderly" citizenry - protesters, possibly.
This de-facto repeal of the Posse Comitatus Act is an ominous assault on American democratic tradition and jurisprudence.
We fail our Constitution, neglecting the rights of the states, when we make it easier for the President to declare martial law and trample on local and state sovereignty."
The balance of power between our 3 branches of government continues to tilt toward the unitary executive. It’s sad that most people don’t realize our democracy is rapidly slipping away.
www.globalresearch.ca...
Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President's ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions.
President Bush seized this unprecedented power on the very same day that he signed the equally odious Military Commissions Act of 2006. In a sense, the two laws complement one another. One allows for torture and detention abroad, while the other seeks to enforce acquiescence at home, preparing to order the military onto the streets of America. Remember, the term for putting an area under military law enforcement control is precise; the term is "martial law."
On September 19th, a lone Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) noted that 2007's Defense Authorization Act contained a "widely opposed provision to allow the President more control over the National Guard [adopting] changes to the Insurrection Act, which will make it easier for this or any future President to use the military to restore domestic order WITHOUT the consent of the nation's governors."
In other words, the law facilitates the "transfer" of the newest in so-called "crowd control" technology and other weaponry designed to suppress dissent from the Pentagon to local militarized police units. The new law builds on and further codifies earlier "technology transfer" agreements, specifically the 1995 DOD-Justice Department memorandum of agreement achieved back during the Clinton-Reno regime.(4)
It has become clear in recent months that a critical mass of the American people have seen through the lies of the Bush administration; with the president's polls at an historic low, growing resistance to the war Iraq, and the Democrats likely to take back the Congress in mid-term elections, the Bush administration is on the ropes. And so it is particularly worrying that President Bush has seen fit, at this juncture to, in effect, declare himself dictator.
Originally posted by Roth Joint
But ofcourse thatsjustweird will try to convince you it’s another ‘good thing’ for America….
How much is too much?…. Can you remember how John Titor was ridiculed for mentioning the ‘National Guard?’
Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird
We've been through this before anyway. As was said many times previously in this thread, imposing martial law on a country as large as the U.S. is impossible. There's not an army in the world that can do it. (Also, since this is a Titor thread, Titor not once mentioned martial law being imposed. If it was imposed during his time he would have mentioned it as that would have been by far the largest military operation the world has ever seen. There's no way you couldn't mention something like that)
Why do you keep going to those sites for your info Roth? Don't you find it a bit odd that absolutely nothing they have ever said would happen has ever happened??
Those sites have less than zero credibility. The fact that you believe these sites really says something about you....
Originally posted by modese7en
That argument is a little disengenuous. I agree that there aren't enough service members in the world able to lock down the entire country, but major cities... thats another story.
Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird
Originally posted by modese7en
That argument is a little disengenuous. I agree that there aren't enough service members in the world able to lock down the entire country, but major cities... thats another story.
What would be the point in locking down major cities? The majority of Americans live in suburbs....
What would be the point of imposing martial law in the first place? No one would do that, especially since they know they wouldn't be able to control it.
Edit: I should add. There's NOT even enough manpower to control the major cities. That's ridiculous. Do you know how many millions of troops that would take?
[edit on 5-11-2006 by ThatsJustWeird]
Originally posted by modese7en
Against a combative and hostile population? You're damn right we couldn't pull it off. We haven't yet after 3 years trying to hold down Baghdad. But a pacified population thats scared of some boogyman bombing their walmart? Yeah, wouldn't take too many troops. Especially if you augment them with police forces and all those people are downright creating a religion out of supporting the troops.
P.S. People are moving to the city core in droves now a days.
Stating that everyone lives in the suburbs is just deflection. I guess it just suits your argument to just forget the term metro area, or to understand that urban population centers include "suburbs" which are satellite towns that have been absorbed into the greater city area as urban sprawl has taken over. I defy you to go to the Bronx and tell them they're not New Yorkers, and that they're suburbanites.
Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird
Originally posted by modese7en
Against a combative and hostile population? You're damn right we couldn't pull it off. We haven't yet after 3 years trying to hold down Baghdad. But a pacified population thats scared of some boogyman bombing their walmart? Yeah, wouldn't take too many troops. Especially if you augment them with police forces and all those people are downright creating a religion out of supporting the troops.
BS
In ANY situation, controlling that many people is impossible.
Name one situation ever where that has happened in modern information age times? Or in a country with as many different cultures/beliefs/etc.?
P.S. People are moving to the city core in droves now a days.
Only in certain areas (the south and southwest).
Stating that everyone lives in the suburbs is just deflection. I guess it just suits your argument to just forget the term metro area, or to understand that urban population centers include "suburbs" which are satellite towns that have been absorbed into the greater city area as urban sprawl has taken over. I defy you to go to the Bronx and tell them they're not New Yorkers, and that they're suburbanites.
wtf are you talking about?
Metro areas are suburbs. If you're not in the city limits you're in the suburbs. Inner...outer burbs....doesn't matter, the fact remains that the vast majority of the US population lives within these areas. Even thinking about controlling an area that large - not only population wise, but geographically as well - is well below the level of saneness.
(not sure why you mentioned the Bronx, when has it not been a part of NYC?)
[edit on 5-11-2006 by ThatsJustWeird]
Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird
Originally posted by Roth Joint
But ofcourse thatsjustweird will try to convince you it’s another ‘good thing’ for America….
Roth stfu
(if you don't know what that means, look it up)
The only thing I said was good for America was curbing the illegal immigration problem.
Fear mongering and putting words in people's mouth. That's ALL you've done in this thread. What good have you done?
How much is too much?…. Can you remember how John Titor was ridiculed for mentioning the ‘National Guard?’
No. No one remembers that because it never happened.
The links you posted are BS.
(just as a few of the ones you posted before, I didn't say anything because I foolishly thought people were smart enough to not believe it)
There is no martial law being planned, I can guarentee you that.
We've been through this before anyway. As was said many times previously in this thread, imposing martial law on a country as large as the U.S. is impossible. There's not an army in the world that can do it. (Also, since this is a Titor thread, Titor not once mentioned martial law being imposed. If it was imposed during his time he would have mentioned it as that would have been by far the largest military operation the world has ever seen. There's no way you couldn't mention something like that)
Why do you keep going to those sites for your info Roth? Don't you find it a bit odd that absolutely nothing they have ever said would happen has ever happened??
Those sites have less than zero credibility. The fact that you believe these sites really says something about you....
Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird
Originally posted by Roth Joint
How much is too much?…. Can you remember how John Titor was ridiculed for mentioning the ‘National Guard?’
No. No one remembers that because it never happened.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
posted on 17-4-2005 at 07:58 (post id: 1349580)
Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird
Originally posted by Roth Joint
Titor clearly states that his family was merely avoiding conflict with the federal police and National Guard starting from 2006. Again, with the situation in America as it is right now, we can see that clearly happening already
LOL
You're not American then. Because no where in America is the situation where people are afraid of the Federal Police and National Guard. The national guard aren't even called out anywhere!
I just went to a little kid's birthday party, his mother is a Fed. police officer. Not once did she threaten me
leahy.senate.gov...
Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) – the co-chairs of the Senate’s National Guard Caucus – said the conference agreement is expected to include a provision making it easier for the President to declare martial law, stripping state governors of part of their authority over state National Guard units in domestic emergencies. The provision is opposed by the National Governors Association and by key leaders in both the House and Senate. The conference report is also expected to drop a Senate-adopted provision authored by Bond and Leahy to elevate the status of the National Guard within the Pentagon.
leahy.senate.gov...
Mr. President, I rise to express my grave reservations about certain provisions of the Fiscal Year 2007 Defense Authorization Bill Conference Report. This legislation poorly handles key provisions related to the National Guard, which — as the events since September 11th have highlighted — is critical to our Nations’ defense.
The final conference report drops the reforms known as the National Guard Empowerment Act, a bill that would have given the National Guard more bureaucratic muscle inside the Pentagon. It would have cleared away some of these administrative cobwebs and given the Guard the seat at the decision-making table that it needs and deserves. It also should concern us all that the Conference agreement includes language that subverts solid, longstanding posse comitatus statutes that limit the military’s involvement in law enforcement, thereby making it easier for the President to declare martial law.
There is good reason for the constructive friction in existing law when it comes to martial law declarations.
Combined, these moves amount to a double punch against the National Guard.The National Guard has done so much to protect the security and safety of our country. Yet the Authorization Bill sends the signal that we are not interested in truly supporting them. This conference report says we do not want to address glaring problems that have surfaced during their increasingly frequent deployments. And, incredibly enough, it says to the Guard that other military forces are better to carry out tasks here at home. In short, this bill goes in the wrong direction.