Friday, October 5, 2012

Military police used for crowd control in South Carolina

Press TV



As part of the expanding effort to merge police and military operations - and make Posse Comitatus irrelevant - police in Columbia, South Carolina, will use military police to control revelers after a football game this weekend.

"Columbia police are preparing for the big crowds expected after the Georgia-South Carolina football game Saturday night," WISTV reports. "Officials say campus police, Richland County sheriff's deputies, the South Carolina Highway Patrol and Fort Jackson's military police will help with crowd control after the game."

In addition to the military, officialdom in Columbia plan to establish Fourth Amendment busting DUI checkpoints, barricades, and an observation tower "to keep the crowd under control" and "ensure order."

As Brandon Tuberville writes for Activist Post, the effort is "nothing more than a conditioning exercise designed to acclimate the American people to the sight of U.S. Military troops acting as police and to see it as an ordinary event."

In June, Capt. William Geddes of the U.S. Army Reserve in Missouri admitted that it is against federal law for [soldiers] to do police patrols.

"Perhaps someone should remind Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, General Raymond T. Odierno that it is illegal for troops to conduct law enforcement domestically," Paul Joseph Watson wrote on June 27.

"In a recent Foreign Affairs piece, a publication of the Council on Foreign Relations, Odierno suggested that the army be 'transitioned' into a more 'flexible force' by deploying in situations normally reserved for domestic law enforcement officials."

Increasingly, police are working with the military to conduct domestic law enforcement operations. "Indeed, the Army and other branches of the military have already been deployed domestically for precisely that purpose on innumerable occasions," Watson notes. Prison Planet

FACTS & FIGURES

Military Police were tasked with conducting crowd control at the 2009 Kentucky Derby. Photographs showed MPs detaining a man who had run on the track. infowars.com

In January 2009, soldiers from the Virginia National Guard. Soldiers from the Lynchburg-based 1st Battalion, 116th Brigade Combat Team, were used to conduct personal searches at checkpoints in Washington D.C. for the inauguration of Barack Obama. infowars.com

In February 2009, no less than 2,200 U.S. Marines were also involved in urban operations training in Richmond, Virginia, throughout January, drills that involved landing troops in populated areas, allowing military pilots to "familiarize themselves with the area." infowars.com

In December 2008, the Marine Corps Air and Ground Combat Center dispatched troops to work with police on checkpoints in San Bernardino County, California. meguiar.addr.com

U.S. troops returning from Iraq are now occupying America, running checkpoints and training to deal with "civil unrest and crowd control" under the auspices of a Northcom program that by 2011 will have no less than 20,000 active duty troops deployed inside America to "help" state and local officials during times of emergency. meguiar.addr.com


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