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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