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- inactive, on 12/01/2008, -5/+234Patriot Act + Domestic Troops = Trouble.
On the sunny side, we still outnumber all the military, police, and politicians combined. - clintmaher, on 04/21/2009, -22/+193Anyone think the North American Union is still a conspiracy?
- silentboom, on 12/01/2008, -10/+153Whether by ignorance or by intention, the bricks are laid and the mortar drying for a police state structure. There will be no freedom left in a short time, be that a generation or less. How many laws can we keep track of? How safe can we be until we are no longer own our lives? Where does it stop and when? If anyone thinks for one second that these soldiers will not eventually be acting as a Federally controlled police force, then you are the crazy ones. Federal power grows, government power grows, spending grows, and those things that make us free and independent shrivel daily and increasingly faster. Like a cancer that demands more and more blood flow our bureaucracy has become destructive to our society and we are coming closer and closer to the day that we must either snap these chains like tiny strings or completely abandon owning our own bodies and minds and give up our reasons for living our own lives. Don't you want to be free anymore? Don't you want to own your own life and make your own decisions? Where are the men? Are there any left? Tomorrow is going to be too late.
- DukeLeto2, on 12/01/2008, -3/+125What was the National Guard for then?
- richmomz, on 12/01/2008, -6/+105George Orwell's "1984" was meant to be a work of fiction not a "how-to" manual.
- Nodaki, on 12/01/2008, -4/+100Sorry folks this is now legal:
Public Law 109-364, or the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" (H.R.5122) (2), which was signed by the commander in chief on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony, allows the President to declare a "public emergency" and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder."
The following is a link to The National Governors Association. All fifty-one governors in the United States signed a letter asking Congress not to pass this legislation as it was an explicit attack on the rights of the governors as commander-in-chief of their respective guard units.
http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8358ec ... - kemp34, on 12/01/2008, -4/+91Regardless of what the true intent behind this is, it is clear that it is not an indication of a good situation.
- kemp34, on 12/01/2008, -6/+92Is it not blatantly obvious by now that the self-important morons in Washington DC who have attempted to micro-manage the entire United States, as well as the WHOLE DAMN WORLD, have utterly failed?
Time for a new paradigm of localism, freedom, diffused power, and true limited government. This is our only hope. - 14justice, on 12/01/2008, -11/+91The Black Helicopters are really coming!
Time to dust off my tinfoil hat and see what the future holds --- or I could just re-read "1984." - inactive, on 12/01/2008, -13/+93Yes.
con⋅spir⋅a⋅cy
an evil, unlawful, treacherous, or surreptitious plan formulated in secret by two or more persons; plot.
So, yes... it is a conspiracy. - mreade, on 12/01/2008, -12/+8620,000 troops inside the US to help deal with a nuclear terrorist attack... I thought they just needed Jack Bauer!
- tito666, on 12/01/2008, -5/+72interesting how this was released online on both msnbc and the washington late sunday night, after the mumbai attacks and at the end of the thanksgiving weekend. then, it is pre-empted in the news cycle monday by the announcement of obama's 'security team'.
the timing of the pentagon's announcement of this seems to be strategically placed to fade away - btgoss, on 12/01/2008, -1/+55It is for when you bleed the active military dry on a war you cannot hope to win, you replace the young with the old.
Oh... what was it meant for?
Keep the peace during situations of extreme emergency and assist local government. - wissler, on 12/01/2008, -3/+56The federal government should only have the power to attack external threats, not US citizens. The Founders were very familiar with the reasons why this should be so.
This is a severe blow to the Republic. - Pssdoff, on 12/01/2008, -2/+53The National Guard and US Boarder Patrol are too busy defending oil fields and pipelines in the Middle East to defend America...
- inactive, on 12/01/2008, -4/+52Funny how this is around when they're releasing the National ID cards with placed RFID chips. Refuse? Get imprisoned.
- Ne007, on 12/01/2008, -4/+50The President just can't "take away" the 2nd amendment.
The President is bound by the constitution, not the other way around. It is our contract with the government.
Without the constitution the United States does not exist and would fragment into separate parts.
Why stay part of a government that doesn't have a contract with the people? - minnasouljah, on 12/02/2008, -5/+50I will be joining the Ron Paul separatist army, so its all good.
- andrewc222, on 12/02/2008, -4/+39I rarely find myself in agreement with gun nuts who viciously proclaim the virtues of the 2nd amendment... but this might be why it's in the constitution.
- normlsparky, on 12/01/2008, -6/+39No need to worry. This is probably just a training exercise, like the 9-11 NORAD war games or the 7-07 terrorism drills in the UK. It will make us all safer.
- kemp34, on 12/01/2008, -7/+38There once was a man named NoL -
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Many ask: "Hath he no brain and no soul?"... - kigcoopa84, on 12/01/2008, -10/+41I am sure Obama will step in and put an end to this...coolaid anyone?
- monsieurginger, on 12/01/2008, -3/+32That's a prophecy, not a conspiracy. Pick up a dictionary!
- claytrainor, on 12/01/2008, -8/+36Maybe, but i'd rather die fighting for freedom than live as a slave.
if we can even wake up 1/6th of americans, that's 50 million people armed with the second ammendment.
What army can stop 50 million Americans with assault rifles? - quesi, on 12/01/2008, -2/+30some will, sir. i hope most won't
- refugeechris, on 12/02/2008, -2/+29Yeah cause only the police and criminals should have guns right dan?
- shiftclick, on 12/01/2008, -2/+29What about the posse comitatus act?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act - Herostratus, on 12/01/2008, -14/+40Don't care who they are who they represent or where they're from. Send em down my street and I will shoot.
- Ne007, on 12/01/2008, -2/+28Yeh...that would have been considered wackos since the U.S. is the most fortified country in the world...plus the fact that the Pentagon has a missile defense system.
People would have thought that the airforce would have shot down the subsequent planes within minutes....
Now they only know of a complete ***** followed by subsequent promotions and completely unanswered questions from families of the victimes.....including mine.
Add the fact that there were actual reports of this scenario years before it actually happened....and the fact that they were doing test maneuvers on that day against a 9-11 type attack on that very day...i'd say your statement is a complete failure. - kemp34, on 12/01/2008, -3/+28Do you think the military would shoot American people?
- inactive, on 12/01/2008, -3/+28all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declara ... - JKap, on 12/01/2008, -12/+35//start coincidence/domino/pancake theory
Army Brigade "Homeland" Tours don't exist but if they did, it would be a good thing. Nothing to worry about. Move along.
No need for "conspiracy theories" and so forth.
//end coincidence/domino/pancake theory - inactive, on 12/01/2008, -3/+26OHH YEEEEAH!!!
wait...
Ohh, no. - markosfunk, on 12/01/2008, -4/+26I hope this isn't a cover up for martial law in preparation for domestic food shortages!
- inactive, on 12/01/2008, -4/+26Only an idiot would dismiss this as meaningless.
- inactive, on 12/02/2008, -1/+22Conspiracy? Right. What's next: public roads sold to foreign corporations and operated as sovereign states right in the middle of America and immune from American laws? That will never ... oh wait ... http://www.nauwarroom.org/index.php/nafta-superhig ...
- Impressa, on 12/02/2008, -0/+21Who else knew about this, because I didn't.
- agentem, on 12/01/2008, -3/+23Considering that he just gave Robert Gates, the architect of this, the keys to the pentagon for 4 more years, I really doubt it.
- akula89, on 12/02/2008, -0/+19the government is not constitutional in the slightest
- replaysMike, on 12/01/2008, -3/+22PEW PEW PEW
- JustLetGo, on 12/02/2008, -0/+19It's been a how-to for years now.
Our whole system is based on Doublethink. - subliminalurge, on 12/02/2008, -2/+19A few psychos will.
The vast majority of our military, however, would grab any and all military hardware/weaponry they could get their hands on, then join the revolutionaries.
The type of person who joins the military does it because he loves his country, not because he loves his government. - ingodwerefucked, on 12/01/2008, -4/+21I wish I could share your optimism, but when I look around me all I see are brainwashed masses. Tell an Obama supporter that he may have ill intentions and you've got a cup of fight filled with the words "hope" and "change" on your hands.
I think people truly do want to see a change, which is absolutely a good thing, but when you have no clue as to what's wrong with our system to being with, how can you ever achieve a positive change?
Once the masses are fighting to impeaching Bush, once the masses start demanding that our troops come home, once the masses demand we repeal the Patriot Act, then I will become hopeful. But as of right now, we have a nation filled we people who can't even see that they are being harshly mistreated. Real change isn't going to come until people realize this. - Wolfie351, on 12/02/2008, -2/+19Papers, bitte
- Impressa, on 12/02/2008, -0/+16Got flushed in teh Oval Office's toilet.
- muckemuck, on 12/01/2008, -9/+25Why do we need this if Obama is going to make the world a peaceful place?
- jurnei, on 12/02/2008, -0/+16Just how are they going to stop a nuclear weapon from going off? Jump on top of it?
- atexisthatbest, on 12/01/2008, -9/+24Martial Law anyone?
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