They're Bringing the Boys Home From Iraq -- So They Can Taser YOU!

Read the Army Times article, learn a little about how the National Guard works, look up where the 1BDE 3ID is normally stationed, then take a deep breath.

This report has been over sensationalized, blown far out of proportion and made to be entirely something that it is not.

It's actually probably a better way to do it than it's been done the last few years. "Beginning in October the US plans to send military to US for civilian operations" ...this is an exaggerated statement 1 BDE 3 ID has been stationed in GA, USA for as long as I can remember. So it's not that military units are being brought into the US for the sole purpose of policing the populous. Rather, the unit is back in the States on their dwell time between deployments and being trained to handle domestic problems such as Katrina. You should be comforted that they are being trained for this. In the past it has been a cluster**** trying to send federal troops into disaster areas. The fact of the matter is that the federal government has been using active duty troops to assist in disasters along with National Guard troops. Now there will be ~ 4-5k troops at any given time that will be better prepared to assist.

The assigning of the 1BDE to NORTHCOMM doesn't change any of the legal requirements for the use of the military stateside. There isn't some 4 Star just sitting around planning to take over the country. Assigning the brigade to NORTHCOMM gives it a clear chain of command for domestic operations and more importantly it increases the response and coordination time drastically. Now they will be integrated with the C&C assets of NORTHCOMM well before any disaster would require their use.

There isn't much difference in using the National Guard and using federal troops other than by using federal troops you aren't pulling guard troops off their jobs for weeks or months at a time with little to no notice.

Basically, the bottom line is this is a move to hopefully allow a better response in disaster situations that is it. Anyone who has been in the military can appreciate how difficult planning these recovery operations are, and they are made more difficult when there isn't clear divisions of responsibility and a clear chain of command.

Just to give you some perspective. Imagine if someone called into your work today and said that they needed to get all of your employees to work on project XYZ 3 states away by Thursday... it is a massive undertaking and impossibly difficult to plan for, so all you can do is train and establish standard operating procedures. Think of how hard this would be with even 50 employees, now multiply that by 100 and you have a brigade. The active units that have been sent before were not trained or prepared at all for this. They just got a call and told be here at 0800.

It's important to remember as well that the soldiers, marines and airmen are US citizens too, and the vast majority of them have an above average sense of devotion to the country...not the government. You'll find that 99% of them are uncomfortable if not completely object to domestic policing operations in any form.

Don't forget that Ron Paul received more money from the military than ANY candidate in primaries, and more than all the other Republicans combined. There are very few "neocons" in the military.

With all that being said, there is always the danger of the executive misusing the active military, and so long as there is an active military this will be the case. We need to guard against erosion of the legal precedent for the use of martial law as this is where the real danger lies.

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