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Thread #56181 Message #876658
Posted By: GUEST
28-Jan-03 - 12:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: Meet Your new Military Dicattor
Subject: BS: Meet Your Dictator
(Sept. 11, 2001..the CIA and U.S. military carry out an attack on the U.S. The FAA closed down the air corridors immediately, but the two Generals in charge...Eberhart and Myers...never put interceptor jets in the air):
...The First Air Force Commander then relays this info to The Commander in Chief (CINC) of NORAD. On 9/11, this was Gen. Ralph "Ed" Eberhart....
http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=7706
(April 17, 2002...Announcement that NORTHCOM has been created, turning the U.S. into a warzone for the first time in our history. 350,000 U.S. troops are assigned to NORTHCOM, to be supplemented by NATO and U.N. troops as needed):
...NORTHCOM will join the four other geographic commands -- European Command, Central Command, Southern Command and Pacific Command -- with the power to mobilize troops in support of a military objective, but has one important limitation: U.S. law forbids the American military from operating on U.S. soil....
(July 17, 2002...the General who ordered the interceptor jets to stand down on Sept. 11 argues for 'review' of the Possee Comitatus Act. If that act is repealed, U.S. troops can legally police the streets of America):
US Air Force General Ralph E. Eberhart, head of the newly established Northern Command, says he supports giving greater domestic powers to the military in the Bush administration's "war on terrorism." The Northern Command, which will begin operations October 1, will oversee all military personnel flying patrols over American cities, as well as those patrolling waters up to 500 miles off the US coast....
Calling into question Posse Comitatus is among the most sinister elements of Bush's proposals for a new Department of Homeland Security. This review of the 125-year-old law could pave the way for the authorities to more easily establish martial law, wiping out basic civil liberties of citizens and non-citizens alike. The Bush administration's assault on Posse Comitatus is consistent with its efforts to weaken the core democratic principle of the subordination of the military to civilian authority....