Watch-the US elections going to be suspended

[Blackstar*]

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Why is a U.S. Army brigade being assigned to the &quot;Homeland&quot;?</span></span>

For the first time in 100 years, and contrary to a long-standing legal prohibition, an active duty military unit is permanently assigned inside the U.S.

Despite the Insurrection Act passed in 1807 to severely restrict the president's ability to deploy the military within the United States. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 tightened these restrictions, imposing a two-year prison sentence on anyone who used the military within the U.S. without the express permission of Congress. But there is a loophole: Posse Comitatus is waived if the president invokes the Insurrection Act.

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[Derek]

Re: Watch-the US elections going to be suspended

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BlackStar</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Why is a U.S. Army brigade being assigned to the &quot;Homeland&quot;?</span></span>

For the first time in 100 years, and contrary to a long-standing legal prohibition, an active duty military unit is permanently assigned inside the U.S.

Despite the Insurrection Act passed in 1807 to severely restrict the president's ability to deploy the military within the United States. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 tightened these restrictions, imposing a two-year prison sentence on anyone who used the military within the U.S. without the express permission of Congress. But there is a loophole: Posse Comitatus is waived if the president invokes the Insurrection Act.

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When the American flag is flying with two gold strips along the edges, doesn't that mean we are living under Maritime (as opposed to Civil) Law?

[chitowngirl]

Re: Watch-the US elections going to be suspended

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: H_O</div><div class="ubbcode-body">you watch---the next step is a suspension of The US Election and it will all be done under the Patriot Act

and America will end up with this:</div></div>




<span style="font-style: italic">oonu conspiracy theorists</span>

[Tuff Gong]

Re: Watch-the US elections going to be suspended

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: chitown</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: H_O</div><div class="ubbcode-body">you watch---the next step is a suspension of The US Election and it will all be done under the Patriot Act

and America will end up with this:</div></div>




<span style="font-style: italic">oonu conspiracy theorists</span> </div></div>


LOL!

[dahjah]

Re: Bush Postpones 2008 Election By Stephen Gillers

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-weight: bold">This article appeared in the August 14, 2006 edition of The Nation.</span>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060814/gillers

What Did 'Four Years' Mean in 1789?

WASHINGTON, June 21, 2008. <span style="font-weight: bold">President Bush, citing his authority as Commander in Chief of the armed forces and his inherent constitutional power over foreign affairs, today ordered a postponement of the 2008 presidential election in order &quot;to protect the American people in our war on terror.&quot; </span>

In a speech during a surprise visit to Baghdad, where he celebrated the summer solstice with the troops, Mr. Bush told the nation that the election will be &quot;rescheduled as soon as a change in leadership does not create a security threat and not a second later. When the Iraqis stand up, we'll vote.&quot;

&quot;Elections are important,&quot; the President acknowledged. &quot;I know that. I believe in elections. I'm President because of an election, sort of. But protecting the nation from another 9/11 is more important than holding an election precisely on time.&quot;

The President noted that as Commander in Chief he had already approved telephone wiretapping without court warrant, incarcerated alleged &quot;enemy combatants&quot; indefinitely without trial and, in a February 2002 order, now rescinded, had authorized the armed forces to ignore the Geneva Conventions when &quot;consistent with military necessity,&quot; so long as everyone was treated &quot;humanely.&quot;

&quot;If I can do all that, I can defer an election,&quot; the President said. &quot;Look, as between not voting on time and getting locked up without all those Geneva rules and such, which is worse?&quot;

In a Washington press conference following the President's speech, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales laid out the legal basis for his department's conclusion that the President could postpone the election.

&quot;Legally, it's simple,&quot; Mr. Gonzales said. &quot;It depends on what the meaning of 'four years' is. The Constitution says the President 'shall hold his office during the term of four years.' It does not say 'only four years' or 'four years and not a day more.' The Framers intended 'four years' to be a preference, not a rigid number. We should not take it literally any more than the words 'hold his office' means no woman can be President. A woman is running now.

&quot;Time meant something different in 1789,&quot; Mr. Gonzales added. &quot;This was before airline schedules and self-winding watches. People didn't run their lives by the clock. Many Americans didn't have clocks.&quot;

In a speech on the Senate floor, Joseph Lieberman (IND-Conn.) supported the President's decision. &quot;While I do not believe we should lightly suspend the exercise of the franchise,&quot; he said, &quot;protection of the nation cannot be and must not be a partisan issue. As Americans, we can all agree that security is the most important job of a President. We can have a country without an election, but we cannot have an election without a country. It's as simple as that.&quot;

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), the likely Democratic nominee, had no immediate comment, but her office said she will hold a news conference following the results of early polling. A spokesperson for her campaign, granted anonymity because she was not authorized to speak to the press about anything, said the senator &quot;is absolutely opposed to postponing the election as such, but she is amenable to rescheduling the day designated for the actual vote. There is a difference.&quot;

Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said he was &quot;troubled&quot; that he had not been consulted on the President's decision. He vowed to &quot;hold hearings following the day that should have been election day if I am chairman of the committee at that time. Unfortunately, we're backlogged on judicial nominations at the moment, and then there's the summer recess. People have plans and nonrefundable tickets.&quot;

At his press conference, Mr. Gonzales denied that the Supreme Court's 2006 rejection of military tribunals meant that the President could not delay an election. That decision, known as Hamdan, rested on federal statutes and the Geneva Accords. &quot;Hamdan was about trials, not voting,&quot; he explained. &quot;Geneva doesn't apply to voting. It's a mistake to confuse the two.&quot;

Asked if he expected a court challenge to the President's decision, Mr. Gonzales said he was &quot;resigned to the prospect that some may cynically try to use this for their own political advantage.&quot; But he added that he was &quot;confident that if the case reaches the Supreme Court, five Justices will agree with our interpretation of 'four years.'&quot;

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as usual dem kip dem ting outta de merikkkan press

[dahjah]

Re: Watch-the US elections going to be suspended

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: chitown</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: H_O</div><div class="ubbcode-body">you watch---the next step is a suspension of The US Election and it will all be done under the Patriot Act

and America will end up with this:</div></div>




<span style="font-style: italic">oonu conspiracy theorists</span> </div></div>

it is good to have faith in ones country nuh chroo

[H_O]

Re: Watch-the US elections going to be suspended

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: chitown</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: H_O</div><div class="ubbcode-body">you watch---the next step is a suspension of The US Election and it will all be done under the Patriot Act

and America will end up with this:</div></div>




<span style="font-style: italic">oonu conspiracy theorists</span> </div></div>
David Icke claims there are Aliens living amongst us from along time ago

[chitowngirl]

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<span style="font-weight: bold">Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1</span>
<span style="font-style: italic">3rd Infantry’s 1st BCT trains for a new dwell-time mission. Helping ‘people at home’ may become a permanent part of the active Army</span>

The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys.

Now they’re training for the same mission — with a twist — at home.

Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, <span style="font-weight: bold">the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks</span>.

<span style="font-weight: bold">It is not the first time an active-duty unit has been tapped to help at home. In August 2005, for example, when Hurricane Katrina unleashed hell in Mississippi and Louisiana, several active-duty units were pulled from various posts and mobilized to those areas.</span>

<span style="font-weight: bold">But this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities.</span>

<span style="font-weight: bold">After 1st BCT finishes its dwell-time mission, expectations are that another, as yet unnamed, active-duty brigade will take over and that the mission will be a permanent one.</span>

“Right now, the response force requirement will be an enduring mission. How the [Defense Department] chooses to source that and whether or not they continue to assign them to NorthCom, that could change in the future,” said Army Col. Louis Vogler, chief of NorthCom future operations. “Now, the plan is to assign a force every year.”

<span style="font-weight: bold">The command is at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., but the soldiers with 1st BCT, who returned in April after 15 months in Iraq, will operate out of their home post at Fort Stewart, Ga., where they’ll be able to go to school, spend time with their families and train for their new homeland mission as well as the counterinsurgency mission in the war zones.</span>

Stop-loss will not be in effect, so soldiers will be able to leave the Army or move to new assignments during the mission, and the operational tempo will be variable.

Don’t look for any extra time off, though. The at-home mission does not take the place of scheduled combat-zone deployments and will take place during the so-called dwell time a unit gets to reset and regenerate after a deployment.

The 1st of the 3rd is still scheduled to deploy to either Iraq or Afghanistan in early 2010, which means the soldiers will have been home a minimum of 20 months by the time they ship out.

In the meantime, they’ll learn new skills, use some of the ones they acquired in the war zone and more than likely will not be shot at while doing any of it.

<span style="font-weight: bold">They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack.

Training for homeland scenarios has already begun at Fort Stewart and includes specialty tasks such as knowing how to use the “jaws of life” to extract a person from a mangled vehicle; extra medical training for a CBRNE incident; and working with U.S. Forestry Service experts on how to go in with chainsaws and cut and clear trees to clear a road or area.</span>

The 1st BCT’s soldiers also will learn how to use “the first ever nonlethal package that the Army has fielded,” 1st BCT commander Col. Roger Cloutier said, referring to crowd and traffic control equipment and nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals without killing them.

“It’s a new modular package of nonlethal capabilities that they’re fielding. They’ve been using pieces of it in Iraq, but this is the first time that these modules were consolidated and this package fielded, and because of this mission we’re undertaking we were the first to get it.”

The package includes equipment to stand up a hasty road block; spike strips for slowing, stopping or controlling traffic; shields and batons; and, beanbag bullets.

“I was the first guy in the brigade to get Tasered,” said Cloutier, describing the experience as “your worst muscle cramp ever — times 10 throughout your whole body.

“I’m not a small guy, I weigh 230 pounds ... it put me on my knees in seconds.”

The brigade will not change its name, but the force will be known for the next year as a CBRNE Consequence Management Response Force, or CCMRF (pronounced “sea-smurf”).

“I can’t think of a more noble mission than this,” said Cloutier, who took command in July. “We’ve been all over the world during this time of conflict, but now our mission is to take care of citizens at home ... and depending on where an event occurred, you’re going home to take care of your home town, your loved ones.”

While soldiers’ combat training is applicable, he said, some nuances don’t apply.

<span style="font-weight: bold">“If we go in, we’re going in to help American citizens on American soil, to save lives, provide critical life support, help clear debris, restore normalcy and support whatever local agencies need us to do, so it’s kind of a different role,” said Cloutier, who, as the division operations officer on the last rotation, learned of the homeland mission a few months ago while they were still in Iraq.</span>

<span style="font-weight: bold">Some brigade elements will be on call around the clock, during which time they’ll do their regular marksmanship, gunnery and other deployment training. That’s because the unit will continue to train and reset for the next deployment, even as it serves in its CCMRF mission.</span>

Should personnel be needed at an earthquake in California, for example, all or part of the brigade could be scrambled there, depending on the extent of the need and the specialties involved.

<span style="font-style: italic">Other branches included

The active Army’s new dwell-time mission is part of a NorthCom and DOD response package.

Active-duty soldiers will be part of a force that includes elements from other military branches and dedicated National Guard Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Teams.

A final mission rehearsal exercise is scheduled for mid-September at Fort Stewart and will be run by Joint Task Force Civil Support, a unit based out of Fort Monroe, Va., that will coordinate and evaluate the interservice event.

In addition to 1st BCT, other Army units will take part in the two-week training exercise, including elements of the 1st Medical Brigade out of Fort Hood, Texas, and the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade from Fort Bragg, N.C.

There also will be Air Force engineer and medical units, the Marine Corps Chemical, Biological Initial Reaction Force, a Navy weather team and members of the Defense Logistics Agency and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

One of the things Vogler said they’ll be looking at is communications capabilities between the services.

“It is a concern, and we’re trying to check that and one of the ways we do that is by having these sorts of exercises. Leading up to this, we are going to rehearse and set up some of the communications systems to make sure we have interoperability,” he said.

“I don’t know what America’s overall plan is — I just know that 24 hours a day, seven days a week, there are soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines that are standing by to come and help if they’re called,” Cloutier said. “It makes me feel good as an American to know that my country has dedicated a force to come in and help the people at home.”</span>

source - armytimes.com

[kia027]

Re: Watch-the US elections going to be suspended

well did they suspend elections?

[ILP]

Re: Watch-the US elections going to be suspended

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Hay_Rolla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">well did they suspend elections? </div></div>

[foolya]

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Every thing that about US from start to end has been long written. First in Daniel in 600 BC and finally by John in 60 AD.
The humanist and others don't wanna believe because they have traded themselves for the moment pleasure.

[foolya]

Re: Watch-the US elections going to be suspended

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Emperah_dahJah</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: chitown</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: H_O</div><div class="ubbcode-body">:</div></div>




<span style="font-style: italic">oonu conspiracy theorists</span> </div></div>

it is good to have faith in ones country nuh chroo </div></div>


Get rid of your Illuminati avatar!

[Dyoll_73]

Re: Watch-the US elections going to be suspended

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: foolya</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Every thing that about US from start to end has been long written. First in Daniel in 600 BC and finally by John in 60 AD.
The humanist and others don't wanna believe because they have traded themselves for the moment pleasure. </div></div>

you are an educated man, are you not?

[R_C]

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God I love this stuff !

[R_C]

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Are there any Masons on boardlane ?