Memo outlines Obama’s plan to use the military against citizens

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Inside the Ring: Memo outlines Obama’s plan to use the military against citizens

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By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times - Wednesday, May 28, 2014

A 2010 Pentagon directive on military support to civilian authorities details what critics say is a troubling policy that envisions the Obama administration’s potential use of military force against Americans.

The directive contains noncontroversial provisions on support to civilian fire and emergency services, special events and the domestic use of the Army Corps of Engineers.

The troubling aspect of the directive outlines presidential authority for the use of military arms and forces, including unarmed drones, in operations against domestic unrest.

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“This appears to be the latest step in the administration’s decision to use force within the United States against its citizens,” said a defense official opposed to the directive.

Directive No. 3025.18, “Defense support of Civil Authorities,” was issued Dec. 29, 2010, and states that U.S. commanders “are provided emergency authority under this directive.”

“Federal military forces shall not be used to quell civil disturbances unless specifically authorized by the president in accordance with applicable law or permitted under emergency authority,” the directive states.

“In these circumstances, those federal military commanders have the authority, in extraordinary emergency circumstances where prior authorization by the president is impossible and duly constituted local authorities are unable to control the situation, to engage temporarily in activities that are necessary to quell large-scale, unexpected civil disturbances” under two conditions.

The conditions include military support needed “to prevent significant loss of life or wanton destruction of property and are necessary to restore governmental function and public order.” A second use is when federal, state and local authorities “are unable or decline to provide adequate protection for federal property or federal governmental functions.”

“Federal action, including the use of federal military forces, is authorized when necessary to protect the federal property or functions,” the directive states.

Military assistance can include loans of arms, ammunition, vessels and aircraft. The directive states clearly that it is for engaging civilians during times of unrest.

A U.S. official said the Obama administration considered but rejected deploying military force under the directive during the recent standoff with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundyand his armed supporters.

Mr. Bundy is engaged in a legal battle with the federal Bureau of Land Management over unpaid grazing fees. Along with a group of protesters, Mr. Bundy in April confronted federal and local authorities in a standoff that ended when the authorities backed down.

The Pentagon directive authorizes the secretary of defense to approve the use of unarmed drones in domestic unrest. But it bans the use of missile-firing unmanned aircraft.

“Use of armed [unmanned aircraft systems] is not authorized,” the directive says.

The directive was signed by then-Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn. A copy can be found on the Pentagon website: http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/302518p.pdf.

Defense analysts say there has been a buildup of military units within non-security-related federal agencies, notably the creation of Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams. The buildup has raised questions about whether the Obama administration is undermining civil liberties under the guise of counterterrorism and counternarcotics efforts.

Other agencies with SWAT teams reportedly include the Department of Agriculture, the Railroad Retirement Board, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Office of Personnel Management, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Education Department.

The militarization of federal agencies, under little-known statues that permit deputization of security officials, comes as the White House has launched verbal attacks on private citizens’ ownership of firearms despite the fact that most gun owners are law-abiding citizens.

A White House National Security Council spokeswoman declined to comment.

President Obama stated at the National Defense University a year ago: “I do not believe it would be constitutional for the government to target and kill any U.S. citizen — with a drone or with a shotgun — without due process, nor should any president deploy armed drones over U.S. soil.”

A Pentagon official who defended the directive said it was signed in December 2010 after four years of thorough consultations within the Pentagon and with other federal agencies The 2010 directive replaced several previously published directives in 1980, 1991, and 1993. The last time military forces were used to quell civil unrest was 1906 following the San Francisco earthquake to protect the federal mint and restore order in the city.

The official said: “I suppose that in a very extreme case, one can imagine a combination of natural and man-made disasters that result in the cascading failure of communication infrastructure, or some electro-magnetic pulse that shuts down all electronic communication.”

“In the event that it should happen in today’s day and age, we would want our senior military leaders in the field to do all they can to assist their fellow Americans to prevent significant loss of life or malicious destruction of property and to protect federal property or federal governmental functions,” the official said.

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... and he's done a swell job of purging many Military Commanders who disagree with his dictatorship so the ones left

would almost certainly blindly follow his orders to attack the people and The Republic he so reviles.

[10 YEARS LATER]

Hence the JADE HELM PROGRAM. . . . You can look it up on YouTube. Very, very Insidious. Get ready folks !

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

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JADE HELM 15 is in motion.  

 

More black Jeeps are on our streets trying to pass for average civilians toolin' around supposedly "blending in"...

 

...more real estate for sale being taken off the market and leased to TheFeds to house the officers involved.

 

And those of you waiting for your WalMarts to re-open after the 'plumbing problems' are fixed.... Sorry, not until

 

TheFeds are done using them.

 

 

And he is rolling back supplying military-style equipment to local law enforcement and even taking most of it back...

 

why do you suppose THAT is, eh...?

 

 

Some say don't leave your money in the banks.  Stock up on 'hurricane' supplies.  Educate yourself.  Talk with family.

 

Have a plan.

 

Get the hell out of the cities at the very first sign of something goin' down before they close the roads and implement the checkpoints to

turn you around and corral you & your family in the hell which will be the cities,

where your kids can join in with 'disenfranchised youth ' (thugs) and be recruited to be little goose-stepping Brown Shirts.

 

hobummer wants OUR OWN US MILITARY to put his boot on our necks.

 

And when his evil masters tell that slave in Our White House to unleash their beast upon US,  it'll come down hard and fast.

 

The UN troops, the ChiCom troops - supposedly here to "train" with Our Military will do the heavy lifting against US  because

he & his masters know Our own Troops would hesitate to murder fellow Americans.

 

Welcome to the 3rd world dictatorship of the great destroyer.