Civil Rights and You: A study in modern extinction.

[CaryP]

Re: Civil Rights and You: A study in modern extinction.

This post was originally made on the minuteman thread and I've copied it here, as I think it's more relavent to this thread topic. Excellent find Crosstika. I'm making a seperate post from the article myself. Cary

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Re: minuteman project... waco type event???
US Has been preparing to turn America into a military dictatorship




http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/suppression.html

US Has been preparing to turn
America into a military dictatorship

(long read)

U.S. MILITARY CIVIL DISTURBANCE PLANNING: THE WAR AT HOME

By Frank Morales

Under the heading of "civil disturbance planning", the U.S. military is training troops and police to suppress democratic opposition in America. The master plan, Department of Defense Civil Disturbance Plan 55-2, is code-named, "Operation Garden Plot". Originated in 1968, the "operational plan" has been updated over the last three decades, most recently in 1991. The plan was activated during the Los Angeles "riots" of 1992, and more than likely during the recent anti-WTO "Battle in Seattle."

Current U.S. military preparations for suppressing domestic civil disturbance, including the training of National Guard troops and police, are part of a long history of American "internal security" measures dating back to the first American Revolution. Generally, these measures have sought to thwart the aims of social justice movements, embodying the concept that within the civilian body politic lurks an enemy that one day the military might have to fight, or at least be ordered to fight.

Equipped with flexible "military operations in urban terrain" and "operations other than war" doctrine, lethal and "less-than-lethal" high-tech weaponry, US "armed forces" and "elite" militarized police units are being trained to eradicate "disorder", "disturbance" and "civil disobedience" in America. Further, it may very well be that police/military "civil disturbance" planning is the animating force and the overarching logic behind the incredible nationwide growth of police paramilitary units, a growth which coincidentally mirrors rising levels of police violence directed at the American people, particularly "non-white" poor and working people.

Military spokespeople, "judge advocates" (lawyers) and their congressional supporters aggressively take the position that legal obstacles to military involvement in domestic law enforcement civil disturbance operations, such as the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, have been nullified. Legislated "exceptions" and private commercialization of various aspects of U.S. military-law enforcement efforts have supposedly removed their activities from the legal reach of the "public domain". Possibly illegal, ostensible "training" scenarios like the recent "Operation Urban Warrior" no-notice "urban terrain" war games, which took place in dozens of American cities, are thinly disguised "civil disturbance suppression" exercises. Meanwhile, President Clinton recently appointed a "domestic military czar", a sort of national chief of police. You can bet that he is well versed in Garden Plot requirements involved in "homeland defense".


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[CaryP]

Re: Civil Rights and You: A study in modern extinction.

Continuing on with the article found by Crosstika...

?MILITARY COUP

The winner of the 1992 \"Strategy Essay Competition\" sponsored by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was a National War College student paper entitled, \"The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012.\"(94) Authored by Colonel Charles J. Dunlap, Jr., the brief, well documented work is a fictional, \"darkly imagined excursion into the future.\" It is written from the perspective of an imprisoned senior military officer about to be executed for opposing the military takeover of America. Accomplished through \"legal\" means, the coup is portrayed as the \"the outgrowth of trends visible as far back as 1992\", including \"the massive diversion of military forces to civilian uses\", especially law enforcement.

Author Colonel Charles J. Dunlap, Jr., USAF, is the Deputy Staff Judge Advocate, US Central Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. According to Dunlap?s fictional protagonist, \"Prisoner 222305759\", the passage of the Military Cooperation with Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies Act of 1981, which actually took place, was \"specifically intended to force reluctant military commanders to actively collaborate in police work.\" For Dunlap?s hero, the Act \"was a historic change of policy\", in which \"Congress initiated the use of national defense as a rationale to boost military participation in an activity historically the exclusive domain of civilian government: law enforcement.\" This deepening involvement in police work led, according to Dunlap, to the \"devastation of the military?s martial spirit\", making them unable to \"prepare for war\", which emphasizes \"firepower\", not \"studied restraint\" and \"legitimate authority\". The end result: \"a military that controls government\", but \"ironically, can?t fight.\" A somewhat dubious proposition, nevertheless, according to Dunlap?s scenario, militarization of domestic police forces around the country did mean that, \"the military was ideally positioned in thousands of communities to support the coup.\"

As the tale is told, the \"politicization of the military\", resulting from its' forays \"into the political process to an unprecedented degree\" as the most well endowed and \"trusted arm of government\", lead inevitably to an \"erosion of civilian control of the military\". According to the \"fictional\" scenario, heightening and seemingly unsolveable social and economic woes fostered in the American people a dependency on the spit-n-shine of military know-how. \"Exasperated with democracy\", Dunlap laments, the American peoples' \"assumptions about the role of the military in society began also to change.\" Whereas in the past, \"Americans had a traditional and strong resistance to any military intrusion in civilian affairs\", they \"were now rethinking the desirability and necessity of that resistance.\" They were giving in to the \"all too seductive\", \"cost effective solution\", namely, the military solution.

At that point, in 2012, \"the military?s alienation from its civilian leadership\" asserts itself, when an unscrupulous military dictator (\"General Brutus\") is able to get himself, via the \"Referendum Act\", appointed \"Military Plenipotentiary\". Our hero, we are lead to believe, is never again to see the light of day. Sad story. And there you have it. Now, the real story is that while Dunlap?s \"essay\" is creating quite a buzz in military circles, you hear next to nothing in the national media. I wonder why that is. Imagine, an Air Force legal officer writes a thesis at the prestigious National War College hypothesizing the conditions that would lead to a coup * something officers never mention in public and barely even whisper in private * and wins the top writing prize and publication in the Army?s leading professional journal. Imagine that.

An article by Thomas E. Ricks in the January 1993 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, entitled, \"Colonel Dunlap?s Coup\", refers to the \"fictionalized essay\" as a \"conservative document\", and one that \"is likely to be widely discussed within the U.S. military.\" He believes this is so because it represents \"the kind of unfettered thinking\" that the military is encouraging. In fact, the kind of thinking \"that it wants for a professional magazine it is now developing.\" It should be noted that in the article, Ricks also takes note of \"last year?s military deployment to Los Angeles, dubbed Operation Garden Plot by the Marines.\"

Germane to the subject of a military coup, Richard H. Kohn, former chief of Air Force History, 1981-1991, recently launched his own \"scathing attack on what he saw as the military?s alienation from its civilian leadership.\" (95) Kohn is currently a professor of history at the University of North Carolina and heads up the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, a non-profit foundation based in North Carolina. Recently, the Institute released a study in which it noted \"a sharp divergence found in views of military and civilians\" (96). According to a New York Times report (9/9/99), the recently completed \"$500,000 study that will ultimately produce at least 20 academic papers\", revealed that \"a deep gap over politics and values has opened over the last two decades between the nations? increasingly conservative military elite and prominent civilians without military service.\" A \"credibility gap\" of a new type. Not to worry though, Defense Secretary Cohen is committed \"to somehow prevent a chasm from developing between the military and civilian worlds.\" Interest in the study?s findings, of \"a widespread unhappiness in the military with current trends in civilian society\" has created quite a buzz. \"In meeting rooms and corridors, the first findings were the hot topic\" at the September 1999 annual meeting of the American Political Association in Atlanta. A Triangle Institute conference held in October 1999 in Caughny, Illinois, focused exclusively on \"civilian-military issues\" and the consequences of the growing \"gap\".

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Interesting stuff. Here's the Conclusion.

?CONCLUSION

Finally, a word on those who truly are \"exasperated with democracy.\" Back in 1959, Samuel P. Huntington, cited above in Dunlap, Summers and Ricks, authored The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations (Cambridge University Press). By 1975, Huntington was putting his talents to good use by authoring the final report of David Rockefellers? Trilateral Commission. Titled, The Crisis of Democracy (New York University Press, 1975), the report is a blue-print for counter-revolution. It supplies the ultimate logic for the existence of Garden Plot. It explains a military and police in training to pre-empt democracy and defend the rule of the rich.

Its' infamous text is quite instructive regarding the latest phase of corporativist fascism within the American military-industrial complex. Characterizing popular resistance and \"civil disturbance\" as a kind of \"distemper\" among the clamoring masses, the report recommends obliterating democracy in America. According to the report, the remedy to the ongoing corporate \"crisis in authority\", (suffered most recently in Seattle), is to enforce, according to Huntington, \"a greater degree of moderation in democracy\". Believing that popular resistance to military and police enforced corporate rule \"stem from an excess of democracy\", the report goes on to enumerate ways and means of shrinking democracy in America.

The democratic space which is under the corporate gun is the space within which popular movements fighting for change, for freedom and justice exist. The establishment attack is multi-level and multi-dimensional, directly effecting all people, but its earliest and most bloody stage is its' attack on the poor, particularly people of color. This is where fascist ideology is in full effect, assisting in the open violence against the people. In this regard, Huntingtons' report declares that \"in the past, every democratic society has had a marginal population, of greater or lesser size, which has not actively participated in politics. In itself, this marginality on the part of some groups is inherently undemocratic, but it has also been one of the factors which has enabled democracy to function effectively.\"

This \"effectiveness\" is real, not only for the \"violent underclass\" which is facing marginalization, militarized police and the daily machinations of genocide, but for anyone who confronts the rule of racist corporate capital and its militarized new world order. The mass of likely suspects is growing. Accordingly, refuting a basic tenet of American social identity, Huntington coldly states that there are \"desirable limits to the indefinite extension of political democracy\", and that \"a value (like democracy) which is normally good in itself is not necessarily optimized when it is maximized.\" And as for those who resist the attack on their freedoms: the military/police solution. For after all, according to the corporate military chiefs and their legions of industrialist soldiers, \"democracy is only one way of constituting authority, and it is not necessarily a universally applicable one.\" In other words, as militarism and a culture of violence grow, American democracy becomes obsolete. Bring in the troops. Code-name it \"Garden Plot. And oh yes, card carrying charter members of the 1975 Trilateral Commission included \"riot experts\" Warren Christopher and Cyrus Vance.

In sum, the convergence of the military and the police, in the interests of corporate sponsored social control, both here and abroad, follows quite logically from popular American obeisance to their needs. With one half of all federal resources devoted to the generals and their assorted industries of death, it was only a matter of time (timing), given the needs and sick desires of the corporate rich, that the cop on the street would one day become a special-ops soldier, trained to discourage dissent and to suppress protest, if necessary, violently.

This convergence is taking place amidst or because of an unprecedented level of corporate greed, wherein the majority of Americans are no more than slaves to enforced (managed) scarcities and indignities imposed on them by global American capitalist rule, a rule maintained through force. While resistance is growing within the remnant of democracy, US militarism, with its? fraudulent legalisms and terminologies of deception, its? brainwashing \"doctrine\" and hellish weaponry, is gearing up to meet that threat, refining its' technologies of social control. (97)

Operation Garden Plot is a metaphor for US militarism entering the new millenium. Its' anti-democratic essence, which is to silence, to suppress, and to stifle freedom has become generalized, like a spreading mushroom cloud. New military and police missions at home, along with global \"peacekeeping\" and \"other than war\" interventions abroad, are about more than rationalized budgets or the instincts of a profit hungry industry. Militarist \"total force\" ideology is naked counter-revolution mandated by corporate America. It aims, in its insane drive for power and profits, to suffocate all life. Its' pathology spares no one. That?s the meaning of globalization. Consequently, the expanding dialectic of US corporate-militarism is creating new polarities, along with new avenues of resistance to the \"war machine\".

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A final quote that was at the end of the article.

\"No one will fully comprehend the historical implications and strategy of fascist corporativism except the true fascist manipulator or the researcher who is able to slash through the smoke screens and disguises the fascists set up.\"

? ?George Jackson, June 21, 1971 ?

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It's obvious this has been a long time in the planning. For those of you interested you might want to research Rex 84 and FEMA's involvement in it. "Garden Plot" is part of this program now, from what I've read.

Cary

 

[K@t 5]

Re: Civil Rights and You: A study in modern extinction.

Man, it's good to be back!! Did y'all miss me? :grin:

Just to start things up again, a slightly moronic - yet telling - article of the state of the paranoid union...

School Mistakes Huge Burrito for a Weapon

Fri Apr 29, 4:08 PM ET CLOVIS, N.M. - A call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school. All over a giant burrito.

Someone called authorities Thursday after seeing a boy carrying something long and wrapped into Marshall Junior High.

The drama ended two hours later when the suspicious item was identified as a 30-inch burrito filled with steak, guacamole, lettuce, salsa and jalapenos and wrapped inside tin foil and a white T-shirt.

\"I didn't know whether to laugh or cry,\" school Principal Diana Russell said.

State police, Clovis police and the Curry County Sheriff's Department arrived at the school shortly after 8:30 a.m. They searched the premises and determined there was no immediate danger.

In the meantime, more than 30 parents, alerted by a radio report, descended on the school. Visibly shaken, they gathered around in a semi-circle, straining their necks, awaiting news.

\"There needs to be security before the kids walk through the door,\" said Heather Black, whose son attends the school.

After the lockdown was lifted but before the burrito was identified as the culprit, parents pulled 75 students out of school, Russell said.

Russell said the mystery was solved after she brought everyone in the school together in the auditorium to explain what was going on.

\"The kid was sitting there as I'm describing this (report of a student with a suspicious package) and he's thinking, 'Oh, my gosh, they're talking about my burrito.'\"

Afterward, eighth-grader Michael Morrissey approached her.

\"He said, 'I think I'm the person they saw,'\" Russell said.

The burrito was part of Morrissey's extra-credit assignment to create commercial advertising for a product.

\"We had to make up a product and it could have been anything. I made up a restaurant that specialized in oddly large burritos,\" Morrissey said.

After students heard the description of what police were looking for, he and his friends began to make the connection. He then took the burrito to the office.

\"The police saw it and everyone just started laughing. It was a laughter of relief,\" Morrissey said.

\"Oh, and I have a new nickname now. It's Burrito Boy.\"

 

[StarLord]

Re: Civil Rights and You: A study in modern extinction.

Kat, how is that paranoid? Seems to me like folks were just doing their job. Now if they had arrested the kid for concealing a deadly weapon and hauled him away due to the known effects of all those beans in one location, that would be a different matter and a clear cut case for Alkaseltzer.

 

[K@t 5]

Re: Civil Rights and You: A study in modern extinction.

Maybe I'm just expecting too much, but when someone saw him walk into the school with said package wouldn't it be the better idea to stop him ASAP as opposed to locking down an entire school, scaring the hell out of the parents, not even finding the kid until he came forward and wasting valuble police time?

I posted this partly because of the absurdity of the article (at least my hubby and I got a chuckle out of it), and partly because of the parents' reactions cited in the article. Not every school is in the ghetto, not every school has the problem of weapons being brought onto the campus. Now, because of an administrator screw up, this school will become more of a prison than a learning institution.

 

[StarLord]

Re: Civil Rights and You: A study in modern extinction.

No foul, no harm. It 'could' have been a bomb. At least folks were doing their job right?

 

[K@t 5]

Re: Civil Rights and You: A study in modern extinction.

Very true. Just makes me scratch my head and wonder, why didn't they take action to detain him immediately? If it had been a weapon, he could have taken out not only the students and teachers, but now you could add cops to the mix as well.

You also need to stop and look, as I mentioned before, at the reaction of the parents. "We need more security and metal detectors." What we need are parents to be more active in their childrens lives, to know what they're doing behind those closed doors. Of course these are the parents who decided that the metal playground equipment that we all used to play on was too dangerous, and now are starting to holler that the plastic crap on the playgrounds can harm their kids too. Before long our kids are going to have nothing but cotton fluff to play with, but I'm sure that will be banned too.

 

[Prof-Rabbit]

Re: non-lethal weapons

Funny thing, the full article on garden plot talks about non-lethal means
for controlling civil disturbances, see the following. It may be worth pasting the article as a discussion thread?

www.raven1.net/raygun.htm

Regards Prof. Rabbit

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This post was originally made on the minuteman thread and I've copied it here, as I think it's more relavent to this thread topic. Excellent find Crosstika. I'm making a seperate post from the article myself. Cary
U.S. MILITARY CIVIL DISTURBANCE PLANNING: THE WAR AT HOME

By Frank Morales

Under the heading of \"civil disturbance planning\", the U.S. military is training troops and police to suppress democratic opposition in America. The master plan, Department of Defense Civil Disturbance Plan 55-2, is code-named, \"Operation Garden Plot\". Originated in 1968, the \"operational plan\" has been updated over the last three decades, most recently in 1991. The plan was activated during the Los Angeles \"riots\" of 1992, and more than likely during the recent anti-WTO \"Battle in Seattle.\"

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[virtualgirl]

Re: Civil Rights and You: A study in modern extinction.

Here's one for you.


A few months back, my husband had a flat tire so he took it in and had it fixed. He didn't want to mess with the spare so he put in in the back of the van. This was around 11 pm. While on the highway, he was pulled over. There were 3 cops. They searched him, handcuffed him and stuck him in a squad car and started to search the van. He sells body jewelry so he had several cases of it in the van. They kept asking him where he stole it and for receipts which he never carries with him. They finally found some register papers with the jewelry baggies that kind of itemized some of it. They unhandcuffed him and then they said they pulled him over because they thought the tire was a DEAD BODY. What kind of crap is that. For one, who would kill someone and stick the body in the back window. As far as I am concerned, it was an illegal search and outright harassment. He wasn't even breaking any traffic laws. He doesn't look bad. He looks like your average clean cut American boy next door. Look out folks. Next will be your homes!!!X-(

 

[K@t 5]

Re: Civil Rights and You: A study in modern extinction.

every once in a while i pop my head up and prove that i'm still alive...

check out this article...anyone heard of this guy? i found this while looking something else up...

Kevin Walsh a political prisoner arrested for his anti-Bush views

This article was written in the Arizona Tribune about the arrest of Kevin Walsh who is a political prisoner being jailed by the Secret Service for making bad statements about President George W. Bush. Kevin Walsh has not been charge with any crimes, but the Secret Service had him locked up in a Mental Hospital saying he is a danger to the public which is a lie. http://www.aztrib.com/index.php?sty=23880

?Valley man held after threat to president
By Bryon Wells, Tribune


A Phoenix man has been involuntarily committed to a Mesa psychiatric hospital at the direction of a U.S. Secret Service agent who said the man threatened the life of President Bush. Phoenix S.W.A.T. team members tracked Kevin J. Walsh, 37, to Quadrangles Village apartments, 1255 E. University Drive, Tempe, where he was working as a groundskeeper June 21, according to police records. They approached him with weapons drawn and ordered him to the ground.

Walsh reached for a semiautomatic pistol in a shoulder holster and was yelling, \"Go ahead and please kill me\" and \"kill me, kill me,\" reports stated.

The officers subdued Walsh and took him to Desert Vista Behavioral Health Center, 570 W. Brown Road, where he remained Sunday.

In a telephone interview, Walsh said he has never made a threat against the president, and that he believes he was unlawfully detained by what he called an \"ambush\" by the police and Secret Service.

\"I was arrested and held illegally,\" Walsh said. \"They have way too much power to be doing this stuff.\"

Walsh said he believes government interest in him stems from his political involvement in posting news and other information on the Internet in support of the \"Iraqi resistance.\"

Walsh also said he believes somebody reported him to the Secret Service after hearing him making comments wishing harm to Bush during a conversation with a Bush campaign worker.

\"I said Bush was terrible and deserved to be killed, but I never said I would do it,\" Walsh said.

There was no other information about the threat in police records. Bush has made frequent stops to the Valley during his presidency, and is scheduled to appear at an October presidential debate at Gammage Auditorium at Arizona State University.

Chuck Woolford, a spokesman for the Secret Service, declined to comment, saying the agency never confirms or denies ongoing investigations.

\"I?m not going to comment on anything about Kevin Walsh,\" he said.

Phoenix police records indicate that Secret Service special agent Ray Lebeau requested help from Phoenix police to look for Walsh and that he was in need of psychiatric evaluation. Lebeau also told the officers that Walsh made an unspecified threat on the president.

In two e-mail messages sent to the Tribune earlier this month, Walsh wrote that a Secret Service agent had been calling his home in Phoenix, trying to visit him there and calling family members asking to talk to him.

Walsh said he was refusing to talk to the agent, and that he believed the agent was harassing him.

As a result of his detention, Walsh said he is being forced to take behavioral drugs and submit to psychiatric evaluation.

Walsh said that a hearing is scheduled for Thursday at the hospital, where officials will determine whether he is a danger to himself or others because of a thought disorder, and whether he should be confined for more treatment. If committed, Walsh said he could be confined for up to 180 days at the hospital and required to submit to up to a year of outpatient treatment.

Walsh said he was reaching for the gun to shoot himself, and that he resisted the officers because he feared the police and Secret Service would mistreat him in custody.

Phoenix police have recommended that Walsh be charged with three counts of aggravated assault, saying that he attempted to draw his weapon and shoot the officers.

http://www.aztrib.com/index.php?sty=23880

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