[lbo-talk] martial law in US

[Michael Pugliese]

US Military Civil Disturbance Planning: The War At Home By Frank
Morales from Covert Action Quartely.
http://cryptome.org/garden-plot.htm
http://www.datafilter.com/mc/rma.html
Here are two articles by Frank Morales which discuss the trend toward
the militarization of the police, and the increasing involvement of
the military in domestic police operations.  The first is from Covert
Action Quarterly, Spring-Summer 1999, " The Militarization of the
Police." [*]  The second is a longer version of an article that
appeared in CAQ's Spring-Summer 2000 issue.  It is titled "U.S.
Military Civil Disturbance Planning: The War At Home." [**]  Among
other topics, this article discusses the increasing circumvention of
the Posse Comitatus Act.  From the second article:

  
As this and numerous other documents reveal, U.S. military training in
civil disturbance "suppression", which targets the American public, is
in full operation today. The formulation of legitimizing doctrine, the
training in the "tactics and techniques" of "civil disturbance
suppression", and the use of "abusable", "non-lethal" weaponry, are
ongoing, financed by tax dollars. According to the Pentagon, "US
forces deployed to assist federal and local authorities during times
if civil disturbance...will follow use-of-force policy found in
Department of Defense Civil Disturbance Plan-Garden Plot." (Joint
Chiefs of Staff, Standing Rules of Engagement, Appendix A, 1 October
1994.)