U.S. Military Employs
“Counterinsurgency” Strategy In
“Counterinsurgency” Strategy In
Commifornian City
Former Special Forces Colonel says violence hit town is a “laboratory” as Washington Post advocates nationwide implementation.
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
The U.S. military is aiding police in a California conduct “counterinsurgency” operations as part of a crack down on gang related violence in the city of Salinas, a relationship officials admit pushes the boundaries of the constitutional bar on the military operating within U.S. borders but one that should be expanded nationwide.
Retired war veterans? Not a chance. Volunteer duty? No way there either. Then what?
How about United States Military Forces on American City Streets.
We allow this and it is that much easier to swallow an occupation. A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.
The Washington Post employs it's usual Orwellian inverse techniques by referring to those involved as retired. They are not. And that the military's involvement does not violate the Constitutional impediments to military action on U.S. soil. Posse Comitatus comes to mind.
The Washington Post employs it's usual Orwellian inverse techniques by referring to those involved as retired. They are not. And that the military's involvement does not violate the Constitutional impediments to military action on U.S. soil. Posse Comitatus comes to mind.
A curious comment at the end of the article makes the hair on the back of my neck stand straight up.
Want to know more? Sure you do. Read all about it here.
Iraq's U.S. Military Insurgent lessons, applied in a U.S. city, on U.S. soil. A diagram for enforcement on the home front.
Read the story here from the Washington Times and Karl Vick.All the pieces, however, must leave city officials speaking with one voice.
"I don't want to use the word 'psychological operations' because that'll really make people go crazy," said Rothstein, who teaches a "classified seminar" on information operations in Monterey. "But the idea is, talking to the public thwarts negative messages. All that is part of a strategic communication plan that has to inform everything you do."
Military PSYOPS in full swing. (techniques used by any set of groups to influence a target audience's value systems, belief systems, emotions, motives, reasoning, or behavior.)
Leonard A. Ferrari, provost of the Naval Postgraduate School, embraced the project from the start, hearing in Donohue's plea an opportunity for a school "in transition from just a defense institution to a national homeland and even a human security institution.
The Justice Department estimates 1 million gang members nationwide. If the Apollo program gave the mattress industry memory foam, the $1 trillion invested so far in Iraq and Afghanistan could pay a dividend in American streets.
"The idea was, not just Salinas," Ferrari said, "but is there a national model for this?"
"I don't want to use the word 'psychological operations' because that'll really make people go crazy," said Rothstein, who teaches a "classified seminar" on information operations in Monterey. "But the idea is, talking to the public thwarts negative messages. All that is part of a strategic communication plan that has to inform everything you do."
Military PSYOPS in full swing. (techniques used by any set of groups to influence a target audience's value systems, belief systems, emotions, motives, reasoning, or behavior.)
Leonard A. Ferrari, provost of the Naval Postgraduate School, embraced the project from the start, hearing in Donohue's plea an opportunity for a school "in transition from just a defense institution to a national homeland and even a human security institution.
The Justice Department estimates 1 million gang members nationwide. If the Apollo program gave the mattress industry memory foam, the $1 trillion invested so far in Iraq and Afghanistan could pay a dividend in American streets.
"The idea was, not just Salinas," Ferrari said, "but is there a national model for this?"
