Conservative American,
A recently discovered Pentagon directive reveals that the President has been given the authority to use military force against American citizens in times of unrest.
The document -- DoD Directive 3025.18 -- was issued under the Obama Administration on December 29, 2010 and signed by former Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn, III.
One defense official told the Washington Times last week that "this appears to be the latest step in the administration’s decision to use force within the United States against its citizens."
What's so shocking about the directive is that it seems to expand presidential power beyond its constitutional and legal limits, and, in doing so, threatens the very heart of our liberty.
It's true that the Constitution does empower the federal government to use military force to "suppress insurrections" -- this power expressly defined in the Insurrection Act of 1807 -- however, the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 expressly prohibits the president from using the military for all other domestic policing purposes.
This said, the President's broadened power allowing him to provide the military with "emergency authority" to "quell civil disturbances" appears to be without any legislative backing whatsoever.
Section 4(i) on the fifth page of the DoD document states in part:
"Federal military 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."
Further, section 4(j) allows the military to transfer "assets with potential for lethality" to state and local law enforcement including "loans of arms; vessels or aircraft; or ammunition" for emergency circumstances -- even unarmed drones upon the approval of the Secretary of Defense (Sect. 4(o)).
While this Directive is not threatening in its entirety -- for example, it would provide assistance to civilian fire fighting efforts -- it provisions expanding executive power for "the emergency" are highly disturbing.
With the Obama Administration militarizing federal departments and arming its agents to the teeth, we have every right to to be wary of this recently revealed Pentagon directive.
Seeing that President Obama appears to be empowering himself with policing powers in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act we need to call federal legislators into action right away.
Patriot, we need you to take action today and speak out!
As you will see in this message, the expansion of the police state under President Obama is nothing short of shocking ...
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Targeting Patriots
Already this year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) performed a "training drill" that required them to counter a hypothetical group called "Free Americans against Socialist Tyranny."
As the name suggests, this manufactured organization is representative of conservatives, libertarians, and other American patriots opposed to ever-growing government.
The DHS/FEMA drill had government officials practice how they would respond to citizen opposition against martial law in the wake of a national disaster. (See page 125 of the 2014 exercise manual.)
Sadly, this is not the first time that the federal government has lumped freedom lovers with dangerous extremists.
Let's not forget that it was a FEMA instructor who lectured that the founding fathers were the first American "terrorists." And a Fox News report quoted a Department of Defense training manual that said:
"Nowadays, instead of dressing in sheets or publicly espousing hate messages, many extremists will talk of individual liberties, states' rights, and how to make the world a better place."The 148-page West Point study entitled "Challengers from the Sidelines: Understanding America's Violent Far Right" defines "extremists" as those who hold "strong convictions regarding the federal government, believing it to be corrupt and tyrannical, with a natural tendency to intrude on individuals' civil and constitutional rights."
The fact that our federal government -- created and empowered by We the People -- is right now training to counter citizen opposition against martial law should send a chill down every American's spine.
We've got to tell Congress to stop the Executive Branch's attack on freedom and demand that they defund and dismantle the growing police state!
Conservative, libertarians, tea partiers, and freedom-loving Americans are not domestic terrorists!
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2.5K Rounds per DHS Officer
According to a GAO report, the Department of Homeland Security is planning on buying an massive amount of ammunition over the next four years.
The report shows that Obama's DHS is contracted to purchase a total 704,390,250 rounds through fiscal year 2018!
David Maurer, the report's author, says this means each DHS officer will receive approximately 2,500 rounds per year for the next four years, totaling at 10,000 rounds.
But it's not just Homeland Security... other agencies are becoming more and more militarized under Obama's watch. As Conservative Action Alerts contributor John Whitehead says:
"[W]hy do domestic agencies having nothing to do with national defense, such as the Postal Service, the Department of Education, the IRS and the Social Security Administration (SSA), need mass quantities of ammunition and weaponry?"
Sadly, We the People can't answer
this. We have no idea why these purchases are being made and what the federal government is preparing for.
This is why we must continue to demand U.S. lawmakers to defund and dismantle the police state!
This is why we must continue to demand U.S. lawmakers to defund and dismantle the police state!
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DHS Solicits Sniper Ammo
The Department of Homeland security is looking to add 141,000 rounds of sniper ammunition to their current stockpile.
In February, the DHS placed an order for approximately 7,058 boxes of Hornady .308 Win 168gr A-MAX TAP Ammunition - rounds that the manufacturer calls its "most accurate ... sophisticated boattail hollow point."
And these rounds aren't the federal government's economical option either; consider the following comment from James Smith:
"Hornady ammunition is not for the budget minded, and the Federal government will pay a premium price for their sniper ammunition: approximately $1.20 for each round, when they can get a lower grain .308 round for as little as $0.69 for a 147 grain .308 round ..."
These costly purchases prove that
Homeland Security has not discontinued its ammunition stockpiling even
though the
Department already possesses hundreds of millions of rounds. It also
paints the DHS' claim that the bullets are used for "training purposes"
to be a sham seeing that hollow-point bullets are not used for
exercises.
Looking at the bigger picture, Obama's militarization of the DHS is right in line with his goal of building a non-military "national security force" - the one he referenced when he said the following in his 2008 campaign:
Looking at the bigger picture, Obama's militarization of the DHS is right in line with his goal of building a non-military "national security force" - the one he referenced when he said the following in his 2008 campaign:
"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
If this is the case, Congress has
got to defund these purchases immediately.
It's important that we contact members of the United States Congress right away and demand that they investigate these purchases and begin to defund Obama's police state!
It's important that we contact members of the United States Congress right away and demand that they investigate these purchases and begin to defund Obama's police state!
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More Ammo per officer than the U.S. Army
In a special committee meeting last year, Rep. Jason Chaffetz pointed out that the Department of Homeland Security - at that time having roughly 260 million rounds - possesses more rounds than the United States Army per capita!
"Based on Homeland Security's allocation of 1,300 to 1,600 rounds per officer," said Rep. Chaffetz. "Homeland Security officers used roughly a thousand rounds more per person, or, per officer, than the average Army officer ..."
Here are a just few of the DHS' ammunition solicitations from that fiscal year; see here, here, here, and here.
The DHS' Transportation Security Administration is also being armed even though, at least under current policy, TSA agents inside airports currently carry no weapons.
Last August, the TSA solicited 3,454,000 rounds of .347 caliber ammunition.
Government Security News reported that, with such a stock, "the TSA could fire off more than 9,400 rounds per day, every day of the year, to consume that entire quantity annually."
Again, this solicitation was made for "training purposes" ...
These numbers just don't add up. Why does the DHS need, as a whole, more ammo than the U.S. Army - the constitutional arm of the federal government created for our defense? And why do unarmed TSA agents need to stockpile enough "training" ammo to fire-off 3,321 20-round boxes per week for an entire year?
Whether the Executive Branch is simply purchasing excessive amounts of ammunition for back-door gun-control - viz. evaporating the ammunition supply - or for more sinister reasons, it's absolutely necessary for Congress to take action and intervene!
We're calling on you to send your blast faxes to as many members as you can today --
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DHS to track License Plates, Cars as they Drive
Barack Obama's Department of Homeland Security is also ramping up its efforts to use your tax dollars to track your every movement.
The DHS' latest initiative is to build a centralized license-plate database through gathering data from license plate scanners that collect and store information off of vehicles as they move.
This type of surveillance system, if adopted, would allow the federal government to track us whenever and wherever we drive.
"Ultimately, you're creating a national database of location information," says Jessica Lynch of the Electronic Freedom Foundation. "When all that data is compiled and aggregated, you can track somebody as they're going through their life."
Make no mistake, this program is nothing more than a data-collection tool for Big Brother and just the latest example of how the American police state is being built in front of our very eyes.
We've got to call on Congress to pull the plug on this privacy-killing program and start working to defund and dismantle the police state now!
As you will see below, it's clear that Barack Obama's promise to "fundamentally transform America" is well under way ...
Take action now!
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Interment Camps for American Citizens
February 19 marked the seventy-second anniversary of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's infamous Executive Order No. 9066 that incarcerated Americans of Japanese descent.
While this event is a fact of the past, it's a necessary reminder that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights have been overturned in our nation's history for the sake of "the emergency" -- it is also a reminder of the power of the executive order.
Shockingly, Justice Scalia suspects the federal government will likely bring back 1942-style internment camps for Americans... he told law students in Hawaii that "you'd kidding yourself if you think the same thing will not happen again."
"It was wrong, but I would not be surprised to see it happen again in time of war," said Scalia in March. "It's no justification but it is the reality."
While we aren't suggesting a round-up of Americans is currently in the works, we do know that the American police state has undoubtedly grown stronger under Barack Obama -- the champion of Executive Orders -- and Americans are necessarily concerned.
This is why we've got to demand Congress to start taking action, asking questions, and begin to defund and dismantle the expanding police state!
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A Fundamentally Transformed America
Some of our Nation's founders rightly warned against "standing armies," having the memory of King George III's continental troops and their tyranny fresh in their minds.
It was James Madison who said that, "A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty."
Sadly, it appears that Barack Obama's "fundamentally transformed America" includes such a force -- a collaboration of non-defense executive agencies and the the Defense Department.
While it is true that all branches of government have encroached upon our God-given freedoms - the Congress and the Courts both playing a part - America's overgrown Executive is chiefly to blame.
Through executive orders, actions, memoranda, and other forms of "executive legislation" Barack Obama is turning America into a police state.
Last year we saw Obama's full-blown attack against the Second Amendment, and just last month we saw him recommit himself to a "Year of Action" without Congress.
How much longer will Congress - a separate, but equal power - allow the Constitution and the Rule of Law be trampled by Obama and his hired men?
As Obama has declared himself as an enemy of the Constitution, it's time for principled lawmakers to start stopping him and his lawless agenda!
The House and the Senate must take action against Obama's dictatorship by fully defunding and dismantling his police state programs!
For America,
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