2008 Woodie Awards
Military action on U.S. soil
JACOB MORRIS
ARBITER JOURNALIST
Issue date: 10/13/08 Section: Opinion
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They are considered an “on-call federal response force,” according to the report. They are designed to respond with crowd control tactics and are under the direct command of U.S. Army North with President Bush as their commander-in-chief.
The Posse Comitatus Act of 1807, which prevented active military from being deployed on American soil, has been obliterated by the president’s insistence that the entire world act as the battlefield for the war on terror.
It appears our commander-in-chief is not completely finished with his destruction of our civil rights.
This is happening while the administration, in tandem with the Federal Reserve, has passed an almost 500-page bill providing hundreds of billions of dollars to acquire ownership and, indeed, control over U.S. financial institutions. The bill grew rapidly and the pressure on Congress to pass it was unlawful.
“The only way they can pass the [bailout] bill is by creating and sustaining a panic atmosphere,” Rep. Brad Sherman of California said in open forum on the congressional floor.
“Many of us were told in private conversations that if we voted against this bill on Monday, that the sky would fall, the market would drop two or three thousand points the first day and a couple thousand the second day. And a few members were even told there would be martial law in America if we voted no.”
The administration continues to use their familiar fear tactics to intimidate Congress into granting the president more power.
The bailout explicitly grants $100 billion for the president to use at his personal discretion.
I don’t want to believe there is any imminent danger, our president is abusing his power or there could be ulterior motives to this military deployment in our own backyard. But with the upcoming election less than a month away, my suspicions
have risen.
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Derek
posted 10/13/08 @ 12:50 PM MST
I'm just curious, what exactly is the point of this article?
wfab
posted 10/13/08 @ 7:27 PM MST
You're, uh, misrepresenting a few facts...
3ID's 1st Brigade has NOT been deployed to Seattle. There is no military action on U.S. soil. 1st Brigade is home at Fort Stewart. (Continued…)
BJ
posted 10/20/08 @ 6:58 PM MST
This is journalism?
ryan
posted 10/21/08 @ 8:58 PM MST
It's ok.....The arbiter got their propaganda out in their paper issue. Nobody on campus has any reason to read the website, and of course they will not be publishing a retraction. (Continued…)
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