For your consideration: I feel relatively sure it must have been Rove behind McCain's emergency-stop the debate-stop campaigning-stop everything until we deal with "the crisis" ploy, it's just his style, so what else might he and his Bush friends be thinking about to delay this election?
Army Unit to Deploy in October for Domestic OperationsBeginning in October, the Army plans to station an active unit inside the United States for the first time to serve as an on-call federal response in times of emergency. The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent thirty-five of the last sixty months in Iraq, but now the unit is training for domestic operations. The unit will soon be under the day-to-day control of US Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command. The Army Times reports this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to Northern Command. The paper says the Army unit may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control. The soldiers are learning to use so-called nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals and crowds.(Any guesses? Another fake terror attack? Another stolen election? An assassination attempt? War with Iran? A true depression with bank runs? With this crowd it could be anything so - head's up. Now consider the Blackwater info below.)
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/22/headlines#10========================================================
And, as another DUer noted upon reading this information,
let us not forget Bush's private army - Blackwater - who, according to the list contained within the article below, has been training US Police from all over the country.
Blackwater Training US PoliceThe mercenary firm Blackwater USA is well known for the controversy involving its "shoot first, ask no questions" policy in Iraq. It is also known that Louisiana's Department of Homeland Security contracted with Blackwater to provide public law enforcement services in New Orleans following hurricane Katrina. Blackwater is also planning to establish regional training centers in Potrero, Californ More..ia and Mount Carroll, Illinois, billed as Blackwater West and Blackwater North, respectively.
These training centers, in addition to Blackwater's Lodge and Training Center in Moyock, North Carolina -- Blackwater East -- and a possible fourth rumored to be slated for the Pacific Northwest -- Blackwater Northwest -- may result in the establishment of a network of Blackwater-trained police, sheriffs, and other police units around the country. Given Blackwater's dismal record on human rights and brutality, this spells trouble for civilian control of police and paramilitary forces in the United States, from major metropolitan areas to small rural towns.
On October 14, the Washington Post ran a story, which included photographs from Blackwater's Moyock training center. However, what was most intriguing was a photograph of a police and military patch board at Blackwater's headquarters that indicated the police agencies that have sent their officers to Moyock for training.
Blackwater is secretive about its non-federal, as well as its foreign clients, which the Post pointed out includes Jordan, Azerbaijan, and Burkina Faso, but a WMR inspection of the photograph of the police agencies has yielded the following list of agencies that have used Blackwater for training:The list, and more, here:http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f0b_1192588579Just thinking out loud here people, just thinking out loud.......
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