Keep an eye on this:

[lunadelcorvo]

"According to the Army Times, beginning 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."

Not to be overly alarmist, but this move, together with Bush's 'emergency powers' executive orders strike me as a potentially Very Bad Thing. Thoughts?

[EDIT: Link to the article: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/]

[EDIT 2: Thanks to lucretiasheart for pointing this out...

Comments

[qtips.livejournal.com]

so, and forgive me for being a little naive and uneducated in these types of matters, but is this something the next president can override once they are in office? would you assume they would stop it once they were in office?
have you heard how obama or mccain has reacted to this?
sorry to have asked you questions as if you are some political genius... i am just curious (and i'm not they best at researching these kinds of things on my own).
thanks;)

[raven-moon.livejournal.com]

Not at all! I would *think* it could be overridden once the new president takes office, but then, I'm not sure McCain would, were it him. Then again, since it's illegal in light of Posse in the first place... *shrug* who knows. It's all the uncertainties you mention that are a big part of why this is so worrying- all these things are being done without oversight or even really knowledge of the public.

I will be posting anything I see on this, and dark_christianand dominionist are good places to watch as well.