This is What a Police State Looks Like in America

Published on April 20, 2013

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WATERTOWN, MA - On Friday, April 19, 2013, during a manhunt for a bombing suspect, police and federal agents spent the day storming people's homes and performing illegal searches. While it was unclear initially if the home searches were voluntary, it is now crystal clear that they were absolutely NOT voluntary. Police were filmed ripping people from their homes at gunpoint, marching the residents out with their hands raised in submission, and then storming the homes to perform their illegal searches.

This was part of a larger operation that involved total lockdown of the suburban neighbor to Boston. Roads were barricaded and vehicle traffic was prohibited. A No-Fly Zone was declared over the town. People were "ordered" to stay indoors. Businesses were told not to open. National Guard soldiers helped with the lockdown, and were photographed checking IDs of pedestrians on the streets. All the while, police were performing these disgusting house-to-house searches.



After Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed on April 19, 2013, "authorities" in Boston suspended all mass transit and warned close to one million people in the entire city and some of its suburbs to stay indoors as the hunt for his brother, Dzhokhar, went on. Businesses were asked not to open. People waiting at bus and subway stops were told to go home. From Watertown to Cambridge, police SWAT teams, sharpshooters and FBI agents with armored vehicles surrounded various buildings as police helicopters buzzed overhead. [Source]

Local Police Absorb Military Training Tactics for Possible Future Use on Unsuspecting Citizens

March 20, 2014

Infowars.com - Members of the Austin Police Department trained alongside Texas Army National Guard troops at Austin’s Camp Mabry yesterday, learning various military tactics they say will help them be better prepared for the next Ford Hood.

“In light of recent events, the Fort Hood shooting, the Navy yard shooting, These are all incidents that strike home the importance of being ready and prepared,” Lt. Colonel Les Davis told Fox News Austin.

News crews were allowed to witness “a few of” the drills within the facility, which includes outside wooded “rural terrain,” where armed APD stormtroopers decked out in SWAT attire swarmed hallways clearing several rooms, all the while absorbing training methods intended for military personnel.

“An opportunity to work with the Austin Police Department gives us the chance to learn how they train. We teach them how we train and we use this opportunity to practice the techniques we would use should we have a real incident on post,” Lt. Col. Davis told Fox News.

This was the first time officers trained with National Guard service members, but APD wasn’t shy to tell all about how they were learning military combat tactics designed for warfare.

“Every time we work with the military I think we both come away winners,” APD Assistant Chief Steve Deaton expressed, adding, “We use them to help teach our CAST team [Counter Assault Strike Team] small unit tactics.”

The niggling fact news crews were only allowed to view “a few of the drills” in Austin begs questions as to what other types of drills were carried out.



While on the surface the training seems innocent enough, similar preparations taking place countrywide are stoking fears that federal, state and local law enforcement agencies are training to take on the American people in the event of mass civil unrest.

Last month, we highlighted the military’s $96 million “fake city” located in Virginia, purportedly built for use in different combat training scenarios. Though the Army didn’t specify a particular training purpose, the city contained a school, a bank, and a subway station whose trains bore “the same logo as the carriages in Washington DC,” according to the London Telegraph.

Previous training drills conducted well within residential and urban areas, as well as strange acquirements of hollow point ammo and military vehicles, have also given rise to speculation that the federal government is indeed preparing for some type of unspeakable fallout which will require large volumes of trained personnel.

Several high-ranking military members have also expressed concerns about the federal government’s sudden expansion and covert training efforts, fueling worries that the American people are the ultimate target.

Last year, former Navy SEAL Ben Smith told Fox News the Obama administration was carrying out a litmus test on its top officers with the main focus being whether they would be prepared to order NCOs to fire on Americans.

Similarly, retired U.S. Army Captain Terry M. Hestilow expressed last year that he felt the Obama administration was preparing for a “coup” against the people, and labeled the DHS’s appropriation of weapons a “bold threat of war” against US citizens.

For years, Infowars has been at the forefront of exposing secret Army training plans, such as the “Civil Disturbance Operations” document for Military Police which outlined how to quell domestic riots, confiscate firearms and even kill Americans, as well as manuals detailing “re-education camps” and “resettlement operations” which contained plans for pacifying “political activists,” in addition to highlighting solicitations seeking out “Internment/Resettlement Specialists” to work in “civilian internee camps.”

No particular crisis has thus far presented the opportunity for a vigorous clamp down, but with economic insolvency, the looming threat of a new cold war, the ratcheting up of the war on gun rights and dependency on the government at all time highs, it’s not difficult to fathom the tipping point may be right around the corner.

National Guard and Cops Impose Military Police State in New York State

July 7, 2010

Infowars.com - Alex Jones and Matt Ryan reported earlier today that the National Guard is currently working with police in Albany, New York, to confiscate weapons from citizens in violation of the Constitution and Posse Comitatus.

The National Guard is a joint reserve component of the United States Army and as such prohibited from collaborating with state and local law enforcement except under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or an act of Congress. Posse Comitatus was seriously undermined when Congress passed the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007. The Warner bill allows the president to “employ the armed forces… to… restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition.”

In New York state, the “other condition” allowing the military to violate the rights of citizens is the bogus “war on drugs.” As the video here reveals, the cops and National Guard are using the spurious drug war to search for and confiscate weapons in violation of the Second Amendment. Local cops are using x-ray technology provided by the Pentagon to search vehicles. In addition to images of pot plants, Fox 23 shows an image of an x-ray scan that reveals a rifle hidden inside a car.

During Hurricane Katrina, the military and government concentrated on going house-to-house to confiscate legal weapons while preventing assistance to reach thousands of people displaced by the storm. In the wake of this egregious violation of the Second Amendment, many states worked to pass laws designed to prevent government from seizing weapons. “The actions of the New Orleans police have inspired 13 states, including Louisiana, to enact laws to keep state and local officials from taking guns during a state of emergency, such as after a natural disaster or terrorist attack,” Stateline.org reported in 2007.

The federal government has worked for more than two decades to federalize and militarize local law enforcement and deploy troops under a number of bogus pretenses subsequently justified and even shamelessly glorified by the corporate media.

In Police State 2000, Alex Jones exposed the creeping militarization of police and the plan to establish martial law.

“Do we want, as a free people, with the notion of privacy enshrined in the Constitution and based on the very clear limits and defined role of government, to be in a society where not just the police, but the military are on the street corners gathering intelligence on citizens, sharing that data, manipulating that data?” asked former Rep. Bob Barr in 2005.

Since Barr made his comment, the Pentagon under NORTHCOM has integrated with local police and has consistently violated Posse Comitatus. The Department of Homeland Security has also facilitated the militarization of law enforcement.

NORTHCOM has planned for “low end” scenarios — including crowd-control missions — since at least 2005. “The plans present the Pentagon with a clearer idea of the kinds and numbers of troops and the training that may be required to build a more credible homeland defense force,” the Washington Post reported on August 8, 2010. As Fox reports, this mission now includes searching cars with dangerous x-ray machines.

“We have been inundated with reports over the last few weeks of uniformed soldiers and National Guardsmen running internal checkpoints all over the country as a frightening ‘Red Dawn’ scenario unfolds not with a bang but with a whimper,” Paul Jospeh Watson wrote on September 23, 2009. “The military are now being called upon to undertake roles normally designated to police as Americans are incrementally acclimated to accept the presence of troops on the streets as an everyday occurrence.”

In addition to numerous instances of the military working hand-in-hand with police around the country — from checkpoints to patrolling public events like the Boston Marathon and the Kentucky Derby — the military has concentrated on training soldiers to take on demonized militias and gun owners.

On July 3, 2009, Infowars.com reported on the Missouri National Guard is training to engage in combat with “militia” groups. News of the training mission followed the release of a leaked DHS report on “rightwing extremism” by four months.

Cops in New York working with the Pentagon in violation of Posse Comitatus is not about marijuana and the so-called drug war. It is about searching for weapons and intimidating the American people. As the economy deteriorates the police and military will attempt to disarm the American people.

In 2008, a report by the U.S. Army War College spelled out how the Pentagon plans to respond to civil unrest as the economy implodes. “Widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security,” explains the War College report. International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn also predicted economy-related riots and unrest in response to the engineered Greatest Depression now unfolding.

The integration of police and military has taken a sizable leap with the activities in Albany, New York. In the weeks and months ahead, as the economy further crumbles, we can expect more brazen efforts to impose a militarized police state, not only in New York but around the country.

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Question: How do you bypass the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act limiting the military's involvement in law enforcement?

Answer: You militarize law enforcement.

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