In October of this year, one month prior to the November midterm elections, a special army unit known as 'Consequence Management
Response Force' will be ready for deployment on American soil if so ordered by the President.

The special force, which is the new name being given to the 1st Bri..., has been training at Fort Stewart, Georgia and is composed of 80,000 troops.

According to the Army Times,

The key phrase is 'may be called upon to help with civil unrest.'

This afternoon a local radio talk show host reported that he had been in contact with a member of the military. This military source stated
that the armed forces have been alerted to the strong possibility that
civil unrest may occur in the United States this summer, prior to the
midterm elections of 2010.

The source described this as 'our long, hot summer of discontent' that could be eerily reminiscent of the summer of 1968 when riots broke out in many of our largest cities.

However, the summer of 2010 could well be much worse due to the players involved. In 1968 the major players were war protesters. This time,
the outrage simmering beneath the surface of American society involves
a broad cross-section of the heartland, and most of them are heavily
armed.

It is highly unlikely that these citizens would ever initiate armed conflict of any kind. In their view, gun rights are for self-defense--and for defense against tyrannical government, which our
Founders regarded as the most dangerous force on earth.

However, it has become clear that other groups may well initiate violence in order to start an 'incident' that would give Obama and a rogue Congress a reason to implement martial law,
confiscate the citizens' guns, enforce curfews, and suspend all future
elections until such time as it is deemed 'safe' to proceed with human
liberty as encapsulated in the right to vote.

Tea Party members, for example, have been warned in recent days that members of Andy Stern's SEIU union and members of the organization formerly known as
ACORN plan to infiltrate Tea Party gatherings in order to incite some sort of inc....

In addition, all indications point to a humiliating defeat for the Democrats and Obama in November. Not only will the House in all
likelihood transfer to Republican control, but it is increasingly
possible for the Democrats to lose the Senate as well.

And there are Leftwing groups in this country that would use whatever means necessary to prevent that from happening.

ACORN has already gone underground, changing its name so as to fly beneath the radar screen. How many people will the group register to vote
illegally?

And with Obama's plan to naturalize between 10 and 20 million illegal aliens, a brand new voter base for the Democrats will be in place prior to November.

Add to this the growing unrest over continued high unemployment, the coming spike in interest rates and inflation, and the still-boiling outrage over the manner in which
Obama and the Democrats shoved ObamaCare down the throats of the
citizens, and all of the ingredients are present for a major F-5
tornado to sweep across the heartland.

To what extent would soldiers use deadly force during such 'civil unrest' should the Consequence Management Response Team be utilized? During the anti-war
riots of the 1960s they killed student protesters. What about now?

The military source cited by the radio host today was asked this very question. He would merely say that the culture of the U.S. military is
changing--half support Obama and the other half are dead-set against
him.

His conclusion? There is no way to know for sure if they would obey an order to open fire on ordinary citizens.

Update: The Cato Institute published this warning when the program was launched in its first phase in 2008 (the program has been updated and expanded since 2008). The
Founders insisted that standing armies were never to be used against
American citizens on our own soil, no matter what violations of this
principle have occurred in the years following. In the spirit of the
Patriots and of real journalists government must be questioned
constantly and held to intense scrutiny in order to preserve liberty..