Troops Randomly Patrol Streets In Pittsburgh, Respond To “Domestic Disputes”

Paul Joseph WatsonPrison

Planet.com

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Americans are once again being conditioned to accept the sight of troops patrolling the streets and dealing with domestic law enforcement issues under the pretext of National Guard soldiers “helping” recovery efforts after the deluge of snow that has hit the East coast, the same soldiers who just months ago were also “helping” authorities to brutalize innocent people during the G20 summit in Pittsburgh. “In the aftermath of the weekend’s storm, hundreds of National Guard members have been helping Pittsburgh’s emergency personnel respond to residents’ needs; and beginning tonight, they’re also going to be patrolling some city streets,” reports KDKA.

“We will also begin to have the National Guard patrol our neighborhoods to deal with any issues that come up,” Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl announced at an afternoon news conference. “So city residents,” he added, “be advised that you will begin to see National Guard Humvees in some of your neighborhoods beginning this evening.”The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette also reported that Gov. Ed Rendell dispatched the troops to deal with all manner of calls that would normally be handled by police, including “domestic disputes”.

The use of National Guard soldiers to provide aid in emergency situations is a perfectly reasonable measure, but when those troops start to randomly patrol the streets and work with cops in dealing with “domestic disputes” and “any issues that come up,” then a dangerous precedent is being set, especially considering the fact that less than five months ago, these same troops were working with the Army and the Air Force to conduct “crowd control” ... and run military checkpoints during the G20 summit.

Indeed, Pittsburgh Guardsmen kept themselves busy “helping” troops, military, and multi-agency task force teams to abduct protesters off the streets, attack and terrorize peaceful demonstrators, and inflict LRAD torture weapons on innocent bystanders during the martial law showcase last September.

The troops had previously been deployed “in support of military operations around the world” under the banner of the war on terror. It is important to emphasize the fact that not only are National Guard now being deployed on a regular basis around the country on virtually any pretext, battle hardened active duty combat soldiers are also being used in “humanitarian exercises” under the banner of Northcom.

As we reported in 2008, troops from 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team trained to rescue people from wrecked cars in a propaganda piece aimed at convincing Americans to accept soldiers on the streets as routine. The troops were part of Northcom’s move to deploy tens of thousands of active duty soldiers... by September 2011 to deal with “domestic security,” including “civil unrest” and “crowd control”.

As Alex Jones exposed back in the late 1990’s, U.S. troops have been training for this eventuality for a considerable amount of time.

During numerous urban warfare drills that Jones attended and reported on, troops were trained to raid, arrest and imprison U.S. citizens in detention camps as well as taking over public buildings and running checkpoints. During role playing exercises, actors playing prisoners would scream “I’m an American citizen, I have rights” as they were being dragged away by troops.

Deploying National Guard troops on a completely random basis to deal with “any issues that come up,” including “domestic disputes” is a clear violation of Posse Comitatus. Guardsmen need to be tightly restricted to aiding only in emergency situations. Governor Rendell’s use of the soldiers in such a slapdash way is a flagrant violation of the 1878 law that forbids the Army, Air Force, and State National Guard forces from exercising nominally state law enforcement, police, or peace officer powers to maintain “law and order”.

Rendell, along with Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, have both breached the oath they swore to preserve and protect the Constitution.

Watch a You Tube clip where a Pittsburgh resident explains how the deployment of the Guard is another example of mission creep and fascism as the United States accelerates towards a military form of government.

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Comment by Jeff on February 9, 2010 at 4:54pm: Separation of powers, as you seem to know, is a fantasy. The Presidency is a de facto dictatorship able to go to war without the constitutional approval of Congress or the people. Laws are designed not by us or for us but by them for them. It's ludicrous to have faith in the Constitution since it hasn't been followed since it was written and wasn't written for us anyway.

Comment by Jeff on February 9, 2010 at 3:46pm: youhavetoforgiveme, It's absolutely true, the common man wasn't invited to participate and most likely couldn't even read but our children and even us, we were all taught that America has this GREAT Constitution, a living document to protect us all. What complete garbage.

Venezuela, a participatory democracy, wrote a new Constitution in 1999 that IS a revolutionary document. I won't go into great detail here but it even recognizes the social value women contribute to society by raising children and PAYS them via a social security dividend for staying home and raising children. Specifically it says, "“The State guarantees the equality and equitable treatment of men and women in the exercise of the right to work. The state recognizes work at home as an economic activity that creates added value and produces social welfare and wealth. Homemakers are entitled to Social Security in accordance with law.” It guarantees a right 'to a dignified life' and it guarantees that "Health is a fundamental social right, an obligation of the state, which guarantees it as part of the right to life." It also guarantees citizens not only have the right to information, but that they have the right to information that is “timely, true, and impartial" and that such information is to be provided “without censorship, in accordance with the principles of this constitution.”

We got screwed and we're taught a false history. George Bush was right when he said it's just a worthless piece of paper. Americans are very typically complete idiots if you ask me.

Comment by youhavetoforgiveme on February 9, 2010 at 3:28pm: Like it or not, Jeff is right. In short...it wasn't even that "We the People" weren't even invited to take part in writing the Constitution, all most all "common" men couldn't have even read what was being written if they were given the opportunity to do so.

Have some wahdka Commrade, the American Communist Regime is here!

Comment by Jeff on February 9, 2010 at 2:59pm: In position, well, Congress would be, so would the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court and the President but we've been fighting undeclared wars since even before Vietnam so do you really think anyone in position is going to do it?

Unbeknownst to America we live under a Dictatorship, not a Democratic Republic. Many Americans mistake Obama for a Socialist. Bush and Obama are Dictators. So was every president before them. It's been a Dictatorship since the Constitution was written, thus my post titled, "Our Constitution Sucks" since it was written by rich white men of the day and they would have had golf clubs in the trunk if the game had been invented then. Our forefathers aren't who we're taught they are. They were the elite.

Comment by Anti Oligarch on February 9, 2010 at 10:18am: God help us.
I wonder how many of them would shoot us for fun.
They've been feeding troops so much crap about "civilians".