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Natio​nal Guard​ Takes​ Contr​ol Of City Jails​ - Marti​al Law!​!​



Sgt. Tim Hadley, 1st Lt Michael Brandt, center, and Joe Gamble try to get a better look during their inspection of the "old jail" in Boonville on Thursday.
Gamble, the director of the EMS unit housed in the building, hopes the county cuts a deal with the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in Butlerville, Ind, to remove the cells


BOONVILLE, Ind — The inmates of the old Warrick County Jail are long gone, but the steel bars that held them remain, But, with hope, not for much longer

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Celling point: Indiana National Guard would take old Warrick jail off town's hands
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Courrier Press
By Lydia X McCoy (Contact)
Thursday, December 11, 2008

http://www. courierpress. com/news/2008/dec/11/celling-point/

After about a year of talks, Warrick County officials are trying to seal a deal to give the cells to the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in Butlerville, Ind

While the cells haven't been used for a number of years, the rest of the building currently is occupied by the Warrick County EMS

The compound, the only one of its kind in the United States, is a secluded, self-contained community, once home to the Muscatatuck State Developmental Center.
The 1,000-acre site was turned over to the Indiana National Guard in July 2005 and has been evolving into a full-immersion contemporary urban training environment

Lt. Col.
Chris Kelsey, site manager for Muscatatuck, said the National Guard wants to use the cells for a prison at the training center

"We want an actual prison; the more realistic the better," he said. "We can do the real thing or a replication.
We're trying to provide the real thing"


Staff Sgt. Ryan Wenk, left, inspects the upper areas of the cells in the "old Jail" in Boonville, Ind., on Thursday morning. 1st Lt. Richard Hoover, center, and 1st Lt.
Michael Brandt were discussing ways to take out the cells to ship them to the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in Butlerville, Ind, for training

The cells at the "old jail" in Warrick County would help the training center in that goal

On Thursday, 1st Lt.
Michael Brandt and three other soldiers visited Boonville to examine the cells and determine the best way to move them

"Today, I brought some of the actual engineers in who would be working on and supervising the project," he said

Brandt said the visit would help the engineers — Sgt. Tim Hadley, Staff Sgt. Ryan Wenk and 1st Lt.
Richard Hoover — determine what they will need to disassemble the cells

"(So) when we come up, we're equipped to basically dismantle and haul out the jail cells ourselves, with just Army labor at no cost to the county," he said. "It's kind of a win-win.
We help them out by taking out this, giving them a usable bay again, and they help us out by supplying us with stuff we're actually looking for and trying to find


Staff Sgt Ryan Wenk was one of four Indiana National Guard personnel stationed at Muscatatuck Urban Training Center who made the trip to Boonville to work out the logistics of moving the cells to Musca

"That's the great thing of how we're able to work with local governments to get stuff like this.
It enhances the realism if we can get some (things) that's actually been used

"The artwork on some of these cells that the inmates have drawn is great.
We'll leave that intact, so when we put it back up, it'll actually look like it's been occupied"

Brandt said if the deal is finalized, he'd like to start disassembling the cells by mid-January and have everything completed in about a month

County officials have been trying to figure out a way to remove the cells since spring.
They did a bid process but decided to look for alternatives when the prices were higher than anticipated, said the county's purchasing manager, Joe Grassman

Then, Grassman was contacted by Muscatatuck about the cells.
Grassman said he's "pretty optimistic" that the deal will go through

And he agrees that it's a win-win situation

"The most important thing is that they will be used for training ... instead of becoming scrap metal.
They'll reconstruct them and they'll serve a purpose," Grassman said

"It will save Warrick County a ton of money.
It's just one of those win-win situations"

The Warrick County Commissioners will decide what to do with the space

Don Williams, commissioners president, said two options are being considered.
Either use it to store ambulances for Warrick EMS or use it to store county records


20000 additional US uniformed troops, set to be trained by 2011, are to help as a response to the threat of a possible mass terror attack or civil unrest following an economic collapse, But despite assurances from the Pentagon, many Americans are worried by the prospect of seeing the military guard in the streets - December 04, 2008


Posse Comitatus Gone - Troops Deployed in US preparing for catastrophic event in USA November 16, 2008


20,000 More Troops Deployed for US, Second Wave - Dec 4, 2008


Obama - Special 'Civilian Security' needs to be deployed

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US troops' new mission: America's 'special events'
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Proposal would allow civilians to activate Army to prevent 'environmental damage'

World Net Daily
Bob Unruh
December 13, 2008

http://www. worldnetdaily. com/index. php?fa=PAGE. view&pageId=...

New rules published in the Federal Register would allow certain civilians to call American soldiers into action inside the U.S.
to prevent environmental damage or respond to "special events" and "other domestic activities"

The alarming warning is contained in proposed rules published last week for the Department of Defense's "Defense Support of Civil Authorities" plan

Under the U.S.
Constitution, soldiers inside the country essentially are tasked with the responsibility of quelling "insurrections" and repelling invasions as well as making sure each state has access to the republican form of government

But the new rules go far beyond that, essentially establishing a plan to activate the U.S.
military inside the country to deal with social issues under provisions that appear to be devoid of any connection to the Constitution, according to an expert

"I think the thing that's of concern with respect to this set of rules is it appears to have no constitutional foundation, no reference whatsoever of any constitutional structure.
It's totally missing," said Herb Titus, a onetime candidate for vice president for the Constitution Party and a longtime constitutional professor

Titus, whose biography includes teaching at five different American Bar Association-approved law schools and service as founding dean of the College of Law and Government at Regent University, reviewed the federal proposal at WND's request

The multi-page plan is to establish policies and assign responsibilities "regarding military support for civilian law enforcement"


"Who Killed the Constitution?" Here's a dirty little secret: The bedrock of our country is ... dead

The plan states, "This proposed rule will allow civil authorities access to the correct procedures when they are seeking assistance from the Department by establishing updated policy guidance and assigning the correct responsibilities within the Department for the Defense for support of civil authorities in response to requests for assistance for domestic emergencies, designated law enforcement support, special events, and other domestic activities

Titus, who has testified before Congress on constitutional issues and is authorized to practice before the U.S.
Supreme Court and a long list of federal court districts, said, "All of this is based on the assumption that government was created for the purpose of preventing things from happening in our lives"

A plain reading of the law, he said, would allow drastically different actions than what Americans probably expect

"Instead of prosecuting somebody charged with murder, we should profile people who are likely to commit murder, round them up and prevent them from endangering lives," he said, citing the plan's apparent permission for the government to restrain liberties when there is concern about potential damages or injury

A contact at the Department of Defense did not return a WND call requesting comment on the proposal

But the plan itself says the person calling for soldiers' actions could be either a military official or civilian leader. And it renews questions about Barack Obama's stated plans for a National Civilian Security Force that is at least as powerful and well-funded as the U.S.
military

Even Obama's new chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, says there will be a mandatory "force" for Americans

"If you're worried about, are you going to have to do 50 jumping jacks, the answer is yes," Emanuel told a reporter who was podcasting for the New York Daily News

WND also reported when the official website for Obama, Change. gov, announced he would "require" all middle school through college students to participate in community service programs

That proposal, however, was changed suddenly after a flurry of blogs protested children being drafted into Obama's proposal.
The new wording reads, "President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in under served schools, as well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps

WND previously reported on a video of a marching squad of Obama youth

Obama, meanwhile, also has yet to clarify what he meant during his July "Call to Service" speech in Colorado Springs in which he insisted the U.S.
"cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set" and needs a "civilian national security force"

Joseph Farah, founder and editor of WND, used his daily column first to raise the issue and then to elevate it with a call to all reporters to start asking questions about it

"If we're going to create some kind of national police force as big, powerful and well-funded as our combined U.S. military forces, isn't this rather a big deal?" Farah wrote. "I thought Democrats generally believed the U.S.
spent too much on the military How is it possible their candidate is seeking to create some kind of massive but secret national police force that will be even bigger than the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force put together?

"Is Obama serious about creating some kind of domestic security force bigger and more expensive than that? If not, why did he say it? What did he mean?" Farah wrote

The Obama campaign has declined to respond to WND questions on the issue

The newly proposed Department of Defense rules leave a virtually wide open door for what could be cited as a reason for military intervention

It defines "Imminently Serious Conditions" as "Emergency conditions in which, in the judgment of a military commander or responsible DoD civilian official, immediate and possibly serious danger threatens the public and prompt action is needed to save lives, to safeguard public health or safety, or to prevent or mitigate great property or environmental damage"

Repeatedly the rules cite "special events"

"Special event support to non-governmental organizations is a DSCA activity," it states under policy issues

That, Titus contemplated, could even be a Democratic National Convention in Denver

He said it's important to keep the foundations of the nation in mind and that many of the principles of justice and government for America were derived from the pulpits of the 1700s

"If you go back and look at Romans 13, the civil government was authorized to punish evil doing, not to prevent it from happening," Titus said

The new proposal specifically states it applies to a "potential or actual domestic crisis" and even confirms that conditions not always will allow "prior authority" before "action is necessary for effective response"

"All this is really designed to do is legitimize by rule essentially a broader discretionary power," Titus said

It also reverses the role of the boss, he said, because of the repeated references to a situation "manager"

"It's the image that's being created. A manager. You're supposed to do what the manager tells you. Contrast that with civil authorities who are our servants.
They're supposed to do what we want them to do," he said

Many state constitutions were specific in that area, he noted.
Virginia's, for example, declared that all powers derive from the people, and in Pennsylvania the constitution specifically reserved the right to regulate police to the people

Although many would argue such military occupation of the U.S. would be reserved only for such "emergencies," the Washington Post reported just a few days ago on plans by the U.S. military to have 20,000 uniformed troops stationed inside the U.S.
by 2011

The plan has been lauded by some in the Bush administration and Congress as a reasonable response to the threat of terrorism, despite concerns over how it would undermine the Posse Comitatus Act, a federal law that restricts the military's role in domestic law enforcement

At word of the plan, the ACLU warned of expansions in "presidential and military authority," while the Cato Institute called it a case of "creeping militarization," according to the Post

Gene Healy, Cato vice president, told the newspaper, "There's a notion that whenever there's an important problem, that the thing to do is to call in the boys in green … and that's at odds with our long-standing tradition of being wary of the use of standing armies to keep the peace"

The DoD says it will accept comments on the proposal until Feb.
2 at the federal government's link