Urban Warfare Drills Linked To Coming Economic Rage

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Monday, February 23, 2009

Urban warfare training drills are taking place across the country as top analysts as well as officials predict a potential “summer of rage” across Europe and America as civil unrest from the economic fallout builds.

Earlier this month, 150 U.S. troops from the U.S. Special Operations Command whizzed around the streets of New Orleans in military helicopters and even dropped bombs in what officials described as a “training event”.

An Iowa National Guard training exercise in Arcadia, Iowa, scheduled for April was originally billed as an “invasion” before public opposition caused the drill to be scaled back. The exercise included Guard troops patrolling streets, searching houses and confiscating firearms.

No less than 2,200 U.S. Marines were also involved in urban operations training in Richmond, VIrginia, throughout January, drills that involved landing troops in populated areas, allowing military pilots to “familiarize themselves with the area.”

Military choppers hovered precariously low over parking lots as citizens were acclimated to seeing active duty military assets engaged in law enforcement style activities.

Watch a clip filmed by a startled Richmond resident who wasn’t even aware that Marines were conducting drills due to scant forewarning on behalf of authorities and the media.

"We didn't start the fire nor do we fuel it- but the smoke burns our eyes - MC"

There’s no question that U.S. authorities have been closely observing riots that have toppled governments in Iceland and Latvia and also threatened to do so in several other European countries. The fact that they have contingency plans in place to deal with such scenarios should they unfold in America cannot be disputed.

Indeed, before a media exposé forced them into a denial, Northcom revealed that one of the duties of at least 20,000 active duty troops that are being placed inside the United States would be dealing with “civil unrest and crowd control”.

Meanwhile, millions of dollars that were set aside as part of the so-called bailout have in fact been handed over to local police departments and spent on military tools like armored vehicles, unmanned aerial surveillance drones and high-powered firearms for SWAT teams.

In addition, with many predicting that Mexico is on the verge of collapse as a result of the economic crisis and the out of control drug war, Texas officials have already established contingency plans to deal with an influx of immigrants, a program that would only address “law enforcement concerns” and not humanitarian needs.

HR 645, otherwise known as the National Emergency Centers Establishment Act, would mandate the expansion of FEMA detention camps which would likely to be used to detain illegal immigrants as well as rioting American citizens.

The prospect of widespread rioting at some stage this year is a scenario feared by many.

Police in the UK are preparing for a “summer of rage” and mass protests against the mishandling of the economic crisis by the government.

The U.S. Army War College in November released a white paper called Known Unknowns: Unconventional ‘Strategic Shocks’ in Defense Strategy Development. The report warned that the military must be prepared for a “violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States,” which could be provoked by “unforeseen economic collapse,” “purposeful domestic resistance,” “pervasive public health emergencies” or “loss of functioning political and legal order.” The “widespread civil violence,” the document said, “would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security.”

Numerous other public figures, including Senator Christopher Dodd, leading economist Nouriel Roubini, top trend researcher Gerald Celente, the head of the International Monetary Fund, the head of the World Trade Organization, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, former national security director Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair have all warned of coming civil unrest and global instability.

Medclinician

comment: Scary, huh? Well let it be clear here that personally there is no intent to encourage this type of thing. This is only to save that those who know- are aware of a growing discontent and the sad part is we need to address the problems and economic issues in America with extreme prejudice- in the sense - without delay and make them our first priority.

What is going on 12,000 miles away does not effect us nearly as much as what is happening in our own country. We cannot just push this one forward to some other person's "term." and avoid painful vote losing legislation we critically need.

Doing some of things critically necessary could put some legislators out of office. Take away this and that program you are going to see social unrest.

In my writing today in the book, I am trying to define the world as it would be in the midst of a Pandemic. We sat around and talked about it. Quite bluntly, the vision being put out there of what it will be it more like Mary Poppins in Sound of Music (used to torture little Wednesday Adams) than the reality.

And to prepare, we must try to extrapolate the reality. Real problems need real solutions.

We want to believe, we clap our hands, we wait for deliverance.
 Some us, after being ground into the dust a few times, are very skeptical. Public support has been eroding for almost a decade. To Abraham's statement - you can't please all the people all of the time - should be added you can only be non-transparent for so long before people wake up and smell the coffee.

Can our world market Indices have zero change?  Note - lot of arrows just went green after my last post. May they stay that way.

Maybe I should of had my coffee today, huh?

Medclinician