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| Why is a U.S. Army brigade being assigned to the Homeland?
Posted: 11/9/2008 8:26:12 PM | Wow, I turn around and there is like 9000 more comments here. :-)
Nah, if the economy tanks, and you loose your job, get the HECK out of the city and be a subsistance farmer.
Actually, I have investigated a form of substance gardening. Kind of hi-tech version of it on a much smaller foot print than you would imagine. I have built a greenhouse for hydroponic plants. Hydroponics requires some of special kinds of fertilizers, chemicals and good water filters. There are some costs involved. The greenhouse I built from scrap lumber left over from the people who built my condo. The next stage of my work was to move into aquaponics, which couples small scale fish production with hydroponics to recycle the water. You create fish, plants, recycle the water and dont use chemical fertilizers, but do use fish food to drive the process. I was pre-med at one time, but that is as close as I came to the science, biology and chemistry to make something like that work. I would have to go back to school and learn fish farming. It is done elsewhere, however, even places that formerly were starving. But there is good logic in your advice, perhaps fish farming would be a more marketable skill than what I do now in the coming post-Obama election economic apocalypse.
Grapes of Wrath That was a glaring error, apologies to all. Glad you caught it, otherwise POF forum readers would be corrupted by my Steinbeck confusion. I should have remembered that, but it was long ago and far away.
loose, lose,loosely
Another useful correction. I must pay more attention to detail (and increase the font size on this laptop). You may have actually given me motivation to use a book I got recently. I buy my books used at my local library, they liquidate for less than pennies on the dollar. So, I snagged a "Webster's Writer's Dictionary". I had never seen one before. I got it because I like to write, and having it on the shelf made me think I was a better writer, along with the dictionary, thesaurus, and Bartlett's Quotations. It goes to the usage of words, when and where, best usage, etc. I should open it up sometime. | |
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| Why is a U.S. Army brigade being assigned to the Homeland?
Posted: 11/13/2008 12:46:38 AM |
But there is good logic in your advice, perhaps fish farming would be a more marketable skill than what I do now in the coming post-Obama election economic apocalypse.
I meant this remark above be a kind of a joke, sort of.
Now I am not joking. I rescued my investments by getting out while reading the tsunami of nonstop bad economic and political choices. I take no pleasure in telling readers that all indicators point to our economic situation getting very, very serious, and soon. (Gotta love that instant networked Internet communications). A headline this morning: "US Slump May Be Longest in Three Decades, Economy 'Fell Off a Cliff'" Those of you who have not been in a serious downturn, you will not forget this chapter of your lives. Its with the same fondness that I remember Jimmy Carter, the worst president in history.
Actually Carter wasn't just a bad chapter, but more like many bad chapters. Up until now he wrote the book on childish and embarrassing presidential decisions. Like JFK telling the world that we are all "Berliners" now (free peoples who want to carry the burden of people trapped by a communist dictatorship in East Berlin) - I say we are all "Carters" now, having chose to install and collude with leaders who favor the needs of our competitors and enemies over our citizens, appointing criminals and failures to guide and exacerbate our economic futures. And you wonder why I am betting against you? Jeeze, you make it too easy.
Let me tie this together in a way that people might not be thinking. You remmber that collapse of that bridge, the I-35 bridge, into that river? Came from out of the blue. Nobody really suspected it was that weak and, boom, down it went, 13 people dead. I bet that of all the things you could die from, a collapsing superhighway bridge would have been their last guess that day. But it happened.
With the same blissful cluelessness that these folks were speeding down the highway, I see Obama supporters blissfully unaware whats waiting for them. What happens when the money runs out and no real police to protect you and your fictional entitlements? Hell would freeze over before I would identify with willing traitors (modern democrats). Is your house burning down and you want my help to put it out? Thats too bad, traitors dont deserve any help. Hey, wait, you are democrat, yes? Okay then, you dont deserve to have any assets or freedom in this country - get out of your house and leave everything of value to me, a true citizen. I am claiming your assets as my own. (Who is going to stop me from taking all your assets? Certainly not a nation of pacifists and their ilk).
How do you like this vision of the future? You are so close to it, it aint funny. It might be easier to be Jew in Nazi Germany that a democrat in post-Obama America. I am not wrong about this conclusion, just not sure when it will happen. I bet you are wondering which side of this the military will side with, the people who stab them in the back, root for their deaths, or their supporters. Jeeze, you have to wonder about that? Your place in future Darwin Awards is guaranteed. | |
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| Why is a U.S. Army brigade being assigned to the Homeland?
Posted: 11/14/2008 1:30:59 PM | Read your history folks.... The US government has deployed US troops against it's citizenry in the past. Read about the strikes in the coal fields of West Virginia in the early 1900's, when the miners were trying to unionize.
http://www.wvculture.org/hiStory/minewars.html
"Not only did the UMWA send speechmakers, it also contributed large amounts of weapons and ammunition. On September 2, Governor William E. Glasscock imposed martial law, dispatching 1,200 state militia to disarm both the miners and mine guards. Over the course of the strike, Glasscock sent in troops on three different occasions."
"n September 1, President Harding finally sent federal troops from Fort Thomas, Kentucky. War hero Billy Mitchell led an air squadron from Langley Field near Washington, D.C. The squadron set up headquarters in a vacant field in the present Kanawha City section of Charleston. Several planes did not make it, crashing in such distant places as Nicholas County, Raleigh County, and southwestern Virginia, and military air power played no important part in the battle. On the 3rd, the first federal troops arrived at Jeffrey, Sharples, Blair, and Logan. Confronted with the possibility of fighting against U.S. troops, most of the miners surrendered. Some of the miners on Blair Mountain continued fighting until the 4th, at which time virtually all surrendered or returned to their homes. During the fighting, at least twelve miners and four men from Chafin's army were killed." | |
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| Why is a U.S. Army brigade being assigned to the Homeland?
Posted: 12/24/2008 11:26:56 AM | This thread was prophetic. From a new report on the web..
A new report from the U.S. Army War College discusses the use of American troops to quell civil unrest brought about by a worsening economic crisis.
The report from the War College’s Strategic Studies Institute warns that the U.S. military must prepare for a “violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States” that could be provoked by “unforeseen economic collapse” or “loss of functioning political and legal order.”
Entitled “Known Unknowns: Unconventional ‘Strategic Shocks’ in Defense Strategy Development,” the report was produced by Nathan Freier, a recently retired Army lieutenant colonel who is a professor at the college — the Army’s main training institute for prospective senior officers.
Looks like the Army College reads my forum posts. :-)
What happens when the money runs out and no real police to protect you and your fictional entitlements? Hell would freeze over before I would identify with willing traitors (modern democrats). Is your house burning down and you want my help to put it out? Thats too bad, traitors dont deserve any help. Hey, wait, you are democrat, yes? Okay then, you dont deserve to have any assets or freedom in this country - get out of your house and leave everything of value to me, a true citizen. I am claiming your assets as my own. (Who is going to stop me from taking all your assets? Certainly not a nation of pacifists and their ilk).
How do you like this vision of the future? You are so close to it, it aint funny. It might be easier to be Jew in Nazi Germany that a democrat in post-Obama America. I am not wrong about this conclusion, just not sure when it will happen. I bet you are wondering which side of this the military will side with, the people who stab them in the back, root for their deaths, or their supporters. Jeeze, you have to wonder about that? Your place in future Darwin Awards is guaranteed. | |
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| Why is a U.S. Army brigade being assigned to the Homeland?
Posted: 12/29/2008 11:32:28 AM | I just watched a documentry of a free lance war photo journalist. He covered Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. I saw what people do with guns and tanks. I know that everyone in the conflict areas were thinking this is not happening. It was sad to see but needful to know.
Some one said we had 360+ tornados this year. Armed conflict within the USA takes the lives of 9k per year. 3k children are abused to death per year. I think having a boarder that is secure is a good thing but having a home that is secure is best. I live in CO because it is a make my day state and I can kill anyone who comes into my home to do me harm. Crime will go up as****and jane turn in to bonnie and clyde without moral order.
Wait we will have the Army here. They will secure our boarders, find and close tunnels, support us in times of difficulty. Like they do around the world. How nice. I bet I'll never need that ak47 | |
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| Why is a U.S. Army brigade being assigned to the Homeland?
Posted: 12/29/2008 2:53:10 PM | | Does anyone listen to cnn or other news sources? Mexico is in a war against the drug lords. That war is beginning to spill into Southern California and Arizona cities. Even David Spade contributed so that Police could arm themselves with better weapons. Does anyone think we might need military forces soon, just as Mexico does? | |
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| Why is a U.S. Army brigade being assigned to the Homeland?
Posted: 1/1/2009 8:10:07 PM |
Does anyone listen to cnn or other news sources? Mexico is in a war against the drug lords. That war is beginning to spill into Southern California and Arizona cities. Even David Spade contributed so that Police could arm themselves with better weapons. Does anyone think we might need military forces soon, just as Mexico does?
I really really hope not, don't get me wrong, I don't think that troops are on the ground in the USA for some conspiracy or anything like that, but using the military for domestic law enforcement is poor on two fronts, the military is not the best tool for dealing with crime that isn't what they're primary training is for after all. Secondly using the military for law enforcement isn't exactly a symptom of good health in a country. | |
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| Why is a U.S. Army brigade being assigned to the Homeland?
Posted: 1/5/2009 5:40:52 PM |
the military is not the best tool for dealing with crime that isn't what they're primary training is for after all. Secondly using the military for law enforcement isn't exactly a symptom of good health in a country. [/quote ]
A drug war is more than a crime, it is a threat to National Security. The local police in Mexico were being murdered by the hundreds. The weapons of the Drug Lords are sophisticated and they are too well armed for the local departments. Only our Military has the strength to deal with such forces and weapons. They have not infiltrated here like in Mexico but they have infiltrated. We should always be prepared when there is a clear danger. | |
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