-Caveat Lector-
Just in from Jack DeVault, ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) author of The Waco Whitewash
. I'm e-mailing him for further verification, e-mail addresses etc. Very
interesting, to say the least. Gavin.
<< Monday, November 29, 1999
MARTIAL LAW HAS BEGUN!
Article on the Military policing 77 Texas
Counties Released Today.
Martial Law is Here!
By Ed Hohmann
Infowars.com Exclusive
While everyone has been wondering what excuse
the Federal
Government will use to declare Martial Law, we
have been living under it.
For years, right here in Texas, US Army soldiers
have been performing
civilian law enforcement duties off base.
According to a US Army SWAT Entry Team Leader
with the 38th MP
unit at Fort Hood, the City of Killeen has been
using the Fort Hood
SWAT Team to serve warrants and arrest civilians
for at least the past
two years. Apparently, Killeen does not have a
SWAT Team of its own,
so the city uses US Army soldiers instead. The
Army, for its part, seems
only too happy to oblige.
All of this came to light Wednesday morning when
Mike Hanson,
cameraman for documentary film maker Alex Jones,
spotted a bus being
searched on a blocked-off stretch of the feeder
road along I-35 in the
middle of Temple. Mike was on his way to Waco
with a load of building
materials for the new Mount Carmel Chapel. With
his camera ever at the
ready, Mike got off at the next exit and swung
back around to film the
incident. Other local media were already at the
scene of what appeared to
be an ordinary police search.
The subject of the search was a Greyhound bus
that was stopped at 5:00
AM on its way from Dallas to San Antonio in
response to a bomb threat.
Lt. Best, the Temple police officer responsible
for the media, immediately
approached Mike and informed him that this was a
military operation
being conducted by the EOD group from Ft. Hood.
Lt. Best requested
that Mike not film the faces of the soldiers
performing the search, but film
them from the back only. Mike said that we did
not have secret military
police in this country, and wanted an
explanation as to why these
soldiers could not be filmed. Lt. Best
responded, "They do stuff like this
and they just don’t want the people to know what
they’ve done."
Lt. Best outlined the search plan to Mike.
First, the bus had been cleared
by a bomb-sniffing dog and the passengers had
been removed to a
remote location. Currently, the passengers were
being returned in small
groups to retrieve their belongings to be
searched. Then, the bus would
be searched a final time, and the passengers
would be free to board the
bus and continue on their journey from Dallas to
San Antonio.
Mike expressed his concern about the use of
secret military units to
perform this search, referring to the Delta
Force exercises in South Texas
earlier this year. Lt. Best’s response was,
"These guys aren’t Delta
Force. We all know these guys, we work with them
all the time." Lt. Best
refused to elaborate further about the
relationship between the Temple
Police Department and the US Army because "I
don’t like how you do
your business." What the lieutenant did not like
was that Mike was
questioning the extraordinary restrictions that
were being placed on the
media coverage, rather than meekly bowing in
acceptance.
The Waco office of the Texas Department of
Public Safety originally
notified the Temple police department of the
bomb threat. The Texas
Department of Public Safety has a top-notch bomb
disposal unit, yet
they were not called out. Why were Army soldiers
searching the
passenger’s belongings? The local police should
have performed this
duty. The traveling public is not supposed to be
stopped and searched
by soldiers. That is what happens in third world
countries. The US Army
has no authority over the civilians. On the
contrary, the United States
Constitution places the Army under civilian
control. Additionally, the
Posse Commitatus Act (18USC1385) prohibits
military personnel from
executing local, state, or federal laws except
as the Constitution or act of
Congress authorizes.
Two blocks away from the bus, hidden in some
woods was a staging
area. As Mike was filming, two black Blackhawk
helicopters rose above
the treetops and flew away. According to US Army
official sources,
unmarked black helicopters are only used by
Special Forces. Were the
soldiers that hid their faces part of a Special
Forces unit? If so, what
unit? Why were they searching a Greyhound bus in
Temple, Texas?
When Mike arrived at the scene in Temple, Alex
Jones was just
preparing for his Genesis Communications Network
broadcast. Mike
called in on the hotline and Alex started off
his show with a live
on-the-scene report from Mike. Listeners were
able to follow the story as
it unfolded. This was the first public broadcast
reporting the use of US
Army personnel engaging in an actual civilian
law enforcement action. It
is important to note that none of the other
media present mentioned the
military presence in their reports. The article
in the Temple Telegraph by
Nicole Edwards only mentions police, emergency
personnel, and bomb
detection experts.
Over the past several years, the Federal
Government has been gradually
setting the up the conditions for Martial Law.
According to Alex Jones,
we are currently in Stage 3 (on a scale of 1 to
10) of the implementation of
Martial Law. Martial Law is being disguised
under a variety of programs
with innocuous sounding names, such as "Resource
Sharing", in order
to deflect criticism and keep the general
populace ignorant of the actual
situation.
Alex Jones’ documentary Police State 2000 shows
actual US military
training exercises being trained to arrest
civilians and incarcerate them in
concentration camps. For realism, paid actors
are used to play the
civilians, shouting, "You can’t do this to me! I
am an American!" A
resident of Hebron, Maryland was ordered by
Marines to turn off his
camera on a public street when he tried to film
them.
There are several serious questions that need to
be answered regarding
the Temple bus search:
Who called in the Army to perform this
search?
Why was the Texas DPS bomb disposal
unit not called?
Who were the soldiers in the unmarked
car that were
hiding their faces?
Why were US Army soldiers in uniform
hiding their
identity?
Why was a bus with a suspected bomb on
board stopped
at a gas station in a populated area?
Was this a training exercise that
inconvenienced
unwitting, fare-paying travelers for
nine hours?
Was this a search for biochemical
agents or even a
suitcase nuke?
Certainly, this was not an ordinary response to
a real bomb threat. At the
very least, searching a Greyhound bus alongside
a major freeway in a
populated area on the busiest traveling day of
the year served as a very
visible desensitization exercise. Everyone
driving through Temple that
day could see the military working hand-in-hand
with the local police.
The absence of publicity in the local media
gives the impression that this
is a normal, everyday circumstance; nothing to
worry about.
The Temple police handed Mike a letter that they
had received from the
Department of the Army, 47th Ordnance Company
(EOD), 52nd
Ordnance Group (EOD), Fort Hood, Texas. The
letter is dated
February 22, 1999, and it is addressed to local
agencies. It states,
"This letter is meant to inform you of
the assets available
to you from this organization. The
47th Ordnance
Company (EOD) is organized and
equipped to support
not only military units, but also any
municipal, state, or
federal agency. Our area of
responsibility includes 77
counties within the state, including
the Dallas-Fort Worth
metroplex.
"Special Circumstances: In the case of
situations when
your agency feels that there is an
explosive hazard
(boobytraps, warrant service, hostage
situation, drug lab
raids, etc…), it is possible for you
to request that an EOD
team be present for this operation in
the interest of
preserving public safety. This
requires an official request
to our higher command (see attached
example) from the
lead agency present.
"Please do not feel as if we are a
‘last resort’ asset, we are
here to support you 24 hours per day.
Share this
information with both the personnel in
your agency and
other agencies. Do not hesitate to
contact this unit if you
require our assistance, or if you have
questions. Do not
delay in the case of explosive related
incidents, minutes
can cost lives. We hope that we can be
of service to you
in the future."
Although this letter sounds very reasonable and
appears to be
concerned with protecting public safety, it is
important to note the
exceptions and conditions it lists. These are
actually the open doors
leading to a military police state here in
America.
Alex Jones has confirmed with a second MP,
Sergeant Mark Waxler, at
the Fort Hood MP office that the Special
Response Team does indeed
routinely serve civilian arrest warrants and
executes search warrants off
base.
On the day after the Temple bus search,
Thanksgiving Day 1999, a
Military Policeman shot and killed a civilian
outside of Fort Bragg, North
Carolina during a normal traffic stop. According
to hospital sources, the
victim, who was a passenger in a car that
contained two small children,
was shot several times in the back. Although the
shooting was carried as
a major story in the Fayetteville Observer,
these details were not
mentioned.
These recent events are the consequences of
legislation such as Senate
Bill 1059, Sections 1067 and 1084, and US Code
Title 50 Chapter 32
Section 1520A. As stated in an October 7, 1999
article on the CNN
website about the new US Joint Forces Command
for dealing with
domestic situations, "Pentagon officials say the
idea behind the change
is to give a president options short of martial
law to deal with domestic
crises."
While covering this breaking story on his radio
broadcast, Alex Jones
said, "I’ve been warning people for years not to
look for a
Hollywood-like proclamation from the Federal
Government announcing
martial law; look for incrementalism."
This is not speculation about the future, it is
the reality of today, and it is
the framework for America’s future unless the
Constitution and the Bill
of Rights can be restored.
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