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vets<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/national-guard-ask-police-for-names-of-gunowners-and-military-vets/>by
Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/>
Two days ago, I received a very troubling phone call from a trusted friend.
The friend does not want his name and that of his state to be made public.
I will call my friend X and his state Y.
Here is what X told me:
Last Saturday, August 4, 2012, X got a phone call from a good friend, Z,
who is a cop in a small town in Y.
Z said that both he and a cop in another neighboring town were paid a visit
by two men, driving in separate unmarked Humvees, who identified themselves
as members of the National Guard.
The two National Guardsmen (NGs) said they were "doing a survey" and asked
the cops for those residents of their respective towns who:
- own lots of firearms;
- are long-distance shooters;
- are military veterans.
The cops told the NGs that, it being a Saturday, they should come back on
Monday when the police chiefs are at the stations. But the NGs said they
are asking precisely the rank-and-file police officers; in other words, the
NGs' intent was to bypass the brass, i.e., the chain of command.
After the two NGs left, cop Z followed their vehicles and saw the NGs drive
around town, making GPS readings.
Cop Z told my friend X that:
- The National Guard is working under the Dept. of Homeland Security
(DHS).
- Obama and Eric Holder, known for their antipathy toward the Second
Amendment and private gun ownership, found a legal loophole that allows the
federal government to ask the questions the two NGs had asked the cops. And
so Obama issued a presidential directive empowering such agencies as the
FBI, U.S. Marshalls, BATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms), and
the National Guard to gather this information to compile a data base.
So I went looking on the web. This is what I found:
1. I found NOTHING about the National Guard going around asking cops for
information on owners of firearms and military vets, in Y or any other
state.
2. The U.S. National Guard
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_National_Guard>is considered to be a
reserve military force and, as such, is under the
Dept. of Defense, *not* Homeland Security. The agencies that are under DHS
are Customs and Border Protection, Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Transportation Security
Administration (TSA), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Coast
Guard, U.S. Secret Service, and the Office of Inspector General. (See
DHS's organizational
chart <http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/dhs-orgchart.pdf>).
3. I cannot find a presidential directive that specifically orders federal
agencies like the National Guard to conduct a firearms survey by asking
cops in towns across America. But that is not to say that such a
presidential directive doesn't exist. Here's why:
I discovered and opened a can of worms about which I'd never even known
until now. The "can of worms" is something called Presidential Directives.
This is what Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_directive>
says:
*Presidential Directives ... are a form of an executive
order<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order_%28United_States%29>issued
by the President of the United States with the advice and consent of
the National Security
Council<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Security_Council>.
The directives articulate the executive's national security policy and
carry the "full force and effect of law".*
*Since many of the Presidential Directives pertain to the national security
of the United States, many were or are secret
("classified<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information_in_the_United_States>
").*
Presidents have issued such directives under various names.
Under President George W. Bush (2001-2009), they were called National
Security Presidential Directives (NSPD) and Homeland Security Presidential
Directives.
Under Barack Obama (2009- ), they are called NSPD, Presidential Study
Directives (to initiate policy review procedures), and Presidential Policy
Directives (to promulgate Presidential decisions on national security
matters).
Regarding the secrecy of presidential directives, Steven
Aftergood<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Aftergood>of the
Federation
of American Scientists' Project on Government
Secrecy<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_of_American_Scientists#Government_Secrecy>stated
in February 2008 that:
*"Of the 54 National Security Presidential Directives issued by the (George
W.) Bush Administration to date, the titles of only about half have been
publicly identified. There is descriptive material or actual text in the
public domain for only about a third. In other words, there are dozens of
undisclosed Presidential directives that define U.S. national security
policy and task government agencies, but whose substance is unknown either
to the public or, as a rule, to Congress."*
For the list of known Homeland Security Presidential Directives of George
W. Bush, click
here<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_directive#List_of_Homeland_Security_Presidential_Directives>
.
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As for Obama's Presidential Policy
Directives<http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/ppd/index.html>(PPD), you
can see from the table below that:
- The titles of most of his Directives are unknown.
- Of those Directives with titles, the contents (texts) of only 4
Directives (Nos. 1, 2, 8, 14) are made public.
- The list of Obama's Presidential Policy Directives hasn't been updated
since February 28, 2012, which means there must be more subsequent
Directives for which we don't even have a number!
Number Presidential Policy Directive
Title Date *PPD 1 <http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/ppd/ppd-1.pdf> * Organization
of the National Security Council System 02/13/09 *PPD
2<http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/ppd/ppd-2.pdf>
* Implementation of the National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats
(National Strategy <http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/ppd/bio-strategy.pdf>)
11/23/09 *PPD 3 * *PPD 4 * National Space Policy (Fact
Sheet)<http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/fact-sheet-national-space-policy>
06/28/10 *PPD 5 * *PPD 6 * Global Development (Fact
Sheet<http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/ppd/global-dev.pdf>
) 09/22/10 *PPD 7 * National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) 01/26/11 *PPD
8 <http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/ppd/ppd-8.pdf> * National Preparedness
03/30/11 *PPD 9 * *PPD 10 * *PPD 11 * *PPD 12 * *PPD 13 * *PPD
14<http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/ppd/ppd-14.pdf>
* Procedures Implementing Section 1022 of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (Fact
Sheet<http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/ppd/ppd-14-fs.pdf>
) 02/28/12
To conclude, given:
- The known fact that the POS in the White House and his attorney
general Eric Holder want nothing more than to limit private gun ownership;
- The fact that the DHS in 2009 had issued an internal memo
identifying military
veterans and pro-Second Amendment Americans (among others) as potential
terrorists<http://www.infowars.com/war-on-terrors-new-targets-veterans-tea-partiers-anti-fed-activists/>
;
- The fact that the DHS has a report that identifies freedom-loving
Americans as "domestic
terrorists"<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/07/05/do-you-love-freedom-obamas-just-designated-you-a-terrorist/>
;
- The fact that Presidential Directives carry "the full force and effect
of law," but are so secretive that the substance of many of these
Directives is unknown to, not just the American people, but "as a rule" to
Congress as well;
Then I see no reason to doubt the account of the two cops of a visit by two
mysterious National Guardsmen.
*We live in perilous times. The Establishment Media are not doing their
job, so it is left to the alternative New Media. Our weapon is truth.
Please help this post to go viral by publishing this to your Facebook page
and e-mailing it to your family, friends, and acquaintances.*
*~Eowyn*
*Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/>* |
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