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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 12:10 PM
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Fort Bragg Troops Train For Homeland Security Mission
NEW YORK -- The traditional image of the military is troops going overseas.


Spc. David Millburn was part of a group of Fort Bragg soldiers who recently trained for a homeland security mission.


But, now more than ever, troops train to go anywhere -- even inside the United States.

Just this week, Fort Bragg soldiers ran a rare training exercise in New York.

The group of soldiers flew to New York to train for a fictional scenario in which terrorists plan to strike the West Point Military Academy, the place where future Army leaders train.

Once the Fort Bragg troops landed, the commanders were briefed. They predicted what fictional enemies might do, and how they might do it.

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CoonDawg Donating Member (88 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 12:11 PM
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1. I have a co-worker
who is a reservist out of Bragg. He's deploying to Iraq Dec. 12 for an 18 month tour.

But, those guys are in the HS loop. They provided security for the G8 summit this year in Georgia.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 12:22 PM
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2. They are training for movie scenarios.
This is absolute bullshit. Homeland security has no reason to use soldiers within the United States EXCEPT against angry US citizens.

There will NEVER be terrorist troops storming West Point. But there MIGHT be anti-war protestors swarming the place.

They are being trained to kill their neighbors and friends.
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RuleofLaw Donating Member (345 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 12:25 PM
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3. Exactly!
Were would these terrorist troops come from? swimming?
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 12:40 PM
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4. They are going to expand their "mission" a "wee bit'
"Arbeit Macht Frei."





The entrance to Auschwitz I bears one of the most famous Nazi lies, which greeted prisoners
doomed to imprisonment and often death: "Arbeit Macht Frei."





The dishonest "Arbeit Macht Frei" greeted prisoners who entered the Nazi's main administrative
camp, Sachsenhausen, where the SS administered the Nazis' vast camp universe in occupied
Europe.




At Terezín's "Small Fortress" prison, in the Czech Republic, the sign painted inside the camp
boundaries insulted prisoners with the words: "Arbeit Macht Frei."


AND SO IT WILL GO
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 01:07 PM
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5. Transportation provided
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 01:19 PM
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6. Only 185 to a box -car
Hans Frank





After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, Frank was appointed governor-general, becoming the supreme chief of occupied Poland's civil administration. An enthusiastic proponent of Nazi racist ideology, Frank ordered the execution of hundreds of thousands of Poles, the wholesale confiscation of Polish property, the enslavement of hundreds of thousands of Polish workers who were shipped to Germany, and the herding of most of Poland's Jews into ghettos as a prelude to their extermination. Frank remained as governor-general until the war's end, although Hitler stripped him of his other posts in 1942. He was captured by U.S. Army troops on May 4, 1945, and was indicted for trial before the International Military Tribunal at Nürnberg. He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and on Oct. 1, 1946, was sentenced to hang.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 01:34 PM
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9. Accommodations with all the amenities
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Voltaire99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 02:36 PM
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11. This is America, 2004; they'll ship prisoners to Wal-Mart work camps (n/t)
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Eloriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 03:54 PM
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14. Or those wonderful free-labor camps
known as prisons.
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livinbella Donating Member (477 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 01:23 PM
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7. Bush might even use that very same moniker
It worked once, why re-invent the wheel?
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ilovenicepeople Donating Member (883 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 01:33 PM
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8. Call me TINFOIL (I dare ya)
if the troops don't want to kill their friends and neighbours,the chip in their brain will deal with that small problem.I'm not saying they are "chipped" right now,but that technology IS out there.Whats harder to do rape and torture children or kill fellow Americans???
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qazplm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 01:39 PM
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10. i think the word crazy
applies more than tinfoil...good grief, seriously, most soldiers are young men and women just doing their job, following orders and in wartime, trying to stay alive long enough to finish their tour.

Save your venom for the people who wield the tool, not the tool itself.
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ilovenicepeople Donating Member (883 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 03:20 PM
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13. Thanks for the blue pill(and the good grief),I shall go to sleep now.
:boring:
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 04:30 PM
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15. Nice solution (NOT)
Edited on Fri Nov-12-04 04:33 PM by saigon68
Under your scheme as long as a never ending stream of thugs, killers and deviants volunteered for the military ----- you would support a never ending war where the same thugs, killers and deviants proclaimed (as in the German vernacular) I vas only followink orders mein fuhrer. As they attached electric wires to men’s testicles ?

Ya I see your reasoning </sarcasm>

and what war are you referring to? Certainly NOT the one the congress declared. I must have missed that one.
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Voltaire99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 02:37 PM
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12. Correlate this with US military tanks at yesterday's L.A. anti-war protest
See yesterday's headlines at DemocrayNow.org; there's an Indy media link to video footage of the tanks at the demonstration, too.
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