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05/14/2013 By making a few subtle changes to a regulation in the U.S. Code titled Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies the military has quietly granted itself the ability to police the streets without obtaining prior local or state consent, upending a precedent that has been in place for more than two centuries. The most objectionable aspect of the regulatory change is the inclusion of vague language that permits military intervention in the event of civil disturbances. According to the rule: Federal military commanders have the authority, in extraordinary emergency circumstances where prior authorization by the President is impossible and duly constituted local authorities are unable to control the situation, to engage temporarily in activities that are necessary to quell large-scale, unexpected civil disturbances. One of the more disturbing aspects of the new procedures that govern military command on the ground in the event of a civil disturbance relates to authority. Not only does it fail to define what circumstances would be so severe that the presidents authorization is impossible, it grants full presidential authority to Federal military commanders. According to the defense official, a commander is defined as follows: Somebody whos in the position of command, has the title commander. And most of the time they are centrally selected by a board, theyve gone through additional schooling to exercise command authority. As it is written, this commander has the same power to authorize military force as the president in the event the president is somehow unable to access a telephone. (The rule doesnt address the statutory chain of authority that already exists in the event a sitting president is unavailable.) In doing so, this commander must exercise judgment in determining what constitutes, wanton destruction of property, adequate protection for Federal property, domestic violence, or conspiracy that hinders the execution of State or Federal law, as these are the circumstances that might be considered an emergency. Bruce Afran, a civil liberties attorney and constitutional law professor at Rutgers University, calls the rule, a wanton power grab by the military, and says, Its quite shocking actually because it violates the long-standing presumption that the military is under civilian control. A defense official who declined to be named takes a different view of the rule, claiming, The authorization has been around over 100 years; its not a new authority. Its been there but it hasnt been exercised. Jed Morey | U.S. Military Power Grab Goes Into Effect: Pentagon Unilaterally Grants Itself Authority Over Civil Disturbances<http://www.longislandpress.com/2013/05/14/u-s-military-power-grab-goes-into-effect/> J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:363701 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
