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Understanding the power and effect of perception is the lynchpin to good decision making. Developing a mature and analytical “handling” process for perception will arm you with an exceptional ability to analyze complex challenges rapidly and accurately. That skill will give you is an essential edge against your competition. Well-practiced it will save you from harm and suffering. It may save your life. Quick thinking, rapid, accurate, and thoughtful responses are game-changers in a survival situation and life in general.

Some of the brightest minds in the world have debated the concept that I wrote, about on December 30, 2017, “Perception is reality. Reality is perception” is scientifically validated. I will not slip off into scientific minutia, but if you wish to go there read how what we see is totally based upon the perception that is a result of the upside-down image of light reflectivity, corneal, retinal, and brain functions. Those things vary from human to human. The brain is so powerful that it processes “what it gets”, fills the blanks, and calculates the scene for your survival.

The perceived world posits that you see something, therefore it is. We certainly know that is nowhere near the case. A table is a table or is it. In the video below the tables are different, or are they.

When you see something for the first time, you must assess it, test it, feel it, and develop a concept explaining what you have seen. Those “facts” the child of vision, analysis, and valuation are subjective perceptions. Lighting, angle, obstructed view, and more directly skew the outcome of your final assessment of the object in question. Most people do not even know what about the Ames Illusion. The challenge is to develop skills that allow you to error check your sensory data.

The Ames Illusion demonstrates the point. Please view the short video below:

I believe that when assessing life and what it presents to us every day, we must learn to develop a worthwhile skillset to enable us to make objective, clear, logical, and accurate assessments of people and the world around us. As I said, if you embrace the idea that perception is reality and reality is the perception you will be ahead of the game.

People used to park their cars with their windows down, doors unlocked, with the keys in them. Most of the time, nothing negative happened. Over time, new stories occurred telling troubling tales of theft, damage, and sometimes injuries as a result of their perception of safety and security are diminished. Suddenly, they are locking their car. Depending upon the imagery, threat, and tolerance to that risk people will suddenly hide everything in the car, install a car alarm, and purchase aftermarket security devices for the car. The process slowly strips that person willingly of their calm, trusting demeanor. It alters the way they look at strangers walking by them near their car. The point is not to say that in some instances those perceptions and behaviors are not totally valid and necessary. Simply, the question is, did you actually speak to police officers and locals who are in that area all of the time? Did you find data that supported the threat and countermeasures?

 

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Fear and the perception that we derive from the stories and images are calculated outcomes. The stories and images, carefully selected to frame our perception and provoke a specific response. Again, the Hegelian Dialectic.

Your response is to:

  • Watch countless hours of redundant, often baseless conjecture, and pontification on cable TV.
  • As the story persists, fed by new and more graphic details, get more and more fearful, angry, and concerned.
  • You demand that the government and law enforcement “DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.”

The cable TV networks make millions of dollars on advertising revenue. You develop a biased, generally inaccurate perception of the facts, the threats, and the NEED FOR A SOLUTION.

Sadly, this brain-based response can be exploited for way more than being tricked into ceding our most valued assets, our freedoms and even our liberty. Daily, the same methods are employed to excite us to buy antiaging creams, hair regrowth formulas, and other items that will “save us”.

As with anything, this provoked, the highly predictable response can be employed for benign or nefarious purposes.

Carefully sculpted messages are embedded in every form of media today. They focus on the idea that everyone is a victim. Everyone, except for people of European roots, they are the creators of all evil. The clear message is that masses are victims. Victims do not exist without an aggressor. They want you to beg to be saved, surrender what you have, especially that which threatens them and their power over you, in return for “safety and security.” From advertisements to news “reports”, movies to television shows, they all inundate you with images where they flip nature and reality on its head, and place strong people in weak positions, weak people as super heroes, and much more. We all are inundated with advertisements for food, beverages, and a plethora of other things they tell you, that you need. These messages are also in political speeches and news “reports.” They can change public support for policies, wars, programs, laws, and more.

At the end of the Tet Offensive in Vietnam (1968) the North Vietnamese had suffered such devastating losses that the lead general formed a surrender party. They watched Walter Cronkite on the evening news say that we had lost the war. We had sustained thousands of casualties, but they were totally devastated. Several decades later we learned that Walter Cronkite; “the most trusted voice in the news” was a socialist. In his retirement he gave a speech to the World Federalist Association in which he “favor[ed a] world government financed by global taxes”. He called for the U.S. to renounce “some of its sovereignty” and pass a series of United Nations treaties-many of which were later pushed in the Senate by President Barack Obama. Cronkite’s reports shifted the previously strong majority support for the Vietnam Conflict to oppose it. That is the power of the message.

I will use two really powerful examples that illuminate the issue. First the reporting on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The underlying bias of the mainstream media which is likely a combination of two competing factors. The first is the fact that most of the media leaders and talking heads were either leftist anti-Vietnam war protesters or were taught by them in college.

We love and respect our US Military. They are serving our nation at the will of our government to protect us and our interests. One military death is too much. But the numbers must be understood in order to give them due respect.

The second is fed by the desire to, through fear and sensationalized carnage, pack the viewers to increase advertising revenue. The baseline rhetoric focuses on the death and destruction of “innocents” and “our people” in the military resulting in the average person speculating, when asked, that 100,000 American soldiers died there. They also believe that “the Iraqis and Afghanis did nothing, we died for them.” Sadly, the numbers are:

  • Afghanistan and Iraq Wars 2001-2017
    • Hostile Death 5750
    • Non-Hostile Death 1186
      • 757 in accidents
      • 261 suicide or other self-inflicted causes
    • Total Records 6936
    • Notably
      • 6,900 Contractors also died in the conflict
      • 43,000 uniformed Afghans, Iraqis, and other Allies died

Over 21% of all deaths in the theater were caused by non-hostile incidents. According to several sources there are as many as another 25% who died while in combat but not because of enemy actions but in rollovers, crashes, and other motor vehicle accidents. Over half of the combat casualties were not caused by arms fire but at an average of 1.7 deaths to one IED. The casualty rate from IEDs is over double. Why does that matter? The media knows that death and carnage equal viewers. The politicians know that high casualty rates yield public outcry and power shifts. For our military, it means that instead of the obvious outcry for our soldiers to be provided with explosion proof vehicles, we left them there for the first six years with HUMVEES that would tear in half with a few pipe bombs. Our brave soldiers were denied support for ratings and political gain!

There is more, in the Vietnam conflict the numbers stack up like this:

  • Vietnam Conflict 1956 - 2008
    • Hostile Death 47,434
    • Non-Hostile Death 10,786
    • Total Records 58,220

That is roughly 16% of our military in Vietnam died from non-enemy actions.

There are tricks employed in order to galvanize the public’s perceptions and reactions. Although it seems counter-intuitive that a known is perceived as more threatening than an unknown, we find that personified threats/risks (named threats; Taliban, Son of Sam, etc.) are perceived as a higher threat than the risk from a faceless threat. Therefore, the media and the government move quickly to name the risk. Twenty-four-hour news channels even make fancy graphics and stressful music for the segments. Once they have done that, they repeat the things that they wish for you to accept as a threat to you. This invokes fear, discomfort, and a “need” for “a solution”. Welcome the Hegelian Dialectic (see the article.) The next act is the “public demands” action. Therein lies the danger to our way of life, our freedoms, and our liberty.

We must constantly be vigilant to the well-planned manipulation that is foisted upon us every day. We are the primary guardians of our liberty and freedoms. Never rest in the task of guarding these precious gifts.

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]]> 976 Combat Arms Survey US Government https://www.survivewithwill.com/2017/12/10/combat-arms-survey-us-government/ Sun, 10 Dec 2017 06:36:49 +0000 http://www.survivewithwill.com/?p=112 Read More]]> Combat Arms Survey
Administered to 300 Active Duty Marines at 29 Palms, CA
May 10, 1994

Article from the NEW AMERICAN Vol 11 No. 20 October 2, 1995

Twenty-Nine Palms Survey:

What Really Motivated Its Author?

by John F. McManus

Veteran readers of THE NEW AMERICAN are vibrantly aware of the May 10, 1994 “Combat Arms Survey” administered to 300 active-duty Marines at the USMC’s Air-Ground Combat Center, Twenty-Nine Palms, California.

Among its 46 questions, the Marines were asked if they would be willing to swear to a United Nations code of conduct and if they would fire on Americans who refused to turn over their privately owned weapons to the government. Other questions sought their approval or disapproval about their involvement in an assortment of operations far removed from proper military assignments, some of which would even place them under formal UN command.

One of the Marines who participated in this exercise became so disturbed by the questions that he obtained an extra copy and sent it to THE NEW AMERICAN. No sooner had our published report about this survey reached readers than several congressmen fired off inquiries to the Marine Corps and Navy. Spokesmen for both branches of the service issued statements claiming there was really nothing to be concerned about, that the survey was merely part of its author’s research for a master’s degree thesis.

But that explanation neatly sidesteps a far more important consideration: The aura of official acceptance of these subversive attitudes would certainly lead some of the Marines toward believing that they should hold them as well. It is our contention that no one wearing a uniform of the U.S. Armed Forces should ever allow troops under his command to be subjected to such totally unconstitutional thinking.

Author’s Defense

We have talked at length with the author of this survey, Navy Lieutenant Commander Ernest Guy Cunningham, and about his motivation in creating it. He provided us with a copy of the 197-page thesis he wrote after analyzing the responses given by the Marines. His thesis helped him to earn a master of science degree in the area of manpower, personnel, and training analysis from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

Anxious to defend himself from charges he is pro-UN, Cunningham repeatedly contended in his interview with THE NEW AMERICAN that he is no enemy of America and no participant in any plan to demoralize U.S. troops. He maintained emphatically that he wanted only to confirm and then pass on to higher authorities his fears about “the lack of knowledge among the soldiers about the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and their heritage as Americans.” He added: “I’m a life member of the National Rifle Association, an ardent constitutionalist, and I’m even disappointed with the NRA spokesmen who don’t do a very good job defending their position.”

To each of the questions or scenarios presented in the Cunningham survey, the Marines were asked if they strongly disagree, disagree, agree, strongly agree, or have no opinion. The first part of the survey dealt with non-traditional missions (termed “operations other than war” by Cunningham) under the command and control of U.S. military personnel, first inside the United States, and then outside the United States. Additional questions dealt with those same type missions conducted outside the U.S. under United Nations command and control.

The Marines indicated overwhelming acquiescence to being assigned under U.S. control within the U.S. for such non-traditional missions as drug enforcement, disaster relief, environmental clean-up, substitute teaching in public schools, guarding prisons, national emergency policing, or assisting federal law enforcement officials. For example, one of the questions asked the Marines if they would be willing to be assigned to a “national emergency police force” within the U.S. under U.S. command. The survey showed that 6.0 percent strongly disagreed, 6.3 percent disagreed, 42.3 percent agreed, 43.0 percent strongly agreed, and 2.3 percent had no opinion.

“Do you realize,” Cunningham stated during our telephone interview, “that 85.3 percent agreed with assigning troops to a mission that violates the Posse Comitatus Act?” This Act states that “it shall not be lawful to employ any part of the Army of the United States, as a posse comitatus [power of the county], or otherwise, for the purpose of executing the laws, except [when] authorized by the Constitution or by act of Congress.”

Additional results published in Cunningham’s thesis demonstrate a high degree of willingness on the part of these U.S. troops to carry out non-traditional missions under U.S. command: 48 percent agreement for drug enforcement; 39 percent for disaster relief; 67 percent for peacekeeping; and 52 percent for humanitarian relief. However, when questions were asked about similar missions involving U.S. troops under UN command, the approval rate dropped off markedly: 17 percent for drug enforcement; 13 percent for disaster relief; 25 percent for peacekeeping; 21 percent for humanitarian relief; and only 11 percent for Korean or Vietnam police action.

Firing on U.S. Citizens?

While all of the questions in this survey should have stimulated concern, the survey’s final question has generated an enormous amount of attention:

The U.S. government declares a ban on the possession, sale, transportation, and transfer of all non-sporting firearms. A thirty (30) day amnesty period is permitted for these firearms to be turned over to the local authorities. At the end of this period, a number of citizen groups refuse to turn over their firearms. Consider the following statement: I would fire upon U.S. citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the U.S. government.

The survey results: 42.3 percent strongly disagreed with this statement; 19.3 percent disagreed; 18.6 percent agreed; 7.6 percent strongly agreed; and 12.0 percent had no opinion. In one of the footnotes appearing in his thesis, Cunningham quotes comments placed by some of the Marines next to their answers to this question: “What about the damn Second Amendment? …. I feel this is a first in communism! …. Read the book None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Gary Allen.” “I would not even consider it. The reason we have guns is so that the people can overthrow the gov’t when or if the people think the gov’t is too powerful.” “Freedom to bear arms is our Second Amendment. If you take our Amendments away then you can take this job and stick it where the sun don’t shine! …. It is a right to own firearms for defense (2nd Amendment); I would fight for that right!”

Based on the disagreement expressed by 61 percent of the Marines, Cunningham concluded that “a complete unit breakdown would occur in a unit tasked to execute this mission.”

Cunningham’s Deficiencies

In his interview with THE NEW AMERICAN, Cunningham claimed to be appalled that so many Marines would be willing to serve in non-traditional roles that conflict with the purpose of our military or to serve under UN command. He even volunteered that he “didn’t agree personally with any portion of the survey” even though he is “its sole author, originator, and creator.” Yet the thesis he submitted gave no indication of any such sentiments. Just the opposite, in fact.

In his thesis, Cunningham states that “The legitimacy of operations other than war is rooted in the constitutional powers of the Executive,” and that such operations and the placement of “U.S. forces under operational control of United Nations personnel are legitimate.” [Emphasis added.] Not so, according to our reading of the Constitution and the thinking of those who wrote it. The military is not the President’s to use as he wishes; his designation as “Commander in Chief” is an occasional assignment of responsibility, not a wholesale grant of power.

Betraying a poor understanding of the proper role of the military, Cunningham claims: “But the Framers also granted the Executive the latitude to use the Federal troops under his command as a tool of diplomacy when he deemed it appropriate. This was the case in both Korea and Vietnam.” That kind of thinking has gotten this nation into undeclared wars, led to casualties in the hundreds of thousands, and entangled our nation ever more deeply in the United Nations and its subsidiary organizations.

Cunningham’s claims that he is a defender of the U.S. Constitution have to be questioned when he writes: “Future U.S. missions may require the inclusion of international soldiers in U.S. units and, in some cases, when national security interests dictate, the President of the United States may appoint a competent United Nations officer to exercise operational control over U.S. contingents.”

But what about the fact that most U.S. military personnel apparently don’t want to serve in “peacekeeping” missions? “Some may argue that the military need only incorporate the necessary indoctrination and training,” Cunningham notes in his thesis. “But doing so would require establishing formal training and indoctrination programs … thus, in effect, building a completely new program from the ground up. Another possibility may be more realistic. Realizing the conflict and incongruity peacekeeping represents in a combat organizational model, it may be necessary to bifurcate the military. Such a change could promote specialization and provide an opportunity to those who desire peacekeeping duty. Perhaps it is time to designate separate fighting forces and peacekeeping forces.”

Cunningham’s own survey results demonstrate that there is solid opposition to converting the U.S. military into an adjunct of a New World Army. Yet his outrageous suggestion provides the globalists with an opportunity for circumventing that opposition. If implemented, it would undoubtedly be, not an end in itself, but another ominous step toward the abandonment of the traditional role of the U.S. military. Yet there is good reason to believe that these subversive plans will never be accomplished — as the heroic stand of Army Specialist Michael New amply demonstrates.

© Copyright 1994-2000 American Opinion Publishing Incorporated

Here’s the questionnare, as posted on FreeRepublic — some posters said they took it, a few pooh-poohed it. I put in bold italics a point I was not familiar with, and see now why they asked the marines.

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a441714.htm

“Editorial Note The enclosed Combat Arms Survey is a true and accurate reproduction of the contents of the questionnaire. We altered the format to accommodate the SurviveWithWill.com’s formating.

COMBAT ARMS SURVEY

This questionnaire is to gather data concerning the attitudes of combat trained personnel with regard to nontraditional missions. All of your responses are confidential. Write your answers directly on the questionnaire form. In Part II, place an “X” in the space provided for your response.

Part I.

Demographics

1.What Service are you in?

2.What is your pay grade? (e.g. E-?, 0-?)

3.What is your MOS code and description?

4.What is your highest level of education in years?

5.How many months did you serve in Operation Desert Storm/Desert Shield?

6. How many months did you serve in Somalia?

7.What state or country did you primarily reside in during childhood?

Part ll. Attitudes

Do you feel that U.S. combat troops should be used within the United States for any of the following missions?

8. Drug enforcement

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

9. Disaster relief (e.g. hurricanes, floods, fires, earthquakes)

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

10. Security at national events (e.g. Olympic Games, Super Bowl)

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

11. Environmental disaster clean-up

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

12.Substitute teachers in public schools

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

13. Community assistance programs (e.g. landscaping, environmental clean-up, road repair, animal control)

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

14.Federal and state prison guards

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

15.National emergency police force

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

16.Advisors to S.W.A.T units, the FBI, or the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (B.A.T. F. )

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

17.Border patrol (e. g. prevention of illegal aliens into U.S. territory. )

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

Do you feel that U.S. combat troops under U.S. command should be used in other countries for any of the following United Nations missions?

18. Drug enforcement

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

19.Disaster relief (e.g. hurricanes, floods, fires, earthquakes)

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

20. Environmental disaster clean-up

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

21. Peace keeping

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

22. Nation building (Reconstruct civil government, develop public school system, develop or improve public transportation system, etc.)

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

23. Humanitarian relief (e.g. food and medical supplies, temporary housing, and clothing)

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

Do you feel that U.S. combat troops should be used in other countries under command of non-U.S. officers appointed by the United Nations for any of the following missions?

24. Drug enforcement

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

25.Disaster relief (e.g. hurricanes, floods, fires, earthquakes)

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

26.Environmental disaster clean-up

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

27.Peace Keeping

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

28. Nation building (Reconstruct civil government, develop public school system, develop or improve public transportation system, etc.)

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

29.Humanitarian relief (e.g. food and medical supplies, temporary housing, and clothing)

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

30. Police Action (e.g. Korea, Vietnam, but serving under non-U.S. officers)

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

Consider the following statements:

31. The U.S. runs a field training exercise. U.N. combat troops should be allowed to setve in U.S. combat units during these exercises under U.S. command and control.

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

32.The United Nations runs a field training exercise. U.S. combat troops under U.S. command and control should setve in U.N. combat units during these exercises.

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

33.The United Nations runs a field training exercise. U.S. combat troops should serve under U.N. command and control during these exercises.

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

34.U.S. combat troops should participate in U.N. missions as long as the U.S. has full command and control.

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

35. U.S. combat troops should participate in U.N. missions under United Nations command and control.

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

36. U.S. combat troops should be commanded by U.N. officers and non-commissioned officers (NCOs) at battalion and company levels while performing U.N. missions.

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

37. It would make no difference to me to have U.N. soldiers as members of my team. (e.g. fire team, squad, platoon)

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

38.It would make no difference to me to take orders from a U.N. company commander.

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

39.I feel the President of the United States has the authority to pass his responsibilities as Commander-in-Chief to the U.N. Secretary General.

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

40. I feel there is no conflict between my oath of office and serving as a U.N. soldier.

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

41. I feel my unit’s combat effectiveness would not be affected by performing humanitarian missions for the United Nations.

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

42. I feel a designated unit of U.S. combat soldiers should be permanently assigned to the command and control of the United Nations.

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

43.I would be willing to volunteer for assignment to a U.S. combat unit under a U.N. commander.

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

44. I would like U.N. member countries, including the U.S., to give the U.N. all the soldiers necessary to maintain world peace.

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

I would swear to the following code:

“I am a United Nations fighting person. I serve in the forces which maintain world peace and every nation’s way of life. I am prepared to give my life in their defense.”

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

45. The U.S. government declares a ban on the possession, sale, transportation, and transfer of all non-sporting firearms. A thirty (30) day amnesty period is permitted for these fireamis to be turned over to the local authorities. At the end of this period, a number of citizen groups refuse to tum over their firearms. Consider the following statement:

I would fire upon U.S. citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the U.S. government

(_____) (____) (_____) (______) (____)

Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion

Our civilian readers maybe wondering why the Combat Arms Survey was circulated so heavily within the Department of the Navy. The reason is simple; the Navy is not subject to USC Title 10 Posse Comitatus prohibitions against using federal military forces for domestic law enforcement. This includes the US Marine Corps.

]]> 112 Posse Comitatus https://www.survivewithwill.com/2017/12/10/posse-comitatus/ Sun, 10 Dec 2017 06:33:56 +0000 http://www.survivewithwill.com/?p=87 Read More]]> Posse Comitatus

United States Code

TITLE 18 – CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

PART I – CRIMES

CHAPTER 67 – MILITARY AND NAVY

Sec. 1385. Use of Army and Air Force as posse comitatus

Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

Explanatory Note:

This law was created to assure that the political leaders of the USA cannot utilize the US Military to enforce laws or make acts of aggression upon American Citizens on the soil of the USA.

Many people have the misconception that the posse comitatus is an absolute ban of the use of US military on home soil against American Citizens. In fact it is not. If you have any question all that you have to is read the one phrase; in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress.

 

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Posse Comitatus
 
United States Code
TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE 
PART I - CRIMES
CHAPTER 67 - MILITARY AND NAVY 
 
Sec. 1385. Use of Army and Air Force as posse comitatus
 
Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined  under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
 
Explanatory Note:
 
This law was created to assure that the political leaders of the USA cannot utilize the US Military to enforce laws or make acts of aggression upon American Citizens on the soil of the USA.
 
Many people have the misconception that the posse comitatus is an absolute ban of the use of US military on home soil against American Citizens. In fact it is not. If you have any question all that you have to is read the one phrase; in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress.

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