< So every cop, or Federal Agent, or gov't employee is either a jack-booted thug, or charter members of the CFR??>
NO
<Do you think all cops abuse their power and seek to kill with impunity? Do you think we should disband the FBI? How about the military? Should we disband them too??>
NO
< Can we trust anybody? Whadda think??>
UNFORTUNATELY ... NO
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Ron,
You know where I stand. I'm definitely not an extremist, and I basically support the National Guard. But, I get really, really tired of your "Worldnut" BS. I don't even know where I jumped in on this thread, cause I started to just click by each of your posts.
You're just as bad as those at the other end of the spectrum. I'm somewhere in the middle, just trying to figure this all out. Many BIG changes have occurred since last spring. Some major restructuring with the Guard has gone one.
You seem to divide people in to two camps. I don't . There's a big, grey area in the middle.
Cheryl
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Ten Rapid Assessment and Initial Detection elements will be trained and equipped beginning in FISCAL 1999 to respond to a variety of scenarios, including terrorist bombings. Each element will have 22 full-time National Guard soldiers and airmen capable of deploying to an incident within four hours. The teams will be supported by reconnaissance and decontamination teams drawn from existing reserve component forces ...
Integration takes place in several ways, Schultz explained. "This is not simply about adding another responsibility to Guard and Reserve soldiers and building them into a unit," he said.
"It's also about exercising with state and community 'first responders' and exercising with federal government partners around the nation. It's integrating the Guard and Reserve into the response community's capabilities in such a way we create a HABITUAL relationship."
The plan also fuses Guard and Reserve forces with the larger DoD effort...
The plan blends initiatives from several fronts. Presidential Directive 39 directed government agencies to begin preparing for terrorist attacks, while the Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction Act of 1996 required immediate action to improve response capabilities at federal, state and community levels ....
... Schultz said, he believes Americans maintain a false sense of security. "We are used to fighting wars in foreign theaters, but we're not used to it on our own soil," he said. "So when we begin discussing threats in our own country, it's difficult for people to think in those terms because they haven't been exposed to it." . . .
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SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, WILLIAM COHEN: MARCH 17 '98
So we're building a third line of defense that's grounded in domestic preparation. The Department of Defense is leading a federal effort to train the first responders in 120 American cities. The police, the firefighters, the medical technicians who are going to be the first on the scene of an attack -- we are now in the process of helping to prepare these first responders.
Today I am announcing the creation of the military's first ever rapid assessment teams to ensure that the Department of Defense is even more prepared. We are going to establish ten separate and special National Guard teams that will be dedicated solely to assisting local civilian authorities in the event of a chemical or biological attack. These teams are going to arrive quickly, they're going to assess the scene, and then to help ensure that these affected areas get federal assistance in whatever form is necessary. . . .
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CIA RAISES SPECTER OF TREACHEROUS Y2K PROGRAMMERS
Time Magazine Digital - June 25 '98
"Is there a national security or military relevance to this computer 2000 problem?" asked committee chairman Fred Thompson. Definitely, replied NSA's Minihan: "There's no question."
What spooks the spooks is the possibility that malicious programmers -- perhaps employed by a hostile nation -- will promise to remove Y2K bugs but will quietly insert new ones. Or that malcontents will leak proprietary information about a company whose system they've been hired to fix. "We're watching it very, very carefully. We're working with the [FBI] to understand whether anybody's organizing a threat," CIA's Tenet said.
What about nuclear weapons? Won't they be at risk, Thompson wondered, if they're not repaired in time? The CIA dodged the question. "We can talk about that in a classified session," Tenet replied. Hmm...
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120 CITIES: The ultimate goal of the Domestic Preparedness Team is to train and assess 120 cities. These cities include ... SEE COMPLETE LIST
DOMESTIC PREPAREDNESS: The federal partners include:
- Department of Defense (DOD)
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- Public Health Service (PHS)
sbccom.apgea.army.mil
SBCCOM Public Affairs Office
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PLAN FOR "SURGE" By Vice Admiral Jerry O. Tuttle, USN (Ret.), Member of NIUSR Executive Board, and Extreme Information Infrastructure Oversight Panel.
The national security structure must identify, create, organize and train a cadre of personnel to act as the "first responders"/"domestic defenders" to respond to the full spectra of transnational threats.
All personnel must become familiar with the provisions of the Federal Response Plan (FRP). DOD should provide the leadership in planning and training for, and identify and commit uniquely owned or controlled resources to respond to these contingencies. The "first responders"/"domestic defenders" must be brought to different levels of alert status based upon available information of an impending attack and failing an alert, ready to deploy expeditiously in response to a transnational attack.
The organization and composition of these "first responders"/"domestic defenders" must be scalable and have an affinity for and be proficient in integrating the augmentation of personnel from disparate organizations and heritages, i.e. members of federal, state and local governments, disaster relief members, emergency management personnel (National Emergency Management Association (NEMA) Emergency Medical Service, Fire, Police, American Red Cross/Salvation Army National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue (NIUSR), volunteers, etc. DOD personnel, and in some incidents, international organizations, etc.
DOD should take the lead in crafting a pliable, easily reconfigurable and scalable architecture and in providing for a shared, interactive global information system for transnational threats. This interlinking information system must permit sustainable joint operational response between and among federal. state, and local governments and volunteer emergency response organizations. This all encompassing information
The Defense Information System Agency should be tasked soonest to create, equip, test, exercise and maintain an enduring and survivable order wire capability that is independent of the public Switched Network that will allow assured communications with the "first responders"/"domestic defenders". This deployable robust communications systems, as a minimum, should include a deployable LAN/WAN, make use of MILSTAR and other organic survivable SATCOM capabilities and the Public Safety Standard Radios
niusr.org
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR URBAN SEARCH & RESCUE
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I'm not going to debate anything with you, Ron. I don't have time, nor inclination. Just got tired of all of your self-righteousness.
I'm just sharing some info that you may or may not be aware of. You have such a bias against WorldNet Daily, that even if they wrote something you agreed with ... my guess is you would discount it. Perhaps I'm wrong.
Too bad more people on this thread, or most other SI threads ... don't read posts like this ... maybe they'd learn something.
Cheryl
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