Residential Infantryman, Training For Martial Law?
02.22.09
ORIGINAL CAPTION: My son in law today saw about 20 army guys with full combat gear walking down the street in Hayden, Idaho. He took pictures and asked them what they were doing. ‘They said they were just training. One of the troopers was carrying a saw or squad automatic weapon. Is this just training or is it getting the people used to seeing troops patroling the streets. My son in law lives about a mile from the reserve unit at the airport. my son in law was kind of surprised to see those guys. I”ve lived in the Hayden area most of my life and never saw any patrols. (submitted by Pam)
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I really have no idea what these guys were doing “training” in a residential neighborhood. If they need to train, they can do it on their “training grounds”. But this definitely brings to mind the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act which Bush destroyed, along with all the other freedoms that the “Patriot” Act polished off.
Most people really couldn’t care less that our politicians and leaders come under no condemnation for disobeying the very rules our founding fathers died to install. If this stuff doesn’t bother you, than I can only quote the patriot Samuel Adams.
If you love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your council, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
This was a pretty boneheaded decision on someone’s part.
We have military bases for a reason. The guard and reserves don’t have the facilities of an active duty base, but if they want to train, that’s where they should go.
The mayor of Hayden should be screaming to the governor, who should in turn be screaming to good ole BO.
# February 22nd, 2009 at 6:26 pmI am surprised that people would actually be surprised and shocked to see Reservist or National guard. Oh, I forgot, you see them everyday, in the daily jobs. Also I am surprised that they are training outside of their bases. Oh wait, their bases aren’t large enough to do that, after all they were only a mile outside of their base. Maybe I should take them on a 25 mile road march (25 mile hike for those that can’t figure that out). Let me try this again… The defenders of our freedom, the freedom to complain about military in the streets included, are training to continue the fight, domestic or otherwise and you and you ignorant son in law want to complain about it? Do I have that correct? Maybe, just maybe you should go up to them and Thank them for the job they are doing! How about this, instead of complaining and whining about the soldiers training in the snow and on side streets of towns and cities throughout this country of ours, you might help them defend OUR country! If you can’t do that, there is always Iraq or Afghanistan, maybe you should go live there! As for the comment by Steve, you contradict yourself in the fact that they don’t have the facilities then they should train on active duty bases… Okay then why don’t you pay the money for movement to an active duty base for their training every month for two days and for two weeks out of the year. Do you ever think that the Mayor of Hayden might have given permission for them to do their training? If people are so worried about Marshal Law, then those people might be the ones we would need marshal law from. All that having been said, I feel offended and disgusted at the fact that you would even think or say the things you have said. Had I been there and seen them, I would have bought them a cup of coffee each and thanked them for their service!
# February 23rd, 2009 at 4:54 amAnybody call out the base on this?
# February 23rd, 2009 at 9:32 amCarl - Once again, lick the hand that feeds you. Unless, you’re one of the soldiers capable of firing upon your own countrymen. If that is the case, we are sworn enemies.
# February 23rd, 2009 at 10:56 amCarl,
That’s a typical neoconservative response. If you don’t support each and every GOVERNMENT decision involving the military, you are a Commie. That crap don’t fly with me buddy. You won’t label me unpatriotic for believing in what is right.
Nice comment. Simply idiotic.
Airborne All the Way.
(Former) Specialist John J. Honeycutt
# February 23rd, 2009 at 2:00 pm82d Airborne Div
Gentlemen,
I’m in the National Guard, but I do not believe in martial law! We have a constitution that our fore fathers wrote to lay out the foundation for this great country. The recent political leaders have thrown that in the trash can and this is what we have come to. Carl you make a great point on paying for the soldiers to go to a active duty base to train, you said for them to pay for that, well it’s very expensive to move all of a units equipment and personnel to train, but if they have a problem with it, then, yes I agree they should pay and then the troops will not be rolling, walking, or running down their street! Our next exercise we have est. using 5,000 gals of deisel fuel, who wants to pay for it? We all need to use a little comment sense, martial law is not good, but soldiers are, remember that next time you see them. We soldiers work hard to be the best prepared and trained that we can.
# March 26th, 2009 at 8:00 pmIt’s pretty obvious by now that the country has been hijacked in broad daylight by the globalist banking cartels with the help of the controlled media, the same ones that sold us 9/11, Oklahoma City, and the list goes on. Carl, I have no problems with the military defending us, only the criminal terrorists that those soldiers need to be defending us from are all on Capitol Hill and Wall Street, not on Main Street.
# March 30th, 2009 at 2:00 pm