As Blog Smith has reported for some time, the unprecedented move to use American military troops as police and to quell legitimate protest protected by the Bill of Rights has proliferated. In a recent exercise, soldiers at Fort Lee Virginia conducted what is described as an anti-terrorism drill. The drill would not be alarming and stopping terrorists should not be controversial. However, as seen in the exercise itself, protesters carrying signs are depicted. Am I stating the obvious here? Terrorists do not carry signs depicting their right to petition the government for a redress of their grievances: natural-born citizens and American citizens do. The military is training to quell legitimate, American protests against the regime. This is wrong and is unconstitutional. For example, one of the signs read "“racist free zone.” Racism also tends not to be a terrorist priority. This is not a anti-terrorist drill; this is a drill directed against American citizens.
Fort Lee Chief of Police Joe Metzger stated that in times of emergency the military and the police must work together. “We forget one’s wearing blue, one’s wearing a uniform. We all come together for the same cause.”
Apparently that cause involves the prevention of people exercising their First Amendment rights.
In June the Department of Defense anti-terrorism training course material states that the exercise of First Amendment rights in the US constitutes terrorist activity.
The ACLU wrote a letter of protest to the DoD regarding its Antiterrorism and Force Protection Annual Refresher Training Course, which advises personnel that political protest amounts to “low-level terrorism”. All DoD personnel are required to complete the course on a yearly basis.
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