Ben Bartee – Armageddon Prose Oct 12, 2024
Just ahead, intriguingly, of the November elections, the U.S. military has granted itself permission to unleash “lethal force” on the civilian population in cases of “national security” emergency.
Via GreenMedInfo (emphasis added):
“As the U.S. prepares for one of the most controversial and closely watched elections in its history, a concerning update to DoD Directive 5240.01 has quietly been put into effect. Reissued on September 27, 2024, this directive governs the Department of Defense’s (DoD) intelligence activities and now includes provisions authorizing lethal force in certain circumstances when assisting civilian law enforcement. While the directive forbids assassination, it opens the door to lethal interventions under “national security” conditions….
The reissuance of DoD Directive 5240.01 repealed previous versions, including the 1982 DoD 5240.1-R. While the update might seem routine, the changes regarding the use of lethal force in domestic operations are significant.
In the 2016 version, the directive primarily focused on intelligence collection and ensuring civil liberties protections for U.S. persons. It emphasized strict oversight and the need for authorization before collecting U.S. person information.
However, the 2024 version expands the military’s role, particularly in assisting civil law enforcement, and authorizes lethal force under specific conditions, raising questions about its use during potential civil unrest surrounding the election.”
The relevant provisions from the updated directed are below, via updated DoD Directive 5240.01, Section 3.3.a.(2)(c) (emphasis added):
“Subject to Paragraph 3.1., Defense Intelligence Components may provide personnel to assist a Federal department or agency, including a Federal law enforcement agency, or a State or local law enforcement agency when lives are in danger, in response to a request for such assistance, in accordance with the following approval authorities:
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- Secretary of Defense Approval.
(1) The Secretary of Defense may approve any type of requested permissible assistance described in Paragraph 3.2.
(2) The decision to approve requests for these types of permissible assistance described in Paragraph 3.2. to law enforcement agencies and other civil authorities are reserved to the Secretary of Defense:
(a) Provision of personnel to support response efforts for civil disturbances, which may also require Presidential authorization.
(b) DoD response to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosive incidents.
(c) Assistance in responding with assets with potential for lethality, or any situation in which it is reasonably foreseeable that providing the requested assistance may involve the use of force that is likely to result in lethal force, including death or serious bodily injury. It also includes all support to civilian law enforcement officials in situations where a confrontation between civilian law enforcement and civilian individuals or groups is reasonably anticipated.”
The U.S. military, for the record, is expressly prohibited from engaging domestically with the citizenry with very specific, narrow exceptions, per the Posse Comitatus Act, 18 U.S. Code § 1385, via Legal Information Institute:
“Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, or the Space 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.”
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“U.S. Military Now Authorized to Kill Americans on U.S. Soil?” — once they get their mascara and high heels sorted out first of course.
They’re planning something. If they decide they don’t want to risk dying in a nuclear war they may kill Trump to start Civil War II. They can blame Iran and bad-mouth it but by saying they have to deal with the domestic situation first they can put off forever having to confront Iran. Let the bum Israel crash and burn, that should hold Iran back.
US forces will murder their own people without due process, don’t need Iran or Russia to do that now. And America’s wars of hegemony will have turned full circle after heading back into their own country.
Since the Jewnited States has been in a perpetual “national security emergency” since the inside job mass murder and massive treason of 9/11, with the help of their “special friend” Israhell of course, that means federal cartel goons can whack citizens pretty much any time…which shouldn’t surprise anyone here if they have been paying the least bit of attention.
Folks, your federal governments have been infiltrated, subverted, and overthrown. The feral federal cartels are completely and overtly hostile to the interests of the legitimate citizenry. This all started when, and is rooted in, our ancestors were dangerously stupid or compromised enough to give maniacal Jews control over our systems of credit and currency, which then allowed organized Jewry to implement The Protocols.
You are not going to vote your way out of this dystopian hell of satanic inversion since they have a stranglehold on any and every means of potential peaceful recourse. When the federal cartel goons start slithering around and whacking more right-minded citizens, remember what Solzhenitsyn said the oppressed Russians should have done when the commie death squads were going around…
Revolution Now
This is no difference of what happened during the operation the “Waco Massacre” but this time it will another new level degeneracy.
I’ve wondered if they brought the illegals here to kill them, either with disease or war. Empty foreign jails and hospitals of their worst criminals and crazies and send them somewhere far away, where they’ll be conspicuous targets.
Looks like we’ll have to shoot back.
MM is absolutely right. The world knows that there is no due process left in the US anyway. The Jan 6 incarcerations and Covid proved that. The entire nation is run by an arch-criminal superstructure which is so afraid of the truth spreading they will change or break any laws, cancelling all basic constituional rights in order to protect themselves. If fact, they will as already demonstrated, murder anyone in their wary. The US people are now destined to become under the siege and oppression of their own military, dutifully following and enforcing the diktats against any resistor. This will come after a series of staged, false-flag killings and insurrections that the same corrupt top-down order running things is presently preparing to inflict on us.
Trump authorized the DoD to murder millions with warpspeed. However, I believe that the DoD has been murdering its own for decades. The Navy, for example, has been enlisting known gang members for a very long time. Those gang members are rewarded for murdering active duty personnel among others.