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Subject: Privacy World's May 2014 Newsletter Issue 4May
> Privacy World - The WORLD'S SHREWDEST PRIVACY
NEWSLETTER
>
> U.S. Special Forces, Foreign Troops Practice
Invading Tampa
> News groups promise invasion is not
"Russians" or "New World Order."
>
> U.S. Special Forces and commandos from 16 foreign
nations practiced
> "invading" Tampa, Fl. this week during an
unprecedented international
> training exercise.
>
> Conducted outside the Tampa Convention Center
Wednesday, residents
> looked on as service members from every branch of
the U.S. military
> ran drills alongside commandos from Belgium, Canada,
Colombia,
> Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France,
Germany, Ireland,
> Jordan, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland and
Thailand.
>
> Local newspapers worked to relieve worried residents
prior to the
> exercise, assuring them that the sound of gunshots
and low-flying
> military helicopters was only part of a drill.
>
> "If you see military helicopters flying over
downtown Tampa next
> Tuesday, it's not a sign that we are under attack by
the Russians,
> the North Koreans or the New World Order," said
The Tampa Tribune.
>
> According to the training scenario, commandos were
tasked with
> rescuing Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn from an
"insurgent village" held by
> "violent extremists." Helicopters, boats,
ground mobility vehicles,
> and commandos unloaded blank rounds as a 14-man team
worked to
> locate the mayor.
>
> "This was different," one participant
said. "This was a first for
> me. Usually no one sees what we do."
>
> Loud pyrotechnics were used as four snipers on the
roof of Tampa
> General Hospital surveyed the mayor's rescue.
>
> "It was fun," Buckhorn told reporters.
"I love doing this. I love
> supporting Socom and the men and women that serve
there."
>
> The demonstration was held in conjunction with the
fourth
> International Special Operations Forces conference,
where delegates
> from 84 nations met to strengthen "the Global
SOF Network."
>
> High-ranking members including Army Lt. Gen. Joe
Votel discussed
> several topics including the "nightmare
scenario" of "Sunni
> extremists or extremist organizations"
obtaining biological,
> chemical, radiologic or nuclear weapons.
>
> "I think we have to be concerned about them
falling into the hands
> of people who would have less difficulty employing
those and for me
> that's why I think this is hugely important,"
Votel said while also
> mentioning the situation in Syria. "I do think
we have to be very,
> very concerned."
>
> A noticeable increase in domestic urban warfare
exercises, like
> the unannounced 2012 military helicopter drill over
Miami that
> used simulated gunfire, has made many uncomfortable
given recent
> revelations about military training aimed at
mainline Americans.
>
> Army troops at Mississippi's Camp Shelby blew the
whistle last
> October after being told that the American Family
Association,
> a mainline Christian ministry, was a domestic hate
group similar
> to the Ku Klux Klan.
>
> Soldiers at Fort Hood were recently warned that
anyone supporting
> anti-abortion, Christians or Tea Party groups could
face disciplinary
> action under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Soldiers were
> told that such groups presented a major domestic
terror threat to
> the country.
>
> In August 2013, a Department of Defense training
manual uncovered
> by conservative watchdog Judicial Watch labeled
supporters of
> "individual liberties" and "states'
rights" as "extremist." The
> manual also warned military personnel against
"active participation"
> with such organizations.
>
> The U.S. Army's new 300-acre "fake city"
in Virginia, where
> troops allegedly train for foreign combat scenarios,
more closely
> resembles an American city than a foreign one.
Complete with a
> replica Washington D.C. subway and a Baptist church,
the training
> center seems to mirror the shift in training
material.
>
> Leaked Marine Corps' documents provided to Infowars
this month
> showed how a seperate military urban training center
in North
> Carolina was updated to include a Baptist church and
farmhouses,
> transforming it from its original foreign
appearance.
>
> Given the fact that a large portion of U.S. troops
align themselves
> with conservative values, the federal government's
actions towards
> the military is unsurprising. In 2009, former
Homeland Security
> Secretary Janet Napolitano stood by a report that
labeled returning
> military veterans as the main terror threat.
>
> Also troublesome is the erosion of the Posse
Comitatus Act, which
> prohibits the federal government from using the
military as domestic
> law enforcement. In 2008, the Army Times reported on
how U.S. troops
> returning from Iraq were tasked with carrying out
"homeland patrols"
> for "civil unrest and crowd control"
support. The article hinted
> that "Brigade Homeland" may become a
permanent fixture on American
> streets.
>
> That same year, citizens in California were shocked
to find troops
> from the Marine Corps Air and Ground Combat Center
in California
> working at a sobriety checkpoint with the California
Highway Patrol.
>
> Attendees of a Kentucky Derby race in 2009 were also
stunned when
> military police working at the event were witnessed
detaining a
> man who ran on the track.
> In 2011 it was reported that military police in
Florida were
> detaining criminal suspects off of military bases,
in one specific
> case a man at a Circle K convenience store.
>
> Troops from the Texas State Guard were dispatched
for crowd control
> at the 2012 and 2013 Zilker Kite Festival and were
used to usher
> children onto school buses at the end of the event.
>
> The most troublesome aspect lies in President
Obama's passage of
> the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, which
granted the
> military the ability to indefinitely detain any
American without
> charge or trial for the first time in U.S. history.
Under the law,
> any American purportedly connected to terrorism can
be held until
> the "end of the war on terror."
>
> The above by Mikael Thalen
>
> Until our next issue stay cool and remain low
profile!
>
> Privacy World
>
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