Subj: Charleston Voice: Need your thoughts. Is South Carolina
becoming a Police State?
U.S.
Army's elite Special Forces train with So. Carolina's local cops in a secretive
joint exercise
Posted by Joshua Cook
Posted by Joshua Cook
January 21, 2014
Unwarranted NSA
surveillance, the passage of NDAA, stop and frisk programs, and the rise
of warrior cops, have essentially turned America into a centralized police
state.
Blurring the lines
between the U.S. military and local sheriff departments sets a dangerous
precedent that erodes freedom and civil liberties.
Those lines are being
blurred right now in South Carolina.
According to The
State, the Richland County Sheriff’s Department will participate in
secretive joint exercise Monday and Tuesday with unnamed units from Ft. Bragg.
The drills are scheduled
to run up to midnight on both days and occur primarily in Lower Richland,
around Hopkins and Eastover. Exercises will also take place around the
Screaming Eagle Road near Elgin and North Richland County near outbound
Monticello Road.
According to The State,
a sheriff’s department spokesman refused to provide which units from Ft. Bragg
are involved. Ft. Bragg is home to the U.S. Army’s elite groups, including the
Special Forces and Delta Force.
The spokesman also said
the drills would be noisy at times.
“Citizens may see
military and departmental vehicles traveling in and around rural and
metropolitan areas and may hear ordnance being set off or fired which will be
simulated/ blanks and controlled by trained personnel,” a sheriff’s department
press release said.
The secretive exercises
are off limits to the media, reports The
Activist Post.
The implications are
serious.
Locally elected Sheriffs
take an oath to uphold, preserve, and defend the Constitution. They are not an
extension of the centralized federal government. They have the ultimate say in
their county as the top law enforcement officer.
If sheriff deputies
engage an enemy in conjunction with the U.S. military who do they take orders
from? The ARMY commander? Or their Sheriff?
This violates the
separation of local authorities and the federal government. If the separation
of powers are eliminated, who will protect the Constitutional rights of
citizens?
UPDATE: Benswann.com’s
Joshua Cook has submitted a FOIA request to get more details about this
exercise.
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SOURCE benswann
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Posted By Charleston Voice to Charleston Voice at 1/23/2014 01:13:00 PM
1 comment:
The Sheriffs that allow this to happen obviously have been Co-opted, bought and paid for by President Traitor. You won't get an ounce of help from any of these phony badge wearers. The people are afraid to have their voices heard. So it has already come to this. Goodbye America.
Jackie Blue
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