Biden Regime Directive Authorizes Lethal Force Against Americans

Article author: 
Paul Craig Roberts
Article date: 
27 October 2024
Article category: 
Our American Future
Medium
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The Department of Homeland Security has flagged individuals questioning COVID-19 origins, vaccine efficacy, and election integrity as potential domestic terrorism threats...

A new Department of Defense directive 5240.01 issued September 27, 2024, just prior to the November presidential election allows the US military to use lethal force against American citizens in assisting police authorities in domestic disturbances.

A report on this development lists these civil liberties concerns:

Right to protest...

Privacy rights...

Due process...

Freedom of speech: The broad definition of “national security threats” could target individuals for their political beliefs...

Here are some Constitutional concerns:

Challenging the Posse Comitatus Act: This Act traditionally limits the powers of the federal government in using military personnel for domestic law enforcement. The new DoD directive, by permitting the use of lethal force through military assistance in civilian law enforcement, may push the boundaries of these limitations...

Why these ominous changes one month before the election? Is something in the works? Why is there no reporting and no debate on this change in policy?

Related

DOD Directive 5240.01DOD Directive 5240.01, and Implementing Guidance for Intelligence Oversight.

What is Department of Defense Directive 5240.01? Pentagon's Military Update, Newswekk, 25 October 2024.

 

How America Was Destroyed, by Paul Craig Roberts, 28 October 2024:

Those who control the Democrat Party are concerned about Kamala’s election chances. Little wonder. She represents the most anti-American, anti-Constitution, anti-white, anti-peace regime in US history. Top Democrats are concerned that Trump will not only take the swing states, despite the multiple theft mechanisms Democrats have in place, but also some blue states...

Trump encouraged early voting... If you wait until election day, voting machine failure, closed precincts, and other excuses can be used to keep you from voting.  But if you vote early, you signal to the Democrats how many votes they have to steal...

They are well set up to steal them. The Democrats in two swing states have already said that it will be days before they will have the vote count. These days are the time they need to produce the fraud that wins for them...

... the Biden regime had issued one month before the presidential election a military directive 5240.01... Where did the Biden regime Department of Defense get the authority to overturn American tradition and the Posse Comitatus Act?...

As we learned from the hoax "Jan 6 Insurrection," it is a simple matter for those in authority to declare "insurrections."...

The Democrat Party does not believe in the Constitution. It does not believe in the country... The Democrat Party is no longer a political party. It is an ideological party..

A vote for a Democrat is a vote for your own slavery.

 

Is the Left Preparing for War If Trump Wins? by Lee Smith, Tom Klingenstein, 28 October 2024:

Editor's Note

The destructive Left is a revolutionary movement, which means that its final goal is to establish a new regime and a new way of life in our nation. Before it can do that, however, it must destroy the existing regime and the existing way of life, and it must attain the power necessary for both ends. Once it has gained that power, a revolutionary movement is ill-disposed to give it up without a fight.

Lee Smith explains the coordinated push by left-wing media and political operatives to cast Donald Trump as an aspiring dictator not as an effort to sway the election, but as a plot to prevent the transfer of power in the event of a Trump victory. Most troubling of all, Smith suggests, the Democrats’ wargaming of post-election scenarios seems to indicate an expectation — maybe even a hope — that the anti-Trump sentiment they have stoked will explode into widespread political violence, and that a cold civil war could turn hot overnight.

The propaganda campaign labeling Donald Trump as an aspiring dictator determined to use the military and national security apparatus against his political opponents is designed not to affect the upcoming election but rather to shape the post-election environment. It is the central piece of a narrative that, by characterizing Trump as a tyrant (indeed likening him to Hitler), establishes the conditions for violence — not just another attempt on Trump’s life, but political violence on a massive scale intended to destabilize the country...

Prominent post-election scenarios forecast such widespread rioting that the newly elected president would be compelled to invoke the Insurrection Act. With some senior military officials refusing to follow Trump’s orders, according to the scenarios, the U.S. Armed Forces would split, leaving America on the edge of the abyss...

By vilifying Trump as a despotic madman... The point is to push the military against Trump...

The purpose of the Hitler narrative is not to alter the electoral preferences of left-wing media audiences already solidly in the anti-Trump column, but rather to justify taking extreme measures against the Republican candidate and the America First movement and ensure that the bulk of the military sides with the anti-Trump plot...

Book: Disappearing the President: Trump, Truth Social, and the Fight for the Republic, by Lee Smith (2024).

 

What if Harris Gets Away with It?, by Brian T. Kennedy, American Mind, 29 October 2024:

... Having vilified President Trump more than any man in American history, the American Communists and their allies in the Democratic Party (and the Communist world abroad) may well be able to steal the 2024 election. One thing needs to be made clear: if this happens, they will have created an ungovernable country...

... we are told that Donald Trump is a racist, sexist beast virtually indistinguishable from Adolf Hitler. How can this man win?

Here let me make two points. First: this caricature, however effective it may have been in 2016 and 2020, has lost its effectiveness in 2024. The first Trump Administration was not an exercise in the exploitation of blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities. It ushered in economic good times for these groups, who enjoyed greater prosperity and freedom than at any other time in the history of the United States. Their lived experience demonstrated to them that President Trump saw them not as a problem, but rather as an integral part of American society and economic life. Charges of racism, ridiculous on their face, have grown meaningless to everyday Americans...

... will Harris win? There are a substantial number of serious people who believe the 2024 election can indeed be stolen. Very little has changed in the seven swing states that decided the 2020 election...

... there are people within the Intelligence Community and the Department of Justice who crossed all manner of lines in their treatment of President Trump and his allies such as Steve Bannon... Likewise, the Secret Service’s failures to protect President Trump this summer constitute an astonishing stain upon this republic...

So, if Kamala Harris does win, it will, as of today, be because of a stolen election. Under these circumstances, America will become an ungovernable country...

 

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