The Pincer Strategy

Update: January 20, 2012
Dan Armstrong covered Michigan Emergency Manager issue two days ago, reporting this story finally going nationwide! Watch video, then read the full report here.




pincer movement noun

• a military attack by two coordinated forces that close in on an enemy position from different directions

• a combination of two forces acting against an opposing force

Except in our example we show the Double Pincer; what else need be said?

If the National Defense Appropriations Act withstands constitutional challenges, the term "belligerent" will apply to United States citizens and we can be held indefinably, without charge or trial. If Stop Online Piracy Act /Protect IP Act are passed, your ability to communicate via any electronic means will be heavily censored. The Enemy Expatriation Act will allow the United States government to strip you of your citizenship without hearing. {EEA verbage bottom of post}

And finally the story Rachel Maddow calls the most under-reported story of 2011; Emergency Financial managers who in Michigan have the power to dissolve school boards and city governments.

The financial managers are not elected by the populace; they hold appointed positions. In Michigan they answer to no one, except the Governor. Their duties have very elastic parameters.

There is a movement among our fellow citizens to shrink the size of the federal government and restore the power appropriated by the federal government back to the states. That seems like a reasonable thing to do unless your state is an Emergency Financial manager state or is considering that option for school districts, cities and counties in trouble.

"Oh, come on! That is a lot of 'if's.'" someone is bound to say.
Yes.
However if two of four pieces of legislation stand, outspoken citizens against civil injustice and their support affiliates like Medic and Media, will be legally herded and jailed, away from the rest of the population, potentially without trial. If three or four of those pieces of legislation stand, protesters will be squashed like a bug. If you are angry but not active; get active. If you are neither angry or active; what other information can we provide you?



Related Resources

• First NDAA, now Enemy Expatriation Act
• Emergency Managers coming to a city near you
• Stop Censorship
• Momentum Shift: SOPA, PIPA opponents now in driver's seat

Summary: H.R. 3166: Enemy Expatriation Act

112th Congress: 2011-2012


To add engaging in or supporting hostilities against the United States to the list of acts for which United States nationals would lose their nationality.

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From Heros to Heels: police image ten years after 911

In a litttle over a decade, how did we go from this . . .

Photo Credit: bucknacktssordidtawdryblog.blogspot.com

Photo credit: Roarmag.com

  . . . to this?        

In the first photograph, NYPD emergency response officers take a break in the surreal early aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001.
Just a couple of weeks after the tenth anniversary, an NYPD officer runs over a National Lawyers Guild attorney serving as legal observer during an OccupyWallSt protest.
The officer then arrested the attorney despite the green identifying hat clearly visible.

When did we turn the corner in this country? Those who openly warned of the militarization of local police were scoffed at and called names like conspiricy-theorists and wing-nuts. Those who talked of martial law and the deployment of United States military on our own soil were subject to bitter contempt. However, the set aside of 20,000 army troops for the specific task of quelling civil unrest became reality at the end of last year.

In light of the upcoming DNC & RNC conventions, the United States government put up $100 million to assist host cities with security among other things. Noel Brinkerhoff of AllGov.com reports Tampa FL, host of the RNC, received a cool $50 million, "To handle what could be as many as 15,000 demonstrators, Tampa has purchased an armored SWAT vehicle and may bring in up to 2,000 police officers from other cities to bolster its local law enforcement."

Is this the world we are choosing for ourselves? Is this the world you are choosing for your grandchildren? There are better answers to the issues we face, if we face ourselves honestly, taking ownership of both the problems and the solution.