Sott.net has this post by Kenneth Shortgen Jr., examiner.com , which speculates a socially
President George W. Bush signs the Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2004 on October 1, 2003. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
serious, very worrying scenario. This refers to the removal of longstanding protections for civilian populations from military intervention in domestic conflicts. As the article mentions this has already been the case in US (blame 9/11)
International Humanitarian laws exist for this very purpose of protection, so one wonders how a civilized country can legislate to the contrary without their being involved in an international war crime situation. There again we have seen the UN become a supporter, if not instigator, of military intervention in a sovereign country (Libya and probably now Syria), so what protection can citizens expect from the UN and the Geneva Conventions?
“Part IV : Civilian population #Section I — General protection against effects of hostilities #Chapter II — Civilians and civilian population.
Article 51
— Protection of the civilian population
1. The civilian population and individual civilians shall enjoy general protection against dangers arising from military operations. To give effect to this protection, the following rules, which are additional to other applicable rules of international law, shall be observed in all circumstances.
2. The civilian population as such, as well as individual civilians, shall not be the object of attack. Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.
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On the other hand, many countries including Australia, have recently (2006) adopted a definition of citizens rights that leaves the way open for self-defence to be construed as combatant behaviour, thereby incurring a loss of any rights. So wide open as to be practically without meaning.
e.g. “Australia’s LOAC Manual (2006) states: “Civilians are only protected as long as they refrain from taking a direct part in hostilities.”
This is common terminology and triggers my cynical mind to yell “NWO” in action! This proviso exists in the laws of Benin, Canada, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ethiopia, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Madagascar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Russian Federation, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Togo, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Rwanda and Israel. (ICRC).
On yet another aspect, many countries simply act out atrocities against citizens, irrespective of their own or international laws, seemingly immune from effective international action or even criticism. Lip service is sometimes seen. In Africa, “Regrettably, the practices of belligerents in war lag well behind legal requirements, and the global “culture of protection” of civilians called for by Kofi Annan is still a distant prospect. In short, civilians are in dire need of protection and assistance in situations of violence around the world.” (IRIN news).
So, whatever meanings are applied to existing or changed laws, warning bells are ringing. With the added activities in supplying ammunition, obviously also weapons to US departments such as Social Security Administration, and the National Weather Service, can we be blamed for being negative?
On Aug. 17, Germany became the latest country to remove longstanding protections for civilian populations from military intervention in domestic conflicts. In a new court ruling, which repealed laws created out of the Nazi era in Germany, the government can now use the military against citizens in extreme cases, joining the U.S. and other nation states who have removed the dividing line between civilian and military policing.
The German military will in future be able to use its weapons on German streets in an extreme situation, the Federal Constitutional Court says.
The ruling says the armed forces can be deployed only if Germany faces an assault of “catastrophic proportions”, but not to control demonstrations. – BBC
In the United States, Northcom was created shortly after 911 to be an military command dedicated to threats within the homeland, and instituted a discontinuation of Posse Comitatus, which had separated civilian police from military use on citizens since the end of the Civil War. Since its inception in 2002, the Federal government has expanded its sphere of influence over Americans with the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, and the militarization of many bureaucratic agencies. In fact, the majority of these increases have taken effect since the credit crisis of 2008.
In 2010, the Federal Reserve secretly ordered five major U.S. banks to develop plans in case of an economic and banking collapse, even while telling the American people that the banking crisis was over. Revelations of this order coincided with several well respected economists declaring that a major economic collapse was inevitable, and could come within months.
Europe’s financial system remains in turmoil, and is increasingly growing insolvent. New estimates show that European banks are holding more than one trillion Euros worth of toxic assets, which is a 9% increase from just last year. Impotency by the Troika over how to fund the growing debt issues in many Euro states is already leading to civil unrest in Spain, Italy, Greece, and Ireland. It is inevitable that governments know that civilian revolts and rioting will escalate, especially with growing shortages in energy and food due to war and global drought.
In the past six months, the U.S. government has been purchasing nearly a billion rounds of ammunition for agencies that do not even carry a military or policing purpose. This growing stockpile of bullets, to include hollow point rounds for the Social Security Administration, brings into question the overall purpose and plan for militarizing domestic economic agencies outside their scope and mission.
Since 911, the Federal government in the U.S., along with Britain, and now Germany, have increased their military and surveillance presence on their own civilian populations, even as potential and actual terror plots have decreased in these nations. However, if one looks at when the primary growth in the militarization of domestic policing activities took off, the ground zero event was the 2008 credit crisis, and not due an increase in terror events. Unrest since that time has been primarily economic, with several nation states like Egypt and Libya, succumbing to political turnover.
The potential for economic collapse, civil unrest, revolution, and societal collapse are increasing exponentially across the West, and in other global economies. Since the credit crisis of 2008, several nations have removed longstanding civilian protections from military policing of domestic events, with Germany now being the newest country to overrule decades long legislation that assured protections for their citizens in domestic disputes.
Interesting that this article is centred around citizens rights and safety but is triggered by the real and ongoing global financial predicament, and countries leaders’ obvious awareness that it is not going away using any of the current, official proposed solutions. It is bound to fail and citizens’ rebellion is being factored in.
Such a scenario, unfortunately fits the suspected design of the world domination planners. Conspiracy theory? perhaps and I sincerely hope so, but maybe not!
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