From a United States Army training manual, Terrorism and the Urban Guerilla,1960s:
Measures of Controlling the Population and Resources
1. ID Cards. An effective system of identification is fundamental to the program...
2. Registration. A program of registering families is used to supplement the system of ID cards. This is the system of inventorying all families by house, making a list of all members of the family who live in the house along with the family's resources. One can also note the presence of insurgent tendencies and affiliations among the population.
3. Control by block. The purpose of block-by-block control is to detect the individuals who are supporting or sympathizing with the insurgents and the type of support they are providing.
4. Police patrols. Their purpose is to detect sources of insurgent support, sympathizers, and routes used by the insurgent forces for intelligence, logistics, and routine activities...
Curfew. The purpose is to permit the authorities to identify violators and take actions based on the premise that anyone who violates the curfew is an insurgent or sympathizes with the insurgents until he can prove the contrary.
Checkpoints. It is of little use to establish a program of passes and ID cards unless there is a system of verifying these official papers. Therefore, establishing checkpoints in all travel routes is necessary once the use of passes has started.
The above information is from
Rogue State:
A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
by William Blum
The following quotes are compiled in
Derailing Democracy: The America the Media Don't Want You to See
by David McGowan
National ID cards
"[The national ID card will have a] magnetic strip on it in which the bearer's unique voice, retina pattern, or fingerprint is digitally encoded."
— Senator Dianne Feinstein
(D) California
author of the national ID law
"[A]fter October 1, 2000, Federal agencies may only accept as proof of identity driver's licenses that conform to standards developed by the Secretary of the Treasury."
Public Law 104-208, Part B, Title IV, Section 656
The people are the enemy
"Many cold war military suppliers are converting to civilian law enforcement. The Department of Justice, the CIA and the Pentagon are quietly taking an active and coordinated role in marketing defense-related technologies to law enforcement agencies."
National Criminal Justice Commission
February 1996
"Throughout the nation, paramilitary, SWAT or tactical policing — that is, law enforcement that uses the equipment, training, rhetoric and group tactics of war — is on the rise. According to a study by sociologist Peter Kraska, the nation has more than 30,000 such heavily armed, militarily trained police units...
"Between 1995 and 1997 the DOD (United States Department of Defense) gave local police departments more than 3,800 M-16 automatic assault rifles, 2,185 M-14 semiautomatic rifles, 73 M-79 grenade launchers and 112 armored personnel carriers — 1.2 million pieces of military hardware in 1997 alone."
The Nation
"SWAT Nation"
May 31, 1999
"The Pentagon and the Justice Department have agreed on the outlines of a plan to share state-of-the-art military technology with civilian law-enforcement agencies, including exotic 'non-lethal' weapons such as sticky foam for immobilizing criminals and giant snares for trapping cars. Other items that will be evaluated for combating crime include infrared surveillance gear, sonar devices for pinpointing the origin of gunfire and digital information systems that could permit instantaneous transmission of photographs of crime suspects to police in the street..."
San Jose Mercury News
March 23, 1994
"On one such evening, three squads of ten police officers in combat boots, black jumpsuits, military helmets and bulletproof vests lock and load their Heckler & Koch MP-54 submachine guns (the same weapons used by the elite Navy SEALs) and fan out through the neighborhood... Since 1994 the VCSU has patrolled this city's have-not suburbs in full military gear, with automatic assault rifles at the ready. Backed by two helicopters with infrared scopes and an Army-surplus armored personnel carrier, the unit is also equipped with attack dogs, smoke bombs, tear gas, pepper spray, metal clubs and less-than-lethal 'blunt trauma' projectiles."
The Nation
"SWAT Nation"
May 31, 1999
Guatemala? El Salvador? Colombia perhaps? No, this is Fresno, California. The article above is describing the routine activities of the so-called "Violent Crime Suppression Unit" (VCSU).Perhaps there would be a bit more truth-in-advertising involved if the unit were renamed the "Fresno Elite Army of Repression" (FEAR).
See also:
US military trains for urban warfare
http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/aug1999/war-a24.shtml
United States Marine Corps Emblems
http://www.reptilianagenda.com/img/i101899b.html
"Clearly someone at the Pentagon has an affection for reptiles..."This page provides a look at some very strange Marine Corps emblems. These and the photograph of an "urban warrior" outfit illustrate that the U.S. military is training its soldiers to engage in violent operations within densely populated urban environments.
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