A Daily Disturbing Image

[Kilika]

Be nice to know what's on those laptops!

But yeah, that image with those expressions opens up a whole host of opportunities. Clinton's and Biden's are ripe for the picking. The Air Force guy is busy tweeting his twits I guess.

[Tsul777]

Russian Gen. Nikolai Makarov, chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia, welcomes U.S. Navy. Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to St. Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2011. DOD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley

Meanwhile:

US Military keep a watch as people move through Penn Station in New York on May 6, 2011, one day after information from Osama bin Laden's compound indicates al-Qaeda considered attacking US trains on the upcoming anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

I wonder if this brown guy was told to be on the lookout for other brown people?

[Kilika]

What is a soldier doing there in the first place? The "regular/standing army" military cannot conduct police work on US soil, unless it's under declared martial law. If there is some threat of a crime of terrorism, where is the police?

Oh, that's right, this is the "War of Terror". It's not a civilian police response, but a military tactical move in response to a perceived threat. But the US isn't under martial law now is it? Or is it?

[Tsul777]

What is a soldier doing there in the first place? The "regular/standing army" military cannot conduct police work on US soil, unless it's under declared martial law. If there is some threat of a crime of terrorism, where is the police?

Oh, that's right, this is the "War of Terror". It's not a civilian police response, but a military tactical move in response to a perceived threat. But the US isn't under martial law now is it? Or is it?

The original 1878 Posse Comitatus Act was indeed passed with the intent of removing the Army from domestic law enforcement. Posse comitatus means “the power of the county,” reflecting the inherent power of the old West county sheriff to call upon a posse of able-bodied men to supplement law enforcement assets and thereby maintain the peace. Following the Civil War, the Army had been used extensively throughout the South to maintain civil order, to enforce the policies of the Reconstruction era, and to ensure that any lingering sentiments of rebellion were crushed. However, in reaching those goals, the Army necessarily became involved in traditional police roles and in enforcing politically volatile Reconstruction-era policies. The stationing of federal troops at political events and polling places under the justification of maintaining domestic order became of increasing concern to Congress, which felt that the Army was becoming politicized and straying from its original national defense mission. The Posse Comitatus Act was passed to remove the Army from civilian law enforcement and to return it to its role of defending the borders of the United States.

The Posse Comitatus Act has traditionally been viewed as a major barrier to the use of U.S. military forces in planning for homeland defense.[1] In fact, many in uniform believe that the act precludes the use of U.S. military assets in domestic security operations in any but the most extraordinary situations. As is often the case, reality bears little resemblance to the myth for homeland defense planners. Through a gradual erosion of the act’s prohibitions over the past 20 years, posse comitatus today is more of a procedural formality than an actual impediment to the use of U.S. military forces in homeland defense.

http://www.homelandsecurity.org/journal/articles/trebilcock.htm

Unfortunately, the Patriot Act supercedes any type of law that purports that you live in a free country. Welcome to the Police State. Where laws are meant to be broken, but only by those that make them!!

[Tsul777]

"I'd like to thank you personally son for protecting our interests back in America"

PATROL BASE SHARK, Helmand province, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan - A Marine with 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, greets local children working in the farmlands near the base. The high-five exchanged is a symbol of the positive relationship the Marines have built with the local population.

With Zero Competition!

Afghan uniform police use sticks to eradicate a poppy field near the city of Qalat, Zabul province, Afghanistan, May 4. Photo by 1st Lt. Brian Wagner

[Tsul777]

NORFOLK (May 11, 2011) The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) departs Naval Station Norfolk for its maiden deployment. George H.W. Bush, the Navy's newest aircraft carrier, deployed as a part of the George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group (CSG) in support of Maritime Security Operations (MSO) and Theater Security Cooperation (TSC) efforts in the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet areas of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nicholas Hall/Released)

Another Strike Group. It's never enough for these bastards and their empire bullshit

[Tsul777]

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 12: (L to R) Standing in front of a table of confiscated weapons, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, District Attorney Cyrus Vance and New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly attend an announcement of the break-up of a suspected terror plot against New York synagogues on May 12, 2011 in New York City. The pair, who were of Algerian and Moroccan descent, were arrested with the weapons and had expressed a desire to attack areas synagogues. Since the U.S. raid that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden over a week ago, New York City has been on a heightened security alert. 

Look at Bloomberg staring hungrily at that WWII pineapple grenade. This narrative gets more laughable by the minute! Wait, don't iguana's like pineapple?

[Freeski]

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 12: (L to R) Standing in front of a table of confiscated weapons, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, District Attorney Cyrus Vance and New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly attend an announcement of the break-up of a suspected terror plot against New York synagogues on May 12, 2011 in New York City. The pair, who were of Algerian and Moroccan descent, were arrested with the weapons and had expressed a desire to attack areas synagogues. Since the U.S. raid that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden over a week ago, New York City has been on a heightened security alert. 

Look at Bloomberg staring hungrily at that WWII pineapple grenade. This narrative gets more laughable by the minute! Wait, don't iguana's like pineapple?

Now that is disturbing, and the cop on the right looks a little mobbed up.

[Tsul777]

Now that is disturbing, and the cop on the right looks a little mobbed up.

Kelly is connected no doubt. He's actually being considered for Mueller's replacement at the FBI. Only the best crime bosses rise to the top!

http://www.mainjustice.com/tag/raymond-kelly/

[Freeski]

Kelly is connected no doubt. He's actually being considered for Mueller's replacement at the FBI. Only the best crime bosses rise to the top!

http://www.mainjustice.com/tag/raymond-kelly/

God help us all.

So the bottom line is we have organized crime running... basically everything.

Unions, Corporations, School Boards, Political Parties, Government Departments and Agencies, Tax Exempt Foundations, Lottery Commissions, Alcohol, Gaming, Marijuana, they run it all. And more!

The enemy is nasty.

[Tsul777]

Black Sea Rotational Force 11 US Marines, role-playing as “rioters” for a capabilities exercise, do their best to stir up aggression in Romanian Marines by throwing water bottles, fruit and taunts at the peacekeeping force heading into the urban training facility.

US, Romanian Marines Complete COIN Training

Romania is playing a significant part in the Overseas Contingency Operation, with approximately 1,700 troops serving in Afghanistan, in the Zabul province, where Taliban activity is high. Romania has lost 19 service members in the conflict, two in just the past week.

http://www.dvidshub.net/news/70270/us-romanian-marines-complete-coin-training

[Tsul777]

A row of brand new Ford Trucks sits burned out as a wildfire raced through the town of Slave Lake, Alberta destroying 40% of the community.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2011/05/16/slave-lake-fire-evacuation.html

7000 Evacuated!!

[Tsul777]

Members of the United States Naval Academy freshman class do sit-ups as a team with heavy logs during the rigorous Sea Trials May 17, 2011 in Annapolis, Maryland.

[Freeski]

One of these days I'm going to start a thread on why it's called Slave Lake.

[decepticon]

Bump is long overdue...

Greece-

[TahoeBlue]

Bump this up

[Jackson Holly]

Drone Attack Pakistan  ~  May 2012

http://hotterthanapileofcurry.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/want-to-know-whats-really-perverse-terrible/drone-attack-pakistan-may-2012/

[Tsul777]

An Israeli Merkava tank maneuvers during a drill in the Israeli annexed Golan Heights near the border with Syria on April 24 2013. Israel's Brigadier General Itai Brun, head of research and analysis in the army's military intelligence division, said that the Damascus regime was guilty of using chemical weapons against rebel fighters.

[Tsul777]

ATLANTIC OCEAN (May 14, 2013) An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator is loaded onto an aircraft elevator aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). George H.W. Bush is scheduled to be the first aircraft carrier to catapult launch an unmanned aircraft from its flight deck. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Joshua Card/Released)