Mass National Guard Deployed to Boston Marathon?

H/T Snooper.

I received a comm via my web site with the following link: Combat Support Battalion Deployed to “Maintain Public Order” at Boston Marathon and thought to pass this on. I am trying to get a hold of a friend of mine that is a Captain in the MA NG to confirm the data. If anyone has confirmation of this we need to know.

On Monday, the National Guard deployed 400 Massachusetts National Guardsmen from the 126th Combat Support Battalion to keep the Boston Marathon race route clear for more than 26,000 runners, according to the U.S. Army website.

Military presence during the 113th running of the Boston Marathon, April 20, 2009.

“Guardsmen don’t often experience interacting with the public while in uniform, and they see events like the marathon as a good opportunity to interact,” writes Sgt. James Lally for the American Forces Press Service. “The National Guard helps local police along the marathon route to safeguard spectators and maintain public order.”

The deployment is yet another example of the U.S. military collaborating with local law enforcement around the country. Under the Posse Comitatus Act passed on June 16, 1878 after the end of Reconstruction, the federal uniformed services — including the Army, Air Force, and State National Guard forces — are prohibited from exercising nominally state law enforcement, police, or peace officer powers that maintain “law and order” on non-federal property, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress.

National Guard forces operating under the state authority are technically exempt from Posse Comitatus Act restrictions. However, with the passage of the John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007, federal law was changed so that the Governor of a state is no longer the sole commander in chief of their state’s National Guard, a direct violation of Article I, Section 10 and Clause 3 of the Constitution.

Last year, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced a fiat accompli when ordered the Pentagon to conduct a “broad review” to determine if the military and the National Guard and Reserve can “adequately deal with domestic disasters,” including “a catastrophic attack on the country.” Gates “pressed officials to better integrate reservists into the modern day military and consider treating them on a more equal basis to the active duty troops,” according to CBS News.

Another instance violating Posse Comitatus. Earlier this month, we reported on a joint checkpoint operation involving DHS, federal and state agencies, the Air Force, and local law enforcement in Tennessee.
For example, the U.S. Army dispatching soldiers to patrol the streets of Samson, Alabama, after a rampaging gunman killed 10 people.

Last June, D. H. Williams of the Daily Newscaster reported the deployment of 2,300 Marines in the city of Indianapolis under the direction of FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.

Other instances of military deployment and collaboration with local law enforcement are too numerous to post here. The deployments and exercises have increased significantly since the U.S. military announced last year it will place 20,000 troops on the streets of America by 2011 under the control of the Northern Command. In October, the Department of Defense announced it was assigning a full-time Army unit to be “on call” to facilitate military cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security.

As Sgt. James Lally notes in his article on the deployment of National Guard troops at the Boston Marathon, the point is to acclimatize citizens to the presence of uniformed soldiers at civilian events.

Lally said the soldiers were in attendance to “safeguard” the public. However, this role is usually assigned to the police, not a combat support battalion. The military’s job is to break things and kill people during war, not protect civilians from participants in a marathon.


The slow creep of the police state is upon us so as not to panic the sleeping citizens. Nothing to worry about people...go back to sleep.

Janet Napolitano Is A Liar - Go Figure

Cross posted from The Snooper Report.

The Texas and Arizona borders are in fact War Zones.  There is no denying this now and thank God.  Naturally, the unconstitutional Czarbie Administration is in the river Denial.  Or, they are merely liars, afraid to confront the issue as have so many before him, including Graham, McCain and GWB.  Period.  Ignoring the situation at the Southern Borders in the hopes that it will all blow away is exactly what has poured fuel to the fire already raging.

The violence associated with Mexican drug cartels is now spilling over onto the America side of the border in Arizona and Texas, state officials have admitted.

The New York Times reports that Arizona has seen a dramatic spike in drug-related abductions, home invasions, and even men dressed in SWAT gear wielding military-grade weaponry. [...]

And Napolitano lies.  This is what happens when those that promote and approve of the murder of the unborn thus killing off generations of tax payers and voters.  Because generations of Americans have been slaughtered all in the name of "I can't keep my legs together", the Leftinistra must create a new voter base and they don't care if they build it from illegal alien-invasionistas.  You watch.  There will soon be introduced legislation to fast track citizenship to unknown hordes of crooks, rapists and murderers into the voting pools across this Nation.  All in the name of the bleeding-heart-liberal-commie-pinko-meme, at that.  More emotional crap.

The violence, said Commander Dan Allen of the State Department of Public Safety, is “reaching into Arizona, and that is what is really alarming local and state law enforcement.”

In Texas, state Homeland Security Director Steve McCraw told the El Paso Times that drug violence has indeed crossed the border. [...]

To hell with La Raza and the rest of the Invasionistas that make up the Reconquistas.  If the Fed is too cowardly to step in, We The Militia will.

Violence from Mexican drug cartels has spilled over into Texas, state Homeland Security Director Steve McCraw said Monday.

"Yes, absolutely it has occurred; there's no question about it," McCraw said after a hearing before the House Committee on Border and International Affairs.

McCraw answered lawmakers' questions about Gov. Rick Perry's request for another $135 million for border security operations on the same day Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott asked lawmakers for a new tool to help bring down transnational gangs that threaten border communities. [...]

I wonder where these idiots have been?  I used to patrol the Southern Borders a while back as Border Boy and we raised a stink about why we were not getting any help.  Help didn't come so we took care of business ourselves.  This needs to be escalated, evidently.  When the Fed will not act according to their Constitutional Obligations, the only alternatives is to allow the screed from the invasionistas to move on unchecked or protect the Nation on our own dime.

[...] This admission comes after news that Texas activated the lowest stage of its border security plan after protests and violence broke out in Mexican border towns last week and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, the former governor of Arizona, told reporters last Thursday that drug-related violence has not crossed the Mexican-American border. [...]

Simply amazing.  Thanks DC for a whole bunch of nothing: SOP for you.

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