Posted by EU Times on
Jul 1st, 2013
As part of a
deal signed last week in Washington DC between the Russian Emergency
Situations Ministry and FEMA, Russian officials will provide “security at mass
events” in the United States, a scenario that won’t sit well with Americans
wary of foreign assets operating on US soil.
According to a press
release by the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense
and Emergencies, US and Russian officials met on June 25 at the 17th Joint
U.S.-Russia Cooperation Committee on Emergency Situations
.
In addition
to agreeing with FEMA to “exchange experts during joint rescue operations in major
disasters,” the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry will also be providing
“security at mass events” in the United States.
This suggests
that events designated as “National Special Security Events” by the Department of
Homeland Security, which include the Super Bowl, international summits such as
the G8 and presidential inaugurations, will now rely partly on Russian
authorities to provide security.
The meeting
last week also agreed on the conclusion that US and Russian emergency
authorities will increase their co-operation, “in order to respond efficiently
to all kinds of disasters.”
The use of
foreign troops or other officials in a law enforcement capacity providing
“security” inside the United States is illegal under Posse
Comitatus. Capt. William Geddes of the U.S. Army Reserve acknowledged last yearthat it is against federal law to use
US troops to conduct police patrols, despite the fact that such occurrences are
becoming increasingly common. The use of foreign troops is an even more clear
cut violation of Posse Comitatus.
Last year we reported on how Russian troops were
invited to the US as part of a Fort Carson, Colorado drill focused around
anti-terror training. Aside from learning how to target terrorists in
America, the Russian soldiers were also out in the local community attending a
baseball game in Colorado Springs.
As Mac Slavo writes, “Rumors have circulated for years
about the possibility of foreign troops being deployed on U.S. soil in the
event of a widespread declaration of a national emergency. For quite some time
there have been anecdotal reports to support the claim that the U.N., Russia
and other nations would be used in a policing capacityshould some critical
event befall our nation.”
“The fear
should such a scenario take place has been that these soldiers would act under
the banner of their own flags, ignoring the fundamental protections afforded to
our citizens, leaving Americans under the jurisdiction of people who don’t
speak our language or respect our fundamental rights to self defense, to be
secure in our homes, and to be presumed innocent in the eyes of the
law.”
Concerns about
foreign troops being used on US soil have lingered ever since the release of State
Department Publication 7277, which is a blueprint for the
harmonization of US and Russian forces under a framework of United Nations-led
global government.
Back in 2008 it was also reported that US and Canadian authorities
had signed an agreement that would pave the way to using each other’s
militaries on both sides of the border “during an emergency”.
Alex Jones
has documented foreign troops being trained on U.S. soil to deal with
“insurgents” since the late 1990′s as part of “urban
warfare drills”.
Back in July
2010, our reporters covered the Operation Vigilant Guard exercises in Chicago
which involved Polish troops training alongside U.S. National Guard
troops in drills focused around raiding terrorists and drug dealers.
According to
SFC Mark Ballard of the Illinois National Guard, the Polish forces were
“integrating into some of the civil military units that are participating in
this exercise” as part of Illinois’ partnership with the Republic of Poland, a
relationship based around “integrative training” and blending military and
civilian forces in the event of a national emergency, as well as making this
process of integration with foreign troops more “visible”.
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