Pentagon Believes Civil Unrest Is A Threat

From Glenn Beck and The Patriot Update:

Glenn Beck: Pentagon believes civil unrest is a threat


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December 6, 2010 - 15:43 ET



GLENN: Now, I've never heard this before and I know we do training for, you know, a terrorist act or anything else, but I want you to listen to this audio from CNBC on what the government is doing and what the government is preparing for. Listen.





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VOICE: more and more like an economic Cold War and it's not just a talking point at the Pentagon. They are planning for real economic threats to America. Eamon Javers has the latest on the war games that are playing out in some high councils around your parts. Eamon?



EAMON JAVERS: Hey, Tyler, well, you're right. Ever since the crash of 2008 the defense intelligence establishment has really been paying a lot of attention to global markets and how they can serve as a threat to U.S. national security interests. At one upcoming seminar next month they’re taking a look at a lot of the issues that might be really familiar to CNBC viewers. Take a look at some of the Pentagon's key concerns here. They are looking at the use of sovereign wealth funds to manipulate markets and currencies. They are looking at nation state economic collapse, sovereign default, a nation state instability, and they are also worried about U.S. allies' budgets, deficits, and national security infrastructures. And in the Army they are having a very interesting year long exercise called Unified Quest 2011. And in that war gaming series, they are looking at the implications of large scale economic breakdown inside the United States that would force the Army to keep, quote, domestic order among civil unrest and force the Army to deal with fragmented global power and drastically lower budgets, this according to the trade publication insidedefense.com. And in October military officials from the Marine Corps War Colleges visited the trading floor of J.P. Morgan to study markets and the economies. So Tyler, you can see that all parts of the Pentagon and defense intelligence establishment are looking at markets and looking at ways they can present a new kind of threat to the United States. These are the guys whose job it is to think about the very worst possible things that could happen and they have dreamed up some very scary scenarios here.



PAT: Like illegal scenarios, like the United States Army keeping control of its citizenry. That's against the Posse Comitatus Act.



GLENN: No, no, that's what everybody was saying about the



PAT: Border.



GLENN: can't do that on the border.



PAT: I know. When it's pointed the other direction to keep people out, this would be directed against us apparently in our cities to keep order? No. No.



GLENN: Now so you know, this isn't some crazy, you know this isn't Jesse Ventura saying this. This is CNBC, which, (whispering). I mean, look at what I think I talked about, a couple of years ago, my concern was the Bubba effect. Do you remember? Talked about the Bubba effect. That the government was worried this is maybe three years ago now. That the government was worried that if something happened, and they were talking at the time about Islamic extremism, and somebody, you know, somebody blew up, you know, or slammed planes into the Sears tower, whatever, and somebody would take it out on somebody else they just deemed were you know, was a Muslim or a terrorist or whatever and they were just, you know, some stupid guy doing some stupid action and then the FBI would have to go and arrest that guy. They were concerned at the time that the government had squandered its credibility so much that if the FBI came in to arrest that person that there would be enough people in this country that would say, you know what, I don't agree with that person what that person did but how dare you arrest him. Because your guys are the ones who let this thing happen. You are the guys who turned your a blind eye every step of the way. We knew you denied it the whole time. And people called the Bubba effect, people standing up for Bubba who they don't necessarily agree with but they stand up because they say the government is a bigger enemy. Now you add on top of this I mean, think about it. If that scenario happened today and, you know, what's his name from the justice department marches his boys in, the only good thing we have going for us honestly is I trust the FBI. I don't trust them in Washington, but I trust the local FBI offices. I think the local FBI could be wrong. I could be wrong, but I think the local law enforcement and the local FBI offices and our soldiers, I think they know. I think they know what's going on in this country. I think our police officers and FBI and ATF, I hope, I hope, maybe I'm maybe I'm being to Pollyanna, but I hope that they know exactly what's going on and they've already thought, "If this happens, which side am I on." Because you Posse Comitatus: You cannot occupy American land. You can't do it.



PAT: No, there's extreme exceptions, you know, like, I mean, massive civil unrest. And even then, even then you would call in the National Guard, though. That's



GLENN: National Guard



PAT: It's the National Guard's job to do that. Not, not the U.S. Army. Not the U.S. Marines. You don't call in the military against the citizens of the U.S.



GLENN: And the reason why we have the National Guard, the reason why this law is there is because our founders knew if you ever got an oppressive state, if you ever had people who didn't respect the Constitution at the top, the fastest thing they could do to take over is create a situation and then have the Army march into these states. That's why it can only be done by the National Guard. Because it requires the governors to call up the National Guard. It breaks it up into 50 different generals, or heads of, you know, commanders in chief, if you will. 50 other people have to make the decision. It's not the president making the decision.