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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-17-07 08:20 AM
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RUMOR? Five Day Martial Law Drill -- to be held from Oct 15th to the 20th.
This info is from a State employee:

A five day long martial law DRILL is to be held from Oct 15th to the 20th. Word of it trickled through the State system. The putative scenario is that blue state Oregon with all it's enviromentalists and peaceniks is attacked and Iranian terrorists are blamed. This justifies a nuclear attack on Iran, causing vast domestic protest and requiring a state of martial law to suppress and incarcerate enemies of the state....

Has anyone else heard this rumor?
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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-17-07 08:42 AM
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1. thread from two weeks ago:
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-17-07 09:35 AM
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4. NORTHCOM Plans 5 Day Martial Law Exercise from October 15th to October 20th
Definitely NOT a rumor!!

Well, the "rumor" I got says the exercise has an "activists round up" component, the Umatilla nerve gas facility as the secret prison, and Blackwater Corp as a non-bid contractor working enforcing martial law.

Next question? Does the exercise involve contractors like Blackwater?

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NORTHCOM Plans 5 Day Martial Law Exercise
Published on Wednesday, September 05, 2007.
by Lee Rogers - Intel Strike Contributing Writer
http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4185


The United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) has just announced plans for an anti-terrorism exercise called Vigilant Shield 08. The exercise which is slated to run from October 15th to October 20th is described as a way to prepare, prevent and respond to any number of national crises. ....

Below is the full press release from USNORTHCOM describing Vigilant Shield 08. Also check out the Vigilant Shield 08 fact sheet by clicking here (http://www.northcom.mil/News/2007/VS-08_fact_sheet.pdf).

North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command along with U.S. Pacific Command, the Department of Homeland Security as well as local, state and other federal responders will exercise their response abilities against a variety of potential threats during Exercise Vigilant Shield ‘08, a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-designated, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM)-sponsored, and U.S. Joint Forces Command-supported Department of Defense exercise for homeland defense and defense support of civil authorities missions.

VS-08 will be conducted concurrent with Top Officials 4 (TOPOFF 4), the nation’s premier exercise of terrorism preparedness sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security, and several other linked exercises as part of the National Level Exercise 1-08. These linked exercises will take place Ocober 15-20 and are being conducted throughout the United States and in conjunction with several partner nations including Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, as well as the Territory of Guam.

VS-08 and National Level Exercise 1-08 will provide local, state, tribal, interagency, Department of Defense, and non-governmental organizations and agencies involved in homeland security and homeland defense the opportunity to participate in a full range of exercise scenarios that will better prepare participants to prevent and respond to national crises. The participating organizations will conduct a multi-layered, civilian-led response to a national crisis.

USNORTHCOM’s primary exercise venues for VS-08 include locations in Oregon, Arizona and a cooperative venue with USPACOM in the Territory of Guam. NORAD’s aerospace detection and defense events will take place across all the exercise venues, to exercise the ability to mobilize resources for aerospace defense, aerospace control, maritime warning, and coordination of air operations in a disaster area.
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-17-07 08:46 AM
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2. And the guys involved were the ones on the ferry in Washington.
Edited on Mon Sep-17-07 08:47 AM by higher class
In between they will use Ms Rice to make an emergency appeal to the UN and France, U.K., Poland, Romania, and all the countries involved in rendition stopovers will agree as well as any other country who has or has been promised contracts in Iran..

Yes, it may be time to watch their clues descend down upon us whether or not it involves the guys on the ferry.

It may be time to let Dems who support the Bombing of Iran know that they will have to stand next to Republicans before the tribunal of the world - and we will promise to blast their names, they cannot hide behind the curtain of a numeric tally of their votes. And we should start publicizing and appealing to them now.

Some say Dick does not need the Senate vote.

Martial law... Oregon ... Besides the environmentalists and peachniks ... has their Natl Guard been untouched with Iraq assignments?
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-17-07 05:47 PM
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10. which ones on which ferry here in WA? Thanks. nt
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-17-07 09:30 AM
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3. I was mistaken I thought I heard September 15th it started.
But I did see on one of the other websites they were going to have a drill.
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nancyr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-17-07 09:38 AM
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5. Yes, to the Oregon National Guard.
We've lost our fair share, just like any other state. Trust me: there are also a good number of Bush supporters out here. We're not all wild-eyed liberals.
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Danieljay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-17-07 11:21 AM
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6. Nope. It corresponds with TOPOFF, a 'simulated' WMD attack on tOctober 15th in N. Portland
I think i'm headed out to the coast that week.
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Cheap_Trick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-17-07 11:32 AM
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7. well, we know what happened on 9/11
with conveniently timed drills. and now Blackwater just happened to have their license pulled in Iraq. now, what ever will they do?
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warren pease Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-17-07 01:11 PM
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8. This is an issue of much concern around Portland...
Here are a few links to give you an overview of what the combination of TopOFF (a simulation of a dirty nuke terrorist attack) and Vigilant Shield 08 (a simulation of imposing martial law in response to the nuke) could produce.


Here are a couple of articles, with comment, from Portland Indymedia:

http://tinyurl.com/3ct6s8

http://tinyurl.com/2byqnv

http://tinyurl.com/yphte8

http://tinyurl.com/28tmna

http://tinyurl.com/37ya45


Here's the Oregon Truth Alliance's web site:

http://www.oregontruthalliance.org/


And here's a page with links to various military exercises, past and present:

http://tinyurl.com/25lak4


Links to some articles by a former Army Capt. named Eric May, who's been on this issue for months:

http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/07/08/27/may.htm

http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/07/08/20/may.htm

http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/07/08/13/may.htm

http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/07/08/06/may.htm

http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/07/07/30/may.htm


The biggest concern: There's a history of military simulation exercises going "live," the most recent on 7/7/05, the London train bombings, in which that exact scenario was being "gamed" -- three tube stations blown up, a bus going off course and being blown up -- and damned if the same three stations weren't blown up and damned if the bus didn't go off-route and also get blown up. The patsies were a few swarthy guys who allegedly brought the explosives onto the trains in backpacks.

However, analysis of the results of the blasts showed that metal from the floors of the cars around the blast holes was curved upward, toward the inside of the car, rather than outward, which would have been the result if the explosions had, as claimed by authorities, emanated from inside the cars. Same with the bus.

This uncontested physical evidence means the official story is pure bullshit. The bombs were placed under the cars, not brought onto the cars by the patsies. The fact that the identical scenario was being gamed simultaneously only adds credibility to the hypothesis that this was a classic false flag operation, carried out by MI-5 (and some say assisted by the CIA), designed to rally public support for Blair's Iraq policies at a time when he was tanking in the polls.

The other famous false flag op was, of course, 9/11, for which the official conspiracy theory is so ridiculously transparent that only by the usual propagandists' strategies of repeating the big lie endlessly, using corporate media to legitimize the lie, scaring the hell out of the citizenry, and whipping the super-patriots into a nationalistic frenzy did the administration succeed (so far) in passing this fairy tale off as fact. As always, the main question is who benefits. In the case of 9/11, there were so many beneficiaries, both in and out of the BushCo government, that the question should actually be "who didn't benefit."

I've also heard there was a war game scenario going on at the exact time that Desert Shield became Desert Storm back in 1991, but I have no idea if that's verifiable. Either way, that wasn't exactly a false flag op, since everybody knew what the US and its allies were going to do and who they were going to do it to.

Anyway, that's the speculation here in Portland among the cautiously paranoid, one of which I've reluctantly become after putting together things like the martial law blueprints contained in those recent presidential directives and executive orders. The notion that Cheney's squirming in his chair like a kindergartner who has to pee over the prospect of bombing -- maybe nuking -- Iran. The fact that this administration is capable of absolutely anything to increase its power and profits. The recently completed Operation Noble Resolve, which many see as kind of a recon exercise to scope out Portland's vulnerabilities. The fact that, of all the deep blue cities on the west coast, Portland is probably the least strategic and therefore the most expendable. The implications of the stolen nuclear warheads, one of which could easily be configured for minimal property damage and maximum terror, and set off as the excuse for implementation of martial law -- and remember with the ongoing exercises, everything's in place to both deal with the disaster and administer martial law.

These kinds of things worry me, particularly living in Portland as I do. I think if you're not concerned, even a little paranoid, you're probably not as convinced as I am of BushCo's willingness to do whatever it takes -- no matter how vile, obscene, evil, demented and murderous -- to advance its objectives.

After all, they've killed at least a million Iraqi civilians and turned another four million into refugees. They've obliterated the US middle class and destroyed the economy so that the top two or three percent can get property at fire sale prices once all the foreclosures come on the market. The dollar is becoming a third-world currency. Why stop now when the game's just getting good?


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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-17-07 05:30 PM
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9. Thanks for those links. nt
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-17-07 05:48 PM
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11. I Work Downtown PDX
Crap you just had to make my day!!! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :hi:
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-17-07 05:50 PM
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12. OBEY THE DEATH MASTERS!


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