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Home Front: Culture Wars
Gen Honore: If Riots Don't Stop, May Have to Invoke the Insurrection Act
2014-11-26
Tuesday on CNN, retired lieutenant general and the commander of Joint Task Force Katrina Gen. Russel L. Honore said if the riots in Missouri cant be controlled the next step is "the Insurrection Act."
Video at link.
Partial transcript as follows:
It takes a lot of patience he on the police part to understand that civil disobedience by it self is to force the police to take actions. So the people stand in the street, and if it can be done in a safe way, sometimes it's best to observe that as long as it doesn't go violent. More often than not, many times the police will want to move them out of the street because I said so . And that is when the pushing and shoving starts, and that's when they go violent and when they put people in jail. Or people actually do criminal acts like throw things at the police. You throw something at the police, you're going to go to jail. I think police are in the city unlike Ferguson and St. Louis that have mobilized National Guard and backup troops, they're dealing with shift officers who are probably working overtime.

They're going to have it to change their game unless they can come to a political conclusion that says, hey, we're going to do this in terms of a federal review of procedures across the country at the heart of this issue or we're going to have a blue ribbon panel that has 90 days to make recommendations to the federal government as well as to every state on how we deal with these issues in the future.

I'm going to tell you this, Anderson, if St. Louis can't control this, you know what the next step is and it's called the Insurrection Act, the same thing they did in Los Angeles. We're nowhere near that now, but people might want to look at that because that is a statute that's designed if local authorities cannot control and provide civil law inside their cities."
Posted by:Ebbomosh Hupemp2664

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Posted by: gorb   2014-11-26 17:56  

#12  Forget the Insurrection Act just borrow this bit of English.

12 is the number, not 11 nor 13, 12.

oppose, obstruct, or in any manner wilfully and knowingly lett, hinder, or hurt any person or persons that shall begin to proclaim, or go to proclaim according to the proclamation hereby directed to be made, whereby such proclamation shall not be made, that then every such apposing, obstructing, letting, hindering or hurting such person or persons, so beginning or going to make such proclamation, as aforesaid, shall be adjudged felony without benefit of clergy, and the offenders therein shall be adjudged felons, and shall suffer death as in case of felony, without benefit of clergy; and that also every such person or persons so being unlawfully, riotously and tumultuously assembled, to the number of twelve, as aforesaid, or more, to whom proclamation should or ought to have been made if the same had not been hindred, as aforesaid, shall likewise, in case they or any of them, to the number of twelve or more, shall continue together, and not disperse themselves within one hour after such lett or hindrance so made, having knowledge of such lett or hindrance so made, shall be adjudged felons, and shall suffer death as in case of felony, without benefit of clergy.
Posted by: Shipman   2014-11-26 15:06  

#11  They are still stuck on stupid.
Posted by: KBK   2014-11-26 13:36  

#10  Beso, you are so right. When this A$$hole was elected in 2008 I gave my wife of 10 things that I expected to go wrong. Unbeknownst to me she wrote them down and saved them.

She told me right after the mid-terms that she had done that to show me after 2016. Now that 7 of them have come to pass she let me know.......I thank the 'burg for making me look smart.
Posted by: AlanC   2014-11-26 12:53  

#9  Reference #4: that's why the Bolsheviks, very quickly, created the Red Army. They weren't about to trust the old army.
Posted by: Steve White   2014-11-26 12:52  

#8  All part of the "Take America Over" plan.
Posted by: DarthVader   2014-11-26 12:52  

#7  NO.
Posted by: newc   2014-11-26 12:07  

#6  But the idea of suspending the rule of law under the guise of some calamity or urban unrest is part of the game plan.

Why do you think he has been assembling a private army in DHS and other normally unarmed agencies?

And why do you think he has been so willing to create so much unrest and havoc with our economy? Seems to be searching for a hot button that will set off a major armed conflagration somewhere as an excuse.
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2014-11-26 11:53  

#5  Reference #3. I would hate to have to construct a list of events that were predicted here, which have actually came about.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-11-26 08:59  

#4  The problem with that line of thought is when he turns to the military to enforce it, they can ask why should you be the man in charge and not the ones with the swords bullets. When you're a Marxist without a grasp of 4000 years of human history and behavior you might miss that point repeatedly recorded time and time again.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-11-26 08:52  

#3  Gee, just think what Obola could do with the Insurrection Act.

Marshal law would allow him "at least in his mind" to suspend all of the Constitution, send Congress home and rule by decree. He'd quote Lincoln and suspend Habeas Corpus and round up the Tea Party, Republicans and all of Fox News.

Nirvana.
Posted by: AlanC   2014-11-26 08:30  

#2  Once all the businesses have been looted and burned, the rioting will stop. Of move to the next town...
Posted by: Bobby   2014-11-26 07:53  

#1  The police could easily control the situation if they were permitted to do so. If the troublemakers had to pick a little #6 shot out of their arses, the BS would soon stop. The concept of a "Blue Ribbon Panel" is pure rubbish. Enforce the laws currently on the books, no interruptions, no exceptions.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-11-26 07:11  

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