Military police are nothing new, but the US Marines seem to be taking the concept to a new level, forming a growing number of new battalions of police meant not to police the military, but to be deployed abroad as a US-imposed police force for other nations.
The new “world police” battalions are being presented as a way for the US to quickly deploy police abroad for “anti-terror” or drug war operations, and it seems they won’t necessarily be confined to places under direct US occupation, and could be sent anywhere the US has designs on imposing a police state.
Military officials concede that the new system could be problematic, further blurring the lines between military and police and leaving it up to commanders to decide which laws actually apply to their deployments.
The move could reflect the repeated failure of the US government to create their preferred styles of police force out of wholecloth. Perhaps they figure installing US military police will be a simpler alternative, though it also risks even further mission creep and the prospect that the US will simply be directly owning and operating the open-ended police states they have so often backed abroad.
This is wonderful news, Jason. We are already getting U.S. Marines in Darwin and drones in the Cocus Islands and soon we'll get uniformed American Thugs patrolling our streets.
Soon there won't be any men left in the U.S. They'll be deployed in every other nation!
What if the terrorists find out?
I'm afraid the terrorists already know, David–they're running Washington, D.C. We already have plenty of uniformed thugs patrolling streets here in the U.S. in the form of militarized police and regular military troops performing "exercises" in American cities in addition to drones in our skies. Washington must feel it's only fair to impose the Imperial Stormtroopers on the people of Australia and the rest of the world. When Uncle Sam's Misguided Children get their practice overseas, they can be sent back to battle all those domestic terrorists (a.k.a. the American people) here in the "homeland".
Imperial Stormtroopers! I love it (but not them)!!
…they won’t necessarily be confined to places under direct US occupation,… Article fails to mention Marines could/will be deployed on U.S. soil. With NDAA being "official", they will surely shore up the domestic, militarized police.
Another proof of USA being a military regime then a democratic system wanting to militarize the entire world. This is another proof that USA is a militarism regime and not democracy as white house claims to be.., if you want to be someone you need to serve the military first to get the money you need to study, otherwise, you will get the money with 9% interests needed to pay the universities to get an education, but such loan (as much as 200.000 or 300.000 thousand of dollars) makes you a slave for rest of your life paying back the loan.
Is a good business for "A Democratic” system making sure that people don’t have the education, and then get into army before they can be used and abused for rest of their life. Modernized version of slavery with a social militarism agenda which works well for a falsified democracy.
Ah…the New World Order's "American Exceptionalism" – The Archons redefined "hero" to include all who carry a weapon in the name of the Homeland – and now they're redefining "American Exceptionalism" to those who carry out the orders of the Archons and spread the "disease" around the world. – in the name of the Homeland (taxpayer).
"leaving it up to commanders to decide which laws actually apply to their deployments."
I wonder what choices of laws will be on the menu: 1) U.S. law, 2) military law, 3) made-up law, 4) ad hoc law, 5) kangaroo law, 6) no law … any other law supplied by the Pentagons or its contractors equipped with immunity which is above even the safeties of the old diplomatic immunity (those anti-diplomats certainly deserve better in order to do their "job," don't they?) But, otherwise strictly speaking, "leaving it to commanders to decide which laws ACTUALLY apply" and which (of them) don't would meet a definition of warlords. But it is lovely to call it "policing"–in a world where police would achieve its "FREEDOM" at last–the freedom to choose their own laws for us.
People are not gonna like the new Roman Legion one bit. Also, I am sure the Pentago who runs the show had been planning this for awhile…no matter who the Pres. is, this plan would go forward.
just what the world needed, what badge will they sport? – skull & crossbones???
While my political views have changed significantly since I left the Marine Corps in 1995, I still retain just enough pride/esprit de corps to be extremely embarrassed by this stain on the Corps' honor. Every Marine is supposed to be a rifleman — not an Officer Barbrady.
Yes, last time ground they called them "Einsatzgruppen", and now we shall wait with delight to see the establishment of the new "geheime feldpolizei" (if it doesn't exist already – my naive).
"Pendulum" is probably right – totenkopf will certainly do… it has tradition, at least.
The "law" is probably moot or purely academic – for where arms are, the law is famously silent – or a farcical appendage for those unable to face the glorious new reality. The creatives will be fluffing up laws all the time to satisfy the inordinate demand of wide-eyed tv newsreaders back on the home island.
Basically this "new order" has existed for decades, and one could wonder why they're suddenly trying to start this international cops thing…who could it fool? Are they going for information overload, trying to short people's minds with cognitive dissonance? Or do they really think people will think this is some new deal?
Why is everybody so angry, remember what the Afghanis did to their best trained soldiers. They turned them into scared cowards that could snap anytime. Now these American police will be a nice target for well trained freedom fighters everywhere. Remember, they are only good at killing women and children.
I wish it were true sir, dearly I wish it were true.
But fact is, ability to kill is in direct proportion to the speed at which you can rationalize a problem and take corrective action. Which means that Empire USA has the supreme killers and the only way to defeat us is to organize big time against us.
FICTION
John Goodrich
“In a democracy the government IS the people.”
FACT
Democracy is a harmless society where everyone is enabled to pursue happiness as they perceive it to be. The result of true morality, which has absolutely nothing to do with government as it forbids the deadly force of government.
Presumably this mad project is predicated upon the notion of China bankrolling American foolishness forever. Yeah, that's pretty much the definition of foolishness alright. That and the notion of another "American Century." One can only laugh at the level of absurdity to which their corruption will carry these fools and their folly.
Psychopaths are on the loose. They want ALL your money, for generations to come. They want your guns. They want you all to be good little slaves, and remain in DEBT, to them, of course, or they just want 5.5 billion of you to die, and then, make the other .5 billion their personal slaves.
Did you ever get the impression the military hand picks our President? I mean, talk about arbitrary independence and make up new law as you go along.