US army personnel to taser anti-tax demonstrators: as of October 1st 2008

Having failed to claim 'victory' in Iraq the 'homeland brigade' is looking for unarmed targets to use to shoot at back home where there will be, presumably, no retaliation.  According to staff writer Gino Cavallaro, of the military publication ArmyTimes:

Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.

However, to ensure current plans by the Washington 'leaders' who have been caught wrong-footed in their massive greed campaign the federal government does not want to encourage anybody in the 'greatest democracy in the world' to presume that they have the right and freedom of collective demonstration; again, rules and laws change when it suits the agenda of the rich.

In his article "Army deploys combat unit in US for possible civil unrest" by Bill Van Auken  suggests that:

Under conditions of deepening economic crisis, the unprecedented social chasm separating the country’s working people from the obscenely wealthy financial elite becomes unsustainable within the existing political framework.  world socialist web site

In a desire to protest the continued undemocratic actions of Federal leaders who lack any kind of social sensitivity that does not come from the muzzle of a gun, ordinary people will, undoubtedly, express their opposition to proposed use of tax revenues to pay for the loss of, at least, $700 billion

Voices will sound their disapproval; quite possibly they will say NO! to their governments plans to further rip-them-off more of their tax money, this time to protect the avaricious wealthy than to attend to the immediate consideration of the poorest of the poor who not only have never owned stocks, but could never afford to own their own home.

Whose tax dollars are being considered for use to bail out the wealthy investors? Those of the wealthy?  Hardly. Taxation dollars which will evaporate the quickest will be those which, in part pay for services such as  medical assistance, education, or seniors care, and any pretence of democratic government which is steadily being beaten into  history.

If this so-called act  of  'enlightenment' of using tax dollars to bail out the bankers is allowed to happen without a unified  grass-roots voice of protest surely it would translates into even lower standards of quality of life quantified  as "massive poverty" for the middle class and further impoverishment for those already poor.

And it must not be forgotten, that this is not an Iraqi village where this scam is being enacted, the  money for Iraq has already been lost, swallowed up, by American managed  companies. The losers this time, however, are the ordinary taxpayers of America.

And yet as we all wonder what the best strategy is for this current massive implosion of US society the perpetrators are rapidly getting their back-up system into position, nothing financial this time, but brute force, the potentially deadly taser gun.

But this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities... ArmyTimes

However, the civil authorities have performed appropriate 'tests'  with the taser gun it seems, on a 230 pound man!

“I was the first guy in the brigade to get Tasered,” said Cloutier, describing the experience as “your worst muscle cramp ever — times 10 throughout your whole body.

“I’m not a small guy, I weigh 230 pounds ... it put me on my knees in seconds.” ArmyTimess

Thoe who demonstrate face new risks through being tasered, by military who are expertly brainwashed to believe the lies the political/corporate elite feeds us all to trade our agreement to illegal use of public tax revenue through silence to the crime in exchange for the very lives of  Americans should they choose not to protest. But they will protest I would suggest regardless of:

The brutalizing effect and intent of such a macabre training exercise is to inure[*] troops against sympathy for the pain and suffering they may be called upon to inflict on the civilian population using these same “non-lethal” weapons. world socialist web site

*Reference Roget's International Thesaurus. Inure: callous or insensitive; or, accustom