U.S. Troops Asked If They Would Shoot American Citizens.

Hello polachicago, What you said is most probably true but it won’t be that simple, let me tell you. It’s not just American Army; Armies all over the world are prepared for special jobs. Soldiers are trained to ‘obey’ the authority come what may, without ifs and buts. No questioning is allowed and it is actually, and understandably, ‘required’ given the nature of their job. Upholding the constitution, rights and wrongs, what to do and what not are responsibilities of commanders to think about and soldiers have nothing to do with these things. War can’t be won; a country can’t be defended, if the soldiers are allowed to think for themselves. Don’t take me wrong but it’s a need and a reality. When Bush was elected for the office, it further faded my belief and confidence in democracy. I am not saying that democracy is wrong; I hope you understand what I am saying here. He had no good academic records, has lowest IQ among all the presidents of America till date, even lower than average Americans. When I saw his debate, he proved himself ignorant of many international affairs. Still, he got elected. That speaks volumes about American electoral maturity, if not the maturity of Americans, individually. I think of him as a stooge of some power hungry elite in America. Worse yet, perhaps, given his intelligence, he doesn’t even know that he has been and is being used. That brings me to the real point here. While I understand that sometimes there is a need to impose martial law (Some of America’s most stabilizing periods, for the good of her, were when constitution was suspended or brought to a halt i.e. Martial law was imposed (practically) whether or not it was declared), I also see that it won’t be that simple, it may even trigger a civil war. America is ‘officially’ under continuous state of “emergency” for decades now without the state being lifted for a moment. Given American record in recent past, it’s involvement in some international tricky problems, it’s losing it’s control of world, emergence of China, reemergence of Russia, reshaping of middle east…everything is calling for a radical change just around the corner. Though history take turns slowly, but any event in present situation can trigger a scenario when America will sharply go downhill. Another Recession of epic proportions, Iranian Oil exchange program, China, Russia, India and Iran getting together can surely bring a situation where one may need to call, “Desperate times call for desperate measures”. That’s how I see it. Military is needed to be well prepared for any fall out in international arena and that’s what they are doing. Imagine a situation where indigenous people of America declare that they are now independent from America and will fight for their right to sovereignty!! Do you really think that American Government will allow any such move? Nah! Instead, they will try to take arms back from every individual, they think can pose a problem in future. That’s where I see a need (from American Government perspective, not my own) to impose Martial law in a state and take arms back from the Americans, shoot at them and kill them. Actually, it has happened in American history. I don’t think I need to detail that period here.

From what I understand they've always quizzed our troops on this subject. It's part of standard training to see if they'd properly follow orders & be ready should the need arise. Now someone has blown it up & exagerated it into a whole conspiracy. The whole training pastors thing is a complete crock. Total BS

It really sucks, what is going on in the USA with the goverment. Whatever happened to the country being ruled by the people and for the people? Now the country is being ruled by and for the corporations!!!

This is amazing. Where is America heading?

I will not attack you on this. I am a Marine and have been for 9 years now. You could ask me this and I would tell you yes and no. The biggest thing here is, are they trying to kill me? If they are then yes I would shoot them. Other than that no I would not.

The blog link you posted has been removed. Figures. I am not surprised, it's not the first time our troops have been asked if they would kill our citizens and I'm sure it won't be the last. Never forget Kent State!!! They can't kill us all, we are the country. United we stand divided we fall!

Hi Pola, How are you and your family? Once you were my mylot friends and I was out of Mylot for long because my account was blocked for violation of Mylot rules. It is a dangerous issue that police would shoot without trial. It is violation of human rights. In one of the best democratic country, it is not fair that police will shoot people without trial. In that case innocent people may be affected. Have a very nic3e day.