DHS, Military Police, Law Enforcement Plan Checkpoint in Tennessee

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
April 3, 2009

An Infowars reader has sent a page taken from the Hardeman County, Tennessee, Bulletin Times announcing a seat belt checkpoint to be conducted on April 4 “in conjunction with a Homeland Security training exercise by the 251st Military Police in Bolivar who recently returned from Iraq” (see a PDF version of the announcement here, on page two).

Although uniformed military personnel will be visible at the checkpoint, the military participation will be strictly observation. The military police uses checkpoints to disseminate information and ensure safe movement in the event of a terrorist attack, natural disaster or other large-scale emergency.

	A clipping taken from the Hardeman County, Tennessee, Bulletin Times announcing seat belt checkpoint to be conducted on April 4.

The operation in Tennessee is similar to one held last December in San Bernardino County, California, and reported by Branson Hunter of the Big Bear Observation Post blog and Infowars on December 14, 2008. The California operation was a collaboration between the California Highway Patrol and the Marine Corps Air and Ground Combat Center. It did not include Homeland Security.

“Dispatching Marines on California highways is an obvious violation of the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed on June 16, 1878. The Act prohibits members of the federal uniformed services, including military police, from working with state and local police and law enforcement,” we reported in December. The seat belt checkpoint in Tennessee with the participation of military police is also a direct violation of the Posse Comitatus Act.

In response to an editorial critical of the operation in San Bernardino County broadcast by KCDZ-FM in Joshua Tree, California, the California Highway Patrol sent the radio station a fax indicating the action would not include military police. It was later reported that uniformed military police in marked military police vehicles teamed up with the California Highway Patrol in the town of Yucca Valley, California.

Gary Daigneault, News Director at KCDZ-FM, went on the Alex Jones Show on December 15 and said the CHP was less than forthcoming about their plans to set-up checkpoints. The California Highway Patrol is required to provide the location of its checkpoints to the media at least two hours prior. Although the CHP did provide the radio station with a telephone number to get this information, when the number was called there was no answer, Daigneault said in his radio editorial (listen to the editorial and view the faxes).

“It should be obvious the Marines and the California Highway Patrol are engaged in a disinformation campaign against the media in order to cover up their illegal and unconstitutional behavior,” we wrote on December 15. “Not only do they want to entrap the residents of San Bernardino County in their ’sobriety/driver license checkpoint’ in violation of the Fourth Amendment protecting the people against unreasonable searches and seizures, they also want to send a message that the military will henceforth be involved in domestic law enforcement in direct violation of Posse Comitatus.”

 

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The collaboration between Homeland Security, the military, and local law enforcement in Tennessee sets a dangerous new precedent. In the case U.S. v. Martinez-Fuerte, the Supreme Court ruled that DHS checkpoints could be set up to search for illegal immigrants and smugglers and so long as the checkpoints and searches were brief and for that purpose only they could be done anywhere within 100 miles of a US border. It appears DHS is now moving beyond U.S. v. Martinez-Fuerte and expanding operations beyond the 100 mile limit.

 

DHS will likely argue they are not conducting the checkpoints in Tennessee and are there only as monitors. However, this point will be lost on the victims of the checkpoints when they see uniformed military police and DHS personnel.

In California, the attention of the media put the CHP and the Marines on the defensive. Last month, the coverage of the MIAC documents in Missouri by Alex Jones resulted in wide coverage of the issue in the corporate media. In response to the attention, the Missouri State Police and the governor of the state were obliged to repudiate the document and order an investigation into the Missouri Information Analysis Center’s practice of designating followers of political candidates Ron Paul, Bob Barr, and Chuck Baldwin as “militia” terrorists.

Attention placed on the operation in Tennessee will produce similar results.

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8 Responses to “DHS, Military Police, Law Enforcement Plan Checkpoint in Tennessee”

1. Kagil Says:
   April 3rd, 2009 at 5:30 am

   It is as if, to them, it is a non issue. They are going to do what they darn well want to do, even if they have to fine little loopholes to do it through.

2. mountainaires Says:
   April 3rd, 2009 at 8:42 am

   This infuriates me. Thanks to Alex Jones and this site for raising my blood pressure every day by telling me about things I wouldn’t know about otherwise. I am now on medication; but I’m grateful for the information.

   I remember telling a co-worker 4 years ago that Posse Comitatus was dead. She rejected that premise completely. I don’t think she really understood what I was telling her, so willing to capitulate to authority was she, to tell you the truth. And, I doubt she even comprehends what’s going on today.

   These actions by DHS and our local and state police and our military commanders alarm and disturb me; but what alarms and disturbs me more are the Americans who shrug when they learn of it.

   These are stealthy–and steady–steps toward a police state. What do you think they’re observing for, if not to train for the contingency of martial law? Americans may think they’re there to protect them, to keep order, to keep peace, in the face of a national emergency. Often that is the initial good intention; but what happens–inevitably–is abuse by those tasked with providing protection and order. And, by then, it’s too late; you’re at the mercy of a militarized group of jack-boots, because when the law is irrelevant; so is your safety; There will be no petition for redress of grievances.

   Wake up and smell the rotting carcass of your Constitution, sheeple.

   

   Darrell Reply:
   April 3rd, 2009 at 7:58 pm

   The 251st MP Company is a Tennessee Army National Guard unit. So when they are under state control (not activated for a Federal mission), they DO have law enforcement authority. That way, a governor can use them to support the state police such as in a riot or a natural diaster. Louisiana Army National Guard MP Soldiers were agumenting the New Orleans Police Dept for months after Katrina.

   So it sounds like the 251st MP Company is just trying to get some training. Calm down people.

   And I will believe that Posse Comitatus is dead when a US Soldier (on Federal Status) arrests an American inside the US and it stands in court.

3. Matt Says:
   April 3rd, 2009 at 11:59 am

   We have added this very strange enforcement activity to http://www.duispy.com and will notify all that have signed up for this county via text message to their cell phones. If you haven’t already signed up please do so for free!

   We are calling this what it is. It’s a checkpoint and they will be arresting people for DUI just as if it is a DUI checkpoint.

4. Rob in NC Says:
   April 4th, 2009 at 12:04 am

   What will it take? For Americans to openly revolt against the criminals posing as Statesmen?

   Will they HAVE to come and burn YOUR house down, possibly with you IN IT before you realize that, yes Virginia, THEY ARE after you?

   I submit for your consideration that by that time, it’s a little too late to “resist”.

   The ENTIRE Bush Administration, and I’m talking BUSH 1 here, right on through Clinton, right on through Bush 2, to the IDIOT currently in the White House.

   Barak Obama IS NOT going to hold ANYBODY accountable, because he’s part of the CRIMINALS hell bent on “getting his share of the loot” before people OPENLY call for these politicians PUBLIC executions.

   Obama is D E S T R O Y I N G FURTHER the USA.

   Obama, Geithner, Bernanke, – ALL OF THEM – right on back to BUSH 1, should ALL be tried for TREASON by WE THE PEOPLE, and when they are found guilty, they should be PUBLICLY SHOT.

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   April 5th, 2009 at 5:29 am

   Amerika the land of milk & honey and peaceful people…NOT…

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