How Much Do You Trust Your Government?

Recently, in an extremely underreported story, the United States Army's 3rd Infantry Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team was deployed for one year of active duty on United States' soil. This Combat Team is now being called the Consequence Management Response Force, or CCMRF, euphemistically pronounced "sea-smurf." This unit is under the command of the United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM), which was first created in 2002 to "provide command and control of Department of Defense homeland defense efforts." This is the first time that USNORTHCOM has been assigned an active unit.

In initial reports of this deployment, Army Times reported that this force would be used to help in the invent of natural disasters, terrorist attacks, or "civil unrest and crowd control."

Since the original Army Times report on this deployment, spokespeople from the United States Army have somewhat countered the idea that this active combat unit would be used to carry out law enforcement duties or assist civil authorities with "civil unrest and crowd control." Army Times has even carried a correction to their initial report, which had elaborately described lethal and non-lethal crowd control capabilities of this unit, to state that this unit would not be allowed to use their non-lethal crowd control weapons on United States' soil.

So, why has the United States Army and the Pentagon de-emphasized the involvement of this unit in law enforcement?

Well, it's simple. It happens to be illegal.

That's right. Our Founding Fathers were quite frightened by standing armies. They were particularly afraid that a standing army in the United States would be misused to destroy the democracy which they were forging. So, in fact, our Founding Fathers were the first conspiracy theorists out there.