The troops are coming home!

At 21:11hrs Pacific time Sunday October 26,  Margin Release a Portland based “active art” collective deployed 1100+ plastic army men to the Portland Metro Area.

This “art action” is in response and made to mimic the US Army’s deployment of the 3rd Infantry’s 1st Brigade Combat Teams known as the “Raiders” to North Com (in the United States) to be an on-call federal response force.

While preparing this mission (art action) Margin Release realized the duality of the project. How it could be seen and had come to also reflect the need to start bringing troops home. Not for “at home” deployment but for the sole mission to be with their families. To be mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins. We in NO WAY have any intention of demeaning the tremendous service our troops perform. We mean not to cause any harm or offense to them or their loved ones, but we believe it is our 1st amendment and civic duty voice our concerns, which are directly tied to the Posse Comitatus Act, and Directive 51. For more information on these acts we have provided the documents and articles on them with in this blog.

If you see these plastic soldiers do not be alarmed

They are here for your safety. They have been deployed to curb civil unrest and help in the case of unforseen catastrophes beit environmental,economical,terrorist attacks,or radical factions assembling under unruly ideas.

1440 plastic armymen 3rd infantry 1st bridage combat team

they are on your corners (stark&30th Ave)

in yours parks (Laurelhurst park)

US Soldiers deployed on Portland soil

By Dieselboi on October 27th, 2008

Soldier

Originally uploaded by dieselboi

Today, I came across active duty soldiers on the Portland waterfront. They have been deployed there by the president in order to prepare for any challenges “Little Beirut” may offer up in the near future.

When I first came across the soldiers, I assumed it was some sort of art project, but then came across a tag on one of the soldiers pointing me to WhenJohnnyComesHome. See, recently, President Bush deployed the US Army’s 3rd Infantry’s 1st Brigade Combat Teams to North Com (the United States) to be an on-call federal response force. Yep, remember the Bruce Willis movie The Siege about when US ARMY forces were deployed in NYC? It could actually happen. While the US has used national guard to help out in natural disasters and civil unrest, this use of the US Army is directly against the Posse Comitatus Act.

I’m nervous. Seriously. Portland is one of those cities that is passionate about its politics. I could see shit going down if the election doesn’t go the way people want it to go. If that happens, and Portland Police want help, they can call in the Army. The Army is a broad sword, not a scalpel. That scares the shit out of me.

This was posted on OURPDX blogsite

welcome home johnny!

3rd Infantry’s 1st BCT trains for a new dwell-time mission. Helping ‘people at home’ may become a permanent part of the active Army
By Gina Cavallaro – Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Sep 30, 2008 16:16:12 EDT

The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys.

Now they’re training for the same mission — with a twist — at home.

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.

It is not the first time an active-duty unit has been tapped to help at home. In August 2005, for example, when Hurricane Katrina unleashed hell in Mississippi and Louisiana, several active-duty units were pulled from various posts and mobilized to those areas.

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.

After 1st BCT finishes its dwell-time mission, expectations are that another, as yet unnamed, active-duty brigade will take over and that the mission will be a permanent one.

Posse Comitatus Act?

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The Posse Comitatus Act

The Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act substantially limit the powers of the federal government to use the military for law enforcement.

The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed on June 16, 1878 after the end of Reconstruction. The Act prohibits most members of the federal uniformed services (the Army, Air Force, and State National Guard forces when such are called into federal service) from exercising nominally state law enforcement, police, or peace officer powers that maintain “law and order” on non-federal property (states and their counties and municipal divisions) in the former Confederate states.

The statute generally prohibits federal military personnel and units of the National Guard under federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress. The Coast Guard is exempt from the Act.

On September 26, 2006, President Bush urged Congress to consider revising federal laws so that the U.S. military could seize control immediately in the aftermath of a natural disaster, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

These changes were included in the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (H.R. 5122), which was signed into law on Oct 17, 2006, subsequently repealed in their entirety.[1]

Section 1076 is titled “Use of the Armed Forces in major public emergencies”. It provided that:

The President may employ the armed forces… to… restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition… the President determines that… domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of maintaining public order… or [to] suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy if such… a condition… so hinders the execution of the laws… that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law… or opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.[2]

The actual text is on pages 322–323 of the legislation.

As of 2008, these changes have been repealed in their entirety, reverting to the original 1878 wording of the Posse Comitatus Act.

The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878

20 Stat. L., 145

June 18, 1878

CHAP. 263 – An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes.

SEC. 15. From and after the passage of this act it shall not be lawful to employ any part of the Army of the United States, as a posse comitatus, or otherwise, for the purpose of executing the laws, except in such cases and under such circumstances as such employment of said force may be expressly authorized by the Constitution or by act of Congress; and no money appropriated by this act shall be used to pay any of the expenses incurred in the employment of any troops in violation of this section And any person willfully violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished by fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars or imprisonment not exceeding two years or by both such fine and imprisonment.

10 U.S.C. (United States Code) 375

Sec. 375. Restriction on direct participation by military personnel:

The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to ensure that any activity (including the provision of any equipment or facility or the assignment or detail of any personnel) under this chapter does not include or permit direct participation by a member of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps in a search, seizure, arrest, or other similar activity unless participation in such activity by such member is otherwise authorized by law.

18 U.S.C. 1385

Sec. 1385. Use of Army and Air Force as posse comitatus

Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.