9/24/09

on your knees

It's not about YOU, and what YOU need. It's about the National Guard YOU pay for. They do a fine job protecting the people who screw YOU from..... YOU! And Don't YOU Forget It!
Local Guardsmen on G-20 duty
By BRAD RHEN
Staff Writer to Lebanon Daily News

More than 2,500 Pennsylvania National Guardsmen - including several from Lebanon County - are in Pittsburgh for the G-20 summit, set to take place Thursday and Friday.

During the mission, dubbed Operation Steel Kickoff, the Guardsmen will fall under the direction of the U.S. Secret Service and will support local, state and federal agencies. Guard members will serve as a regional response force, augment law-enforcement personnel, provide crowd and traffic control, and help with security.

"Everybody is excited and honored to participate in such a global event," said Lt. Col. Dale Waltman of Cornwall.

SUCH AN HONOR. MM-HMM.

Waltman, who works full-time at Fort Indiantown Gap, is the commander of 1st Battalion, 107th Field Artillery Regiment from New Castle, Lawrence County. For the G-20 Summit, he is commander of Task Force Security, comprising more than 600 Pennsylvania National Guardsmen.

Waltman arrived in New Castle on Sept. 16 to begin assembling the task force, then moved into Pittsburgh on Sunday. Since then, the soldiers and airmen of the task force have been training on a variety of different tasks, he said.

"We just reviewed some basic communication skills, and we worked on some specific equipment skills so everybody has that common knowledge," he said.

The Guardsmen have also completed civil-disturbance and crowd-control training in anticipation of the thousands of protesters who are expected for the summit.

"We're not anticipating that nothing is going to happen,"

Waltman said. "We've been briefed on the possibility that there will be some protesters coming into the city, but they haven't given us a specific number."

THOUSANDS OF PROTESTORS? OH MY GOODNESS WHATEVER HAS GOTTEN INTO THE PEOPLE THEY ARE SO UPSET WE DON'T UNDERSTAND IT???????

Also in Pittsburgh for the summit are several members of the Fort Indiantown Gap public-affairs office. Capt. Jay Ostrich of Cornwall said the public-affairs specialists' primary mission is to do news features on the Guardsmen taking part in the mission.

"Basically what we're doing is helping to tell the Guard story here," he said.

Ostrich said the public-affairs specialists could also be called to help with crowd control if needed. If that were to happen, he said, he is confident they would be able to meet any contingency.

"We've been side by side with the soldiers as they did their training," Ostrich said. "We're well prepared to defend ourselves as well, but hopefully the need doesn't arise."

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK PROVIDING PR FOR MILITARY AFTER THEY CRUSH YOUR FRUITLESS PROTESTS AGAINST THE GLOBALIST POWERS THAT HAVE CRUSHED YOUR ECONOMY.

The G-20 is a group of finance ministers and central bank governors from 20 economies: 19 of the world's largest national economies, plus the European Union.

This week's summit was originally planned for New York City but was changed to Pittsburgh in May. Pittsburgh was selected by the Obama administration to highlight the city's economic recovery after the collapse of its manufacturing sector in the latter half of the 20th century.

"Our soldiers and airmen supporting the G-20 Summit demonstrate the relevance, value and accessibility of the Pennsylvania National Guard," Maj. Gen. Jessica L. Wright, commander of the Pennsylvania National Guard, said in a news release. "When our communities, commonwealth and country need us, we are always there."


Ha. Good one.

2 comments:

Greg Bacon said...

The feds have a long history of calling the NG or the Army to break up strikes and now they're going to be used to keep WE the People from exercising our rights.

Crack some skulls, pre-emptively arrest some w/o using warrants and set loose some saboteurs to stir shit up and justfy the police state actions.

What in the hell are they so afraid of?

News like this:

Some U.S. Bailout Funds Won't Be Recovered

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. taxpayers will probably never recover all of the hundreds of billions of dollars invested to bail out financial firms, automakers and homeowners, a key watchdog for the program said on Thursday.

The program, approved by Congress in early October 2008, was originally intended to buy up the toxic assets weighing down bank balance sheets, but within two weeks idea was quickly dropped in favor of direct capital injections into banks as the financial crisis reached its peak.

Barofsky, who took office in December 2008, said the Treasury has improved its transparency in administering the program, but has repeatedly failed to implement his recommendations to increase disclosures, including detailed reports on what banks are doing with taxpayer funds.


http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/09/24/business/business-us-usa-bailout-watchdog.html

Only 'some?' The figure will probably wind up being in the trillions, but they only want to release a little info at a time, so the unwashed masses don't got too 'uppity.'

A. Peasant said...

indeed, that's the kind of thing conveniently missing from a story about how awesome the troops are.

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