A new threat?
Have you noticed how the news media is working overtime to relay Department of Defense press releases about the dangers of chemical and biological warfare within US borders - in the absense of any credible threat of such an attack? And how localities are receiving generous funds to train in "defense" against the same?
All this is being treated as a new phenomenon. It's not. Over half a century ago, there were two countries in Europe that were keenly interested in similar training programs. And they ended up using the gas against their own countrymen.
From The Ilustrated London News
October 8, 1932
"Everyone's doing is but us! - Civilians and officials training against gas-attack"
Italy practices air-defense: Spreading anti-poison-gas chemicals about the defense ministry after the secret sham air-attack on Rome.
"Gas-attack" Demonstration in Berlin: Putting down chemicals to counteract poisonous fumes.
"Normally, we go into a country that's in some fatal stage. We work with those
who are with us, and shoot those who are not. The part that's missing here is
that you can't shoot the Coastal Commission," -- Marine Col. Gary W.
Anderson, describing the difficulties of staging a mock invasion of Oakland
CA.
Archive of articles on urban warfare training in the US by David Breshnahan
One Nation Under Guard - Why are US Marines training to conduct warfare against American citizens? Reporting from Oakland by Gar Smith
Urban Warrior Advanced Warfighting Experiment (AWE) - Documents from the Marine Corps (closed)
Historical perspective: The struggle against fascism in Europe in the 1930s and US complicity in the development of German and Italian fascist movements
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