Rules of Engagement for America’s Victims
By Anwaar Hussain
If by a quirk of fate, America’s victim nations get together, pronounce ‘enough is enough’ and proceed to invade and occupy America, what would their Rules of Engagement be during the occupation. The scribe has chalked out just a few on the exact same lines as America has them for her forces in Iraq. Here is how these go;
GENERAL GUIDANCE: This establishes the Rules of Engagement (ROE) for all the Victim Nations’ Forces (VICFORs) operating within the geographical confines of their former tormentor, the United States of America. Those forces not under immediate threat from the USA may establish more restrictive ROE in accordance with their national caveats. Conflicting ROE will be addressed on a case-by-case basis by the Victim Nations Central Command (VENTCOM). (To avoid any confusion, special attention must be given to Further Explanation (FE) given within the brackets at the end of most of the ROE)
VICTIMS’ NATIONS’ (VICNATs) NATIONAL POLICY. The VICNATs National Policy is to take the initiative within the limits allowed by these ROE during the occupation of the United States of America.
VICNATs MILITARY POLICY. # Commanders have the inherent authority and obligation to use all necessary means available and to take all appropriate action in self defense against the roving bands of former US Military Forces (FE: emphasis added on the word ‘roving’ and not on words ‘military’ and ‘forces’).
# Inside the geographical confines of the United States of America strikes on infrastructure, lines of communication and economic objects should, to the extent possible, disable and disrupt rather than destroy (FE: a wanton destruction in the heat of the moment may be overlooked on a case-by-case basis).
# Civilian structures, especially cultural and historic buildings in cities like Washington D.C., New York and Boston are protected structures (FE: Not in cities like Los Angeles and San Fransisco that the VENTCOM does not fancy). Additionally, nonmilitary structures, civilian population centers, churches and other religious places, hospitals and facilities displaying the red cross, are also protected structures and will not be attacked except when they are being used for military purposes (FE: which they often will be).
ROE POLICY. The ROE in this message are effective for the duration of operations within the geographical confines of United States of America, as determined by VICNATs commanders or until rescinded or amended by competent authority (FE: no such competent authority either exists or is foreseen for the duration of the occupation).
APPLICABILITY. ROE, policies, guidance, and taskings in this message are applicable to all VICFORs assigned to, or under the operational or tactical command and control of VENTCOM while conducting military operations within the geographical confines of United States of America.
DECLARED HOSTILE FORCES. # Commander VENTCOM has designated certain American military and paramilitary forces as declared hostile forces. (FE: former regime security forces, conventional and/or unconventional air, ground, and naval forces)
# Since the end of major combat operations, these forces have transitioned from overt conventional resistance to insurgent methods of resistance. This declaration continues to apply to former United States Military and Paramilitary personnel who are operating as insurgent individuals or groups that continue hostilities against the VICNATs installed American Government. These individuals and/or groups may be engaged and destroyed.
# Hostile armaments, munitions, and equipment are also included in this category.
# The following organizations have been identified as military forces that may be considered hostile and engaged:
- United States Army
- United States Navy
- United States Air Force
- United States Marine Corps
- United States Coast Guard
# The following groups and organizations have been identified as paramilitary forces that may be considered hostile and engaged:
- United States Reserve Forces
- United States SWAT units
- State Police Forces
- National Security Agency (NSA) Operatives
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Operatives
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Operatives
- Blackwater Operatives
# Former President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, their Neoconservative lieutenants, key associates and supporters had originally been designated as a declared hostile force. After the confession of their sins with the minimal use of water boarding, their status as a declared hostile force, however, is suspended and such individuals will not be engaged except in special circumstances and in self-defense. (FE: Special circumstances here mean being present within the geographical confines of United States of America)
KINETIC STRIKE AUTHORIZATION. # There are four categories of strike approval/authorization: (1) Troops in Contact (2) Preplanned; (3) Fleeting; (4) Time-Sensitive Targets; and (5) Any strike/authorization not covered by the first four categories.
# Approval authority to strike preplanned targets, whether persons or objects, is determined by the type of preplanned target and the level of collateral damage expected. There are six types of preplanned target sets: (1) Non-military elements of former regime command and control and associated facilities, (2) WMD storage facilities, (3) American infrastructure and economic objects, (4) American lines of communication, (5) Terrorists, (6) Facilities (associated with Designated Terrorists or Declared Hostile Forces) and (7) Any targets not covered by the first six types.
# While Commander VENTCOM has approval authority to strike the first four types of targets, the authority to hit target types 5, 6 and 7 has been delegated to Division Commanders who may further delegate it to Unit Commanders. Unit Commanders may delegate this authority down to the On-Scene Commander (OSC) who may further assign it to the Soldier in Charge of his gun on a case-by-case basis (FE: ‘case-by-case basis’ here means ‘in all cases’).
RIOT CONTROL MEASURES. # Riot Control Measures will be used in response to civil disturbances according to these ROE. Chemical agents may only be used in limited circumstances and postures (VENTCOM at this time cannot define ‘limited circumstances and postures’).
# Graduated force should be used when the situation permits and it is reasonable and practicable to do so. The use of force should be necessary, proportional, and reasonable in intensity, duration, and magnitude (FE: VENTCOM considers the words ‘necessary’, ‘proportional’, ‘reasonable’, ‘intensity’, ‘duration’, and ‘magnitude’ as mere expressions of English language and not to be taken too seriously. All concerned to note).
# Since each threat situation is unique, a graduated response may use all or only some of the available force and may have to progress directly to the use of deadly force when faced with an imminent threat of death or serious injury (FE: VICFORs will deem to be faced with imminent threat of death or injury for the duration of occupation of America).
CHURCH OPERATIONS. Commanders must consider political and cultural sensitivities when planning and executing operations that impact upon religious property. Time permitting, and consistent with mission accomplishment, commanders should make every effort to coordinate and conduct church operations with former American Forces who have joined up with VICFORs (FE: Time never permits and VENTCOM understands).
RETURNING FIRE INTO A CHURCH OR OTHER RELIGIOUS STRUCTURES DURING SELF-DEFENSE. The OSC is the approval authority for all counter battery and reactive fire, including all organic and non-organic weapons systems, rotary and fixed wing aircraft (FE: Naval armada, including nuclear submarines, will only be used in coastal areas and are not to be taken in land via aqueducts).
ENTRY AND SEARCH OF CHURCHES OR OTHER RELIGIOUS STRUCTURES. There are four requirements to enter and search a church or other religious structure during self-defense:
The OSC has a reasonable belief that the target contains enemy forces, individuals assisting enemy forces, weapons, ammunition, important information, or any materials, equipment or contraband that may be used by enemy forces during hostilities and any requirement not covered by the first three (FE: The 4th requirement will always be considered as ‘the requirement’. The first three are given expressly for educational grooming of the VICFORs)
PREPLANNED KINETIC STRIKES AGAINST STRUCTURES DEDICATED TO RELIGIOUS PURPOSES. Commander VENTCOM must approve any preplanned kinetic engagements of religious buildings or churches.( FE: VENTCOM, as a matter of policy, never disapproves of such engagements)
DETENTION OF PRIESTS OR CLERICS ON CHURCH PROPERTY. In order to detain a priest or a cleric on church property, the detention must be based on one of the following four criteria. The priest or a cleric (1) is or was engaged in criminal activity; (2) is interfering or has interfered with mission accomplishment; (3) is on a list of persons wanted for questioning for criminal or security threat actions; or (4) detention is necessary for imperative reasons of security. Priests or clerics may not be detained on church property if the only basis for detention is making prohibited statements, distributing prohibited material in violation of VICFORs Order-xxx or making statements inciting violence. (FE: VENTCOM knows of no priest or cleric inside the geographical confines of the United States of America who does not fall into one of the four described criteria)
USE OF FORCE. If individuals pose a threat to VICFORs by committing a hostile act or demonstrating hostile intent, VICFORs may use force, up to and including deadly force, to eliminate the threat. When time and circumstances permit, use the following sequence of graduated measures of force when responding to hostile act or hostile intent:
1. Shout verbal warnings to halt;
2. Show your weapon and demonstrate intent to use it;
3. Physically restrain, block access, or detain;
4. Fire a warning shot (if authorized);
5. Shoot to eliminate the threat.
(FE: VENTCOM does not consider the frequent use of ‘sequence of graduated measures of force’ in reverse order as unusual because time and circumstances usually do not permit)
DETENTION OF CIVILIANS. VICFORs personnel may stop, detain and search civilians when there is a reasonable belief that the person falls into one of the following categories: (1) are or were engaged in criminal activity; (2) interfere with mission accomplishment; (3) are on a list of persons wanted for questioning for criminal or security threat actions; or (4) detention is necessary for imperative reasons of security. These prerequisites do not limit the inherent right of self-defense. VICFORs may always use force, up to and including deadly force, to neutralize and/or detain individuals who commit hostile acts or exhibit hostile intent against VICFORs.
(FE-1: Having the world’s highest concentration of its own citizens behind bars at any given time before the occupation, all Americans are deemed to have engaged in criminal activities.)
(FE-2: To help Americans understand their current situation, carrying the ‘Rules of Transition to the new World Order’ on their persons at all times has been made mandatory via VICFORs Order-xxix. The VICFORs have only to explain to them the irony of their current situation.)
(FE-3: Any serious violation of the ROE, e.g. killing, maiming or raping more than 30 unarmed Americans at any one time, will be severely dealt with by a sharp rap over all the knuckles of the violators.)
(FE-4: When in doubt, empty the magazine.)
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Copyrights : Anwaar Hussain
Unfortunately, all too real, both abroad and in the USA and also in the home nations of our so called willing friends. The USA has built detention camps capable of holding from between 10 to 50 million, depending on the source cited, it has built thousands of rail cars armed with bench seating and handcuffs to transport hundreds in each car, cuffed and shackled, to the aformentioned detention camps. They are practing exercises throughout the country now on doing this, and they have staffed the camps and involved Blackwater in their plans. They have gotten rid of the restraints against using our own troops against our own people here at home, have passed a law allowing the president to nationalize each states National Guard, and are finishing up militarizing the various state, and large city police departments around the nation. Yes my fellow Americans, this is soon coming to a place near you, and then you; so go on dreaming and making plans for your nonexistent futures, and by all means spend any money you have now, for not only will it be worthless soon, there will be no need of it, once you are in the camps!
Slumber on!!!!
May 18th, 2008 at 4:16 amI was brought up to believe that Hitler was uniquely Evil. If Americans are expected to accept what the USA is doing now —then logic tells us that Americans can no longer be expected to condemn Hitler for invading Poland and Russia.
May 18th, 2008 at 4:17 amThe VICFORS in this scenario face the same problem that the US faces in the Middle East and makes the same mistakes. 4GW cannot be won, and the aggressors will be bled to death while trying to follow top-down directives like this.
Provocative essay, Anwaar.
May 18th, 2008 at 9:14 amThat was the intent Robert. VICNATs, VENTCOM and VICFORs are most likely to become the beasts in the process. The victims becoming the tormentors is only too well known to us.
What an irony Robert, what an irony.
May 18th, 2008 at 9:38 amRe: Solutions
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Some Truth About Nonviolent Action
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Strategic nonviolence has the potential to empower citizens, thwart coups, overthrow dictators and defend nations. This post explores the potential of civilian-based defense—the technique of defending a nation’s social institutions using strategic nonviolent action. It is based on the book The Politics of Nonviolent Action, a book by Gene Sharp.
Historians, who are funded and published by the power elite, have steered citizens away from the fact that Nonviolent Action works. People, stop giving your power away to those who would enslave you!
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May 18th, 2008 at 4:43 pmhttp://airdance.proboards50.com/index.cgi?board=solutions&action=display&thread=144&page=2#2942
That kind of scenario is far fetched. For present,the VICFORs are wrong; might is right.
May 18th, 2008 at 8:26 pmI took in my previous post the position of The US Military and Government doing this to our own citizenry, but now looking at this as in the “VICFORs” scenario as painted above, I believe we would see at first scattered resistence, but as the violence rose and the systems of modern civilized life disappeared, violence would escalate across the breadth of the country, but particularly in the Great American West, and the heavily forested east, VICFORs would hold unquesioned, but not unapposed power over the center of our nation and would be forced to reduce the major US Population Centers to the point of non funtionality in an attempt to quell violence, driving residents in mass into more remote areas of the country, and accross the borders into Canada and Mexico, seriously destabilizing those two nations. Violence by this point would be escalating on both sides, within two years I’d say, to the point of uncontrolled chaos and with only the possibility of it’s continuation until all foreign forces would be forced to withdraw their forces, from the USA, for victory would be seen as impossible. At this point we would likely see the USA split up into several nations with continuing hostilities between them, acting out as far as we could see into the future. We could expect that these states will together between them have lost 50 to 100 million citizens, and that constant territorial wars between the new national identities involved will require periodic world interventions for many decades to come. Those nations who will have launched these actions will in the end, find themselves impoverished to the point of political instabilities, and declining economic standings in the world. The status of nations will have been turned on their heads, the haves, now the have nots, and vice versa! The world itself will suffer from ever increasing terrorist type activities, as the continued demonstrations to peoples of impoverished nations and peoples around the world, that brute power alone cannot take and remake the world in any positive way, but indeed terrorism can! As long as unthinking people in power in those nations who see themselves as morally superior continue to respond in kind to this type of attack, terrorism will prove ever more the means for people without power, to gain it, and we will drift ominously towards a new dark age of depreciated life and ever shifting political intrigues. Within a century the world will have either been forced into a one world government of total authority, or have broken up into a patchwork of new nation states unrecognizable to any person of this day and age, and this new age shall be called, “The age of Lose, Lose”!
I’m not really sure if most people realize how close we are to the above scenario, either world totalitarianism, or world revolution and chaos, for I do not see your scenario Anwaar as far fetched, nor do I see it as something unique, it has happened many times before in history, and I believe one of these scenarios or WW3 are now inevitable!
In any respect, the present USA will be a patchwork of small weak nation states, rather ignored by other parts of the world, but for our terrorist activities against them, or the world organization then in charge, or part of what is left of a world ravaged by a World War 3 with a worse living standard for all, than that of the darkest ages ever before for all surviving mankind on Earth.
May 19th, 2008 at 8:30 amWho will help Americans in their efforts to liberate themselves and others from this illegitimate regime of psychotic and sociopathic fools, who can be found not only in this administration, but in the Congress and Courts of the land as well as the corporatist neoconservatives who do their dirty work from outside of D.C. and even outside of the country, itself, in many cases?
For those who do not have eyes to see nor ears to hear, we have been witnessing and suffering from the effects of a Coup D Etat which began in this country in November, 1963 and was, for the most part, accomplished in June, 1968, when the imperialist fascists accomplished their first goal of murdering and/or demonizing all who stood against them. Since that time they have joined forces with certain religious leaders who call themselves Christian Zionists, as it would be unseemly for the U.S. to appear as anything but a Democratic Republic and the Imperialists needed the votes of the ignorant and the religiously insane in order to appear to have won elections whether or not they actually did win. They have used deception fear-mongering and have stirred hatred and vengeance-seeking among the people, both in this country and in other countries around the world.
These evil-doers, in their current distressing disguises, have stolen power in an already horribly injured Democracy, not just once or even twice. (For future reference, any group of people who will do that, will do just about anything.)
There are those of us, in America, who love our country, but not our government nor the corporatists who own it. We have, in every way we possibly could, legally and non-violently, refused to support the illegal and unjust war in Iraq and have actively resisted current American foreign policy, especially in the Middle East.
Quite a few of us, those who could afford to do so,
left the country years ago. Others of us chose to stay and struggle from within the belly of the beast,not only for ourselves and the country we love, but for the whole world, wherever people have been touched by U.S. munitions or corporate criminal misbehavior
The time may be coming, and soon, when many of us will have to leave, perhaps forever, our homeland for various reasons, but always to seek political asylum and sanctuary wherever we can find it.
Is there a nation out there who will liberate us, simply by giving us a place to stay in the world….until we can return home or until we pass into our real home, our source.
Is there a nation or a people brave enough to anger the emperor?
I wonder………
June 17th, 2008 at 8:04 pm