Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

November 8, 2011

The U.S. Northern Command, which was created in the aftermath of 9-11, is conducting a massive field training exercise entitled ?Operation Vigilant Shield 12.?

Government Security News reports that the exercise is also linked to a Canada Command exercise called ?Determined Dragon,? and runs concurrently with the Arizona?s ?Vigilant Guard? exercise.

Vigilant Shield is based on a scenario involving ?enemy attacks? and similar incidents set in Florida, Colorado, Arizona, and Washington, D.C. It envisions a coordinated effort involving everyone from local ?first responders? ? police, sheriffs, firefighters, and other emergency personnel ? to NORAD and the Pentagon. It will most likely be coordinated with the unprecedented November 9 nation-wide emergency alert system test.

The scope and detail of Vigilant Shield illustrates the extent to which geographically local police agencies are considered appendages of the military ? part of an occupying army, rather than ?peace officers? accountable to the communities in which they live

The Framers of the U.S. Constitution sought desperately to prevent the creation of a standing army that would be used as an apparatus of repression. They would have no difficulty recognizing the militarized American ?homeland? as precisely the nightmare they sought to avoid.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.