Two days ago, I received a very troubling phone call from a trusted friend. The friend does not want his name and that of his state to be made public. I will call my friend X and his state Y.
Here is what X told me:
Last Saturday, August 4, 2012, X got a phone call from a good friend, Z, who is a cop in a small town in Y.
Z said that both he and a cop in another neighboring town were paid a visit by two men, driving in separate unmarked Humvees, who identified themselves as members of the National Guard.
The two National Guardsmen (NGs) said they were "doing a survey" and asked the cops for those residents of their respective towns who:
- own lots of firearms;
- are long-distance shooters;
- are military veterans.
The cops told the NGs that, it being a Saturday, they should come back on Monday when the police chiefs are at the stations. But the NGs said they are asking precisely the rank-and-file police officers; in other words, the NGs' intent was to bypass the brass, i.e., the chain of command.
After the two NGs left, cop Z followed their vehicles and saw the NGs drive around town, making GPS readings.
Cop Z told my friend X that:
- The National Guard is working under the Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS).
- Obama and Eric Holder, known for their antipathy toward the Second Amendment and private gun ownership, found a legal loophole that allows the federal government to ask the questions the two NGs had asked the cops. And so Obama issued a presidential directive empowering such agencies as the FBI, U.S. Marshalls, BATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms), and the National Guard to gather this information to compile a data base.
So I went looking on the web. This is what I found:
1. I found NOTHING about the National Guard going around asking cops for information on owners of firearms and military vets, in Y or any other state.
2. The U.S. National Guard is considered to be a reserve military force and, as such, is under the Dept. of Defense, not Homeland Security. The agencies that are under DHS are Customs and Border Protection, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Secret Service, and the Office of Inspector General. (See DHS's organizational chart).
3. I cannot find a presidential directive that specifically orders federal agencies like the National Guard to conduct a firearms survey by asking cops in towns across America. But that is not to say that such a presidential directive doesn't exist. Here's why:
I discovered and opened a can of worms about which I'd never even known until now. The "can of worms" is something called Presidential Directives. This is what Wikipedia says:
Presidential Directives ... are a form of an executive order issued by the President of the United States with the advice and consent of the National Security Council. The directives articulate the executive's national security policy and carry the "full force and effect of law".
Since many of the Presidential Directives pertain to the national security of the United States, many were or are secret ("classified").
Presidents have issued such directives under various names.
Under President George W. Bush (2001-2009), they were called National Security Presidential Directives (NSPD) and Homeland Security Presidential Directives.
Under Barack Obama (2009- ), they are called NSPD, Presidential Study Directives (to initiate policy review procedures), and Presidential Policy Directives (to promulgate Presidential decisions on national security matters).
Regarding the secrecy of presidential directives, Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy stated in February 2008 that:
"Of the 54 National Security Presidential Directives issued by the (George W.) Bush Administration to date, the titles of only about half have been publicly identified. There is descriptive material or actual text in the public domain for only about a third. In other words, there are dozens of undisclosed Presidential directives that define U.S. national security policy and task government agencies, but whose substance is unknown either to the public or, as a rule, to Congress."
For the list of known Homeland Security Presidential Directives of George W. Bush, click here.
As for Obama's Presidential Policy Directives (PPD), you can see from the table below that:
- The titles of most of his Directives are unknown.
- Of those Directives with titles, the contents (texts) of only 4 Directives (Nos. 1, 2, 8, 14) are made public.
- The list of Obama's Presidential Policy Directives hasn't been updated since February 28, 2012, which means there must be more subsequent Directives for which we don't even have a number!
Number | Presidential Policy Directive
Title | Date |
| PPD 1 | Organization of the National Security Council System | 02/13/09 |
| PPD 2 | Implementation of the National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats (National Strategy) | 11/23/09 |
| PPD 3 | | |
| PPD 4 | National Space Policy (Fact Sheet) | 06/28/10 |
| PPD 5 | | |
| PPD 6 | Global Development (Fact Sheet) | 09/22/10 |
| PPD 7 | National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) | 01/26/11 |
| PPD 8 | National Preparedness | 03/30/11 |
| PPD 9 | | |
| PPD 10 | | |
| PPD 11 | | |
| PPD 12 | | |
| PPD 13 | | |
| PPD 14 | Procedures Implementing Section 1022 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (Fact Sheet) | 02/28/12 |
To conclude, given:
- The known fact that the POS in the White House and his attorney general Eric Holder want nothing more than to limit private gun ownership;
- The fact that Presidential Directives carry "the full force and effect of law," but are so secretive that the substance of many of these Directives is unknown to, not just the American people, but "as a rule" to Congress as well;
Then I see no reason to doubt the account of the two cops of a visit by two mysterious National Guardsmen.
We live in perilous times. The Establishment Media are not doing their job, so it is left to the alternative New Media. Our weapon is truth. Please help this post to go viral by publishing this to your Facebook page and e-mailing it to your family, friends, and acquaintances.
~Eowyn
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