I
do know what I wrote, willravel, for a fact.
Now you can speculate as to what they may be used for, but it's you who are engaging in speculation about what might happen.
I know exactly why this was setup because I personally spoke to the heads of a number of organizations and the person who heads the entire operation now that's it's folded into one umbrella agency.
Now you may believe they are lying, and really just lurking in the shadows waiting to come and dissolve your rights, but our military and police organizations have been coordinating for decades in order to deal with narcotics, gangs, and now terrorism. After the attack on New York and later Katrina it became increasingly obvious that without a centralized logistics center, our old modes of each organization following its own protocol was too slow and ineffective to deal with serious catastrophic events of national importance.
Here's what the article actually says:
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But this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities.
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They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack.
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It helps when you quote the whole sentence :\