\nInfowars.com
\nJanuary 22, 2013<\/p>\n
2009 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Jim Garrow shockingly claims he was told by a top military veteran that the Obama administration\u2019s \u201clitmus test\u201d for new military leaders is whether or not they will obey an order to fire on U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\nGarrow was nominated three years ago for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize and is the founder of\u00a0The Pink Pagoda Girls<\/a>, an organization dedicated to rescuing baby girls from \u201cgendercide\u201d in China. Garrow has been personally involved in \u201chelping rescue more than 36,000 Chinese baby girls from death.\u201d He is a public figure, not an anonymous voice on the Internet, which makes his claim all the more disturbing.<\/p>\n \u201cI have just been informed by a former senior military leader that Obama is using a new \u201clitmus test\u201d in determining who will stay and who must go in his military leaders. Get ready to explode folks. \u201cThe new litmus test of leadership in the military is if they will fire on US citizens or not\u201d. Those who will not are being removed,\u201d\u00a0Garrow wrote on his Facebook page<\/a>, later following up the post by adding the man who told him is, \u201cone of America\u2019s foremost military heroes,\u201d whose goal in divulging the information was to \u201csound the alarm.\u201d<\/p>\n Garrow\u2019s claim is even more explosive given that the country is in the throes of a national debate about gun control, with gun rights advocates keen to insist that the founders put the second amendment in the Constitution primarily as a defense against government tyranny.<\/p>\n It also follows\u00a0reports on Sunday<\/a>\u00a0that General James Mattis, head of the United States Central Command, \u201cis being told to vacate his office several months earlier than planned.\u201d<\/p>\n Concerns over US troops being given orders to fire on American citizens in the event of mass gun confiscation first arose in 1995 when hundreds of Marines at 29 Palms, California were\u00a0given a survey as part of an academic project<\/a> by Navy Lieutenant Commander Ernest Guy Cunningham which asked the Marines if they would, \u201cFire upon U.S. citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the United States government.\u201d<\/p>\n The survey was subsequently leaked because many of the Marines who took it were shocked by the tone of the question.<\/p>\n The US Military has clearly outlined innumerable civil emergency scenarios under which troops would be authorized to fire on U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n In July 2012, the process by which this could take place was made clear in a leaked US Army Military Police training manual for \u201cCivil Disturbance Operations\u201d (PDF<\/a>) dating from 2006. Similar plans were also outlined in an\u00a0updated manual released in 2010<\/a>\u00a0entitled FM 3-39.40 Internment and Resettlement Operations.<\/p>\n The 2006 document outlines how military assets will be used to \u201chelp local and state authorities to restore and maintain law and order\u201d in the event of mass riots, civil unrest or a declaration of martial law.<\/p>\n On page 20 of the manual, rules regarding the use of \u201cdeadly force\u201d in confronting \u201cdissidents\u201d on American soil are made disturbingly clear with the directive that a, \u201cWarning shot will not be fired.\u201d<\/p>\n Given that\u00a0second amendment advocates are now being depicted as dangerous terrorists<\/a>\u00a0by the federal government and local law enforcement, Garrow\u2019s claim is sure to stoke controversy given that Americans are seeing their gun rights eviscerated while the federal government itself\u00a0stockpiles billions of bullets<\/a>.<\/p>\n