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The director of operations at Quantico Marine Base issued a “threat advisory” last weekend in advance of tomorrow’s rally in support of accused WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning.
Hundreds of people are scheduled for a peaceful protest at the base, including Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg.
Here is the text of the advisory:
Subject: Possible threat to MCBQ
Ladies and Gentlemen,
There are substantiated indications and warning of possible denial of service attacks on MCBQ by supporters of Wiki-leaks and PFC Manning. It is possible that these attacks will be timed to coincide with protest activity that is scheduled to take place in the vicinity of MCBQ on 20 Mar. Possible threat courses of action could include denial of service attacks on phone, email, and internet services, and could include harassing phone calls (i.e. bomb threats) and mail disruption (i.e. suspicious packages). Additionally, though there is no direct threat, it is possible that actual physical penetrations onto MCBQ property may be undertaken to cause infrastructure damage, vandalism, or harass USMC personnel.
The Base has been involved in detailed response planning with local, regional, and national authorities and is appropriately postured to minimize/mitigate likely threat activity.
Because the exact intent of the protest groups is not known, nor the form of attack they may undertake, MCBQ commands and activities should carefully review their OPSEC and physical security posture.
Recommended actions for MCBQ tenant commands and organizations:
Develop alternative communication plans (i.e. installation command net and cell phones) to ensure the ability to communicate with MCBQ emergency services during a denial of service attack.
Review MCBQ bomb threat procedures (attached).
Review MCBQ procedures for suspicious packages (attached).
Area commands shall ensure Installation Command net radios are fully charged and accessible.
Ensure Command Duty Officers are briefed on the threat and know the proper response to threatening/harassing phone calls
Ensure non-essential fax machines are turned “off”
Remind all personnel to be alert for suspicious activity and report it immediately to the MCBQ Security Battalion using the Eagle Eyes hotline (703-432-EYES).
Building managers should ensure building perimeters are regularly inspected and that all unmonitored exits are locked when not in use (consider limiting access to a single entrance and mandating ID checks).
Remind personnel to avoid posting or discussing aspects of any MCBQ response on Face-Book or other social media forums.
Remind personnel, to be aware of phishing (both email and telephone) attempts to gain information about MCBQ personnel or operations.
Additional information concerning protest activities, to include any gate closures, changes to Force Protection Condition, excepted traffic delays, etc., will be distributed via a MCBQ FROSTCALL later this week.
Pete Streng Director of Operations
For more, see Kevin Zeese’s post President Obama: Step In to Protect the Constitutional Rights of Veterans and Citizens
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The marines are afraid of us? Aren’t they supposed to be protecting us or something?
“Threat advisory”? Gonna take some lessons from Bahrain and Yemen Jarheads?
“Be on alert: These DFHs might (gulp) sing songs, or do something even more dastardly…”
{{{Margaret!}}}
They sure seem to have forgotten that they work for us, haven’t they?
They’re afraid the “Peace” and “Hippie” cooties might be contagious
Looks like the U.S. military is afraid of peaceful protestors.
Since when did a “protest” become an “attack”? This is some pretty anti American rhetoric if you ask me.
Maybe they think they only work for some of us.
And these are the ones who’re supposed to be fighting to protect our freedoms… I guess that was just a slogan after all. Who knew?
The steps they are taking are pretty mild and routine. The scary part is that the top of the letter seems like nothing other than a letter designed to excuse some pretty harsh responses from them.
Yeah. Rich, white Republicans an no others…
Maybe the ’60s will come back for those who missed it….or those who still miss it…..
I little “We Shall Overcome” should fill the air for Manning and his allies.
Shades of “weapons of mass destruction program activities”.
Is Michael Gerson moonlighting for the Marines?
They have right to be a’feard: Mimi LaValley and 100 Nuns by the Prince Myshkins.
Paranoid? Moi?
Thank you, Michael. So noted.
But…If these evil protesters start singing, the next thing you know they’ll be staging a “sit-in.” Singing is a “gateway” form of protest, doncha know…
Wow, it’s a wonder they haven’t declared a “state of emergency” like Bahrain did in reaction to democratic peaceful protests.
The alert appears to have been sent out due to concern about cyberattacks not physical attacks.
This situation is disgusting enough, it doesn’t need any hyperbole.
They see the protesters coming and they take them seriously. They are also worried others will try to take advantage of the confusion to do something worse.
That’s what got from this alert
Does Pete Streng have a poster of Gen Jack T Ripper on his bedroom wall?
This is (whats left of) America. Not freaking Afghanistan.
Tho mouth breathers, like Streng appears to be, doubtless wish it were different.
So he could just order up another drone attack against unarmed civilians.
“…And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,
they may think…”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Restaurant
Looks like they are unused to being paid attention to and visited by the public.
“Mandrake! Get over here and feed me this belt, boy…”
They don’t work for us and they never have. The work for their corporate owners. We’re interlopers.
It’s clear from this memo that they’re planning to start trouble the better to arrest and physically attack as many people as possible.
Give them flowers for their gun barrels?
To be completely fair (not that I want to be), this seems sort of standard procedure to be prepared for a known event. That said, I’m pretty clueless about the Military and its procedures, but I am somewhat more familiar with these types of procedures at the local govt level (sheriff’s dept, etc).
Best to those who are able to attend the rally. I’m too far away (and none near me). I’ll be with everyone in spirit.
Free Bradley Manning!!
The horror!
Do you think it will all be left to a bunch of senior citizens to make the noise? Yet Grandmas still do get arrested….
Bwahahahaha
…
“Hello, with all do respect, I’d like to ask that you stop all illegal abuse of Bradley Manning who has not been convicted of a crime…”
“Er..Umm…Fuck you very much DFH…I’ll pass that on to my Commander in Chief, er..um…….just a minute…….”Barry!!!”….”it’s for you again!!!”
Face Hyphen Book.
Wiki Hyphen Leaks.
Get out much, Pete?
Shades of tyranny! One wonders why the military would be afraid of a little music and truth, must be a guilty conscience! Yes, I do miss the 60′s. Our civilians need to speak up and practice all the tactics of non-violence and peaceful demonstrations, something needs to turn this tide of insanity.
And Grand Pa’s too!! They don’t like what is
Happening to Bradley Manning… We didn’t serve our country just to watch it devolve in a dictatorial government who treats indicted prisoners with TORTURE!
Free Bradley Manning!!
I wonder if poor Barry is going to feel he has to dig in his heels, lest he appear to have been pushed around by “the left.”
Gawd.
I mean, really. That’s what I would expect of him.
Seems its the peoples base, with the peoples employees torturing a fellow American.
They sound like domestic enemies to the right of people to peacefully petition their government . If it’s like the sixties there will be agents provoking and employing random violence against Americans then wholesale arrests.
Do these fools really think the protestors are going to storm the gates? What nonsense!
Free Bradley Manning.
Terrifying! They could ram into someone with their walkers. Riot gear is obviously in order.
It’s pretty much General Ripper’s announcement to his forces at Burpleson AFB in Dr. Strangelove right after he ordered Wing Attack Plan R.
Maybe Bogus barry is taking out his Bradley Manning frustrations on Libya.
Sounds like he got him some bloodlusting kills over there since his little torture scheme has been exposed, with the responsible torturer exposed.
I don’t have a problem with the threat advisory, do not forget the mlk bomb found planned to go off and cause damage
also don’t forget the fact that anonymous said they were going to address this issue as well
I would have ordered an alert also and think it would be irresponsible otherwise
which was planted by a three-time cancer survivor.
Marines work for the Marine Corps. They are sworn (or were in my day) to defend and protect the constitution. Their top commander is Black Nixon who is also sworn to defend the constitution. HE is the guy that is supposed to work for us.
As matters stand, the president and everyone under his command are traitors to the constitution and in violation of their oath with the exception of Pvt. Manning.
All members of the United States armed forces should resign at the earliest opportunity. As long as they serve modern presidents (unitary executives) the are not patriots. They are traitors.
Obama: IF you start treating Bradley Manning like an ordinary prisoner and stop trying to extract a false confession out of him with your torture of him AND if you completely permanently reverse on building more nuclear plants and making loan guarantees for them and shut down all our aging plants for inspections by whistleblowers only THEN i MIGHT consider voting for you in 2012. keep in mind i not only voted for you in 2008 i worked to get you elected. i’m sure there are many others who feel as i do.
after you’ve accomplished the first two conditions, then get back with me and we’ll have a discussion about restoring habeas corpus.
there is a threat allan, it doesn’t matter that it might come from people against the protest, there is still a threat and it would be irresponsible not addressing it
It is really depressing that citizens have become the enemies of the gov’t. I guess they have an idea that we are catching on to their lies and have become defensive. I don’t know how much longer they can keep the lid on the anger but this calm won’t last forever.
Twain, there have been many times when citizens have been seen as the enemies of the government. Mainly when the citizens do not go along, sheep-like, and agree with everything the government is doing. The Vietnam War protesters (remember Kent State and Nixon’s “enemies list?”) The Civil Rights protesters. Anybody that Senator Joseph McCarthy considered “unAmerican.” All “enemies of the government.” And many, many more examples.
other than citizens exercising their constitutionally protected rights.
In response to Twain @ 42
Like Eric Cartman and his “authoritah” on South Park, I’m sure they believe that whatever they’re doing is right and that anyone who opposes whatever they’re doing is wrong.
I very seriously doubt that they see what they’re doing as “defensive” as a result of having been caught in their lies.
“…the exact intent of the protest groups is not known…”
Gee, Mr. Director Man, I thought we had done a pretty good job of making the intent of the protest perfectly clear – bring the US government in line with the Constitution and the Geneva Conventions. Still, I understand your concern. Decent human beings who dare to question officially sanctioned propaganda ALWAYS pose a threat to tyranny.
The radical left has a long history of violence. They need to be on alert whenever the left gathers
IMHO, this threat advisory would not have been released prior to an understanding that agent provocateurs will be among the demonstrators. Be extremely wary, watchful and aware, pups:
Always have some people taking pictures and videos of people who either don’t quite fit or seem to be egging others on. Question these people aggressively.
Look for evidence some are being directed by somebody off-scene.
Quarantine anyone steering toward violence or needless confrontation. Keep them away from the leading edge of the action and – if possible – away from media.
Book Salon up with David Sirota’s Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now–Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything hosted by Teddy Partridge
They forgot one item on their preparedness list:
Step up retaliatory harassment of Manning again.
But that probably goes without saying.
Reply to Margaret @ 9
They are posturing for the MSM.
They hyave to look like they’re holding the high ground against the insurgents.
I’m guessing this threat advisory in a result of the last protest at Quantico, where protestors disregarded the MPs and blocked traffic at the gate. I saw the video on YouTube.
When protestors don’t obey trespassing laws, they become a threat. FYI, Quantico’s property line begins at the intersection of Route 1 and Fuller Road, not at the gate.
i call pentagon sock puppet…
The radical right has a much longer and far more lethal history of violence.
I am afraid that the U.S. military will act against the people they have sworn to protect, unlike the Egyptian military. Wonder if this will be compared to Libya or Bahrain.
Bin Quick’s diary is upstairs!
Obama, “You’re A Goddamned Quarterback!”
There’s a big difference between what is going on in northern Africa and what is going on at Quantico. The Marines are simply notifying the base population of a number of threats…
1) The last protest set a precedent of unlawful behavior in the form of trespassing and not cooperating with authorites when asked to get out of the road.
2) Anonymous did your support network a “huge favor” by publicly announcing they planned to attack the base and specific people.
3) These protests have a history of being **mostly** peaceful, but there is almost always a handful of people looking for an opportunity to create confrontation.
To assume the Marines are going on the attack against a protest group is pretty ignorant.
The United States Marine Corps…
At least when fascists that admit that they’re fascist put their boots on your throat the fascists boots are clean and shiny.
Average Marine who “Follows orders”: OH MY GOD!!!!! A SEVENTY YEAR OLD PEACE PROTESTORS WALKING RIGHT AT US!! FIRE! FIRE!!! SHOOOT TOO KILLL!!!!!!
**** our army, **** our marines, **** our air force, **** our navy.
Find a new country to live in. You clearly have no respect for the Americans that are serving, have served or that have died to protect your rights.
If you think the citizens are a threat to the Marines, it’s the Marines that are a problem, not the citizens.
Never underestimate the power of sandals.
It’s not the individual citizens that are a threat, nor is it the majority of the protestors. It’s the remote few that pose a threat, and by no means a threat the Marines can’t overcome. These advisories are notifications to base personnel so they are aware of what is going on. Notice there is nothing in the message about taking offensive action?
You’ve got the deference going the wrong way.
The Marines are in service to the Citizen, not the other way around. For you, as you’ve claimed to be from the service before, to tell someone to “find a new country to live in” I think says more about you than you like.
They want to put FLOWERS out for gawds sake, and you spin that into some sort of threat condition?
The days of military worship are over.
I have zero respect for torturing thugs who punish people who show other people where the bodies are buried while soldiers that rape, engage in mass murder and massacre civilians for shits and giggles go unpunished.
They’re trained gun toting murderers.
The only hero in Quantico is sitting naked in his cell for the “crime” of exposing pedophile rings, mass murder and serious corruption.
If a cop on his beat found a mobster doing any one of the things our stormtroopers were caught doing, they’d be the police hero of the decade.
Hey, if a soldier shoots a hippy for assault (putting flowers in guns was just a ploy to get them jammed so they could use their psychic hippy sex magic to kill us) then that’s his patriidiotic duty to gun that hippy down and empty as many clips as neccessary into the “peacelover”
THIS IS AMERICA!!!! THERE CAN BE NO PEACE!!! ALL HEIL THE HOMELAND! WE WILL SUFFER NO THREATS TO HOMELAND UNITY!
~~~ModNote: Less heat, more light. Please.~~~
Oh…he who reads only what serves his interests. I wonder if you’ve been part of something bigger than yourself. I’m guessing not.
I assume you’re talking about Kevin Zeese’s posting regarding laying flowers at the Iwo Jima monument? I wouldn’t let that happen either. It’s clearly a ploy to gain access to federal property during the protest. I’m willing to bet there would be no issue if Zeese and his fellow veterans group members wanted to lay flowers during hours not in conjunction with a protest.
It is fortunate for us citizens that you are not a master we must obey.
Not very interested in what you would “allow” or not. This isn’t Irak, or some other country you’re occupying you know.
No, but the monument is on federal property, and protests are not usually permitted on federal property.
You mistake me for someone that has a desire to rule. I have spent my entire life around service to this country. My father retired from the Army and I have been in the Marines for 14 years. There is nothing that makes me happier than seeing protests. It’s a clear indication that the military, while not perfect, is successful in serving its citizens.
What upsets me is when people show disdain for or utter disrespect to servicemembers, like whattheincorporated.
You’ll pardon me if I think your statement “There is nothing that makes me happier than seeing protests” is a bit dubious, based upon your previous comments.
I’m glad you’re fighting for my freedom to have my testicles fondled by an undereducated TSA agent.
Thank you for fighting for my freedom to be photographed nude and irradiated by a Rape A Scan machines.
Thank you for fighting for my right to protest politico speeches in the designated free speech zone nowhere near the actual event.
Thank you for my freedom to be under the constant surveillance of the panopticon….I mean patriot act. Yea sure its only for wiretapping terrorists…or finding out whether or not a celebrity or soldiers gay. And now our great panopticon which is only supposed to search for terrorists can now warrantlessly monitor anyone on the internet suspected of violating copyrights.
Thank you for the freedom of watching schools have to increase class sizes, road get their paving torn out and bridges collapse because we have to continue the neverending POLICE ACTION.
Thank you for protecting me from the tyranny of the first and fourth ammendments.
Thanks to the fifth fleet for protecting the King of Bahrain from the slave uprising that threatens his oppressive slaveowning dictatorship.
Thank you for those wonderful freedoms.