I received a privately circulated newsletter the other day chock-full of alarming news. I don’t mean to denigrate the information because it appears all too probable. The writer has a good reputation and I am inclined to think there is sufficient credibility to let you know about it. I have heard the same things from many other sources. The letter says U.S. officials are so certain that social chaos will ensue from any number of threats we now face, they have created what they call a “Consequence Management Response Force.”

That sounds like a typically evasive Obama administration-like name for a force intended to operate in the United States which would appear to be in direct contravention of the Posse Comitatus Law. But military lawyers have discovered loopholes that gut the intention of the law. Besides, nobody is paying any attention to any limitations on government power these days.

The story was attributed to Army Times. “The Army Times broke the story that the domestic emergency army unit has been increased [from 20,000] to 80,000 troops, who are being trained right now in Georgia.” These troops are said to be returning from “Overseas Operational Contingencies,” i.e., wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. It goes on to read a wave of social chaos is expected to be set off by certain “trigger events.”

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Here are some of the possible trigger events that could spark widespread disorder.

Increasing unemployment. Shadow Government Statistics, which reconstructs the government’s politically influenced statistics to be closer to reality, says the real unemployment rate at this time is closer to 17 percent, about double the official rate.

The Social Security Trust Fund is effectively bankrupt. We’ve been hearing that for a long time, yet it manages to pay benefits. That may stop, causing tremendous dislocation.

Bankruptcy of pension funds and its guaranty organization the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. The funds and their guarantor all invested heavily in commercial real estate. When that has capsized, the investors, the funds and the PBGC, will sink, too.

According to the former head of the Comptroller General’s office, commercial real estate’s coming collapse will impact governments that rely on the real estate and sales taxes it generates. States and local governments denied revenue from businesses may not have sufficient funds to maintain their social services. Some may even have to cut back on police and fire protection. Whole neighborhoods may be abandoned to rioters and looters.

Many states are releasing inmates from prisons early because they do not have the funds to operate fully.

Disorder will trigger emergency gun confiscation laws, which in turn will cause violent reaction to enforcement efforts.

Food, water and fuel supplies will be disrupted.

Terror attacks, nuclear or biological, will trigger panic as medical facilities will be overwhelmed.

Washington elite are quietly making preparations for their own care and maintenance. The rest of us will have to fend for ourselves. Even 80,000 troops can hardly police an area as large as the United States. Homeland Security is building six “temporary detention centers” throughout the country to house evacuees from devastated areas and troublemakers.

Why am I telling you this? Government officials believe a sudden and violent breakdown of civil order is an inevitable result of the economic disasters outlined above. They believe that telling the truth to the American people would set off a nationwide panic. If you plan and prepare, you will fare better than those to whom the coming events will be a surprise.

Events are moving very fast. Look back just a few months and see in that time the economic foundation of this country crumbling to dust, the government printing money with abandon, and people stocking  up on guns and ammo. Even if we are not hit here with a nuclear or biological attack, which terrorists would think are better spent on highly populated cities, any such terrorist attack anywhere would, overnight, close all the banks, put troops in the streets and probably have marital law imposed. There are steps you can take to minimize the impact of these events on your business and your family.

Contact Lionel Waxman at territorial@waxmanmedia.com or visit his website: www.waxmanmedia.com. Lionel Waxman’s Flashpoint commentaries are published in The Daily Territorial.