Military Police at the Kentucky Derby

Tue May 5, 2009 1:49 am (PDT)

_Military Police at the Kentucky Derby _
(http://www.infowars.com/military-police-at-the-kentucky-derby/)
Infowars
May 3, 2009

A Google News search does not produce a story or even a brief mention of the fact military police were on hand at the Kentucky Derby to keep restless plebs in line. However, an Associated Press photograph, posted on the Yahoo! News website, shows two MPs in combat fatigues with side arms restraining a man at the derby.

Military police detain a fan who ran onto the track
following the running of the 135th Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs

Saturday, May 2, 2009, in Louisville, Ky.

"Military police detain a fan who ran onto the track following the running
of the 135th Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs Saturday, May 2,
2009, in Louisville, Ky.," the photo caption reads.

The photo was also included in a slideshow on the _Yahoo! Sports_
(http://sports.yahoo.com/rah/news?prov=ap&slug=ap-kentuckyderby&type=lgns) website, although the text of the article does not contain a mention of military police at the event.

"The military has NO BUSINESS policing the citizens except during
extraordinarily exceptional times of national emergency by an executive order. This is very disturbing and completely un-American. Maybe even more disturbing is that no one seems to care how quietly and easily we have accepted the burgeoning police state," an article comment states.

Infowars has reported on numerous instances of military involvement with local law enforcement in violation of Posse Comitatus. In March, we reported on _U.S. Army troops dispatched to patrol the streets of Samson, Alabama, after a murder spree_
(http://www.infowars.com/army-times-reports-on-military-deployment-in-alabama/) .

On April 6, we reported on a _DHS, federal, state, Air Force, and local law enforcement checkpoint in Tennessee_
(http://www.infowars.com/massive-checkpoint-operation-in-tennessee-violated-posse-comitatus-fourth-amendment/) .
On April 3, _Infowars_
(http://www.infowars.com/infowars-story-on-illegal-tennessee-checkpoint-prompts-action-by-governor/) was instrumental in the
cancellation of a seatbelt checkpoint that was to be conducted in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security and the 251st Military Police in Bolivar, Tennessee.

Last December, we reported on the Marine Corps Air and Ground Combat Center dispatching troops to work with police on checkpoints in in _San
Bernardino County, California_
(http://www.infowars.com/marines-establish-military-presence-on-san-bernardino-california-roads/) .

On Aprill 22, _we reported_
(http://www.infowars.com/combat-support-battalion-deployed-to-maintain-public-order-at-boston-marathon/) the deployment of
400 National Guard Combat Support Battalion troops to "maintain public order" at the Boston Marathon.
Last June, Infowars posted an article by _D. H. Williams_
(http://www.infowars.com/us-army-puts-soldiers-on-the-street-in-alabama-in-response-to-shootin
gs/) of the Daily Newscaster reporting the deployment of 2,300 Marines in the city of Indianapolis under the direction of FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.
Prison Planet´s _Paul Joseph Watson_
(http://www.infowars.com/insane-cop-arrests-abc-news-reporter-for-filming-traffic-accident/) reported a story on
April 22 covering the assault of a local television news team by an irate police officer in El Paso, Texas. A video taken by the news videographer shows uniformed soldiers working with police officers at the scene of a car accident.
The presence of uniformed and armed military police at the Kentucky Derby is part of an ongoing campaign to acclimate the populace to the presence of soldiers at public events.