Question
if a group of Catholics created a group that protects churches with firearms etc is that harassy or a grounds for excommunications? I was thinking about it the other night about all the attacks and killings of nuns so on and burning of churches and wondered what would happen if people actually had a group that protected places of worship against attack,
reading up there has been groups in the past…unfortunately they are based on hate, and racisist views and have been excommunicated. but how about groups like the knights templar that protected pilgrums on the road in the holy land from killings that happened then?
the only known group i know of is the swiss guard and that is just for the Vatican.
thanks.
Perhaps one of the few persons in the Catholic sphere of the world capable or organizing, training, and logistically pulling off the kind of regional or international security operations you’re speaking of might be a convert to the Catholic Church that founded the private military company
Blackwater.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Prince
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ackwater.jpg/180px-Erik_prince_blackwater.jpg
Erik Dean Prince (born June 6, 1969) is a former U.S. Navy SEAL notable for founding the world’s largest private military company, Blackwater Worldwide, in 1997. He served as CEO until 2009 and later as chairman until Blackwater was sold in 2010 to a group of investors. Prince currently lives in United Arab Emirates
Prince describes himself as a libertarian and practicing Roman Catholic.[24]
I believe Erik Prince has discussed the idea (his idea) of purchasing a aircraft carrier and manning it and supplying it with the ability to conduct rapid NGO (Non-governmental organization) intervention in areas of Africa that require rapid humanitarian and security responses.
But I see a number of hurdles for organizing and carrying out the kind of security project your entertaining thoughts about. Namely financing. Logistics cold be a huge problem as well if enemy combatants conducted neo-siege warfare in say… a place like Nigeria.
Differing local laws might pose a problem. Internal police or political corruption could cause a significant problem given a working relation with both would be required. Language barriers could pose a small problem as well.
Might you consider something more along the lines of the NOI’s (Nation of Islams) Fruit of Islam? Is there nationally famous security force deployed without arms and trained in martial arts hand-to-hand combat. Usually being hired to conduct security in urban settings in black communities where crime may be high.
I see you have a background in criminology. Might I suggest considering a new organizational model for a contemporary Catholic charge in a world were war is dominated by rich developed nations that can disproportionately afford the prerequisite technology.
The experienced police detective or federal agent is a more mature charge than the brainwashed, low-ranked, enlisted military troop. The social pathologies in the United States of America alone offers the room or abstract social space for a battalion or more of privately trained and financed charges in death investigation, missing persons investigation, forensic pathology, and urban security and urban combat. Potentially, like the Secret Service or FBI, such personnel could also be temporarily deployed to form security exclusion areas around churches or other built-up targets internationally, where diplomatically their presence can be negotiated and their invitation temporarily welcomed.
Such international security operations might draw training and protocols from the U.S. Secret Service and FBI as well as from the elite Brazilian force BOPE (perhaps the premier urban combat force of our time).
But bullets and food cost money. You also must have emergency extraction plans, capabilities, and the ability to rapidly provide reinforcement where necessary. That’s all a severe challenge.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalh%C3%A3o_de_Opera%C3%A7%C3%B5es_Policiais_Especiais
Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais (Portuguese for Special Policial Operations Battalion), mostly known by its acronym BOPE, is a special forces unit of the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil.
Due to the nature of crime in favelas, BOPE units have extensive experience in urban warfare as well as progression in confined and restricted environments. It also utilizes equipment deemed more powerful than traditional civilian law enforcement.
I was trained in the basics (not the advanced tactics and equipment) of CQB (Close Quarter Battle) in the U.S. military. I marvel at the tactical success of BOPE in the very tight urban environment they operate in. They’ve even sent representative to the U.S. to provide training to a U.S. police force. Some of their members are MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) fighters. All of them train in Brazilian Jujitsu.
