10-08-2008, 01:35 PM
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barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy.
Join Date: Nov 2007
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Originally Posted by glatt
I have no problem with the military helping out in a disaster on US soil as long as they leave the weapons at home.
Armed troops, performing law enforcement, is a violation of posse comitatus.
This is the part that bothers me "They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control." |
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The act was a response to and subsequent prohibition of the military occupation by U.S. Army troops of the former Confederates States during the ten years of Reconstruction (1867-1877) following the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865).
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