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To: WTFOVR

How so?
Are you comfortable with the current president and those that follow, having standing war power authorization that purposely does not define geographic conflict area or time limitation for deploying military force?
You do realize that it is Congress’s role to enact a specific war power authorization?
Right?

Do you know what Posse Commitatus is?
US military is not to be used domestically unless we are attacked and at war.

What do you think of the US funding Al-Queda in Libya and Syria, creating ISIS, which ensuing creative destruction has wrecked havoc in four countries, killed tens of thousands of christians, and forced over nearly a Million Syrian muslim “refugees” into europe?

Create a crisis like ISIS, deliberately let the threat into your borders, and then pass an unlimited terrorist war powers act to take the fight to an enemy you created, no matter where they are, and for no matter how long?
Even domestically?
No authorization expiration?

Really?

Is that a good idea?

RE: “I imagine you should be locked up”


17 posted on 01/22/2016 2:56:29 PM PST by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

The Act does not apply to the Army and Air National Guard under state authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within its home state or in an adjacent state if invited by that state’s governor.

The Posse Comitatus Act is no barrier to federal troops providing logistical support during natural disasters. Nor does it prohibit the president from using the Army to restore order in extraordinary circumstances - even over the objection of a state governor. What it does is set a high bar for the use of federal troops in a policing role.

“You do realize that it is Congress’s role to enact a specific war power authorization?”

Last time I checked, Senator Mitch McConnell was still a member of Congress. And he proposes to bring the issue before Congress.

The rest of your post is typical conspiratorial lunacy - hence my reference to “tinfoil hat.”

Let me guess - you’re a Libertarian Paul-bot


31 posted on 01/22/2016 3:16:41 PM PST by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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