I just heard a ABC news clip where Senator Fred Thompson is saying that he supports modifying the Posse Comitatus Act to include the military in searches and seizures in the United States. I think Congress has now really gone off the deep end. There is no need for modifying the Posse Comitatus Act If we are at war, the Joint Resolution or even an Act of War will do just fine. This is becoming very dangerous. I trust the Bush administration to a large extent though I have my concerns with them. But I do not blindly trust the US Government nor any other future Administration.
This is scary.
habaes....
Thompson making that remark was just coincidental, dont you know??? In that vein, has any "congressman" spoken out against this proposal???? Where are they??? Just maybe there are none, that would really scare me.
In truth, I agree with you. Posse Comitatus doesn't need to be modified to any significant extent. The military is allowed to react to immediate emergencies and wait for civilian forces.
Governors and presidents can call in the military when needed, such as airport security. Perhaps the law can further allow civilian forces can bring in military investigators and experts when issues of high-technology weaponry overwhelm the police, but that wouldn't involve arrest powers.
Furthermore, the military isn't designed to be a police force and it weakens their training to put them into that situation.