[Rusty0604]

Full title:

Under What Conditions Can The US Army Engage American Citizens: The Army's "Civil Disturbances" Primer

[El Cid]

Apparently whenever the Feds want them to.

Ask the Branch Davidian folks.

[ansel12]

Here is the 101st Airborne in Arkansas during the laid back 1950s.

[Chainmail]

Ping for later.

[blueunicorn6]

You know.....most states have a militia law where they can call up young men to serve in an emergency. The Governor of Missouri could just call-up every young man in Ferguson. Put them to work. Any young man left on the street is an outsider or a deserter.

[ArmstedFragg]

It’s important to note that when you call in the Feds, your National Guard gets federalized and placed under their command, and is therefore subject to the same restrictions federal troops are.

In the Rodney King riot, the NG had to turn down something like 90 percent of the LE requests once they got federalized.

[S.O.S121.500]

Seem to recall that the U.S.M.C. as the “President’s Own” can be deployed via Executive action.........Think Watts

[Oatka]

the reason Missouri governor Jay Nixon resorted to the aid of the National Guard is due to the limitations imposed by the Posse Comitatus Act seeks to limit the powers of Federal government in using federal military personnel, i.e., the Armed Forces of the United States, to enforce state laws.

As of now, the Posse Comitatus Act is all but dead. They got around that pesky law by giving the police the same armaments as the military to enforce state/federal laws.

[Mariner]

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

As if 1.5mil military persons...of which maybe 1/2 are trained with a rifle, could subjugate 300million with 300million weapons!

Laughable.