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To: robertpaulsen
Maybe you can answer this question for me. I've already asked it but no one has given me an answer.

Is our civilian police allowed to work together, train, or hold joint exercises with our military? Aren't they supposed to never mix like that? Does our Constitution allow it?

173 posted on 10/06/2007 9:58:28 AM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: processing please hold
The military may advise the local police, but may not take an active role in police work. The 1878 Posse Comitatus Act prohibits Federal military personnel from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress.

An exception to this would be National Guard units while under the authority of the governor of a state.

The U.S. Constitution allows it. It's only a federal law that prohibits it.

187 posted on 10/06/2007 10:18:04 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: processing please hold
processing please hold said: "Is our civilian police allowed to work together, train, or hold joint exercises with our military?"

Your question is very difficult to answer, because both the state and federal governments have over-stepped their bounds significantly.

Our Founders very much feared a standing Army. They had just had to pledge their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honors to over-throw their own tyrannical government, defeating a significant standing army of Redcoats to do it.

Both the federal armed forces AND almost anything that passes for a city police department these days would be viewed as standing armies. To oppose abuses by such, the people were to be protected in their right to keep and bear arms to protect themselves, their families and their communities.

To address the natural concern of the people, there is a law called the "Posse Comitatus Act" which limits the use of the military for non-military purposes. I vaguely recall that some change was made recently having to do with guarding our borders, but I don't have any details.

205 posted on 10/06/2007 10:52:28 AM PDT by William Tell (RKBA for California (rkba.members.sonic.net) - Volunteer by contacting Dave at rkba@sonic.net)
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