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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Apparently so. I wonder what happened to Posse Comitatus?


3 posted on 11/30/2011 6:30:58 PM PST by Citizen Tom Paine (An old sailor sends)
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To: Citizen Tom Paine

Gone now Tom and it looks like you and I will be too if we say too much.


4 posted on 11/30/2011 6:35:35 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Half the people are below average.)
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To: Citizen Tom Paine
Posse Commitatus was hobbled with the patriot act and official repealed a couple years back.

Service members actually are now taught that it is the name of a militia group...Really, I've seen it myself.

From Wiwkipedia...

On September 26, 2006, President Bush urged Congress to consider revising federal laws so that U.S. armed forces could restore public order and enforce laws in the aftermath of a natural disaster, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition.

These changes were included in the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (H.R. 5122), which was signed into law on October 17, 2006.[8]

Section 1076 is titled "Use of the Armed Forces in major public emergencies." It provided that:

The President may employ the armed forces... to... restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition... the President determines that... domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of maintaining public order... or [to] suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy if such... a condition... so hinders the execution of the laws... that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law... or opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.[9]

In 2008, changes in the Insurrection Act of 1807 were repealed in their entirety, reverting to the previous wording of the Insurrection Act[10] that in its original form was written to limit Presidential power as much as possible in the event of insurrection, rebellion, or lawlessness."

5 posted on 11/30/2011 6:42:16 PM PST by SENTINEL (Romney is to Conservatism what Mormonism is to Christianity.)
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To: Citizen Tom Paine

I just saw Lying Mcshame on Greta trying to tell us how innocent this new legislation will be. Even his explanation left no doubt that US citizens can be picked up and held indefinitely if they are found to be affiliated with Al Queda. At some point soon my friends we will all be Al Queda. Greta to her credit was not buyin it.


11 posted on 11/30/2011 8:42:35 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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