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To: bitterohiogunclinger

>In 1878, Congress passed the Posse Comitatus Act, which forbids military involvement in domestic law enforcement without congressional approval.

The Posse Comitatus Act means nothing; the US Constitution says the following: “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions” — the Constitution gives Congress this power already, so it is a redundant waste-of-space on our law-books.

>Since The Constitution is the limiting document upon the government, the government cannot become greater than the granting power.

Agreed. This is why it is important to eliminate the contradictions in federal-law & the US Constitution as well as the contradictions in state-law & state Constitutions.

As an example, the New Mexico State Constitution states in Art II, Sec 6:
No law shall abridge the right of the citizen
to keep and bear arms for security and
defense, for lawful hunting and recreational
use and for other lawful purposes, but nothing
herein shall be held to permit the carrying
of concealed weapons. No municipality
or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident
of the right to keep and bear arms. (As
amended November 2, 1971 and November
2, 1986.)

Yet the following IS a law:
http://www.conwaygreene.com/nmsu/lpext.dll/nmsa1978/9b0/efc5/f17d/f1a5?fn=document-frame.htm&f=templates&2.0

Obviously the two are a contradiction; yet that contradiction is EXACTLY how law-enforcement can limit your rights and freedoms. Imagine if I took my .45 on campus all open carry... do you think I would be arrested? Charged with the misdemeanor that 30-7-2.4 says I would be then guilty of?

>Therefore, should the chief executive or the other branch of government or all branches together act to suspend The Constitution under a rule of martial law, all power granted to government would be cancelled and differed back to the granting power. That is the people.

I agree with that. Once the Constitutional contract is broken, the [Constitutionally] instituted government ceases to exist.

>And I’ll conclude with this statement: Martial law shall NOT be possible in this country as long as the people recognize the bill of rights as inalienable.

Which is why we MUST defend that bill of rights.


21 posted on 03/13/2010 8:00:28 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

“but nothing
herein shall be held to permit the carrying
of concealed weapons.”

I contend it also does not prohibit it. Even the liberals dictionary have the problem of that “shall not be infringed”.


29 posted on 03/13/2010 8:15:17 AM PST by bitterohiogunclinger (America held hostage - day 393)
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