[Grand Old Partisan]

"Exactly what right does any government have to coerce its will upon a people who do not desire its presence in their vicinity?"

The United States Constitution, the supreme law of the land -- even including states, localities, and buildings occupied by traitors -- gives the United States Army that right.

[GOPcapitalist]

The United States Constitution, the supreme law of the land -- even including states, localities, and buildings occupied by traitors -- gives the United States Army that right.

WRONG! The United States Constitution is premised upon the CONSENT of the people TO BE GOVERNED, not an illegitimately claimed "right" to coerce them by point of arms. In fact that is one of the reasons why the Constitution makes it a RIGHT of the people to keep and bear arms - so that they may resist the tyranny of the government if it ever becomes one! Sadly, it did become one for at least four years in the early 1860's and some people took up those arms and resisted it as was their God-given right to do.