[fireforeffect]

If memory serves me "posse comitatus" did not become law until the 1870's. This was in response to the use of U.S. troops to monitor elections in the south during reconstruction. The law only applies to the States, not the territories or federal districts (Washington City, Porto Rico, Guam, and the national parks).

I say again: Washington City is a federal district.

Now National Guard troops (State duty, title 32, not federal duty, title 10) can bring harm on persons who do not like US or are just scumbags (but only on weekends).

Federal troops can defend the border, despite posse comitatus, even in a State. Why have an army if they can not defend your own border? Of course the president must find cause. This was done in 1913 (Pancho Via).

[Terabitten]

Now National Guard troops (State duty, title 32, not federal duty, title 10) can bring harm on persons who do not like US or are just scumbags (but only on weekends).

As a former National Guardsman, I think that last line is *hysterical* lol... :)

[decimon]

If memory serves me "posse comitatus" did not become law until the 1870's. This was in response to the use of U.S. troops to monitor elections in the south during reconstruction. The law only applies to the States, not the territories or federal districts (Washington City, Porto Rico, Guam, and the national parks). I say again: Washington City is a federal district.

In the late 1960s I was a Combat Engineer at Fort Belvoir. Our battalion was given riot duty for DC. We weren't used in DC but were used (my Company) at the Pentagon.