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To: watchout

This isn't the end of Posse Comitatus, but they're starting to chip away at it. They are also developing big brother type systems instead of finding pragmatic solutions to security.


6 posted on 01/24/2005 12:08:19 PM PST by bahblahbah
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To: bahblahbah

the FBI "Carnivore" system was just scrapped.


13 posted on 01/24/2005 12:22:40 PM PST by Rakkasan1 (Justice of the Piece: There is no justice, there's 'just us'.)
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To: bahblahbah
This isn't the end of Posse Comitatus, but they're starting to chip away at it.

When every government agency, tax collectors, wildlife, enviornmental, etc. can dress in military garb, use military weapons including tanks and conduct a military operation Possee Comitatus is, for all practical purposes, dead. Apparently the only organizations not allowed to conduct military operations on US soil are the US armed forces.

25 posted on 01/24/2005 4:11:28 PM PST by FreePaul
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To: bahblahbah
They are also developing big brother type systems instead of finding pragmatic solutions to security.

Such as?

Remember, the National Guard isn't subject to Posse Comitatus laws when activated by a state governor. So, would you rather have national guardsmen doing this sort of work or SF types?

26 posted on 01/24/2005 4:13:08 PM PST by Terabitten (Live a life worthy of those who have gone before you.)
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