Unless someone tells me differently, you will have to excuse me if I happen to believe what CHertoff said. It is ILLEGAL for the military to operate in a law enforcement function unless so mandated by the Governor.
And I've yet to hear she has mandated.
I don't think that is true.
>>>It is ILLEGAL for the military to operate in a law enforcement function unless so mandated by the Governor.
Question is, if she hasn't, why? Does she need to be hit in the head with a piece of lumber?
correct. The DoD spokeman and that general were very clear on that.
In a nutshell, this act bans the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines from participating in arrests, searches, seizure of evidence and other police-type activity on U.S. soil. The Coast Guard and National Guard troops under the control of state governors are excluded from the act.
And what if she is just to d*mn incompetent to mandate? What then? Do we watch this go on for weeks? Do we let her incompetence harm the people? There has to be away around her sorry excuse for gov.
This reply I'm making isn't to start some discussion, or flame war. So, respectfully...
I haven't heard Chertoff, or any other announcement. Someone else posted the FEMA directives on this thread a way back. In short Chertoff's full of it and so is Gonzales.
Here's an historical event that Chertoff seems to have missed, or is diliberately ignoring:
Johnson overruled Wallace and sent fed troops down to Alabama to uphold 18USC 24X whatever after a SCOTUS ruling against the State of Alabama. Fed troops escorted some kids into school and guarded them in the halls of that school.
If the USDOD can be used as friggin' hall monitors, then the USDOD can be used to straighten out this sit.
The government sure as hell picked a great time to start following its own laws. If the government can ignore immigration law, why can't the ignore this one?