Military May Play Bigger Relief Role (Posse Comitatus Act to be Reviewed/Revised)

Breit Bart.com & AP ^ | September 17, 2005 | Robert Burns AP Military Writer

[Very Goldwater]

The failures at the state level should not be solved at the federal level. Alabama and Mississippi handle Katrina well, it was the Louisiana State government that failed.

Regardless, I don't want to see the National Guard in a foreign country, and the US military in our streets.

[xrp]

Calm down...they're just continuing to lay the foundation for the Police State 1984 style. Don't worry.

I'm here from the government and I'm here to help.

[DoughtyOne]

Slippery sloap... alert!

[shield]

I knew this bullchit was coming...thanks to an absolute incompetence of the lousyana dembos

[dts32041]

Actually the think that forced Posse thru was the Lincoln County Wars.

[No Longer Free State]

I strongly suspect the Pentagon's lawyers will seek to limit any changes to the Posse Comitatus themselves. We in the military don't WANT to be the police. We don't train to be police officers and don't want to. To put soldiers who don't train for policing in policing roles is as dangerous a situation for the soldiers as it is for the civilians. If we'd wanted to be police officers, we'd have joined the police.

[Venerable Bede]

The Possee Comitatus Act should be left the way it is... the only thing that needs to be changed are the people in charge of the cities and state of Louisiana.

[AmericanChef]

If they want to patrol the borders, I'm all for it, but you just can't trust the gubmint.

[claudiustg]

The Dims will raise a great cry against this in an attempt to style themselves defenders of liberty.

[thegreatbeast]

No, no, no, no, no!

[SWAMPSNIPER]

The only solution to anything seems to be more power to the government. Someone is enjoying this crap!

[Nov3]

I'm here from the government and I'm here to help.

They told 70 y/o Patricia Konie,"We are here to help you" before they tackled her, disarmed her, and drug her out of her stocked house to a 2.5x6 foot cot.

[trawler]

bump

[Nov3]

The Dims will raise a great cry against this in an attempt to style themselves defenders of liberty.

Only a MORON would not raise a cry against this.

[henderson field]

If I were still in the military and I saw another soldier confiscating a gun from a civilian, I would shoot the soldier, shoot to kill. I don't think I'm the only one. Perhaps it would even be legal to do that.

[silverleaf]

This is a matter for Congress to decide, not the President or the Pentagon.

Nonetheless, any realistic exercise involving a large scale disaster, natural or by terror, should have already led to such a review and recommendations to Congress to provide guidance. I believe that even before 9/11, when Federal Govt planners ran "Dark Winter" (a simulated biological terror attack)....these command and control issues involving the use of military and National Guard for emergency support...were obvious.

While the framers of our Constitution envisioned local and State governments stepping up to the forefront in leadership during crises.... because theoretically, the lower the level of govt, the more likely to be trusted by the people.... I'm sure our Framers never envisioned people like Ray Nagin and Kathleen Blanco being elected to these offices of what used to be public trust.

And I'm sure we can name a few other notably corrupt and/or inept Mayors and Governors......

Factually, even when the people get what they elect, the Feds cannot stand by and let them suffer what they deserve. The Constitution overides the option for the Feds to stand-by when the State fails to act and innocent citizens are deprived of life and liberty by hoodlums willing to murder and destroy for liquor jewelry, plasma screen TV's, and designer running shoes.

[BenLurkin]

Agreed!

And not to worry: the Republicans won't let this happen . . . heh-heh.

[silverleaf]

You are dangerously disturbed. I am glad you are no longer in the military.

[dinok]

If the law is amended to allow the military to perform law enforcement it will be a bad day for the nation.

One of these day the republicans will loose to the democrats and I fear the use of the military and the patriot act powers by people who will use them to go after conservative groups.

The lack of exposure of how the Clintons went after the right using then existing powers is leading to this. No one is afraid of a Hillary presidency with her having the powers of the Patriot Act II. Its my nightmare.

[Nov3]

At least he understands what happened in NO. The Constitution was shredded and pissed on by every governmental agency imaginable.