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Posted on 12/01/2008 12:08:09 PM PST by Spacetrucker
The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials.
The long-planned shift in the Defense Department's role in homeland security was recently backed with funding and troop commitments after years of prodding by Congress and outside experts...
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
If these people are going to simply TRAIN local law enforcement on NUKE, BIO, type terrorism, then I have no problem with it. Normal cops do not get bio training. Few if any police forces have a bio department.
This seems like a bad idea.
The Posse Comitatus Act of June, 1878, is no longer convenient, so it will be ignored by the liberals. Why am I not surprised?
Read the whole article - it seems to me that the intent is quite a bit more than “training” - somewhat of a supplemental role, which IMO is a clear violation of the Posse Comitatus Act.
I don’t mind as long as they are within no more than a few miles from an international border or coastline, and the guns stay pointed outward. They are even fine to be stationed at international airports on the “outside” part of the customs area.
Off duty, they are welcome anywhere free citizens can go, of course.
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