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To: patton

Didn’t Lincoln push for more centralized power in the federal govt including Posse Comititus?


84 posted on 03/09/2009 5:17:24 PM PDT by Frantzie (Boycott GE - they own NBC, MSNBC, CNBC & Universal. Boycott Disney - they own ABC)
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To: Frantzie

Posse commitatus? No, quite the opposite, he suspended the writ of habeus corpus.

Famously, he had the the grandson of the guy who wrote the “star spangled banner” imprisoned in the prison where it was written.


88 posted on 03/09/2009 5:31:36 PM PDT by patton (America is born in Iceland, and dies in California)
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