Send in the Troops (Who ordered U.S. Army soldiers into an Alabama town?)

Fox News - Glenn Beck ^ | 3/18/2009

[nevergore]

After the shooting of 11 people in the South Alabama town last week, regular US Army troops helped to provide law enforcement.

This was one of the lead stoies on Glenn Beck today.

[nevergore]

They were not National Guard but regular Army. The Alabama Govenor when contacted was completely unaware of the situation.

[xcamel]

Sounds a bit fishy to me...

[Chickensoup]

if this is true...here it comes...

[ronnie raygun]

Getting us use to the military, Marshall law soon?

[AnAmericanMother]

It is possible that this was just a well-meaning Provost Marshal at Fort Rucker (which is right next door) offering off the cuff to assist the local police. They are probably fishing buddies.

My parents live in a small Georgia town where the police force consists of a chief, a couple of superannuated officers, three squad cars and a paddy wagon. They would need help to handle something like this, and they would probably ask for it.

Also, in an emergency the old adage, "It's better to seek forgiveness than permission" probably applies.

[Ax]

Remember September 1957? President Eisenhower ordered units of either the 101st or 82nd Airborne Divisions to Little Rock to escort the black kids to a segregated high school.

The precedent was set.

[cripplecreek]

Beck said the Justice Department called it “silly” and the whitehouse declined to comment.

[RegulatorCountry]

Posse Comitatus is inconvenient, apparently, just as inconvenient as any concept of citizenship, for immigration or for the Presidency.

Nationhood is slowly being stripped away, and with it go Constitutional safeguards.

[nevergore]

You might want to research before you post......

This in fact did occur, it may have been the result of bad judgement on the part of a local commander but the effect is still chilling.

[Vaquero]

Highly illegal.....lock and load, here it comes.

[rahbert]

Marshall who?

Marshall Teague?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Is Alabama any further in that ol’ reaffirmation of the 10th amendment?

[xcamel]

mighty touchy, eh?

How do you know that I did not mean “something fishy’ under the direction of the DOD?? (obamatrons)

I was not insinuationg that your post was “fishy”

[353FMG]

>Nationhood is slowly being stripped away, and with it go Constitutional safeguards.<

And not a word of protest from Congress. The decline of our nation is even more rapid than that of the Roman Empire.

[nevergore]

LOL, lately I've been turning into a curmudgeon....

Might have something to do with watching our wonderful and beautiful country being turned into a third world socialist cesspool.....

[Purrcival]

Umm...posse comitatis, anyone? The governor was unaware?

I seem to recall that the governor has to REQUEST this kind of assistance. We couldn’t even initially send the National Guard into New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina because of Blanco.

[xcamel]

Forgiven.

[nevergore]

Chicago style politics.....

“We do not have to obey any stinkin’ law”

[nevergore]

LOL, It wasn't an apology......more of an explanation....remember I'm a curmudgeon....

I don't know about you but I now wake up angry every morning...........and it's getting worse......

Maybe I need to set the alarm to a music station instead of the news........

Somebody wake me up when this national nightmare ends....

[cayuga]

Is Alabama any further in that ol’ reaffirmation of the 10th amendment?

I'm waiting for an Ordinance of Secession. I know the first one didn't work out, but if at first you don't secede, try, try, again.