Sounds a bit fishy to me...
if this is true...here it comes...
Getting us use to the military, Marshall law soon?
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.
Beck said the Justice Department called it “silly” and the whitehouse declined to comment.
Nationhood is slowly being stripped away, and with it go Constitutional safeguards.
Highly illegal.....lock and load, here it comes.
Is Alabama any further in that ol’ reaffirmation of the 10th amendment?
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.
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Administrative civil authority sends troops and pulls them.
Period.
If the AL governor did not know, which perhaps he would not, it was not the state of AL.
It had to be federal.
Dry run. Precedent.
Opinion:
Small town urban combat drill seeing if troops would obey/shoot and what the people of the small town would do.
Could they have been the Mexican army and that's why the governor was not aware? After all, the Mexicans are known for military intrusions across our mutual border.
One thing that nobody wants to discuss is it was possible that the minuscule police department thought this was more than a single gunman, possibly a group of armed individuals, there may have been a panicked phone call to the nearest group of people thus the Army that was very close to get there ASAP. I don’t think they had any SWAT capability.
I would rather see this happen than waiting an hour or two for SWAT to show up and they sit while dozens of people are being slaughtered.
So if there was a mass mall/school shooter on the loose and an Army or Marines base is just a few miles away we cannot use them because we fear posse comitatis? (sp?)
sounds like reconstruction is back by Presidential fiat.