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To: SkyDancer

[I think the Constitution forbids using soldiers against the citizens; it’s what happened in Europe at the time and the Founding Fathers didn’t want the same thing here.]


Not the Constitution. The Posse Comitatus Act, passed a century later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act


40 posted on 06/01/2020 5:17:26 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Well didn’t think so at the time but eecently we’ve lost Posse Comitatus which was to limit the use of military force for civil law, as well as, Habeus Corpus which is a protection against being unlawfully held. It is dangerous business giving up these rights, who knows when and if history will repeat itself. I’m not comfortable taking that risk.


48 posted on 06/01/2020 6:06:06 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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