[fightinbluhen51]

Um, here's your Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

[Texas Fossil]

Very bad sign.

[BykrBayb]

Where did you get that headline? I don’t see any indication that the Army called on the Alabama police for help.

[IrishPennant]

bump for details

[elpinta]

Well.....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204230/posts

[boxerblues]

MP’s on the street after a night of shootings, at least I know they would be able to hit their target

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

0bama don’t need no steenkin Constitution?

[Southack]

Prevents revenge attacks and picks up slack for the local police force being in the hospital.

[Just another Joe]

Is the Posse Comitatus Act totally without meaning today? No, it remains a deterrent to prevent the unauthorized deployment of troops at the local level in response to what is purely a civilian law enforcement matter. Although no person has ever been successfully prosecuted under the act, it is available in criminal or administrative proceedings to punish a lower-level commander who uses military forces to pursue a common felon or to conduct sobriety checkpoints off of a federal military post. Officers have had their careers abruptly brought to a close by misusing federal military assets to support a purely civilian criminal matter.

But does the act present a major barrier at the National Command Authority level to use of military forces in the battle against terrorism? The numerous exceptions and policy shifts carried out over the past 20 years strongly indicate that it does not. Could anyone seriously suggest that it is appropriate to use the military to interdict drugs and illegal aliens but preclude the military from countering terrorist threats that employ weapons of mass destruction? For two decades the military has been increasingly used as an auxiliary to civilian law enforcement when the capabilities of the police have been exceeded. Under both the statutory and constitutional exceptions that have permitted the use of the military in law enforcement since 1980, the president has ample authority to employ the military in homeland defense against the threat of weapons of mass destruction in terrorist hands.

from here

[ConservaTexan]

Coming soon to a street near you!

[BigFinn]

Do you think they would fire on their own people? Especially with a military hating President?

[verity]

Sounds like bullshit to me!

[ConservaTexan]

Who ordered them there?

[PurpleMan]

National Guard or Arny.

[MindBender26]

Let's not all jump through our butts here.

This is one photographer who probably wouldn't know a Guard unit from a Garand writing a caption for a picture... or perhaps it was even written by some editor 1000 miles away... and she probably hates both the Guard and Garands!

[MindBender26]

Further LNAJTOB!

This all comes from some author at "Infowars" named Kurt Nimmo. He seems to be a bit of a nut job.

[MindBender26]

There is NO substantiation that this was active duty Army. Lets all take a deep breath here.

[Thunder90]

Probably moved under the command of the Georgia National Guard until they could get there.

[mkcc30]

If things are THAT bad then they should deputize some of the locals. Military use is not right and not necessary.

[Lion Den Dan]

The troops are equipped like Military Police. There are no unit patches visible (left shoulder needed) so can't ID the unit which would tell if troops are regular army or NGs. I doubt these are reqular Army as the Army command is as touchy as most here at FR about breaching Posse Commitatus.

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Huh.