To: GeneD
Whoa here hoss.... Arrest powers???? Never....Arrest Ridge for not caring a damn about individual freedom and the constitution. We already have to many Federal cowboys with the power of arrest
This is no longer a citizen army, it is a "professional" army. I want no part of them enforcing the law...Never...
2 posted on
07/21/2002 9:43:15 AM PDT by
cynicom
To: cynicom
This is no longer a citizen army, it is a "professional" army. I want no part of them enforcing the law...Never... Just wait until the army consists of felons, illiterates, and foreigners.
They know that most of the American officers and senior enlisted men will support the US Constitution, so they will send them off to Timbuktu, while they bring in the Hessians.
18 posted on
07/21/2002 10:09:44 AM PDT by
Mulder
To: cynicom
I agree. The military should not be in the business of being a police force. Leave that power in the hands of the local authorities.
To: cynicom
Perhaps you can use the "TIPS" line to call in a violation of the Constitution against Ridge. </sarcasm off
To: cynicom
"Arrest Ridge for not caring a damn about individual freedom and the constitution."
Hold on there partner, read the article, it's "The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878" and not the Constitution in question. Congress passed this Act meaning it's a law.
That said, there really isn't much point in changing the law. You can conjure up all sorts of examples such as the military being unable to intevene in a WMD scenario, but I think such scenarios are unrealistic.
Suppose there was a nuclear bomb set to go off on US soil and the only way it could be stopped involved the use of the US Army. I, for one, and I am a commissioned officer, would find a reason to get involved regardless of Posse Comitatus. There's simply no way I, or any other officer, would let a WMD event occur, if it could be stopped, just because I was afraid of being in violation of a law. I'd take my chances in front of Court Martial instead. My defense would be that any law that required me to stand idly by while thousands of my fellow citizens were killed was un-constitutional.
To: cynicom
Before this thing is over, there will be troops on every street corner demanding your papers.
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