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Biden backs letting soldiers arrest civilians
Washington Times ^
| 7/22/02
| Joyce Howard Price
Posted on 07/21/2002 10:54:45 PM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:55:50 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., Delaware Democrat, yesterday strongly endorsed giving soldiers the power to arrest American civilians.
Interviewed yesterday on "Fox News Sunday," Mr. Biden, a member of the Judiciary Committee, said the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which prevents the military from exercising police powers in this country, should be re-examined and "has to be amended."
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; biden; possecomitatus
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To: kattracks
Joe Biden! If this guy regains his senate seat this year, I am all for giving the State of Delware to a third world country.
To: Vidalia
Joe Biden actually has a thought in his newly arranged top-soiled head that may help?Since Joe obviously didn't come up with this idea himself, the real question is who planted the seed from which this idea grew in his hair-plugged head?
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07/22/2002 5:12:26 PM PDT
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Fixit
To: Fixit
Maybe some of the droplets from those "mysterious concentric circles" created by the "mysterious aircraft" that fly at altitudes over 100K feet landed on Biden's baby-butt bald forhead while skiing ...
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07/22/2002 7:29:27 PM PDT
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Vidalia
To: kattracks
However, Tom Ridge, director of the Office of Homeland Security, said in several appearances on political talk shows yesterday that the Biden proposal should be considered but that he thinks it's "very unlikely" such a change will be made. Praise the Lord it's unlikely this act will pass. The founding fathers opposed soldiers having authority like this over United States Citizens.
To: VOR78; kattracks
How is the military supposed to differentiate between U.S. Citizens, and foreign nationals; without a national I.D. card?
Your papers, please!
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