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Originally Posted by smooth
It's not a valid point!
Would people please read a bit about the history of these things?
It's important to question why Posse Comitatus was crafted in the first place.
It certainly wasn't about preventing the big bad government from interfering with your daily lives...unless your daily lives consisted of making the lives of ex-slaves miserable and doing whatever you could to curtail their rights.
It's also important to realize that the Act isn't a blanket prohibition against the use of federal forces on domestic soil; Congress has the authority to make exceptions.
Which last half-dozen presidents have violated the Act without Congressional support?
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I am fully aware of the intent of the original Posse Comitatus Act.
And I agree that CONGRESS has the authority to make excepts....not executive orders of a president.
All the more reason why we need a new law to establish clear and unambiguous bounderies for the role of the military in response to national "emergencies" whether those emergencies are natural disasters, civil unrest or terrorist attacks.