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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
What does a rescue mission have to do with federal forces providing law enforcement on US soil? Not a damn thing, but there is a huge difference in a rescue mission and crowd control, is there not?
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I don't know which bonus army marches you were referring to, but the only ones I know of occurred in DC where the posse comitatus act does not apply.
And if you can't understand why people living in Katrina would appreciate federal forces helping them get the fuck out of New Orleans and protect their homes in the process I'm not sure where this discussion is going to go but probably not anywhere interesting.
But in answer to your direct question, no there is not a "huge" difference between rescuing people during a catastrophe and crowd control, it would be impossible to do one without the other given that people generally panic during a crisis.