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Originally Posted by smooth
I don't know which bonus army marches you're referring to, but the only ones I know of occurred in DC where the posse comitatus act does not apply.
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why wouldn't posse comitatus apply in DC?
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Originally Posted by smooth
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.
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and again, federalized national guard forces to conduct evacuations and rescues is all hunky dory with me because those are not law enforcement actions. So I ask, how does that apply?
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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 what people generally do during a crisis.
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so you see no difference in crowd control operations at the superdome during katrina and crowd control at the DNC/RNC??
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