Nevermind the Posse Comitatus Act that prohibits the government from using military troops for law enforcement, the Pentagon is set to deploy 20,000 troops on US soil to “help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe,” according to Pentagon officials.
The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. ยง 1385) passed on June 16, 1878 after the end of Reconstruction. The Act prohibits most members of the federal uniformed services from exercising nominally state law enforcement, police, or peace officer powers that maintain “law and order” on non-federal property (states and their counties and municipal divisions) in the former Confederate states.
US troops should not be used for law enforcement. This is just another bit if information in a long string of executive orders and acts carried out by this government to prepare us for a police state. Oh sure now I sound like a crazy person, but I won’t seem so crazy when it’s actually happening. I’d rather seem crazy and be right, than be oblivious to it like most of America and just let it happen. Let them take our freedoms away, let them have control over us.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
3 Responses
C Garner
08|Dec|2008 1My thoughts exactly.
Houston
26|Jan|2009 2If the troops are to protect US from terror, its good news isn’t it?
Bill
12|Apr|2009 3The troops, now training in Alabama, are not to repel terrorists, they are being trained to repel you when you rise up because you have no food for your family. you (We) will be classified as terrorists to make killing us more palatable.
There are hard times coming.
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