From the NYTimes, Wider Military Role in U.S. Is Urged:
Posse Comitatus restricts military forces from performing domestic law enforcement duties, like policing. Over the years, the law has been amended to allow the military to lend equipment to federal, state and local authorities; assist federal agencies in drug interdiction work; protect national parks; and execute quarantine and certain health laws. About 5,000 federal troops supported civilian agencies at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City this year. …
So, instead of law enforcement officers beholden to city and state authority you will have heavily indoctrinated armed soldiers carrying out orders against people they have no community relationship to. Federal troops could be used to quell civil unrest, staff checkpoints, break strikes, and perform house to house searches for disloyal Americans.
Related:
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Calling Out the Posse
The War on Terrorism and Posse Comitatus
by Russell Madden - Legal Aspects of Domestic Employment of the Army THOMAS R. LUJAN
- THE POSSE COMITATUS ACT: A PRINCIPLE IN NEED OF RENEWAL from Washington University Law Quarterly
- In 1982, President Ronald Reagan issued National Security Directive 58…Under “REX” the President could declare a state of emergency, empowering the head of FEMA to take control of the internal infrastructure of the United States and suspend the constitution. The President could invoke executive orders 11000 thru 11004 which would: 1- Draft all citizens into work forces under government supervision. 2- Empower the postmaster to register all men, women and children. 3- Seize all airports and aircraft. 4- Seize all housing and establish forced relocation of citizens.
- Sept. 11: Will the Military Take Over?
- When Governments Attack From September 1999.