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'Will you open fire on UK citizens' Army personnel being asked
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"Is Posse Comitatus Dead? US Troops on US Streets

In a barely noticed development, a US Army unit is now training for domestic operations under the control of US Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command. An initial news report in the Army Times newspaper last month noted that in addition to emergency response the force “may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control.” The military has since claimed the force will not be used for civil unrest, but questions remain."
[Discussion follows/transcript here.]
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/7/us...it_will_be


"The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law passed on June 16, 1878 after the end of Reconstruction, with the intention (in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807) of substantially limiting the powers of the federal government to use the military for law enforcement. The Act prohibits most members of the federal uniformed services (today the Army, Air Force, and State National Guard forces when such are called into federal service) 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) within the United States.

The statute generally prohibits federal military personnel and units of the National Guard under federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress. The Coast Guard is exempt from the Act."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
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'Will you open fire on UK citizens' Army personnel being asked - by Myra Bronstein - 11-04-2009, 07:11 PM
'Will you open fire on UK citizens' Army personnel being asked - by Myra Bronstein - 12-04-2009, 04:04 AM

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