How does our republic die? How does our right to self governance wither?
How do the powers of tyranny triumph?
Does any person reading this even know the meaning of the Posse Comitatus Act?
Essentially, it keeps the Federal Government from bringing the full power of the Federal Militia to bear against its citizens.
It was passed in 1878, and has been a powerful check to restrain the U.S. military from being used against its citizens. I am not a scholar of the principle, and I don't know how much weight it bears against the State Militia. (National Guard.)
So we've essentially got a law that keeps troops from turning their guns inward. The powers of law enforcement are left to the civilian police and sundry agencies.
Yippee.
So instead, in the name of peace and domestic tranquility, we slowly militarize the police. We blindly surrender our rights... and we applaud as we do so.
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