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To: ChinaThreat

“No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house”

Are they practising to live in the citizens houses?

Do you have this mixxed up with another law?

Maybe.


45 posted on 02/21/2009 1:44:51 AM PST by JSteff (It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.)
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To: JSteff

“posse comitatus act” No soldiers can be used against American citizens to enforce law. “Posse Comitatus Act. And then with the assuredness of a gambler with aces up a sleeve, they would cite that Act: ‘Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.’ (Title 18, U.S. Code, Section 1385) Simply put: a president is barred by law from deploying federal troops to the several states in a law enforcement role. That is why President Bush asked Governor Blanco of Louisiana to mobilize the Louisiana National Guard and formally ask for federal assistance, only to have her demur for 24 hours. The phrase posse comitatus, translated from Medieval Latin, means ‘power or force of the county.’ Derived from British Common Law, it refers to a body of men whom a sheriff can raise to help keep the peace.”


139 posted on 02/21/2009 4:38:13 AM PST by paratrooper82 (82 Airborne 1/508th BN "fury from the sky")
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