Army Called in Aid of Alabama Police?

Yahoo ^ | 3/11/09 | Yahoo

[fightinbluhen51]

Click the link, too short to post

[fightinbluhen51]

Um, here's your Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

[Texas Fossil]

Very bad sign.

[BykrBayb]

Where did you get that headline? I don’t see any indication that the Army called on the Alabama police for help.

[IrishPennant]

bump for details

[elpinta]

Well.....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204230/posts

[boxerblues]

MP’s on the street after a night of shootings, at least I know they would be able to hit their target

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

0bama don’t need no steenkin Constitution?

[Tijeras_Slim]

In the town where the shooting occured, from Ft. Rucker.

[Southack]

Prevents revenge attacks and picks up slack for the local police force being in the hospital.

[Just another Joe]

Is the Posse Comitatus Act totally without meaning today? No, it remains a deterrent to prevent the unauthorized deployment of troops at the local level in response to what is purely a civilian law enforcement matter. Although no person has ever been successfully prosecuted under the act, it is available in criminal or administrative proceedings to punish a lower-level commander who uses military forces to pursue a common felon or to conduct sobriety checkpoints off of a federal military post. Officers have had their careers abruptly brought to a close by misusing federal military assets to support a purely civilian criminal matter.

But does the act present a major barrier at the National Command Authority level to use of military forces in the battle against terrorism? The numerous exceptions and policy shifts carried out over the past 20 years strongly indicate that it does not. Could anyone seriously suggest that it is appropriate to use the military to interdict drugs and illegal aliens but preclude the military from countering terrorist threats that employ weapons of mass destruction? For two decades the military has been increasingly used as an auxiliary to civilian law enforcement when the capabilities of the police have been exceeded. Under both the statutory and constitutional exceptions that have permitted the use of the military in law enforcement since 1980, the president has ample authority to employ the military in homeland defense against the threat of weapons of mass destruction in terrorist hands.

from here

[ConservaTexan]

Coming soon to a street near you!

[Sybeck1]

Wasn’t Posse Comitatus waived back in 1993? 16 years this coming April?

[BigFinn]

Do you think they would fire on their own people? Especially with a military hating President?

[MindBender26]

Could easily be ‘Bama Guard! (and therefore entirely legal)

Idiot photog would not know.

[Domandred]

Hard to really tell from the pic but looks like they might be carrying sidearms only, and wearing traffic safety vests.

Still not supposed to be there, but at least they aren’t loaded for war.

Was there more, or just these four?

[BykrBayb]

I know.

Did you misunderstand my post?

[Tijeras_Slim]

Link only had the one pic. No idea, but still don’t like it.

[mosaicwolf]

It was waived for certain functions in support of the war on drugs not for routine police work. This article is bogus.

[verity]

Sounds like bullshit to me!

[fightinbluhen51]

Everyone knows what I know.

My question is, why wasn’t an all available units and other jurisdictions called in first? Response time?

Hell, get on the phone and wake up the day shift!