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Army Called in Aid of Alabama Police?
Yahoo ^ | 3/11/09 | Yahoo

Posted on 03/11/2009 9:46:49 AM PDT by fightinbluhen51

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: alabama; army; leo; lping; possecomitatus
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To: Lucky9teen

It was repealed by Congress in 2008.


81 posted on 03/11/2009 1:34:49 PM PDT by PghBaldy (Obama told NYT Medicare Drug & TARP not his fault- he VOTED FOR THEM!!!)
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To: MindBender26
and a place out near airport called SOPs!

I remember that place...I think.

82 posted on 03/11/2009 1:35:50 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Just another Joe

The town is near Fort Rucker, so it seems reasonable that they might call for help in such a situation. The guys live there.


83 posted on 03/11/2009 1:35:51 PM PDT by WVNan (Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.: Sun Tzu)
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To: Lion Den Dan

Plus, IIRC, a very large percentage of the MP units in our force are NG and Reserve units, because the part-time aspect allows them to draw on people who are cops in their civilian lives. The one guy our local MP unit lost in Iraq was a civilian cop nd firefighter as well as a Guardsman.


84 posted on 03/11/2009 1:35:52 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback ("[Palin] has not even lived in the Lower 48 since 1987. Come on! Really!" --Polybius)
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To: ansel12

When was that?


85 posted on 03/11/2009 1:38:39 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback ("[Palin] has not even lived in the Lower 48 since 1987. Come on! Really!" --Polybius)
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To: ansel12

When did this happen, and what were the circumstances?


86 posted on 03/11/2009 1:39:11 PM PDT by PghBaldy (Obama told NYT Medicare Drug & TARP not his fault- he VOTED FOR THEM!!!)
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To: BagCamAddict

I wonder...will Moore have anything to say about the school shooting in Germany today? Germany has very strict gun control laws, yet one kid managed to rack up several more kills than Columbine with only a 9mm Beretta.


87 posted on 03/11/2009 1:47:29 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback ("[Palin] has not even lived in the Lower 48 since 1987. Come on! Really!" --Polybius)
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To: mtnwmn

MARTIAL LAW.

That’s “martial” as in “military” not “Marshall” as in a college with a well-known football team.


88 posted on 03/11/2009 1:52:25 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback ("[Palin] has not even lived in the Lower 48 since 1987. Come on! Really!" --Polybius)
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To: PghBaldy; Lucky9teen

Wasn’t it replaced with HSPD-51?


89 posted on 03/11/2009 2:08:08 PM PDT by wolfcreek (There is no 2 party system only arrogant Pols and their handlers)
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To: 444Flyer; 668 - Neighbor of the Beast; napscoordinator

Here in Texas, state troopers, any number of different Fed agencies, Texas Rangers, if something big happened, National guard, but, I’ve never seen the use of active duty military.

This has some sort of stink to it.


90 posted on 03/11/2009 2:14:04 PM PDT by wolfcreek (There is no 2 party system only arrogant Pols and their handlers)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
Using the army for domestic law enforcement is a no-no!

It can be done, if the said army unit is transferred to a state's National Guard and put under command of the state's governor. I think it happened after Hurricane Andrew.

91 posted on 03/11/2009 2:17:27 PM PDT by Thunder90
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To: ansel12

Washington, DC is NOT a state, it is federal property, and thus Posse Comatius (SP) doesn’t apply there.


92 posted on 03/11/2009 2:19:43 PM PDT by Thunder90
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To: Saoirise; HollyB

Ping


93 posted on 03/11/2009 2:20:37 PM PDT by 444Flyer (Don't beLIEve Obama.............................Never give up, never give in, never give out!)
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To: BigFinn
Do you think they would fire on their own people? Especially with a military hating President?

No, thats why we need a national security non military army populated with bloods and crips who wouldn't mind shooting a few people.

94 posted on 03/11/2009 2:34:15 PM PDT by Tramonto (More broker for you money.)
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To: fightinbluhen51

You need the entire Army to subdue ONE lunatic with a gun?


95 posted on 03/11/2009 2:43:22 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
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To: Just another Joe

Disagree...the Alabama Guard has more than its share of Military Police units that can deploy with minimum notice. The guardsmen you see on patrol after a natural disaster are typically members of an MP unit.

However, the soliders in the photo are said to be from Ft. Rucker, an active duty Army installation. Either the media is wrong about the soliders and where they are stationed, or we need some answers as to why active duty troops were called out in the wake of this tragedy. It was a horrific event to be sure, but one that should have been handled by local police, with assistance from state troopers.


96 posted on 03/11/2009 2:52:35 PM PDT by ExNewsExSpook
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To: Thunder90; PghBaldy; Mr. Silverback
That happened in Washington DC in 1971, about thirteen thousand Americans arrested and thousands went to detention centers, I was shipped to a coliseum for example.

These are paratroopers of the 101st Airborne introducing another generation of southerners to the bayonet in Arkansas during the carefree 50s.

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97 posted on 03/11/2009 2:59:16 PM PDT by ansel12 (Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
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To: Mr. Silverback

You are so right, and I was so wrong. Wasn’t thinking.....just running my mouth as usual.


98 posted on 03/11/2009 3:36:34 PM PDT by mtnwmn (Liberalism leads to Socialism)
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To: fightinbluhen51
"The dispatch of troops to Alabama in response to a local law enforcement situation represents a further erosion of Posse Comitatus and the continued federalization of state and local law enforcement." Um Rucker is in Alabama, so the troops were not 'dispatched to Alabama'. Besides being unable to write a lead line, the author is getting all sorts of data wrong. Was this written in Moscow or soemthing?
99 posted on 03/11/2009 3:52:52 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: MindBender26

That might be the best story from the Chicago DNC Riots I’ve ever read.


100 posted on 03/11/2009 4:02:07 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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