I really wish you folks would learn that Posse Comitatus doesn’t cover ALL of the military.
You can technical-legalese your way around any law with patriot-act era gibberish. Sure, PCA formally stated Army, but the point was to exclude major active-duty military components from acting as occupiers in any part of America. That particular act came from hard lessons learned after the CW.
Don’t dance the legalese twist, the point is that we are watching the military, police and federal law enforcement morph into a seamless National State Security Force far beyond anything our Founding Fathers warned us against so often and passionately.
The Marines “integrating” with many national police departments in order to get ready for unspecified “Special Reactions” or whatever is very worrisome.
Hey, let’s give them a billion HP bullets and thousands of new and surplus armored trucks while we’re out it.
No problemo, nothing but blue skies ahead, eh?
Do you think it is a good thing, or a bad thing, to have Marines deployed inside the USA in opposition to citizens?
Seems to me the intent, not to split hairs, is to not deploy the national Defence forces against the citizenry.
Do you have a problem with that intent?
The question is, what is the right thing for the armed forces to do, including marines, when they are asked by the government of the US (for example, the socialist communist one we have today) to deploy in military action against the citizens.
Personally, I believe the military, be they army, Seals, Marines, coast Guard, whatever, ought not be deployed against law abiding citizens, and non law abiding residents should be dealt with by law enforcement officers.
So, are we on the same page, or not?