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To: Sherman Logan
Obviously, use of federal troops to enforce the law can be abused.

I think the odds would be 100%, that it could be, and would be abused.

14 posted on 06/04/2012 3:18:01 PM PDT by Mark17 (California, where English is a foreign language)
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To: Mark17

My point is that there is nothing at all new about federal troops being used to enforce the law.

Without researching it in the least:

Federal troops, or possibly federalized militia, were used to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion during Washington’s presidency.

Federal troops were used in the early 1850s to enforce the return of Anthony Burns from Boston to his master under the Fugitive Slave Act.

Federal troops were used to suppress the fighting in Bloody Kansas in the 1850s.

Federal Marines were used to storm the Harper’s Ferry Arsenal when occupied by John Brown.

Federal troops were used to suppress the NYC draft riots.

Federal troops were used to suppress the KKK under President Grant.

Federal troops were repeatedly used to enforce the law (or to break the strike, depending on your POV) in labor disputes during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Federal troops were used to enforce the Supreme Court’s desegregation rulings in the 1950s.

That’s off the top of my head. I’m sure there are a great many more. You may claim troops should not be used this way, but you can’t claim it’s a new thing.


33 posted on 06/04/2012 6:53:12 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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