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brooklynite

(94,585 posts) Tue Oct 30, 2012, 01:26 PM Oct 2012

DOD says 7,400 National Guard troops working along the Atlantic coast...

...or, as the Romney campaign would call it, SOCIALISM!

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DOD says 7,400 National Guard troops working along the Atlantic coast... (Original Post) brooklynite Oct 2012 OP

Doesn't Posse Comitatus prevent such a power grab? jenw2 Oct 2012 #1

Not for the national guard when called up by the states. Angleae Oct 2012 #2

They are working for the governors nadinbrzezinski Oct 2012 #3

jenw2

(374 posts)

1. Doesn't Posse Comitatus prevent such a power grab?

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2012, 02:33 PM

Oct 2012

Angleae

(4,484 posts)

2. Not for the national guard when called up by the states.

Reply to jenw2 (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 31, 2012, 01:36 AM

Oct 2012

Only federal military is affected.

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)

3. They are working for the governors

Reply to jenw2 (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 31, 2012, 01:41 AM

Oct 2012

And in disasters even federal troops can be used in relief as long as, tricky phrase, they are not used for law enforcement.

During Katrina you saw federal, 101st if memory serves, and state troops working side by side.

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