Reply #8: Are you confusing the Posse Comitatus Act (which wingnut Publicans .. [View All]

[struggle4progress]

.. have been trying to abolish for several decades now) with the wingnut organization "The Posse Comitatus" ? ? ? ? ?


Posse Comitatus Act

Section 1385 of Title 18, United States Code (USC), states: “Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both” ...

The PCA generally prohibits U.S. military personnel from direct participation in law enforcement activities. Some of those law enforcement activities would include interdicting vehicles, vessels, and aircraft; conducting surveillance, searches, pursuit and seizures; or making arrests on behalf of civilian law enforcement authorities. Prohibiting direct military involvement in law enforcement is in keeping with long-standing U.S. law and policy limiting the military’s role in domestic affairs ...

http://www.northcom.mil/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.factsheets&factsheet=5


Paranoia as Patriotism:
Far-Right Influences on the Militia Movement

The Posse Comitatus is an intermittently active, loosely organized group of "Christian Identity" activists dedicated to survivalism, vigilantism, and anti-government agitation. Following the pseudo-religious tenets of the "Identity" movement, Posse members typically proclaim Jews to be the "synagogue of Satan," blacks and other people of color to be subhuman "mud races," and Northern European whites to be the "Chosen People" of Biblical prophecy ...

http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/orgs/american/adl/paranoia-as-patriotism/posse-comitatus.html