What are your opinions about the posse comitatus law?
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The Coast Guard and National Guard serve a dual function. They can be deployed as part of the normal military, and they can serve their primary function which is internal security and peacekeeping.\n\nI think that the Posse Comitatus Act is essential to prevent this country from turning into a police state, especially with a Commander-in-Sheik who keeps ignoring federal laws and constitutional limitations.\n\nThat being said, I also think that the proper place for the National Guard and Coast Guard is here on home soil, acting in a national security (homeland security) role, and not overseas. \n\nIf there are not enough troops to do both functions, then the National Guard should be deployed exclusively at home, and we should pull back on overseas military actions that do not require our nation's attention. \n\nHowever, the regular army/military should not be deployed on home soil for enforcement, for reasons stated above. If we need those troops here because of personnel shortages, then they should be permanently transferred from the Army to the National Guard. But don't ignore the necessity of keeping the two forces distinct in their goals and mission.
909657
simply put YES.\n\nI feel that it should be a case by case basis.. but when it comes to terrorism then You bet..\nHowever\n\nIt should be regulated in the sense that not any soldoer can do this..only interrogators or the soldier in the group who has been assigned that duty.\n\nIf we allowed any and all soldiers to wildy use any means on the enemy most of the enemy would never be seen alive again once they were captured...  Keep in mind the mentality of a soldier who captures a combatant after just seeing his best buddy killed nest to him... \nYou think he is in the right frame of mind to be objective ???\n\nSO I think there wold need to be some rules.. but YES\nI am for it 100%.\n\nThese ae not our friends they are our enemies.. they mean to do harm to Americans all Americans they do not care if you are anti war or Muslim or a child or old.. If you are an American they would kill you soon as look at you..  its stupid and rediculous but its the way they terrorist grgoups think and how they are trained... SO yes... \n\nSorry if this sounds harsh.. buts how I feel.\n\nGood Luck\n\nWismom
293817
I believe you mean 'posse comitatus'.  Which is a body of men (and women) that a peace officer is empowered to call to assist him with: preserving the peace, making arrests and serving writs.
960994
The debate seems to me to be about making a decision whether to let people who knowingly and willingly break our laws be rewarded for their violations.  This is a pretty senseless debate, and it hinges on one idea:  if enough people chose to break the law should the law be changed to legalize their actions?  So if one person breaks a law that is one thing and the person is legitimately guilty and should be punished, but if 5 million people break the same law are they not just as guilty?  Should the punishment not be the same as if one person broke the law?\n\nLook at it another way:  if enough people go out and rob banks does this mean bank robbery should be legalized?  And while we are debating this, should we give special privileges to bank robbers already in custody?\n\nThis is what the debate is really all about, and while self-serving politicians try to conjure up ways to get more votes from non-citizens, there should be NO additional advantages given to illegal Mexican immigrants who just happen to have approval of Mexican officials to enter the US illegally.   This thing has to be settled first  or the problems will ripple all the way up to the head of the line.
690232
Unfortunately in the eyes of the law its murder....but it should be justifiable,Just as Bush justifies every law hes broken, every lie hes told to turn it around and say its it our countries best interest... I should also add its justifed when your property or life depends on it.  That goes for many other circumstances well apart from the borders of this country.
604666
Unfortunately, I have not heard anything about this act actually passing, but if you are right, then we should avoid it at all costs, including guillotines.  \n\nYes, I do believe that we are comming very near to the mark of the beast, and many religious scholars believe that it will be a very deceptive mark like a bar code that will be imposed on us as some sort of convenience to just "scan & go".  A computer chip would be equally sneaky.  I would say that as long as we have not yet witnessed the peace treaty in Isreal or a one world leader, then we are not there yet.  The thing to remember is that the mark of the beast will be on your right hand or forehead.  If they try to get you to put this chip or anything else in either of those places, "SAY NO!"\n\nBy the way, I was watching an episode of CSI Miami a while back and they had girls with these chips implanted just under the skin in their chest.  It was a new form of credit card.  I have no idea if this is similar to the one you are referring to, but it is an interesting concept.\n\nhttp://news.com.com/FAQ+How+Real+ID+will+affect+you/2100-1028_3-5697111.html?tag=st.num\nI just read this article from cnet and it doesn't say anything about this being placed on our bodies.  It is just going to be an ID card like your driver's license, but with more security features.  I think the tracking device will end up being challenged in the courts as unconstitutional, but they have three years to figure that out.  I think that the card itself is pretty harmless, but the database could be a precursor for things to come.
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I Think The Laws Are In Place For A Reason...\nTo Prevent Terrible Things To Happen To Our Nation\nThings Like THIS For Instance\n\nA close, personal friendship with President George W. Bush has given Mexicos President Vicente Fox the opportunity to purposely allow (or even send) Millions of Criminals, Thugs, Anarchists, and Potential Terrorists to swarm over our southern border in breathtaking numbers. (Nearly half of all illegal aliens currently living in the U.S. came here since Bush became president in 2000.) \n\nMexican American Legal Defense Fund founder Mario Obledo stated, “California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave. Every constitutional office in California is going to be held by Hispanics in the next 20 years. People who don't like such demographic changes “should go back to Europe.” \n(Incidentally, Senor Obledo was also the California Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Gov. Jerry Brown.) \nObledo Is A Member Of "MEChA" And "LA RAZA"\n\nThe newly "ELECTED"mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, joined the lawbreakers and proclaimed \n"This bill in Congress is wrong". "The only thing illegal is making 11 million illegal aliens felons." \nYeah, he Actually said that. People should make no mistake about it: Villaraigosa was "ELECTED" by ILLEGALs VOTING, and HIS Allegiance, along with the rest of these "ELECTED" public officials in California of Mexican ancestry is to Mexico, not California or these United States of America. Villaraigosa has spent a lifetime opposing U.S. immigration laws.\nVillaraigosa is A Member Of "MEChA" and " LA RAZA"\n\nMEChA and the La Raza movement teach that Colorado, California, Arizona, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon and parts of Washington State make up an area known as "AZTLAN" -- a fictional ancestral homeland of the Aztecs before Europeans arrived in North America. As such, it belongs to the followers of MEChA. These are all areas America should surrender to "La Raza" once enough immigrants, legal or illegal, enter to claim a majority, as in Los Angeles. The current borders of the United States will be extinguished.\n\nThe Council of La Raza succeeded in having itself added to congressional hearings by Republican House and Senate leaders. And an anonymous senator even gave the Council of La Raza an extra $4 million in earmarked taxpayer money, supposedly for "housing reform," while La Raza continues to lobby the Senate for virtual open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens. \nhttp://www.humaneventsonline.com/article...\n\n"We have an aging white America ... They are dying ...The explosion is in our population . . . I love it. They are shitting in their pants with fear. I love it." \nWe have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him." \nJose Angel Gutierrez, professor, University of Texas, Arlington and founder of the La Raza Unida political party \n\nArt Torres, California Democratic Party chairman, at the Latino Summit In Response to Prop 187 at U.C. Riverside (Jan. 14, 1995): \n"Power is not given to you, you have to take it! People say to me when I was on the Senate floor, when I was in the Senate, why do you fight so hard for affirmative action programs. And I tell my white colleagues: because you're gonna need them. Remember, 187 is the last gasp of white America\n\nYou Can Hear These Words For Yourself Along With OTHER INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE Of A Conspiracy To Overthrow Our Nation \nhttp://tinyurl.com/pqzpe\n\nOther Members Of This Group Include\n\nAugustin Cebada, Brown Berets; \n"Go back to Boston! Go back to Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims! Get out! We are the future. You are old and tired. Go on. We have beaten you. Leave like beaten rats. You old white people. It is your duty to die . . Through love of having
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I think that would be fantastic idea. Anyone guilty of unsocial behavior,minor crimes it would certainly make them think before breaking the law.Just imagine the uproar this would cause ,(ITS against their Human rights)\nNever about the rights of law abiding citizens.
1138159
Because the National Guard was set up to get around Posse Comitatus by being fully funded by the state they are there to protect. They may get federal money from grants and such, but the grant money goes to the state, not the military unit. Then the STATE itself funds the units needs. As a military unit fully funded by the state, and for the state, is is lawful for the Governor of the state to order them into civilian action, not as an Army unit, but as a deputized law enforcement unit under the control of the Governor's office. Or whatever other reason he needs them. (For example, he/she can order medical personel into the field and set up medical facilities for civilians.) FEDERAL troops, such as a Marine detachment, or a Regular Army (or RA) detachment could not participate in these same actions except as in a supporting role only, as is the case with the federal troops supporting the local and federal law enforcement agencies along the Mexican border. They have no arrest authority, but use sophisticated techniques and sheer manpower to support those who do.
804395
That's a great question. I wish it was all treated the same. Heck when there's money envolved the law will conform to the greed. Look at gambling; it used to be illegal, but they'll have a native american on their board of directors and call it gaming, or put it on a boat and pretend like it's on water to overcome the laws against casinos. It's all about greed. What it does to society and families doesn't even come into consideration.
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Sounds pretty good. I hope I never have that opportunity.\nThen I would be a hypocrite. I think everyone should play by the rules.My spouse came here legally 9 yrs ago and has never spent one illegal day in this country. I think everyone should pay the price the same way. What is good for one person is good for the other. Don't reward those who disregard the laws.
468456
Do you think that the govt has legitimate authority?  Based on your rationale it cannot, since it all goes back to property theft and ethnic cleansing.  If you do, then you also have to acknowledge that immigration is a matter which can legally be managed by the govt.\n\nDid we steal the land from the indians?  Maybe some of it.  What gets me is that there are rich people who are rich because of land.  But let's trace this back.  At some point someone claimed ownership of the land and didn't have to pay a dollar for it.  That's a load of BS.  So, now I get screwed because someone arbitrarily claims ownership of land.  I don't know how to fix, I just know that capitalism pisses me off sometimes.
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Your LOGIC Is OK - And It Makes Sense\n\nBut Youre A LAW ABIDING CITIZEN\nStay That Way\nLet Them Continue To Break The Laws\nJustice Will Prevail\nDont Lower Yourself To The Level Of The Lawbreakers
834316
Absolutely.  It it wasn't for the legal system we would have lynch mobs.  The public is still swayed by public opinion, true or not.  Look at what happened to that Benet-John Karr guy.  Everyone wanted to castrate him and draw and quarter him.  As much as I believe in modern society, most people are still sheep.
999797
Yes and no.\n\nI think the criminal system, even with it's flaws is still the best.  I wouldn't want to lose my rights to an attorney or a trial by a jury of the community and being innocent until proven guilty etc. when my freedom is at stake.\n\nCIVIL LAW however DESPERATELY needs to be OVERHAULED!  The fact that anyone can sue anyone else for anything and that person sued still has to go through the courts to get a case dismissed is TOO loose.  I think that there should be more ethics requirements on lawyers and fines for those who file frivilous lawsuits to discourage such stupid practices.
915525
Absouletly. IT should be repealed ASAP. It destorys habeus corpeus and violates the civil rights of the american people. IT also redefines the geneva convention for the united states to interept at their own will. It sets the road for a military dicatorship in the united states, in the form of a facist police state using federal agencies like the department of homeland security as a front.  It clearly violates the united states constitution and puts our country in a hardline stance that violates everything that we stand for. It also gives the ability for them to classify american citizens as enemy combantants, and allows for them to be punished without trial or jury.
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It is important that everyone feel safe and actually be safe.  There are situations when some take it upon themselves to infringe on the rights of everyone and attempt to steal or harm them.  When there is reasonable suspicion that something is not right, then today we give our law enforcement the prerogative to take action.\n\nNo matter what anyone may think, this is the very best the civilization has developed so far in the history of the world.  It is not perfect by a long shot.  It will continue to improve as long as people like you are thoughtful enough to keep everyone thinking.