On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:59:09 -0500, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:

"RD" wrote in message
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On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 07:50:44 -0500, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:


This Act probably is the most myth-filled one in American History. If
people
only read it, it would all be a lot simpler.

What myths?

That is somehow enables posses, particularly posses comitatus ("power of the
county"), and that it prevents the National Guard from being used in
domestic duties.

Actually..it DOES enable posses, and involuntary service to a
government agency such as a fire department in times of emergencies.
You are correct on everything else.

All is says is that the US Army cannot be employed for police activities in
the US. It was written as a rider to the defense appropriations bill of
1878. The more recent amendments to it have added the Air Force. Since
amendments to it enacted in the early 1980s, it is effectively defunct.

It explicitly does NOT, and never did, cover the National Guard, which, in
times of peace, is the states' militias.

Ed Huntress

Gunner

"I mean, when's the last time you heard of a college where the Young
Republicans staged a "Sit In" to close down the Humanities building?
On the flip side, how many sit in's were staged to close the ROTC building back in the '60's?
Liberals stage protests, do civil disobedience, etc.
Conservatives talk politely and try to work out a solution to problems
through discourse until they believe that talking won't work... they they go home and open the gun cabinets.
Pray things never get to the point where the conservatives decide that
"civil disobedience" is the next step, because that's a very short route to "voting from the rooftops"
Jeffrey Swartz, Misc.Survivalism