Re: Bush is either a liar, or an idiot, or both.

On 9/5/05 3:08 PM, in article Cl3Te.166244$E95.105037@fed1read01, "Richard
Henry" <rphenry@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> "Don Bowey" <dbowey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:BF420AD9.FC55%dbowey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> On 9/5/05 1:52 PM, in article 3o3pgdF420r9U3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dirk Bruere
> at
>> Neopax" <dirk.bruere@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Wait... I think a solution is coming to me...
>>>>>> Let the real military go in and if people shoot at them - wipe them
> out.
>>>>>> Let the toy soldiers and civilian agencies do Biloxi house by house,
>>>>>> where
>>>>>> it's nice and safe.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Bad idea! Bad Dirk! That will never be a solution. The military
>>>>> cannot be
>>>>> used as a domestic police force.
>>>
>>> We are tyalking about a couple of weeks tops.
>>> It's not like you have to cope with a Northern Ireland situation.
>>
>>
>> In what country do you reside? You cannot apply the legalities of what
> one
>> country does with their military, to another country.
>>
>> In the US you simply cannot use Federal Troops (THE military) as a
> domestic
>> police force. Not even for one minute.
>
> By the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878.
>
> Which did not stop the US Army from engaging in armed combat with citizens
> of the United States in Waco, Texas, in 1993.
>
>
>>
>>
>
>

If what you say is true, it was by an illegal order, and the person
responsible for the order should have been dealt with under our laws. I was
not aware that anyone but the FBI pulled of the Waco mess.

Don

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