The "Posse Comitatus Act" is counted on by millions upon millions of Americans to ensure that the United States Military will not be used against them, especially as a mechanism of Law Enforcement, even if they do not know it. (Think German SS)
I only summarized it, and now that you have heard of it for the first time, know how to spell it, and can do a Google search, you are more than welcomed to sort out what it means to you. Here is a story that should cause a little pause from the Army Times.
Anyway, when I was a young Petty Officer in the United States Navy performing anti-drug operations in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, and the Eastern Pacific Ocean, it was made clear to us that we were not Drug Enforcement Administration(DEA), nor police! We had no powers of arrest, search and seizure in the "police" sense.
What does that mean in military speak? Well, it means that if I happened to hear a drug smuggler on a classified circuit, telling where the drugs were hidden on his boat, I could not tell the ships Captain, then for our ship to arrest and seize what was on board of that vessel.
Why? Because that would not be admissible in a U.S. court of law due to the Posse Comitatus Act.
The military cannot act as a police force against civilians in the United States of America! Since the smugglers were to be tried in a U.S. court of law, we have a catch .22!
Did that mean we were there for nothing, and never caught any drug smugglers? Of course not. So how did we "get around" this issue? Well, we embarked,(brought on board), members of the United States Coast Guard. How could that help?
Let's see:
First, you must realize the Coast Guard is not part of the Navy, nor the military during peace time, and not even during modern war time. They are more of a law enforcement entity, and before the invention of "Homeland" security came about, they were under the Department of Transportation.
Someone had to monitor and control all of those waterway highways that are within 12 miles of the U.S. coastline, or the U.S. inland waters, and that task fell to the Coast Guard.
Anyway, since they were not classified as military in the direct sense, they could carry out police actions, where the military,(my ship), could not. In theory at least.
In theory, if I heard a tip on a classified military channel, I could not tell the embarked Coast Guard guys, and never did. Somehow though, they always kind of knew where to search when they went over to search a suspect vessel. How that could happen is anyones guess. Especially anyone without an imagination.
Anyway, so now fast forward a decade or so, and what you see happening is a direct challenge, and purposeful degradation of the Posse Comitatus Act, which has been in place for many, many years, with good reason. Why, is the question you must ask yourself! Why wouldn't the police, and many other agencies already in existence be enough in today's society?
These are all very good questions, and the American Citizens,(most of you listening I would presume), should learn what is going on, and make certain that your input is well known BEFORE your rights are lost, and not after.
Remember the truth as it was recorded for you now, not for some lost cause in a time long past!
Pastor Martin Niemöller(1892–1984):
About Nazi rise to power, group after group.
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
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