MEMOS RELEASED US has been a DICTATORSHIP for the last 8 years! call your reps DEMAND PROSECUTION

[hurchel]

I saw an article in the LA times today that said all bush memos are being reviewed by eric holder, and cannot be relied on as law or a given....

[RedQueenHypothesis]

these people should be getting jail sentences, not jobs...

[oz22verizon]

The Posse Comitatus law was passed in 1878, not only in response to some of the abuses committed by federal troops during the Reconstruction period in the South after the Civil War, but more specifically after many suspected that federal troops influenced the election of 1876, in which Rutherford B. Hayes was chosen by the Electoral College and federal troops ran some polling places in the South.

[oz22verizon]

Specifically, Hayes won the disputed electoral votes of South Carolina, Louisiana and Florida, states where President U.S. Grant had sent troops as a posse comitatus by federal marshals at the polls if deemed necessary.

[oz22verizon]

the use of federal troops in an election, the most central event in any democracy, bothered even many in Congress who didn't think it was stolen The Posse Comitatus Act was enacted in 1878.

[oz22verizon]

It reads as follows (as revised in 1956):

"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 for not more than two years, or both."

[oz22verizon]

1878 was not the only time that U.S. citizens abruptly discovered the potential dangers of military domination. The attitudes of the colonists who eventually broke away from Great Britain was profoundly influenced by the fact that the British quartered troops forcefully in the homes of civilians and that the military often operated independently of civilian authorities. The Declaration of Independence also attacked the very idea of keeping of a standing army in time of peace