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Search "posse comitatus" under "The Entire Code" at: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/fx
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Go directly to this particular code at: http:www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/1989.html
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| Has the 1878 law that protects U.S. citizens from the use of its own military against citizens been watered down in the last 20 years? Is it no longer necessary for local authorities to have presidential or congressional approval to call in the deadly, expertly trained killers of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, or even another state's National Guard in order to arrest or otherwise handle citizens? Have the last vestiges of posse comitatus disappeared under the government's war on drugs and while we were napping? | ||||||||||||||
| 42 USC Sec. 1989 (last updated 01/26/98) | ||||||||||||||
| Paragraph 1989. United States magistrate judges; appointment of persons to execute warrants | ||||||||||||||
| The district courts of the United States and the district courts of the Territories, from time to time, shall increase the number of United States magistrate judges, so as to afford a speedy and convenient means for the arrest and examination of persons charged with the crimes referred to in section 1987 of this title, and such magistrate judges are authorized and required to exercise all the powers and duties conferred on them herein with regard to such offenses in like manner as they are authorized by law to exercise with regard to other offenses against the laws of the United States. Said magistrate judges are empowered, within their respective counties, to appoint, in writing, under their hands, one or more suitable persons, from time to time, who shall execute all such warrants or other process as the magistrate judges may issue in the lawful performance of their duties, and the persons so appointed shall have the authority to summon and call to their aid the bystanders or posse comitatus of the proper county, or such portion of the land or naval forces of the United States, or of the militia, as may be necessary to the performance of the duty with which they are charged, and such warrants shall run and be executed anywhere in the State or Territory within which they are issued. | ||||||||||||||
| Notice the use of the term "posse comitatus" in this instance. Either stupidly or very deviously, it reads as though referring to a scene from some old western movie where the sheriff deputizes "bystanders" to ride after the bad guys. Would you not be right to expect the federal government to understand what posse comitatus is all about? | ||||||||||||||
| It should also be noted that the state of Texas, under George Junior's governorship, has been reported to have around one hundred counties where federal troops are helping local law enforcement enforce the law, search and arrest people, and so forth. Many of these troops are from Fort Hood. The same military that participated in the Waco fiasco. Another subject the prince is very quiet about. | ||||||||||||||
| What we've apparently lost | ||||||||||||||
| The following links will take you to two very good articles on posse comitatus and relate content to Waco. | ||||||||||||||
| Can soldiers be peace officers? | ||||||||||||||
| Military training of civilian police steadily expands. | ||||||||||||||
| Feel free to validate this U.S.Code for yourself at: http://www.law.cornell.edu/ - go to "U.S.Code" or Search "posse comitatus" under "The Entire Code" at: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/fx or Go directly to this particular code at: http:www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/1989.html |
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| What does it take to make you believe Posse Comitatus is gone?? | ||||||||||||||