Not that I oppose nabbing drunk drivers, but what in the name of the Constitution are US Marines doing manning DUI roadblocks in San Bernardino County, California? Are people just nuts these days or what? This is a categorical violation of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which Congress passed to prevent Americans from ever being occupied by a home-grown military dictatorship such as the corrupt, brutal dictatorship citizens of the South suffered during Reconstruction. That sorry episode of American history was so repugnant that even Northern politicians were willing to forbid the use of US military forces anywhere in the sovereign states of the Union. But now, with our Constitution in tatters, the military is infiltrating domestic law enforcement that once was answerable solely to local civilian authority. How long before the country is divided into military districts administered by a regional commander answerable solely to the Pentagon?
You say it can't happen here? Well, what do you think this is, chopped liver? It's happening in front of your eyes. Wake up! The rule of law and the subordination of the military to civilian authority are going, going, nearly gone in this country. Does anyone care? We Americans are sleepwalking into tyranny.
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