More Loss of Freedom for the US

A few days ago, I posted a blog in which I basically said keep an eye on the Posse Comitatus Act. I said I believed the government was about to try to change that Act and they shouldn’t. I gave a number of reasons why the Act should be left as it is, not the least of which was/is to forbid the military from enforcing the law within the borders of the US.

The Posse Comitatus Act was enacted in 1878 during the latter days of Reconstruction here in the South. The US Military was running rough shod over the South and, for all practical intents and purposes, the South was a military dictatorship. The Posse Comitatus Act changed all that.

After the complete collapse of Louisiana’s emergency preparedness plans in the face of a hurricane and their total lack of any ability to help themselves, as self sufficient human beings should, much talk has been circulating in the nations capitol about changing the Act to allow the US Military to become the first responders in the case of natural disasters and national emergencies.

As the US Coast Guard was the only service not covered by the Posse Comitatus Act it was the first US military service on the scene in New Orleans plucking people off roofs and such.

Those of us who live in a part of the US, which was invaded, conquered, and occupied by US military forces are, and have a right to be, very leery of any changes to the Posse Comitatus Act. We fear the “Camel’s Noise Under the Tent” scenario! In other words, give the government an inch, and they will take a mile.

You can wager that once any bills to change that law get into committee(s) one of the first things discussed will be how to gain legal control over the populace of the affected area and how US troops can be used to enforce laws in that area. It’s as sure as night follows day.

If you have not read the Posse Comitatus Act, it’s here, on this site, in some of my recent blog postings. Look for it. You'll find it. Do yourself a favor and read it. Then, we urge you to e-mail your Congressperson, and Senator, and demand that the Posse Comitatus Act be left as it is with no changes.

This is serious stuff here, folks. If we are willing to exchange freedom for security, then, we deserve neither and soon we will have neither.

This needs your immediate attention. Your freedom is at risk. Or, like many Americans today, you just don’t care?

“Longstreet”