Sunday, August 02, 2009
Little by little the government has been allowing the military to participate in domestic law enforcement activities that are supposed to be banned under the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. In 2002 President George W. Bush reportedly considered sending troops to the city of Buffalo, NY, to arrest members of a suspected terrorist cell, and in March of this year, the U.S. Army sent soldiers into the small Alabama town of Samson to help with the pursuit of a gunman who had killed 10 people.
In addition, the military is becoming increasingly involved in more than 40 so-called “fusion centers” created to help federal, state and local law enforcement prevent domestic terrorism. The American Civil Liberties Union has expressed growing apprehension over military personnel taking part in fusion centers, which also have come under scrutiny from the Project on Government Oversight for alleged conflicts of interest and accusations of privatizing criminal intelligence work at the Washington Joint Analytical Center in Seattle.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
Military/Law Enforcement Partnerships: A Growing Ball of Con-'Fusion' (Project on Government Oversight)
U.S. Army Puts Soldiers on the Street in Alabama in Response to Shootings (by Kurt Nimmo, InfoWars.com)
Army Investigating How and Why Troops Were Sent Into Alabama Town after Murder Spree (by Pete Winn, Cybercast News Service)
Ala. Sherriff Asked for MPs, Questions Army Investigation into Civilion Troop Use (by Pete Winn, Cybercast News Service)
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