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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAP: Pentagon takes rare step of putting military police on alert to go to embattled Minneapolis
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) Pentagon takes rare step of putting military police on alert to go to embattled Minneapolis.
https://apnews.com/df97ec1727978cb1e530febc0d81d755
msongs
(67,539 posts)sarisataka
(18,980 posts)burning a Post Office could give him cause to declare an insurrection in the city.
Invoking the Insurrection Act to use troops for policing is an exception to posse comitatus.
roamer65
(36,748 posts)crickets
(26,004 posts)sarisataka
(18,980 posts)and the burning of the Post Office could be enough justification
roamer65
(36,748 posts)Michigan would be better off as a Canadian province.
onecaliberal
(33,034 posts)dware
(12,584 posts)There is an exception to the Posse Comitatus Act.
0rganism
(24,004 posts)burn down some post offices in urban areas so mail-in voting becomes next-to-impossible
deploy the military police to further depress turn-out for in-person voting, beyond what coronavirus has already done
legions of DOJ-appointed narcs patrolling social media to disrupt civilian organizing
this is it, i think we're finally making contact with the bottom of the abyss. midnight from here on out.
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