The October/November Surprise Part Two
It would be one nasty surprise to awake some morning to find federal troops patrolling America’s streets.
Technically, legally, such a phenomenon could never happen due to the existence of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878–except in a circumstance which is deemed “extraordinary” and, of course, “extraordinary circumstance” is a term open to debate.
The post-Reconstruction Posse Comitatus, literally “the power of the county,” law theoretically prohibits the use of federal uniformed services from exercising the police powers granted to states within the confines of the United States, theoretically since the act’s provisions have been termed more mythical than factual.
The story behind the passage of Posse Comitatus Act reeks with political intrigue and political compromise following the Civil War. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1642)
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