The Constitution remains under attack by lame duck President George W. Bush, but will President-elect Obama save the situation? George W. Bush is planning to order 20,000 uniformed active duty soldiers to help with law enforcement inside the United States.
Although the Posse Comitatus Act has for 130 years restricted the military from taking a role in domestic law enforcement this does not seem acceptable to the lame duck administration, which has been working on this plan, according to the Washington Post since 2001.
There is major concern for the average citizen when the military of the United States is turned on the American citizenry. Even if the thought behind the soldiers role in domestic defense is in good intention this does not stop the thought of walking down your local city street and seeing military soldiers with M16s on a corner.
As a free nation of free people, why with all the firepower that local police officers have, do we need military men with assault rifles? Many modern countries don't allow all of their police officers to carry firearms full time. In the United States we have police departments with mobile war machines.
They come with assault rifles, riot gear, hand guns and helicopters. The police officers in some cities have been found abusing the authority they currently have. Are we prepared to add war soldiers to the mix of our daily lives?
After all we don't have a war at home. There are no approaching tanks. Where are the soldiers marching into our cities from a foreign enemy? If there is no foreign force preparing to attack America, then why are the soldiers here? Is the enemy the citizens of the United States of America?
Even if we take this to a homeland security only stand, how do we feel about a soldier opening fire on American soil, because they believe they see a threat? If the argument is they aren't going to do that, then why are they using infantry and combat specialists? Why not intel personnel only? If the soldiers aren't meant to raise their firearms in the free nation of America why will they have their guns here?
The scariest thing to an American should be loss of freedom. True freedom. We have the right to be free in our own nation, to travel freely and express ourselves openly.
I just don't understand how our right to express ourselves will be so openly done on the streets of our cities when soldiers with assault rifles are standing beside of us. What will be next when soldiers are already on our street?
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