The Posse Comitatus Act

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I won’t tell you how you’re wrong, but I will remind you of two things: First the FBI, at Waco, got their asses handed to them to begin with, and then in an unconstitutional move, condoned by the White House (Democratic Socialists) they employed the Military (an absolute violation of law, they called it limited assistance by national guard, not restrained by the Posse Comitatus Act) to first overcome and then Murder 76 Americans, many children. Like so many laws, after they are broken by those who make them, government, they front loads public opinion and withholds their illegal actions from the public and courts. Second, this is the very reason the Constitution prohibits the creation of a standing army, funded for more than two years, and

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