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The military can’t be used for that purpose in our nation.well, you could also give your military a real job and let them house the homeless and police the streets (after some manhandling training of course)..
Posse Comitatus Act - Wikipedia
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The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385, original at 20 Stat. 152) signed on June 18, 1878, by President Rutherford B. Hayes which limits the powers of the federal government in the use of federal militarypersonnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States. The Act was passed as an amendment to an army appropriation bill following the end of Reconstructionand was updated in 1956 and 1981.
The Act originally applied only to the United States Army, but a subsequent amendment in 1956 expanded its scope to the United States Air Force. In 2021, the National Defence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 further expanded the scope of the Act to cover the United States Navy, Marine Corps, and Space Force. The Act does not prevent the Army National Guard or the Air National Guard under stateauthority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within its home state or in an adjacent state if invited by that state's governor. The United States Coast Guard(under the Department of Homeland Security) is not covered by the Act either, primarily because although it is a armed service, it also has a maritime lawenforcement mission.
The title of the Act comes from the legal concept of posse comitatus, the authority under which a county sheriff, or other law officer, can conscript any able-bodied person to assist in keeping the peace.