FA_Q2
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You saw how many videos of people pulled from their homes at gun-point, out of the thousands of homes searched?
What were the exact circumstances of the gunpoint? Were they being the prisses I'm talking about, and blatantly trying to resist the necessary search for a loose terrorist in the area? Do you know everything, to draw a conclusion?
If you were an Officer in a shootout with bombs and guns between two men, and one of the men was loose within a restricted area, would you not be vigilant and take each vantage point for possible shooting, like second story windows, very seriously?
Who's shoes do you have to imagine being in? A guy from Tennessee who's totally separated from the bombing and not living or policing inside the area where the bomber is at large? I'm sure it's hard for people to understand when they don't even offer a modicum of "benefit of the doubt" to people inside such a dire situation as a man on the loose in a rural neighborhood who is thought to have bombs and an intent to mass-kill.
It's so easy, from the sidelines.
The entire incident in the first place was unjustified.
I, since I can only speak for myself here, am not attacking this incident based on the one video that we have (now 2 it seems) but rather on the entire incident in the first place. You keep referring to the *one* video as if that was indicative of the larger picture. There is a clear problem when we have MILITARY (not the police but MILITARY) involved in a criminal pursuit. When we quarantine an entire area of a city and demand that they search homes without warrants. That is unacceptable to me. This entire incident is a clear case of a complete overreaction because of this asinine fear of terrorism that we have allowed to fester in this country and it highlights how complacent of a society we have become to the powers that be every time that we are exposed to some errant terrorists plots.
What scares me most of all is that there are people such as yourself that are attacking those that raise the bullshit flag when this type of stuff happens. I should not see military on the streets of an American city unless they are simply traveling somewhere. I should not see them engaged in any kind of anti-criminal activity unless there is something on the scale of the LA riots going on (aka. Thousands of citizens have gone crazy). That is not the militarys purpose. Nor will I ever accept that the new reasonable search and seizure includes thousands of people whenever the government damn well decides it.
Isnt using the military for policing a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act?
That is federal. I am unaware of what troops they used but I ASSUME (yes, thats always a good idea, I know ) that it was the guard that was used. It takes to much red tape to engage the federals that fast. The guard only needs an order from the governor to get up and going.
Personally, it does not matter to me. The military has a purpose and they are trained and equipped for that purpose only. It is to bring death and destruction onto the target. They are not equipped like the police are where the purpose is keeping the peace. The two functions are completely different and the military simply does not belong on the streets.