Tumblr Icon RSS Icon  Posse Comitatus  By Matthew Yglesias on
September 25, 2008 at 12:11 pm  "Posse Comitatus"   google plus
icon   Aha! Here’s a good non-election topic. The Posse
Comitatus Act that prohibits deploying military forces inside
the United States. Vital safeguard of our civil liberties? Glenn
Greenwald says yes:   Robert Farley correctly notes, however,
that post-Civil War restrictions on the deployment of the U.S.
military were not so much aimed at safeguarding civil liberties
as they were at ensuring that African-Americans living in the
South could be systematically denied all political and civil
rights through an organized campaign of terrorist violence. With
state level authorities at best ignoring such terrorism and at
worst directly engaging in it, the deployment of federal troops
was the only possible method by which to secure the physical
safety and basic rights of black people. One also might recall
in this regard that federal troops were deployed to Arkansas to
ensure compliance with