Comments on: Posse Comitatus Alert: Military Deployed in Alabama to Aid with Murder Spree Law Enforcement Activities

By: Merf

Merf — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:23:34 +0000

Lyn, I agree with you. As I said on another thread, you are military or you are police — one or the other, not both. The military’s job is to kill people and break things. I, personally, had a job that involved keeping equipment running so the ship could get into position to launch planes . . . . so the pilots could kill people and break things.

This is not a bad thing, mind you. There are some people in the world that understand that language and no other, and will leave us alone as long as they think we will hurt them more than they can hurt us.

But while military is good for things like cleaning streets after a hurricane, we’re not all that good for law enforcement — not even MPs.

After all, MPs expect a certain level of obedience that civilians haven’t been taught to give them — and should be expect to give them, either, whereas military personnel know, when they talk, we shut up and listen, and then do what they say. It is part of what we agree to when we join — and civilians haven’t joined.

By: Lyn

Lyn — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:07:55 +0000

This is a big deal I wish people we more worried and were very mad. Soldiers don’t make good police. They end up being used to intimidate and harass people that’s it.

That town’s police chief needs to set up a reserve police officer or deputy program or auxiliary program. It was wrong for him to call the Army for help in this situation.

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Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:02:06 +0000

[...] Merf: It would have had to. I cannot imagine that an O-2 or O-3 would have done this without orders. [...]

By: Merf

Merf — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:17:18 +0000

It would have had to. I cannot imagine that an O-2 or O-3 would have done this without orders.

By: Stephen Gordon

Stephen Gordon — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:10:43 +0000

According to reports, there were 22 enlistees and one officer dispatched. I assume the officer was probably a 1LT or CPT. The order probably came from much higher up the local chain of command.

By: Merf

Merf — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:08:11 +0000

Stephen, the enlisted won’t know much, anyways. They will have gotten their orders from a senior enlisted who got them from a junior officer, and there may be several other people between that junior officer and the one who actually gave the orders . . . . Senior enlisted will know more, but maybe not much.

By: Merf

Merf — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:02:20 +0000

Good point, Peter, I always knew who it was that was tell me what to do. I guess a low-level officer could have lied and told us that the orders came from the Captain (O-6 Navy, not O-3 Army), but I don’t remember any officer being that stupid (not even either of the two I considered completely brainless.)

By: Stephen Gordon

Stephen Gordon — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:50:52 +0000

Peter,

I’m sure the enlisted soldiers involved have been ordered not to answer any questions from the media.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:38:40 +0000

How hard is it to ask the MPs involved “Who ordered you to go here?” And then follow the chain of orders up to whoever originated them? Shouldn’t the army be keeping records of who gives orders to whom?