Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by battery_cowboy 2203 days ago
I appreciate your experience, but in the USA, regardless of what these other posters are stating, you can't use the military for law enforcement except for very narrow limits. They are mistaken when they say this use is legal, but I can forgive their error since America has basically turned into a banana republic, so it's hard to understand some things that are occurring daily used to be really illegal and looked down upon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

1 comments

1. I am aware of the PCA, by guess is a bunch of other loosely written clauses in OTHER equally legal Acts of congress are used as cover to trump the PCA;

2. Once you are at secret courts, all bets are off.

Sad really.