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- From: gawne@stsci.edu
- Subject: Re: Scope of Action-US Military
- Message-ID: <C1H35C.FIr@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
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- Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:56:00 GMT
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- From gawne@stsci.edu
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- In article <C15yFB.KDn@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, "Rex A. Buddenberg"
- <budden@trout.nosc.mil> writes:
- > Depends on what you mean by 'operate'. DoD forces cannot exercise
- > direct law enforcement authority against US citizens but other
- > operations are certainly allowed (like hurricaine disaster relief).
- > This restriction does not apply to National Guardsmen under state control.
-
- So what were those Marines doing in Los Angeles during the riots last
- summer? They didn't appear to be on liberty.
-
- I *think* that President Bush used the "and such other actions as the
- president may direct" clause from the Marine Corps charter of 1798 in
- this case. If shooting looters doesn't come under "direct law enforcement"
- then I don't know what does.
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- -Bill Gawne, Space Telescope Science Institute
- MSgt USMCR
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