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Posse Comitatus.(Letter to the Editor)
Tom Ostrom writes in the Letters to the Editor of December 12, 2005 that the Posse Comitatus law of 1878 was permanently overruled by the formation of the U.S. Coast Guard and National Guard.
While it may be true that Posse Comitatus has been overridden in the past, since when did two wrongs make a right?
The act of using "precedent" to justify breaking the law is exactly how activist judges and liberal lawyers have been undermining our constitutional republic for decades.
I say enough is enough.
JEFF SMITH
Lexington, Kentucky
Reader Thomas P. Ostrom is partially correct and also partially mistaken when he comments that the Posse Comitatus law has been rendered moot by the creation of the Coast Guard and National Guard.
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