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[ivydoor]

What the hell is this shit???

I'm not a card carrying member of the Tinfoil Hat Brigade, but I do NOT like how that looks.

ETA: Going public with this because it's farking scary and people need to see this.

Day late and dollar short ETA: principia_coh has a handy dandy template to edit as needed for your letters to Senators and Representatives.

http://ivydoor.livejournal.com/228968.html?thread=2065256#t2065256

Comments

[larissa-j.livejournal.com]

Oh hell no

[ivydoor.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen ANYTHING about this on the news, have you?

[larissa-j.livejournal.com]

No but I just sent mail to my senators. I'm quick like that

[ivydoor.livejournal.com]

I've emailed mine as well. This is absolutely outrageous.

[principia-coh.livejournal.com]

I've emailed both of my Senators, each of whom happens to serve on the Armed Services committee. Convenient, that.

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I was appalled to read in The Army Times (http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/) that U.S. Army personnel are going to be assigned to vaguely defined domestic duties, including what sounds like what would normally be considered standard law enforcement activities, or National Guard duties.

It would never be appropriate to put regular Army troops on the ground in the United States, but the fact that this move is taking place in the weeks leading up to the national election is frankly disturbing in the extreme.

This would be an obvious and gross violation of the critical principles of the Posse Comitatus Act, and I would urge you to take action to keep this frightening move from taking place.

[ivydoor.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that! Mind if I link this comment in the post for others to use?

[principia-coh.livejournal.com]

Sure, although I would encourage people to personalize it so that it doesn't sound like the product of some mass boilerplate mailing.

I also wrote them about the language in the bailout bill saying that the Treasury Secretary can do literally whatever he wants purusuant to the Act without legislative or judicial review.

King George needs to go take a flying leap.

[ivydoor.livejournal.com]

Finally got around to linking it. >_< It's been absolutely bonkers around here since yesterday.

Yeah the bailout is bothering me as well. I'm watching Dodd on Bloomburg channel right now and and the stock market ticker at the bottom of the page is nothing but red. It's more than a bit spooky.

I've been humming a certain Disney's Robin Hood song all morning.