posse comitatus

[tyme]

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/South/11/20/kidnapping.fugitive/index.html

Investigators believe Fulks, 25, and fellow convict Branden Basham, 21, who was arrested Sunday in Kentucky, kidnapped Alice Donovan from a parking lot in Conway, South Carolina, Thursday. About 40 miles north of Conway, sheriff's deputies, state police and U.S. Marines are searching an 850-square-mile area along U.S. Highway 17 for any sign of the missing woman.

Is anyone keeping track of the energy being generated by the spinning of the magnet-laden founding fathers?

 

[houndawg]

What's posse comitatus have to do with this? The Marines aren't involving themselves in any type of law enforcement endeavor against the people, they're they're trying to help find a missing woman by adding manpower to the search party.

 

[bastiat]

The police work is basically done, now they're helping out on what could probably be called 'search and rescue'. They're not trying to find lawbreakers, they're trying to find a crime victim before she dies of exposure and stavation (If she is still alive - hopefully she is)

The missing woman is the sister of a member at Free Republic.

 

[Libertarian]

This is in no way a violation of the PCA. It is human kindness and social responsibility.

 

[Nanaimo Barr]

if that was my wife or daughter missing I sure would appreciate the Marines helping to look for her. it's not a criminal apprehension case, it's a search for a missing women..

 

[DadOfThree]

I have posted my disapproval of the military being used for law enforcement. As stated by the others on this thread, this is not law enforcement. This is a simple search and rescue and that is a good thing for the military to be involved in. Serves a good purpose and is good training for them.

 

[Waitone]

There are also several federal reservations in that area.

 

[Tamara]

SAR is a legitimate use for the militree in peacetime. See: United States Coast Guard.