quote: The aim is to balance a high security presence - to ward off possible attacks and also handle potential protesters - with keeping the city running like normal, several officials said.
These people are getting creepier and creepier. I imagine it would look a lot like:
This is a weird story. It first tells us that military personnel may be used, and then says that it is extremely unlikely military personnel being used.
Perhaps it's another one of those little things to help Americans get used to the idea of civil policing by the military. Incremental steps to outright totalitarianism.
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posted 21 February 2004 12:19 AM
If the Posse Comitatus wasn't shot to pieces by now it definitely is.
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