QOSM (Question of Sunday Morning)

Filed in National by on July 25, 2009

Should the Army be allowed to arrest US citizens?

Ist the Army allowed to arrest US citizens?

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  1. John Young says:
    July 25, 2009 at 11:59 pm

    no.

  2. Unstable Isotope says:
    July 26, 2009 at 12:03 am

    Of course the army is allowed to arrest U.S. citizens, that’s what court martials are all about.

  3. Von Cracker says:
    July 26, 2009 at 12:43 am

    lol

  4. John Young says:
    July 26, 2009 at 12:54 am

    oops, forgot about that critical exception…LOL.

  5. Unstable Isotope says:
    July 26, 2009 at 8:46 am

    If you’re asking a Posse Comitas question: should the army be able to invade U.S. cities and arrest U.S. citizens then the answer is no and that is already prohibited. I don’t think they should be able to arrest non-U.S. citizens either. We have various law enforcement agencies for this.

  6. Art Downs says:
    July 26, 2009 at 9:50 pm

    Check out ex parte Quirin for a justification of a secret military tribunal that imposed death sentences on eight men (two of them US citizens) who were sent here for sabotage. No deeds were carried out and two decided that they really did not want to go ahead with the plans and turned in the other six. The two beat the chair and received early outs from Harry Truman.

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