[walruskkkch]

First time I heard this one.

[moomin]

Really? US war aircraft fly around on active duty without so much as armed machine guns?

[Midnight_Marauder]

Originally Posted by moomin

Really? US war aircraft fly around on active duty without so much as armed machine guns?

That's right. Posse Comitatus.

Which is the answer to your other thread, about the US armed forces ever turning on the public to help the leftists.

And by the way this story is old news, it first came out on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

[walruskkkch]

I hadn't heard it before. So it is new to me.

[Midnight_Marauder]

Originally Posted by walruskkkch

I hadn't heard it before. So it is new to me.

And I am incorrect about when it first came out, it was actually 2006 when they first aired the documentary, "102 minutes that changed America."

[moomin]

Originally Posted by Midnight Marauder

That's right. Posse Comitatus.

Good thing no in-flight jet would ever be the first responder to something like this or a sub-launched missile or anything, then. Be a bit embarrassing to let the Norks nuke DC because the jets had to land and load up first...

Which is the answer to your other thread, about the US armed forces ever turning on the public to help the leftists.

Yes, because in NO WAY will military action be sold as defense against a rebellious, secessionist, white supremacist militia, as opposed to police action. In no way.

[Midnight_Marauder]

Originally Posted by moomin

Good thing no in-flight jet would ever be the first responder to something like this or a sub-launched missile or anything, then. Be a bit embarrassing to let the Norks nuke DC because the jets had to land and load up first...

Interestingly, 9/11 changed that policy for fighter jets stationed stateside. They now DO have fully armed tactical squadrons to respond to such threats.

Originally Posted by moomin

Yes, because in NO WAY will military action be sold as defense against a rebellious, secessionist, white supremacist militia, as opposed to police action. In no way.

We saw the federal government shoot the people at Ruby Ridge and at Waco. This wasn't the military however, it was ATF after some of their agents were shot.

Half dozen of one, six of the other.