Soldiers in airports screening-out political dissidents

Reese reeza at hawaii.rr.com
Sun Nov 4 12:09:20 PST 2001


At 02:07 PM 11/4/01 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
>On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Reese wrote:
>
>> Working for the governor of their respective states, unless you're saying 
>> they've been called up by the Army and federalized.  There is a long list
>
>States are prohibited from having troops. Any(!) troops in the US (be they
>military, guard, or militia) ARE responsible to Congress and Congress only
>until Congress assigns them to the President (and only the President) as
>CinC.

States are not prohibited from having a militia, the National Guard is an
organized militia, until such time they are federalized, at which point
they fall under the Army's Chain of Command.

Why do you think all or nearly all states have a National Guard, if it is
prohibited as you claim?

Reese





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