Gene Healy examines the dangers of post-Katrina push to scrap the Posse Comitatus Act and allow the military to act as a police force. The job of a soldier is to subdue an enemy, the job of a law enforcement officer is, ideally, to protect the community by enforcing the laws. Mix those functions and eventually the armed forces will see the people as an enemy to be subdued. I know that law enforcement is already over-militarized and hardly matches the ideal, but give the military an official role in law enforcement and you can say goodbye to even the … Continue reading The next step in Tyranny