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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by drewcoo on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @01:58AM (#44233081)
The reason is Posse Comitatus. It's in place because enough people were fed up with federal troops being used to impose "law."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @02:47AM (#44233449)
It's also, notably, a legacy of Reconstruction. Put another way, we're dismantling infrastructure built to prevent civil war.
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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by leereeves on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @03:20AM (#44233691)
> a legacy of Reconstruction

Quite the opposite. It was passed in 1878 because of the backlash against Reconstruction, shortly after federal troops were withdrawn from the South in 1877, and was intended to prevent something like Reconstruction from happening again.

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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @03:35AM (#44233779)
> It was passed in 1878 because of the backlash against Reconstruction, shortly after federal troops were withdrawn from the South in 1877, and was intended to prevent Reconstruction from happening again

You're right. Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest it was a product of Reconstruction. It was absolutely part of the process of post-civil war renormalisation.

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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by twic on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @09:34AM (#44236623)
I love that the navy wasn't covered until 2021. So although the president can't send in the troops, Trident is a-ok!
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