National courts allow abuses of the military and civilian connection and no one has been indicted under Posse Comitatus in recent memory. Since national security is said to be involved, the courts allow abuses to occur and most often look the other way. Since the war on drugs is a so-called national emergency, the erosion of civil liberties will continue. A few good men are sounding the alarm. History is replete with countries that allowed that to happen.
Disaster is the result.
Inevitably, national governments yield to the temptation to use the military to do the heavy lifting. For the record indicates that legal niceties or strict construction of prohibited conduct will be of minor concern. In other words the rule of law and constitutional guarantees are insignificant in an emergency. What the average American fails to realize is that it is a certainty that every single person in the United States is breaking some kind of statute, rule, law, or regulation, and if authority chooses it can harass and intimidate anyone, anywhere, anytime. By turning a blind eye to the growing blurring of the lines between the military and the police we are creating our own police state.