Looking at the Bill of Rights, it's almost as if a bunch of guys starting a new country in the 18th century already knew precisely the threat to freedom that cops would pose 200 years later and designed a section of the Constitution dedicated to them (not that it did any good).https://twitter.com/Angry_Husky/status/990681357788598273 …
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the danger of soldiers under control of a central government, yes. It's related, but I don't think that's "precisely the threat to freedom" that state/local law enforcement authorities posed in (and since) 1991. They Hyper-focused on central govt; largely ignored state-level.
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This is precisely WHY that same founding generation (or at least part), passed the Insurrection Act in 1807, expressly *allowing* soldiers to be deployed domestically to put down "lawlessness". Sounds like cops to me. By contrast, Posse Comitatus Act was not passed until 1878!
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