Mini-Post: Sudden Realization!

You know when the government passes a law it reflects up the time the law is passed. So when someone tries to us a law from the 1800s you also need to look at the environment that the laws were passed in and  also the court rulings.

Can you imagine the Fugitive Slave Act that was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1850 can you imagine someone citing that law in a court today? It wouldn't sense! We don't have slavery anymore!

So when Trump uses Insurrection Act of 1807 and the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 ask yourself what was it like back then and what is like now.

Back in 1807 there were open rebellion (Just over the border in Massachusetts the Shays's Rebellion was an armed uprising in  during 1786 and 1787 around Great Barrington), Then there was the Whiskey Rebellion (1794) in western Pennsylvania. So there was actually open rebellion not just street protests!

The problem was that it was far easier to ship whiskey then it was to ship corn and wheat to the cities and taxing whiskey hit the farmers hard. The farmers said... "Hey we just fought a war about "no taxation without representation!"

And the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 was also during troubling times. Well the ex-Confederates didn't like them damn Yankee soldiers telling them what to do, and that was when the KKK was formed and the Jim Crow laws and the Union troops to enforce Reconstruction policies and to protect newly freed Black Americans. with the passes of the Posse Comitatus Act it kicked out Union troops from former Confederate states and resulted in the Jim Crow laws and the rise of the KKK.

So now when Trump uses these acts you know the background of those laws... they were passed to oppress people.