Editor:
The gist of Joseph Kaffl’s recent Letter to the Editor seems to be that Americans have nothing to question or fear about having National Guard troops assist police in cities, regardless of whether the governor of that state wants to deploy Guard units – which he/she nominally commands. Since the end of Reconstruction, following the Civil War, the Posse Comitatus Act has prohibited federal troops from engaging in law enforcement or police operations in states and cities. National Guard units are part of the military’s reserve structure, but governors are allowed to deploy them to assist in emergency situations involving public health and safety such as the aftermath of floods, fires, hurricanes, tornados and earthquakes – not policing large cities that do not have a declared state of emergency. The current situation is not normal and trumped up justifications about reducing crime cannot change that fact.
Jay Miller
Hillsboro
Editor,
Let’s do the math. West Virginia gets a badly needed grant of 1.2 billion dollars to finally bring the state up to a decent standard of internet speed and service. But Governor Morrisey says we don’t need all that money, and we will let more services into the broadband provider field like satellite using only 1/2 the money.
Does that add up or subtract for West Virginians?
What is the motive to keep thousands of West Virginians on the backroads of the information highway and not fully utilize much needed funding?
What do you think?
Martin Saffer
Hillsboro
