Shocked and fearful Maine residents are keeping to their homes for a second night as hundreds of police and FBI agents search intently for Robert Card, a U.S.

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Wouldn’t that necessitate help of army? If the police can’t control the situation in 24 hours, they should bring in several hundred/thousands soldiers and start house to house search of the whole area…

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The army can’t be used for such things. The national guard can, but they’re still not intended for domestic law enforcement situations.

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I’m willing to bet this guy shot himself already and it’s now a matter of finding the body.

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Geraldine Largay, “Inchworm”, was a hiker who went missing off the Appalachian Trail in Maine and died in 2013. It took two years for them to find her body, and it was found only a couple of miles from the trail. Those woods are so thick. If he’s dead if could be a long time until he is found.

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Nice guess, turned out to be true

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Actually the army can be used for it so long as they’re subservient to the national guard, essentially working as aides.

Plus posse comitatus has never effectively been used.

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funny how the entire rest of the world would’ve sent their army in by now

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While we’ve got a lot of problems over here, and this event highlights some of them, I’m not in a rush to give up the Posse Comitatus Act.

The probably should bring in the National Guard though, to get as many armed people searching for this guy as possible.

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

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We wouldn’t of in my country.

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