re: #3 Decatur Deb

It was a good year for citizen air strikes:

[Link: en.wikipedia.org…]

COL Billy Mitchell was invovled.

Is there any evidence of the Army bombers dropping bombs or firing guns during the operation? Private planes are claimed to have released homemade bombs at the instigation of the local sheriff, but this is a far cry from a federally authorized “air strike.” The wikipedia article says Mitchell’s planes were engaged in surveillance, but goes on to call this ” a rare example of air power being used by the federal government against US citizens.” Obviously the language was selected to invite a false inference, since trying to find out what is really going on does not, in and of itself, constitute taking sides or engaging in hostile action. The right of privacy does not extend to engaging gun battles. If this is “against” US citizens, then we are the targets of similar “strikes” every time there is a natural or man-made disaster.