“There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state. The other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”
I barely hear a very soft voice echoing away into silence:
“… the military is prohibited to operate on US soil in acts of enforcing law against its citizens …”
And now we’ll find out where the military stands. This is a tipping point.
They fired all the top generals, pretty much, so we will indeed see if our soldiers read and took to heart the oath they swore. They are legally obligated, under the UCMJ, to refuse unlawful orders and fortunately the UCMJ is quite explicit in which orders are to be determined unlawful.
This is the moment when we find out how many US soldiers have the balls to uphold their oath to the Constitution above all else, and refuse to comply with an obviously illegal order.
this, combined with what pam bomb-me said the other day, would mean that the military could be quartered in your home on suspicion that you are harboring enemies of the established government. that government is also now bypassing representation by taxing the public via tarriffs.
the words evade me. do they need fucking trefoil hats and bright red coats, too?
edit - they’re literally making you pay a tax you didn’t ask for on british tea. i mean, come on
I’d be very surprised if any of them actually did.
They are all cut from the same cloth. I personally know veterans that eat up the Rights propaganda while believing everyone else is wrong.
When someone brings up Republican dog whistles they can’t stop themselves from joining in.
All the Right has to do is say “something something America!” and they’ll just follow orders. Literally the way it was conditioned into them.
2020 was the first time in decades that the majority of active duty military voted blue.
I support you. Chronically internet driven people like person replying to you generally don’t talk to veterans, don’t understand the military, and don’t really care about you.
That’s fair. I won’t put all veterans or active duty in the same group.
I do expect to see military stepping with law enforcement while knocking people’s doors down.
Expecting anything else would make me a fool after seeing what has already been done.
I’d rather be surprised that they don’t than surprised that they do.
Great… because we all know that famously, American police need more military assets. That’s what the problem has been all along. For fuck’s sake…
It’s going to get worse. This is the kinda shit that keeps piling up and lasts for decades - they harass local officials out of office, arm local thugs, and dismantle all the safeguards. Then when someone else comes in and tries to fix it, those same thugs will suddenly find the word “fascist” was in their vocabulary all along.
If you’re outside the major cities, police forces are generally managed locally. Small enough for citizens to have an immediate impact. Your local reps, your town halls, your state legislatures - those people actually make decisions. They are the ones who this Administration is going to bully and harass and bribe. It’s time to show up.
If you’re inside the cities, get ready to start marching. These fuckers are doubling down on using DEI as nothing more than a smokescreen for blatant oppression.
There it is.