• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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      1 year ago

      So if a trump-like figure is elected, the military will blindly follow any atrocities they want. Which… should not be a surprise to anyone considering what we did in The Middle East for the better part of two decades.

      Yet people still think that The Military won’t get to goose stepping the moment a wannabe dictator tells them to.

      Figured it was worth repeating.

      Also especially good that we are so happy that the heroic military will sit idly by while a POTUS, who is actively trying to usurp The Constitution, tries to have the second and third in line to the position, murdered.

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        1 year ago

        The Posse Comitatus Act bars federal troops from participating in civilian law enforcement except when expressly authorized by law.

        Do you want them to break the rules they’re bound to follow or not? Sounds like you just want to believe whatever fits your viewpoint. The military had no right or responsibility to engage in a civilian law enforcement action on January 6.

        The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which removed the military from regular civil law enforcement, was enacted in response to the abuses resulting from the extensive use of the army in civil law enforcement during the Civil War and the Reconstruction. What you are all bent out of shape about was restricted because it was being abused.