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Trump threatens to deploy military as George Floyd protests continue to shake the U.S.

Liberals more upset with Trump standing in front of a church with a bible than the rioters who tried to burn it.
 
Casper said:
He not doing Squat, he has no legal standing to deploy the US Military against US Citizens. Someone needs to inform him of the Law. Sadly some of his braindead minions will cheer him on. November cannot get here son enough.
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This was just posted
Act was amended
http://www.narlo.org/insurrection.pdf


Evilroddy said:
Humble Pi:

Alas that is no longer correct. I was gobsmacked to learn that in the chaos of the Hurricane Katrina Crisis in Louisiana the Bush administration and a cooperative Congress quietly amended both the Insurrection Act of 1807 and the Title 10 restrictions of the US Armed Forces so that the Federal Government could use the military in spite of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. Worse still they amended the acts to allow the president to use American military forces in the states without state government/governor approval.

http://www.narlo.org/insurrection.pdf

See section two, Part A at the bottom of page 3 and the top of page four of the Amendments for the details.

So the Orange Caesar can legally cross the Rubicon and trample states' rights since 2005. You're screwed down there.

Cheers (?), be well and keep your heads down. A modern-day Fort Sumter may be just around the corner.
Evilroddy.
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TobyOne said:
Liberals more upset with Trump standing in front of a church with a bible than the rioters who tried to burn it.
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Honestly, I am surprised that Christians aren't upset about it. He's the most Un-Godly man there is.
 
Chomsky said:
The military have no place turning their weapons upon the citizenry. You're in the wrong country, if this is your thing.
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I can promise you that most didn't sign up for that ****. It is abuse of the law, abuse of the American people and abuse of the military. Trump does not have the ability to comprehend the ramifications of what he is doing.

President Bunker's plans will not work. Riots, violence, destruction will move to secondary cities and suburban areas. It is SOP for the Trump Administration never to plan ahead, never to consider unintended consequences. Prior Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance will prove itself true once again. Unless it is all a smokescreen for failure by design.

Loss of civil liberties
Drone strikes on American citizens, in America
Americans disappeared to secret courts
Oppression beyond belieif
The rise of a semi-theocracy

Oh, yeah. Watch for it.
 
tacomancer said:
Yup, tear gassing people so he can go to some church and have a photo op
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Please tell me that didn’t happen. What possible justification can be offered for such a move?
 
We shouldn't have called him chicken for hiding in his bunker.


So Trump is bluffing.

Last thing he needs to have happen is 50 civilians gunned down in the street.

But his bluff might work.
 
j brown's body said:
I wonder how US soldiers feel about firing on US citizens.
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I was an MP and I can tell you this I would not follow an order to gun down American citizens. Neither would most everyone I served with.
 
Chomsky said:
No, it's not. Not in America. We police ourselves.
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Did you agree with the military helping the Little Rock 9? Little black kids trying to get to school that were being threatened and denied access as local white cops didn't do **** about it? What about to help secure order in the 1992 L.A. Riots? If so, then you agree with me.
 
Top Cat said:
Honestly, I am surprised that Christians aren't upset about it. He's the most Un-Godly man there is.
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They know that- they have other priorities.
 
Nickyjo said:
Please tell me that didn’t happen. What possible justification can be offered for such a move?
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It is not clear if it was for a photo-op or if it was simply due to disperse a large crowd for security reasons. The people were peaceful... but the President of the USA also needs to secure safety to move around during visits, etc.
 
Bodhisattva said:
Did you agree with the military helping the Little Rock 9? Little black kids trying to get to school that were being threatened and denied access as local white cops didn't do **** about it? What about to help secure order in the 1992 L.A. Riots? If so, then you agree with me.
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That was the NG - Yes-No???
Not Regular Military
 
HumblePi said:
It's illegal to use the US military for domestic control. It's the law. Only the National Guard and Navy Coast Guard can be used domestically for civil crowd control.
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Not under the Insurection Act it isn't illegal.

BTW, what do you think the National Guard is? :lamo
 
JANFU said:
That was the NG - Yes-No???
Not Regular Military
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1957 was the 101st Airborne...

1992 LA Riots was the US Marines... 2,000 of them

very regular and elite military...
 
Bodhisattva said:
It is not clear if it was for a photo-op or if it was simply due to disperse a large crowd for security reasons. The people were peaceful... but the President of the USA also needs to secure safety to move around during visits, etc.
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For the Lil Strongman it was the perfect Presidential Law & Order move to make his point
 
rocket88 said:
Some of them will do it quite happily.
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I don't think it's that simple. It didn't go easily during 'Nam, despite Kent State (which was somewhat of a panicked defensive maneuver of sorts, even if uncalled for).


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Aberro said:
75% of the black criminal looters don’t know who their father is.
It’s about time someone taught them some manners.
Trump will .
Unless they come to my house first, I will introduce them to Mr double ought buck shot.
He don’t play.
Trump 2020!
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Bodhisattva said:
1957 was the 101st Airborne...

1992 LA Riots was the US Marines... 2,000 of them

very regular and elite military...
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The California NG was involved in '92, as well.
 
Martial Law in the USA. How do you even begin to process that?

As a "bonus" you get to watch him holding up a bible while he walks to the church.

Oh my.
 
JANFU said:
For the Lil Strongman it was the perfect Presidential Law & Order move to make his point
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It might well have been... I am officially over playing Devil's Advocate for Trump. He is scum. His handling of Covid was already pissing me off and his statements of ominous weapons, attack dogs and bullets flying finished it. This guy is a joke and needs to be out of office.
 
Chomsky said:
If he declared this unilaterally, then I suppose it's now up to the governors to rebuke him. But damn. He's invading the states with the U.S. military. What the hell?
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The governers can't stop him from deploying troops under the IA.
 
apdst said:
Not under the Insurection Act it isn't illegal.

BTW, what do you think the National Guard is? :lamo
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I know what the National Guard is and I also know what the US Army is. One is to serve to protect domestically, the second to protect overseas.
 
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