Comment on Trump Signs Executive Orders to Militarize Police, Punish Sanctuary Cities and Refugees

• cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  IMO it’s unlikely, from the day you “swear in”, throughout all of boot camp and at regular trainings after its beat into you that you serve the constitution and that you can and SHOULD disregard an illegal order and what constitutes an illegal order AND an illegal order from the Commander in chief especially is still an illegal order and should be dealt with accordingly

  And let me tell you, there’s far far FAR more enlisted just waiting for an illegal order to come through so they can finally tell an officer to go fuck themselves

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  • 3abas@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So much wishful thinking.

    The US military is the biggest commitor of war crimes behind Israel, they regular slaughter civilians and laugh about it, and the only ones to ever get in trouble and serve time are always the whistle blowers.

    What planet do you live on?

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  • notabot@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The issue is that they’re doing what they can to make those orders legal. They’re not there yet, they’ll hopefully hit plenty of resistance before they get there, and they’re not exactly renowned for being competent, but they’re working on it.

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