Remind me again how many Marines opened fire on civilians.
Marines opening fire? I think only during the Rodney King riots.
Any military branches opening fire? The Kent State Shooting and The Bonus Army Incident.
Any military branches just bombing the shit out of civilians on US soil? The Battle of Blair Mountain and The Philadelphia MOVE Bombing
Oh I know it has happened, and those type incidents are why the UCMJ now explicitly has the don’t do illegal shit clause.
I was talking here to the 2k or so that deployed recently in LA.
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Right?! They were out in less than 6-weeks.
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
So it’s fine as long as they’re not literally murdering people?
Weirdfish@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
No Marine obeyed an illegal order, and that’s the whole point of this thread.
They were used in a very narrow scope as defined by law, protecting specific government buildings.
It was Trump being a bully and grandstanding, but other than the optics we’re talking about, it was really a lame event.
The vast majority of the 2k Marines did what Marines always do when they don’t have specific orders on a shit deployment, the sat around or caught up on rack time.