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by nathanaldensr
1585 days ago
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You assume that: 1. there are enough armed forces personnel to police the third or fourth largest country by land mass in the world (the United States) 2. that every single armed forces personnel would unquestioningly obey what constitutes illegal orders (military deployment on American soil) 3. that the entire population would simply sit down and let themselves be overrun by the military. I think you should check your assumptions. |
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If you count the standing paramilitary forces (“police") that work for the government and do this job already, plus all the other armed forces, that's not that much of a stretch.
> that every single armed forces personnel would unquestioningly obey what constitutes illegal orders (military deployment on American soil)
Military deployment on US soil is not illegal. (That would make defensive war, as well as suppression of armed rebellion, impossible.)
Military deployment to enforce domestic order isn't illegal, either, though for federal regular military troops there are procedural requirements for it under the Insurrection Act (mostly, a completely discretionary Presidential determination of one of several specific kinds of need—some of which involve a request from a state governor and some of which do not—and particular notifications to the civilian population and any potential insurgents before employment of the military for certain uses.) State forces not called in to federal service may have their own procedural rules for law enforcement deployments, but most state forces can also be activated federally under federal rules.