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To: butterdezillion
AS long as no military person was ordered to do an overtly illegal action the order would be “lawful” - if you accept the arguments set forth by the military legal “experts”.

Not necessarily . . . there's a gray area there. After going over a whole program of study which included an examination of stuff like Calley and even Ollie North, we were taught to consider the whole of the action and then let our moral compass be the guide.

149 posted on 11/18/2010 11:28:35 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost

Has the “moral compass” guide been tested in court-martial?


154 posted on 11/18/2010 11:34:02 AM PST by butterdezillion (.)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
AS I have posted before,I worked with a young National Guardsman who stated most forcefully that he would not hesitate to bayonet American citizens engaged in passive resistance;so how ready do you think he would be to fire if given the order?

ANd this is ANOTHER reason I think SWAT police teams are dangerous to liberty.

Plus you may be sure that the internet and news services will be the first things to be seized or shutdown in the event the tyrants decide the time is ripe.

All those opposing the birthers are enablers of an illegal fraudulent president.

158 posted on 11/18/2010 11:40:33 AM PST by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost

And I should say that I do think there is gray area. I recognize there’s a very thin tight-rope that has to be walked regarding obedience v accountability. I don’t envy anybody having to make those decisions. I would also feel safer with a US soldier than with just about anybody except my immediate family.

I do fear that the communists will bury their “progressive” moves inside some measures they justify for other reasons - just like Homeland Security defies the 4th Amendment for “security” reasons, even though we’re not gaining any security by these measures. And just like the DOJ defies the Constitution’s statement that the federal government needs to secure all the states from foreign invasion, by claiming that doing so in concrete ways is “discrimination”.

These people serve the Father of Lies, so that’s their native language, and with their sophistry they have already done incredible amounts of damage very quickly. I’m afraid that even honorable, well-intentioned people may easily be sucked into something beyond their control.


168 posted on 11/18/2010 11:59:36 AM PST by butterdezillion (.)
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