Trump may invoke the Insurrection Act in order to deploy military within the US

[essentialsaltes]

To activate the military to operate in the U.S., Trump would have to invoke the 213-year-old Insurrection Act, which four people familiar with the decision had told NBC News he planned to do.

The military police forces would come from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and possibly Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and they could arrive in Washington within hours, these people said.

 

[Tanj]

Riots, curfews, martial law, runaway pandemic.

There really are no words.

 

[Yttrium]

Thankfully I have the luxury of being far from the action. As long as the murder wasps stay away.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

Thankfully I have the luxury of being far from the action. As long as the murder wasps stay away.

White Anglo-Saxon Protestants? Yikes!

 

[Pavel Mosko]

 

[agapelove]

We've just witnessed another murder. RIP America.

 

[Pommer]

To activate the military to operate in the U.S., Trump would have to invoke the 213-year-old Insurrection Act, which four people familiar with the decision had told NBC News he planned to do.

The military police forces would come from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and possibly Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and they could arrive in Washington within hours, these people said.

Sic semper tyrannis

 

[wing2000]

To activate the military to operate in the U.S., Trump would have to invoke the 213-year-old Insurrection Act, which four people familiar with the decision had told NBC News he planned to do.

The military police forces would come from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and possibly Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and they could arrive in Washington within hours, these people said.

....our banana republic complete with US military intervention....

 

[Fantine]

When I see the overwhelming majority of peaceful marchers--racially diverse, but almost universally young, I see millions of new votes--not excited by Biden, perhaps, but determined to drain the swamp from the Loch Ness monster on down.
The force Trump is unleashing will be nothing compared to the force against him November 3.

 

[Paulos23]

Just a bully that sees a way to push people down and use his 'gang' to do it.

But he won't be leading from the front.

 

[KCfromNC]

Riots, curfews, martial law, runaway pandemic.

There really are no words.

I don't know, if someone had told me a few years ago that Donald's presidency ended after an impeachment with riots, violence and thinking about deploying the military against his own citizens to fight a made up enemy I would have said, "yep, sounds about right".

 

[cow451]

....our banana republic complete with US military intervention....

I thought Banana Republic went bankrupt

 

[camille70]

Riots, curfews, martial law, runaway pandemic.

There really are no words.

We were warned Obama would do all this. It just took longer than expected to pull off.

Thanks, Obama!

 

[Jonathan Walkerin]

“Therefore the best fortress is to be found in the love of the people, for although you may have fortresses they will not save you if you are hated by the people.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

 

[OldWiseGuy]

We've just witnessed another murder. RIP America.

And as an added bonus the unintended consequence of theft.

 

[Tanj]

And as an added bonus the unintended consequence of theft.

?
Which consequence is that?

 

[hedrick]

That action would make Trump unambiguously responsible for the results. So far he has avoided situations like that.

 

[FenderTL5]

Riots, curfews, martial law, runaway pandemic.

There really are no words.

But there is an acronym: MAGA

 

[agapelove]

And as an added bonus the unintended consequence of theft.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Rumsfeld: Looting is transition to freedom

"The task we've got ahead of us now is an awkward one ... It's untidy. And freedom's untidy. And free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. They're also free to live their lives and do wonderful things. And that's what's going to happen here," Rumsfeld said.

"While no one condones looting, on the other hand, one can understand the pent-up feelings that may result from decades of repression and people who have had members of their family killed by [the powers that be], for them to be taking their feelings out ..." he said. "And I don't think there's anyone in any of those pictures ... (who wouldn't) accept it as part of the price of getting from [repression] to freedom."

QFBEA (quoted for being eerily apposite)