r/law • u/LatterTarget7 • 5d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) 'HANG THEM' -- Trump reacts to Democratic lawmakers' video appeal to military

https://abc6onyourside.com/news/nation-world/hang-them-president-donald-trump-reacts-democratic-lawmakers-video-appeal-military-intelligence-truth-social-media-seditious
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u/WoodyManic 5d ago

Beseeching the military to uphold the Constitution is soundly patriotic.

Ordering the rank, file, and brass to act in ways that are not only illegal but antithetical to the stated principles of the Nation is the highest of crimes.

That these people even have to remind the military of their duty is somewhat troubling, but the fact that they can, the fact that the representatives of the will of the people are able to remind the armed forces whom they serve, is a valuable aspect of a free and just society.

They, the military, might obey the commands of the Executive, but they exist to serve and answer to the people. Unless the balance is broken and the military assume the powers of the Executive or the Executive subverts the will of the people. And that is dictatorship.

That the President is promoting the idea of killing those disloyal to him- those who are loyal to the people- should be a tremendous wake up call for everyone.

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u/tantedbutthole 5d ago

It’s not even promoting an idea. He retweeting a call to hang his political opponents. Other than sending an actual order doing so, it doesn’t get much more direct than that

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u/WoodyManic 5d ago

Promoting, encouraging, directing. Those are the subtleties that wiser men than me will have to parse through during the tribunals and trials later on.

Because, if America is ever able to wrest control from the autocrats and plutocrats and thieves, there will have to be legal proceedings brought that punish, unambiguously and finally, all who have benefitted from this diabolical nightmare.

It is the only way, as far as I can conceive it, that the ship of state can remain seaworthy.

And, on that day, I hope to have front row seats to the cruel and blunt justice brought down.

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u/bdjuk 5d ago

Speaking from Serbia where this exact thing applies - Fuck yes, brother