This is great and all but I'm just raising the fact that this is the military being used on criminals. (Yes I know the retort is that it's to defend borders and I support it, but it's not completely a good thing)
It's a stretch to say there'll be drone strikes in the next decade on US soil for domestic criminals, but you can't argue that it's not on the same slippery slope.
This is the military being used on foreign invaders, or the people that materially support them. Just because they aren't uniformed soldiers doesn't mean they don't pose an existential threat to the United States.
I'm not saying that this couldn't be a step on the road to "drone strikes against US citizens on US soil", but it doesn't inevitably lead to that (though I'd say we're already on that slope, this is an attempt to push the oulder back up the hill, not shove it further down.)
It's a stretch to say there'll be drone strikes in the next decade on US soil for domestic criminals, but you can't argue that it's not on the same slippery slope.
If the voters support the repeal of Posse Comitatus to even make this possible, then they would deserve to suffer the consequences of it. If we ever do get to that point, it means we are on the brink of civil war and will have bigger problems to deal with anyway.
Posse comitatus is just a powerless piece of paper. Otherwise Eisenhower wouldn't have been able to send in the 101st airborne to force integrated schools at bayonet point. Which is not a metaphor, by the way. Also there was Bush I sending in the Marines during the 1992 LA riots and Clinton sending in Delta Force to help kill American civilians at Waco.
This is great and all but I'm just raising the fact that this is the military being used on criminals. (Yes I know the retort is that it's to defend borders and I support it, but it's not completely a good thing)
It's a stretch to say there'll be drone strikes in the next decade on US soil for domestic criminals, but you can't argue that it's not on the same slippery slope.
This is the military being used on foreign invaders, or the people that materially support them. Just because they aren't uniformed soldiers doesn't mean they don't pose an existential threat to the United States.
I'm not saying that this couldn't be a step on the road to "drone strikes against US citizens on US soil", but it doesn't inevitably lead to that (though I'd say we're already on that slope, this is an attempt to push the oulder back up the hill, not shove it further down.)
It already happened back in 2016.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/robot-bomb-kill-dallas-suspect-appears-time-tactic/story?id=40441517
That's actually the story I was thinking of but didn't have time to look it up.
If the voters support the repeal of Posse Comitatus to even make this possible, then they would deserve to suffer the consequences of it. If we ever do get to that point, it means we are on the brink of civil war and will have bigger problems to deal with anyway.
Posse comitatus is just a powerless piece of paper. Otherwise Eisenhower wouldn't have been able to send in the 101st airborne to force integrated schools at bayonet point. Which is not a metaphor, by the way. Also there was Bush I sending in the Marines during the 1992 LA riots and Clinton sending in Delta Force to help kill American civilians at Waco.