The oath clearly states you'll follow legal orders of the officers above you. I would like to think when I was in the military I would refuse to follow these illegal orders. In reality I have no idea what I would do. It would be a long legal battle and potentially life ruining event to do the right thing.

yeah, aside from all of the other bs (which is a lot) it's just treating the marines like a personal toy

orange leader

Ah hem, refer to him with the respect the office deserves.

It's Mustard Mussolini to you peasant.

This is what the NRA have been waiting for, is it not? Let's just watch them leap into action to safeguard constitutional rights against an oppressive regime.

Any minute now.

Any minute now.

Here they come! Oh, sorry it's a pigeon.

It must be soon.

Hmm...

I'm sure someday there will be consequences for all these heinous crimes. Might even be the same day my flying unicorn crashes into a supermodel and we go out to lunch and figure out cold fusion together on the back of a napkin.

They can't perform arrests. They can only temporarily detain them with zip ties and transfer them by van to the police station.

Why, “specific circumstances” of course.

I read the article. He crossed a yellow taped off area of the building perimeter.

He was a vet headed into the building for some reason and the marines stopped him, detained, turned over, and he was then released.

The guy didn’t seem to phased by it. Overall I’d give it a 5/7.

You can literally hear it ringing in your ears when they fire "non lethal" rounds....

Temporary detainment into permanent detainment.

That was my first thought. Where are all the self-described Libertarians who should be losing their shit over this? They should be in the street screaming "posse comitatus!" at the tops of their lungs.

Troops who invade our country and do violence to our people are our enemy, no matter what flag they fly or uniform they wear. Fuck these scum.

when republicans do it, its all performative anyways.

I can't stop thinking of the contrast between charged-up Americans willing to fight, kill, and die in a shitty battlefield for our freedoms but when our freedoms are being destroyed as the main attraction these guys are nowhere.

You ever come across the hornet's nest that you need to clear, where they can sting you multiple times and aren't really afraid all that much of dying.

Unless they're willing this is probably notably worse

They're trained and equipped in a way that you are not. I do not expect this to succeed unless you've already convinced them that they want to surrender.

Keep stirring up the infighting! Youre doing a phenomenal job at accomplishing zilch.