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When Push Comes to Shove: Will An Army Of One Shoot To Kill?

• LewRockwell.com
 
Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service. ~ Smedley Butler, Major General USMC Is there any order given to U.S. military personnel that is not obeyed? Is there anyone that the U.S. military won’t kill (murder) when given an order? Is there any order that any in the U.S. military thinks is unconstitutional, considering that all in the military have taken an oath to uphold that set of rules? Will there ever be an order that U.S. troops will disobey? As far as I can tell, the answer to all these questions is no! There has been a lot of talk lately about the war against Libya being unconstitutional, but one has to wonder why these questions are coming now? It certainly isn’t due to any sudden moral awakening by the politicians or most of their constituents, because every single war since WWII has been unconstitutional. And in my opinion, every single war since the Revolution has been completely unjust and unnecessary. If I am correct in my opinion, that means that every order to kill, maim, occupy, and destroy those in other lands obeyed by American forces has been not only unconstitutional but also immoral. This blind following of orders by all U.S. military forces scares the living daylights out of me. Am I alone in this thinking, or do others in this country understand the implications of this policy? What if there is civil unrest here at home? What if due to the destruction of our economy by our own government, American citizens take to the streets as is happening now in Africa and the Middle East? Does anyone honestly believe that U.S. troops given orders to shoot to kill their own countrymen won’t do so? Believing that it would be different if it happened on our own soil would be a fool’s game. Given the buildup and militarization of police, the expanded powers of the Department of Homeland Security, and the domestic deployment of federal troops via the Army service component of NORTHCOM, plans are already in the works for military control of U.S. citizens. In my opinion, any orders given by military leaders to fire on Americans would be followed just as all other orders are followed. There would probably be more dissent than is now present, but there would be plenty willing to do the bidding of their masters. Considering that they are now willing, and have been in the past, (remember Vietnam) to murder, rape, and mutilate women and children, why would any think they aren’t capable of gunning down American dissenters?

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Comment by oswegoscott
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Will our soldiers turn on us? Some surely will.To compensate "they" won't  take chances and will surely use foreign troops (NATO). Soldiers from many other countries will have NO problem at all taking us out.

There are already many foreign soldiers here under the guise of "training" for service in their homeland. HA- more like training and learning geography and identifying "hostiles" here in America.