Discussion: Trump Says His Admin's Deportation Enforcement Is A 'Military Operation'

He’ll be throwing out everyone who picks lettuce for a living, but I don’t like lettuce, so I guess this is all OK.

Are we tired of the winning yet?

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Trump: Russian army will help us out at no charge. When you see Russian trucks/tanks in your suburban neighborhoods, just wave as they are our friends helping us become whiter.

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Now let’s see. Where else have we seen military force directed at a domestic population? Surely it’s happened, with history no doubt proving it wise?

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I am sure the military is thrilled to learn that they will playing the role of American Einsatzgruppen…

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Only HitlarY should Be hacked. Illegal aNd unFair!

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Should we add Napoleon Complex to his mental aberrations? I look forward to seeing the official portrait with one tiny hand tucked inside his jacket. JHC…a military operation.

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This seems like it’s illegal. Violation of Posse Comitatus Act? What’s the real difference if it’s ICE, national guard or military? These are police forces being used to undertake with the chief executive himself deems a ‘military action’. Taking 26 year olds with brain tumors out of hospitals is a military emergency?

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So, if it’s a military operation, he probably won’t be in situation room for that either…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-yemen-raid-twitter_us_58ae0acbe4b057efdce8c07c?

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Can someone please send them the address to Mar-A-Lago in Florida, there will be a really bad dude there on Saturday they need to deport out of the country?

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I have to wonder if the hospital took part in asking for her removal given that she had no health insurance to cover the costs. This was Texas, after all…

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Posse Comitatus. SAY WHAT?

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This is how I feel now.

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The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385, original at 20 Stat. 152) signed on June 18, 1878 by President Rutherford B. Hayes. The purpose of the act – in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807 – is to limit the powers of the federal government in using federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States. It was passed as an amendment to an army appropriation bill following the end of Reconstruction, and was subsequently updated in 1956 and 1981.

The Act only specifically applies to the United States Army and, as amended in 1956, the United States Air Force. While the Act does not explicitly mention the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps, the Department of the Navy has prescribed regulations that are generally construed to give the Act force with respect to those services as well. The Act does not apply to the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard under state authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within its home state or in an adjacent state if invited by that state’s governor. The United States Coast Guard, which operates under the Department of Homeland Security, is not covered by the Posse Comitatus Act either, primarily because although the Coast Guard is an armed service, it also has both a maritime law enforcement mission and a federal regulatory agency mission.

What’s he talking about, the ignorant buffoon?

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I look forward to the coming East Berlin chic. Checkpoints, barbed wire, walls, detention centers, warriors in uniform demanding to see people’s papers while they’re in line paying for gasoline or relaxing at the beach. Stasi on steroids.

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Okay OathKeepers and 3 Percenters: here you go!

Oh, wait? You’re still waiting for mommy to cut off the crusts of your PBJs? Lost your nerve?

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No it’s not a military operation though I get why the White House wants it to be - the President has a lot of war powers. But this ain’t one of them although go ahead and argue that since it’s prima facie proof that there is no need for this travel ban since there is no need for a military action of any kind. Nobody is under attack.

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Preparation rhetoric. This is all part of trying to normalize it so is can be done openly and slowly increased. And you thought he wasn’t really going to try for a police state?

Realize it: this is the precursor to him sending the military into large cities, particularly ones he declares “sanctuary cities”, to “root them out and send them packing.” That kind of nonsense will no doubt spark the kinds of incidents that will cause the riots President Bannon hopes to use as justification for declaring martial law. Watch.

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It’s been just over a month. I despise him.

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“There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.” ~ Admiral Adama

I was in the Military, and the reason I’ve always opposed the issuing of military equipment to police forces is not because I don’t think they should have the best equipment, it’s that I don’t think police should look at their jobs as militaristic. They are their to serve and protect the people, not to be a check on the people, or to be a violent response to crime. Their job should be to enforce the law with the minimum disruption to the lives of the citizenry, and military equipment is designed with violence as its primary purpose.

A cop on the streets of NYC should look at the world very differently than I did on patrol in Afghanistan.

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