No they won’t. They’ll only shoot criminals committing life threatening acts. I promise you, if you do not participate in these acts, you won’t be shot.
Except there’s this whole thing called posse comitatus. Maybe you’ve heard of it?
The Posse Comitatus Act outlaws the willful use of any part of the Army or Air Force to execute the law unless expressly authorized by the Constitution or an act of Congress.
So like I said. Totally legal. You bet.
By the way Trump said “the Military”, not the National Guard. I doubt the doofus knows the difference anyway.
Didn’t President Obama make the rounds of late night talk shows while he was President? And wasn’t he the vanguard in using social media for political purposes on a national scale?
So to sum up: President Trump is following in former President Obama’s footsteps in using social media to govern. And you’re upset because you don’t like President Trumps message?
Thank you for making me read about it. This is what I found. Does it not clearly give the President the power to decide this?
The PCA directly applies only to the army and air force, without mentioning the navy, the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard, or the National Guard. The National Guard is subject to Article I, section 8 of the Constitution, “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions.” The National Guard is under state control until called into federal service, and is authorized to enforce the laws upon the request of a governor.
Although the president has constitutional power to use the military to protect the nation in time of emergency and to repel invasions, in the Civil Disturbance Statutes Congress expressly authorized the president to use the armed forces under emergency circumstances. Where there is an insurrection in a state against its government, the president may, in addition to calling out the militia, “use such of the armed forces as he considers necessary to suppress the insurrection.”
I thought you could read but evidently I have to darken it out first so…I redid the part that most closely relates to the subject we’re discussing. Is that better?
Sorry that still says nothing about the President having the ability to order the military to “shoot civilians” like you were alluding to previously. There is literally nothing there outside of quelling an insurrection, which this isn’t. Of course it helps if one knows what insurrection actually means.