Sorry for all caps. Lifting title from gov doc: STRENGTHENING AND UNLEASHING AMERICA’S LAW ENFORCEMENT TO PURSUE CRIMINALS AND PROTECT INNOCENT CITIZENS Strengthening and Unleashing America's Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens I'm not sure what terms I'm allowed to use on this forum any longer, but this is alarming. I assume this is utilizing the insurrection act? Any legal scholars with insights or legal defense of this?
This reads like a "do what we say and we'll cover your legal fees" to me. Terrifying to be honest. .Sec. 2. Legal Defense of Law Enforcement Officers. The Attorney General shall take all appropriate action to create a mechanism to provide legal resources and indemnification to law enforcement officers who unjustly incur expenses and liabilities for actions taken during the performance of their official duties to enforce the law. This mechanism shall include the use of private-sector pro bono assistance for such law enforcement officers.
Wasn't one of the original outcomes of the War for Independence and establishment of our country that military troops were not to be unleashed against the citizenry?
“Unleashing” is not typically a word you want to use in terms of law enforcement. Can’t we just be smart about things? We go from one level of idiocy - “defund the police” to the opposite “unleash the cops”.
It is actually much worse than that. It is "unleash anybody who works for the government with a gun."
The plan (the Ol' Number 6) is: Adore Trump Worship Trump Fight for Trump Beat the living sh!t outta people that deviate from the first three parts of the plan. It's totally different from martial law. For one thing, it's not called "martial law". No martials or lawyers will be used in the execution of the plan (or the troublemakers). Mel Brooks predicted this 51 years ago in "Blazing Saddles". I'm not sure which actor is playing the part of Trump.
I am sure the Dems have had this plan for years. They were waiting until they could disarm the citizens first though. They have made progress with all the anti gun propaganda and some states have illegal registration for guns and ammo so they know where to go to pick up the guns and ammo.
Did they post a picture of the January 6th "unleashing" ? I'd post one now, so we can remember the Trumpy American Glory of that day, but it got deleted the last time I did so.
To the extent you wanted to cry martial law, I’d probably fuss about what the “personnel” language in this portion of the order means, because that seems to me, if you read it very broadly to encompass soldiers acting as civilian law enforcement (rather than military staff filling into support roles, etc.), to be about as close as this order gets to something that could conceivably be illegal rather than just a bad idea: “Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Attorney General, shall determine how military and national security assets, training, non-lethal capabilities, and personnel can most effectively be utilized to prevent crime.” I read the section about “increase the provision of excess military and national security assets to assist State and local law enforcement” to mean “step up giving surplus Hummers and guns to police departments,” which - while probably not a great idea if you don’t like the idea of “commando cops” - isn’t actually using the military as police.
AI will solve this too, as police officers won't be needed with robots. Think robocop with an AI overlord.
