If terrorists are enemy combatants, why can't the military be used?

[miketx]

It's the duty of the military to protect the country from a foreign invasion. How many that come here will you support, traitor?

Oops Pentagon rejected request for troops it viewed as emergency law enforcement at border - CNNPolitics

The veracity of this report is fecal in the extreme. The Pentagon does not have the option to reject CinC commands. Ergo, no such command was given.

The U.S. is not a 3rd world country. Its military will not be used to fire on civilians for daring to venture near the border.

No but they will be used on invading enemy.

No they won't. After Tuesday, you'll never even here about any caravans again until the next time the GOP wants you to dance for them.

Captured for posterity.

 

[WillowTree]

We can do anything, unlike that dumbass Obama!

 

[buttercup]

We don't care. We knew you would vote for higher taxes, more regulations, more illegals, open borders, less freedom, gun bans, emptying prisons.

You know, I'm likely the very last person on this board to say something half-way thought out like that to. Tread lightly, dear patriot. There's a good chance that you'll end up looking so absolutely stupid your head would spin. And in front of all of your friends, no less.

I just told you what you said you would do. That's what you support, as an enemy of the state. Your crying libtard remarks were expected. But I did look stupid a few moments ago. I swept my porch and the wind blew it all back. Wife's still laughing.

Umm, just in case you were being serious, NC is probably the most pro-liberty / small-government person here, he is AGAINST all those things you mentioned. But he’s one of the few people around here who has enough sense to see that both parties are screwing us all over. So for you to call him a “libtard” is laughable, and just goes to show that this “our team is better than your team” football mentality is completely blinding everyone.

 

[Markle]

There’s a difference between hate and murder. Republicans have both hate and murder.

Really?

 

[deanrd]

If the caravans try to illegally cross the US border, and there are suspected terrorists among them, why can't the US military help collect them and turn them over to be interrogated to be sure that there are no terrorists trying to sneak in???

Posse Comitatus Act - Wikipedia Covers Army and Air Force personnel
The National Guard is exempt from the PCA, if any governors call them up
The Marines are included, but only by adopted Navy regulations, not the PCA.

What terrorists?

Republican bombers.

 

[deanrd]

There’s a difference between hate and murder. Republicans have both hate and murder.

Really?

Really:

Rural Appalachia lags the rest of the country in infant mortality and life expectancy

Infant Mortality and Life Expectancy in Appalachia Versus the Rest of the US

Widening Disparities In Infant Mortality And Life Expectancy Between Appalachia And The Rest Of The United States

Republicans are like monsters. Their own people are dying as babies and not living as long. And they don't care. In fact, the very people suffering under the yoke of the GOP are their greatest defenders. In spite of the facts.

 

[Markle]

There’s a difference between hate and murder. Republicans have both hate and murder.

Really?

Really:

Rural Appalachia lags the rest of the country in infant mortality and life expectancy

Infant Mortality and Life Expectancy in Appalachia Versus the Rest of the US

Widening Disparities In Infant Mortality And Life Expectancy Between Appalachia And The Rest Of The United States

Republicans are like monsters. Their own people are dying as babies and not living as long. And they don't care. In fact, the very people suffering under the yoke of the GOP are their greatest defenders. In spite of the facts.

 

[deanrd]

There’s a difference between hate and murder. Republicans have both hate and murder.

Really?

Really:

Rural Appalachia lags the rest of the country in infant mortality and life expectancy

Infant Mortality and Life Expectancy in Appalachia Versus the Rest of the US

Widening Disparities In Infant Mortality And Life Expectancy Between Appalachia And The Rest Of The United States

Republicans are like monsters. Their own people are dying as babies and not living as long. And they don't care. In fact, the very people suffering under the yoke of the GOP are their greatest defenders. In spite of the facts.

Even worse is the FACT that right wingers kill three times more innocents dead by terrorism than everyone else put together.
Funny that zero right wing terrorists are black.

 

[Markle]

There’s a difference between hate and murder. Republicans have both hate and murder.

Really?

Really:

Rural Appalachia lags the rest of the country in infant mortality and life expectancy

Infant Mortality and Life Expectancy in Appalachia Versus the Rest of the US

Widening Disparities In Infant Mortality And Life Expectancy Between Appalachia And The Rest Of The United States

Republicans are like monsters. Their own people are dying as babies and not living as long. And they don't care. In fact, the very people suffering under the yoke of the GOP are their greatest defenders. In spite of the facts.

Even worse is the FACT that right wingers kill three times more innocents dead by terrorism than everyone else put together.
Funny that zero right wing terrorists are black.

Anti-Defamation League!

 

[Norman]

They are not refugees, they are invaders.

 

[Windparadox]

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Trump backtracks on shooting rock-throwing members of migrant caravan - "President Donald Trump apparently doesn’t want US troops to open fire on migrants at the southern border after all.

Trump said in a speech on Thursday that members of a migrant caravan would be shot if they threw stones at border officials. By Friday, however, he had changed his tuned, saying that members of the caravan who throw rocks at border officials would be arrested, not shot.​

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Oh my. What will they do with all those tanks and artillery pieces they send to the border to repel the invaders?
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[frigidweirdo]

If the caravans try to illegally cross the US border, and there are suspected terrorists among them, why can't the US military help collect them and turn them over to be interrogated to be sure that there are no terrorists trying to sneak in???

Posse Comitatus Act - Wikipedia Covers Army and Air Force personnel
The National Guard is exempt from the PCA, if any governors call them up
The Marines are included, but only by adopted Navy regulations, not the PCA.

This "potential terrorist" thing is like a blank check. You make a claim that isn't backed up with anything and if people accept it then where does it end?

Timothy McVeigh was a terrorist, he was a US citizen. So all US citizens are "potential terrorists" which means the US govt can impose martial law.