Tom Paine 1949
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The military is and should be above partisan politics, and the Joint Chiefs’ statement was a reaffirmation that the military defends our Constitution and Constitutional process. It is too bad you don’t seem to understand this simple distinction.The military is taking sides in a partisan dispute and you celebrate that?The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Pentagon body comprising the military’s top generals, issued a memo to the entire U.S. military on Tuesday condemning the Capitol riot and confirming Biden will become the 46th commander in chief of the armed forces on Jan. 20.
In the memo, the top Pentagon brass characterized the violent riot as “a direct assault on the U.S. Congress, the Capitol building and our Constitutional process,” and said the military remained fully committed to protecting and defending the Constitution “against all enemies foreign and domestic.”
“As service members, we must embody the values and ideals of the nation,” the top brass said. “We support and defend the Constitution. Any act to disrupt the Constitutional process is not only against our traditions, values and oath; it is against the law.”
Do you also celebrate the rise in censorship?
As for issues of “censorship” or even “a state of emergency” ... those are different questions I’ve discussed in detail elsewhere:
A Temporary “State of Emergency”
Everybody ought to recognize that the actions to restrict temporarily Trump’s social media access, to remove him from power by the Cabinet or via Impeachment, are essentially emergency measures being taken by various private and public authorities. We are living through an exceptional situation...
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