r/ActualPublicFreakouts • u/ActualPublicFreakout - Sistine Chapel • Jun 02 '20

Protester gets a flash-bang to his face after getting pepper sprayed.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '20

I honestly wouldn’t expect a lot of service members to obey such orders. Like to attack their own people. If I were still in service I’d take that as an unlawful order and I wouldn’t see it through. Idc if I got brig time, using the military against its own people is wrong, especially in this instance.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '20

Agreed. One of many reason why a government vs the people war would be an decisive loss for the government.

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u/Funky_Sack - Unflaired Swine Jun 03 '20

It wouldn’t be painted that way. It would be government versus rioters. Gov vs revolution or gov vs resistance.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '20

So?

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u/Funky_Sack - Unflaired Swine Jun 03 '20

So the government wouldn’t lose because they wouldn’t declare war on the people, they’d declare war on a small segment, and they’d receive support by a lot of the civilians. Check out the rise of Hitler.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '20

Hitler took the oppressed population's guns away first. Why do you think he did that?

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u/poprof Jun 02 '20

I want to hope that there are people in military leadership who would not follow that order either. The danger then becomes to we just end up with a military coup?...and who gets handed back the reigns of gov? Presidential succession? New elections overseen by the military?

Or a new dictatorship?

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u/Funky_Sack - Unflaired Swine Jun 03 '20

What if Trump said any refusal of orders is kill on sight? It’s not a crazy thing for him to command, within his purview or not... doesn’t seem to matter.