I’m just gonna keep posting this any time I see the military acting as a police force.
There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.
-Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica (2004)
Such an amazing show and accidentally sorta predicting a number of events that are happening now?
Science fiction has always been a vehicle for social commentary
Which ignorant fucksticks don’t fear marines being deployed against American citizens?
Ah, right, the fascist ones. They love the idea.
its also a russia thing to do, trump follows putins playbook.
I thought whenever military are sent to an area to control … they are ‘OCCUPYING’ it and controlling it for themselves through force
… like what they’ve been doing for years in foreign countries.
no shit
The problem is that the distinction between the pigs and soldiers is academic. But didn’t we always know that the skills learned in Iraq and Afghanistan would be applied at home?
Posse Comitatus Act