From: Billy Brown (bbrown@conemsco.com)
Date: Thu Feb 11 1999 - 06:44:37 MST
Randall Randall wrote:
> That *is* the idea. It just isn't the real life. :( While I
> don't think
> that the emergency will be widespread enough for the military to
> be plausibly called out, I have no trouble believing that the
> people I was in with (when I was in the US Army) would follow
> these sorts of orders. The problem is that most soldiers believe
> that their superior officers won't *give* unConstitutional orders,
> so if they get an order, it must be Constitutional. Nor do they
> habitually weigh each and every order, or even the unusual
> ones, against the Constitution. Most soldiers do not have even
> a good idea of what the Constitution *says*!
I know. :(
The important people in this equation are the mid-level officers.
Battallion and division-level COs are a lot more prone to independent
thinking than individual riflemen, and a lot more likely to worry about this
kind of consideration. Even then they'll probably let a lot of things
slide - but if you tell them to lock up the local government and disarm the
police, they aren't going to do it.
Billy Brown, MCSE+I
bbrown@conemsco.com
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