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Resist: It's Time
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We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."
The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.
The Underground Railroad is estimated to have brought 100,000 freedom seekers to safety between 1810 and 1850.
It's time.
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And if it splits. Either by branch (Marines one way, Navy the other) or by smaller units.
It'll most likely be on a per-unit or sub-unit basis. Hell, not even every platoon will likely act as one...
If an illegal order comes down (because very many things are immoral but not illegal), there is a duty to not follow the order. That said, I'd imagine that the military will split. By how much is determinant on the method. An immoral/illegal order will probably lead to the split being mostly on the side against the government, e.g. being deployed specifically to shoot civilians. An immoral/legal order will likely end up with most staying with the government. Let's hope Trump and his lackeys don't have their lawyers look at things too closely...
Now, the real trouble comes in with something like simply deploying the active duty or federalized Guard within the country. No technical orders to shoot or do anything objectionable. Simply existing and "guarding" would likely be illegal under the Posse Comitatus act, but presence is not immoral. For this, I really don't know how it would land.
I hope we're not cursed to live in such interesting times.
The military whose commander-in-chief is the insane guy?