This whole hoohah over military tribunals:
Consider that taken as a whole, the body of the discussion is about tribunals or civilian courts ...
... when there appears to be more than a sufficient number of potential defendants in both categories.
We even know the names of the more conspicuous candidates for civilian trials.
What I don’t recall are the names of the military coup participants.
You know there’s more than one.
Consider what knowledge Admiral Rogers had access to at the time of his meeting in Tromp Tower.
On the National Emergency conundrum:
During the Clinton years at least several 56k modems were sacrificed to this same discussion. The intricacies of the gold fringe on the flag in every civilian courtroom was explored, baud by baud.
Bob Ireland ...
(shout out to Bob - long time no see)
... was around (pre 11/28/1997) for those times and may remember them. At the time the concern was that Clinton would use an existing national emergency declaration to declare martial law for some reason or other.
Didn’t happen.
However, as I recall, there was a pathway he could have used, but the overall circumstances and the mood of the public, albeit poisonous, did not allow the stretch.
By the way, Bob? Do you remember the consensus thinking, or were we as bad as the current crowd? :)
Bonus points to the first poster that reminds us of the Oath every military officer swears, and that retired and former officers can be recalled to active duty ...
... to serve at the pleasure of the President ...
... on a Courts Martial panel, or as the defendant.
Would it be possible that the President & Cabinet heads could be defined as . . . rebel officers aggressively attempting to destroy the Republic? They were certainly that doing that!
Aaye, laddie! 😁 Much water under the bridge, so to speak. . . . Truthfully, while I think we sensed a great threat then, now we are in a different universe! We didn't have the Brown Shirts attacking us in the streets - with the Democraps' blessing. We didn't have the MSM exhaustively working to overthrow an election... we fought for GW Bush in 2000 and carried the day.
We weren't tied to social media - just FR - for our freedom, and JimRob wasn't censoring us into silence. Fox News Channel came over the horizon like the Liberation Fleet.
The enemy we face now - some of them from of old - is prepared to shred the Constitution while telling us that they are doing it and So what? in our faces. The common thread through it all is the Clintoons, but we thought we had slain that dragon; little did we know that Hildebeest was the great enduring evil that was immune to man's laws... that like an evil Phoenix she would rise from the ashes even more powerful, able to corrupt even the highest seats in our government.
As to the tribunals - I don't know, above my pay grade... but I can see the reason why. Maybe we have to be like Turkey after the fall of the Ottoman empire: let the military take over temporarily in order to re-establish the proper order, which they had to do repeatedly in the 20th century.
PERILOUS TIMES! ... as usual.
Oh! ...and 'Hi'!