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The German Army was an honorable group. Many hated Hitler but as Hilter formed an inter-circle there honor was compromised again and again. You keep hitting us with with the issue are you thoughts of the military. It is not the military we don't trust. If you want to make a point don't tell us what we think. I have studied Germany and how a few made a large population go against their will and moral thought.

The enemy is the Democrats here who have control and not the military as a whole. There are more Westly Clarks in the military than just him.

You do realize that with a comment like that you are inferring our military are like Nazis?

In any case where our military obeys illegal orders to forcibly "resettle" civilians, what would you call them? The same orders when given in Nazi Germany were not illegal orders under German law.

I do not believe that our present professional military would obey such orders, but with the current administration I forsee a new cadre of guardsmen being picked for their political reliability and assigned to such duties.

They'll assign redneck kids to the cities and inner city kids to the countryside, reducing any hesitation through the "he's not my bro" factor.

I hope I'm way off base, but I trust this administration to try ANYTHING they think they can get away with!

By the way, please thank your kids for their service; I know they'll be among the ones who've got our back.

“You do realize that with a comment like that you are inferring our military are like Nazis?”

You say “Nazi” as though it is some magical thing, as though those soldiers who carried out the orders of Hitler and the Nazi were somehow different people than us.

They were simply soldiers conned into doing the things they did. They are proof that good people can be conned into doing really bad things. They were not predispositioned to do those things. They were not genetically faulty. They were not evil people Hell bent on destruction. They didn’t originate the ideas of the Nazi.

We are not immune, either. Hell, half the country voted for Obama and you think we as a nation are immune from doing Obama’s bidding? That somehow once a person puts on a US military uniform they somehow turn into great patriotic conservative Americans?

The founding fathers knew to ensure the military was subservient to the civil authority because they had seen throughout history and on the colonial soil the military abusing civilians under the color of law. They knew good people in uniform can be used for nefarious purposes.

Let’s not forget that no military member will be told, “Go secure that neighborhood so we can round of those who disagree with our policies.” Nope, they’ll be told, “This neighborhood is protecting a few domestic terrorists and we need to find them before they harm any more people. Go secure the neighborhood so they don’t escape.” That type of propaganda worked for the Nazi and it can work here. The average 18 year old won’t know the difference.