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To: ConservativeChris

Can anyone recall someone who has worked directly with the President on a day to day basis advising the use of military on its own people? What other time in history has this counsel been given?


32 posted on 11/18/2010 10:22:32 AM PST by My Favorite Headache (In a world where I feel so small, I can't stop thinking big.)
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“Can anyone recall someone who has worked directly with the President on a day to day basis advising the use of military on its own people? What other time in history has this counsel been given?”

Just take a look at the US government’s response to unions and strikes in the 19th Century. Not to mention their response to the Bonus Army in the early 20th. It has been done. Repeatedly.


56 posted on 11/18/2010 10:30:59 AM PST by Old Student
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What other time in history has this counsel been given?

To name a few, Whiskey Rebellion, Bonus Army, WV Mine Wars and desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas.

64 posted on 11/18/2010 10:33:07 AM PST by Roccus (Quondo Omni Flunkus Mortati)
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...use of military on its own people?

To my knowledge only dictators have turned their military against its own people. But that has been when the military was largely corrupted, which is not the case with the US military. As I think another poster suggested, 0bummer might leave himself open to a coup if he ever attempted such an action.

93 posted on 11/18/2010 10:44:32 AM PST by luvbach1 (Stop Barry now. He can't help himself.)
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Back in the 1930’s in Germany?


156 posted on 11/18/2010 11:37:21 AM PST by Twinkie
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“What other time in history has this counsel been given?”

Read about the ‘Bonus Army.’


193 posted on 11/18/2010 12:42:46 PM PST by prolusion
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