My recommendation to be real careful is not a threat. It’s suggested because you’ve chosen to be unnecessarily nasty to Butterdezillion.
And that just won’t set well with those who know how diligently and conscientiously, as well as very politely, she’s worked for a very very long time to laboriously track volumes of known information relative to this issue, and very objectively and civilly shared those results.
Butter’s someone who’s *earned* extremely good will and very high respect here due to her perseverence and her open, polite and civil dialog with all, both those in harmony with her position, as well as those who disagree with it.
But there you go, showing your stripes, and now cursing me.
Nice going .. and duly noted.
My suggestion stands.
Thanks for the kind words. I’ve never been told I should go to DU before; I imagine that’s sort of like telling somebody to go to hell... lol.
Seems like this poster doesn’t grasp the whole point of what is being argued: Lakin disobeyed an order but it was not a LAWFUL order, according to the expressed definitions in Article 92’s elements. I don’t know how to make the argument any clearer; wish I did.
Or this person grasps it and wants to change the subject by calling me and other people trolls. I guess if I’m a “troll” in his estimation I’m in good company; always happy to be with people who look for genuine facts and then analyze them with integrity. There are a lot of people I respect even though I don’t initially (or sometimes ever) agree with them; their steel sharpens mine, and that’s what I want. I will weigh into the mix any genuine facts somebody presents.
Lind threw into the mix the role of Congress with the military. Well, if she really wants to get onto that subject, she should look at Congress’ role of declaring war, which in this case took the form of authorizing the use of force - delegating that authority to “the President” alone, for him to use sole discretion. The use of force ABSOLUTELY depends on a valid POTUS deciding it, according to Lind’s own argument about the role of Congress.