cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31344860

Disregard all rules, Get this to anyone you know in the US military now

A tweet states that National Guard or Active Duty military ordered to violate constitutional rights can call the GI Rights Hotline for support, with the number 1-877-447-4487 provided.

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[–] 16 points 1 year ago (10 children)

What would make anyone look at the last 80 years of US foreign policy, and not realize they’ve been following illegal orders the entire time? You think this is where they’ll draw the line?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    This is a domestic issue, not foreign policy.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    No, you just don’t understand how the two are intertwined.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Oh -- sorry, I understand the protests are about immigration, which is not exactly a domestic issue. I'm talking about the deployment of the national guard.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    The deployment of the military domestically, using tactics and technology that were field tested in Israel and US battlefields, is inextricably linked to our foreign policy.

    The implication that there is any division between the two topics is insanely obtuse.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I was expecting you to have a much deeper connection than just "it's the same tactics." Like yeah obviously if you learn something in one place you can apply it to another similar situation.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Same tactics, same soldiers, same commanders, same weapons, same policies…

    What’s different, besides the location? Only difference I see is that the rules of engagement are much stricter for soldiers abroad, while demonically they can fire on anyone they want and attack the press without consequence.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Right, but my point was that the location is different. The OP's image contains this text, which you might not have noticed:

    violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens

    Anyway, if your point is that "GIs aren't going to care about the fact that these are US citizens," then I more or less agree with you.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It implies an adherence to law that I’ve never seen in my lifetime, from neither domestic law enforcement nor foreign deployed military. It should be a factor, but I’ve never seen it in practice.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If you mean "should" from a moral point of you, I don't think it should. What's moral doesn't change based on your physical location. Or at least, not in my moral framework.

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