• @A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    There is. The Military. Its why they swear to the constitutio to protect against all threats foreign and domestic. not a person.

    Now, The real question is, how to deal with it if the Military is at best indifferent, or at worst, complicit, and either way refusing to act.

    Which should also help shine a worrying light on why the right never wanted the military to investigate and purge white supremacists/fascists/etc

    • @grue@lemmy.world
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      56 months ago

      If by “the military,” you mean the well-regulated militia (every able-bodied adult male) exercising their 2nd Amendment rights, then sure.

      ‘Cause otherwise you could only be talking about the Navy, as (from the founding fathers’ perspective) a permanent standing army was very explicitly and intentionally Not A Thing. (That’s why the Constitution limits for appropriating money to raise and support an army to a term of two years or less.)