[Peace-discuss] U.S. Military Against Americans?

[Szoke, Ron]

Trump Just Threatened to Use 
the U.S. Military Against Americans
Trump’s plan involves invoking a two-century-old law known as the Insurrection Act, which allows the president to deploy troops inside the country.

By Greg Walters
VICE News  Jun 1 2020, 6:27pm

WASHINGTON — President Trump vowed to use the U.S. military to quash the deadly riots that have shaken the country in widespread protests against police violence.
Trump is already deploying thousands of soldiers to American cities around the country, he said, and will command them to stop riots in places where mayors and governors fail to stop the civil unrest by themselves, Trump said in a Rose Garden address at the White House on Monday evening.

“As we speak, I am dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel, and law enforcement officers to stop the rioting, looting, vandalism, assaults, and the wanton destruction of property,” Trump said. “We are ending the riots and lawlessness that are spreading throughout our country. We will end it now.”

Trump’s plan involves invoking a two century-old law known as the Insurrection Act, which allows the president to deploy troops inside the country. The move raises that striking image of a sitting president turning the awesome force of the American military against his own citizens, although the details of Trump’s plan weren’t immediately clear.