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Now the Guardian is asking when generals are going to stand up to Trump - especially as his using military forces for law enforcement is illegal.

Um...well, they should, I agree, but the problem there is that nutter or not, he is the Commander-In-Chief of the US Armed Forces. Disobeying the orders of your superior officer is, by definition, mutiny, and they don't come any more superior than the C-in-C.

Anyone want to bet he wouldn't declare martial law or something and have them shot? Wouldn't put it past him.

Unless they find the same courage Data did in "Redemption", that is.

Not likely, though, not in an army which (as Heinlein pointed out in the '50s!) has insignia distinguishing officers who have led men in combat from officers who haven't.

OTOH, it is their duty to refuse illegal orders. We'll see.

(And once again in case Big Brother is reading, UP YOURS, ECHELON!)

"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."

- Commander William Adama
Battlestar Galactica 2003

Is it me, or is that the way the world's going?