Obama Says Use Of Military On Domestic Soil ‘Puts The Liberties Of All Americans At Risk’

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/obama-says-use-of-military-on-domestic-soil-puts-the-liberties-of-all-americans-at-risk_n_68b07145e4b0bbcc3f8e6ed4

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  1. And he’s right. Think through how many countries have military patrols on their own soil, and cross reference that with what countries are dictatorships.

  3. The bigger problem with this is that even when Trump leaves office and even assuming American democracy survives his presidency, he’s created a precedent that’s almost certainly going to be used to justify future uses of the military on American soil.

    People often talk about Trump in extreme terms, saying he’s becoming a dictator (and he’s certainly trying to), but **even if** he fails, he’s going to have paved the way so that it’ll make it much easier for future Presidents to become dictators.

    I just don’t see America going back to how it was before Trump once he leaves office. It’s going to be changed permanently.

  4. Would love to see Obama, as leader of the Democratic Party, be a wee more forceful than this!

  5. Should have been done when the capitol was under siege 

  6. Our Cheeto Caesar that put this in play would not shut up for years with his idiotic claim that Obama was not born in the United States. His plans to destroy the American way began long ago. Didn’t it?

  7. It’s all good! Justice Roberts has assured us that the court is “worried the President is stretching the rubber band of democracy in ways it simply has never been stretched before”.

    Just simply stretching democracy. A new stretch! but still just a lil stretch, and we will rebound back to a more comfortable level of democracy anytime. I’m sure from now on they will reign in the executive powers, surely.

  8. I long for the days we had actual leaders who respected the norms and institutions, and most importantly the Constitution, of these United States. Le sigh.

  9. Trump is only where he is today because the Republican party is using him as a puppet too. They have have their guy who can usher in every shitty, hateful piece of legislation they’ve always wanted to push through.

    Trump doesn’t know wtf he’s doing or how to be presiden, we know this from his first awful term. He’s simply being told what to do and how to do it.

  11. Quite a few Americans don’t seem to care or some even support it. Very sad state of affairs.

  12. It doesn’t “put liberties at risk.” It’s *already* taking them away. The whole point is to intimidate people into constraining their own behavior.

  13. Sorry to break it to you, Obama, but our liberties have been on the chopping block for over a century. This is just the final swing.

  14. No shit Barry, why don’t you roll up your sleeves and get into this fight!

  16. Maga don’t care.

    Fox news tells them criminals are burning NYC and other places to the ground.

    Despite the fact that isn’t happening, but Magats live on their trailer parks in bum fuck nowhere, acting like they have any idea what is going on.

  17. It’s basically Trump’s version of Hitler’s SS, trial runs to hold America hostage under a dictator who’s tearing the country apart faster than ever. No checks and balances since Republicans are complicit in the downfall and destruction of America so the GOP deep state oligarchs control everything.

  18. As a former President I feel like he needs to become more confrontational with Trump. His position, former and present, if mixed with some of Newsom’s hard edge could cause some fireworks. Just like the Trump camp likes to flood the zone-if Obama and some Governors started hogging the national stage with messages like this -it would cause more panic in the Trump Whitehouse and reverse uno a flood to their zone.

    Obama has earned his day of leisure but he is really one of a handful of people who can cause damage to Trump personally and we need him to stand up for this country. There’s no one else. I wish he would answer the call now before it gets worse. All of this hinges on whether or not Obama is a puppet to the DNC- who wants to act like its business as usual and “if you just donate 7 dollars, we’ll show them!!”

  21. Grateful that he took time from his busy schedule raking in millions of dollars to opine about the decline of America.

  22. jfc stop speaking like a student buddy president. We’re brawling here Obama, roll up the sleeves.

  23. When they start snatching people off the street and sending them to labor camps in other countries without trials, your liberties are not at risk. They are gone.

    Also, for those of you who dropped in here to muddy the water with some both-sides bullshit: fuck you.

  24. “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive, will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending have enslaved the people.”

    -James Madison at the constitutional convention

  25. As I look out the window of the office building I’m working in today I see total chaos. People walking, cars driving by, busses picking people up and dropping people off. Not even ONE Trump flag…

    We need the military to intervene and put a stop to this madness!

  26. Wasn’t he ok with killing American citizens without due process? Is that only when they’re on foreign soil?

  27. “Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered…”

    Thomas Paine, An American Crisis

  28. Mother fucker you were sitting there laughing with him at a funeral. Don’t talk big like you’re trying to tell us something and then when you see him you can’t stare at him like you did Putin when you were in office.

  30. He really needs to speak up way more than he currently is attempting. Honestly, he’s being weak

  31. Huh. I wonder who contributed to the erosion of civil liberties in this country. It surely couldn’t be the guy that extrajudicisiouly assassinated American citizens or legalized mass surveillance.

  32. Yea cause Obama really cares about domestic freedom. lol

  33. Says the guy that droned US citizens with out due process.

  34. Capitalism and democracy cannot coexist together in the long run. Mofos gotta understand that…

  35. Obama is still in a position of influence and power and I can’t help but hope he and others like him do something more substantial to curb the course to hell that we’re apparently set on.

  36. Shoulda played hardball when you had the chance, Barry

  37. It is time someone who held the office is speaking up. I would have hoped that regardless of party affiliation all of our former presidents would be speaking out against what is happening in the country. These are the leaders we once listened to and have held the office, I wish they would all stand up for the country.

  38. This guy is so goddamn late to the party. So much wasted opportunity when he was in office. But thank you for opining now.

  39. >[**Pennsylvania, September 28, 1776**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Pennsylvania,_September_28,_1776)

    >Article 13. *That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the state; and* ***as standing armies in the time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up****; And that the military should be kept under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.*

  40. Dude needs to say this in a new way. “The president is wiping his ass with the Constitution,” etc.

  41. I feel like making these type of statements does nothing to motivate Democrats and everything to motivate Republicans who fantasize about being on the winning end of this shit.

  42. Time for all of us little folks to arm up.

    Our military is compromised.

  43. Obama can suck it.

    His failure to bail out people before Wall Street and the lack of prosecutions for rampant fraud during the financial crisis teed up the world we live in now.

    He rode into office on a wave of hope and change and gave everyone more of the same. No wonder people think the DNC isn’t interested in the working class.

  44. And wtf has Obama done other than derail the chance for a real progressive to be president? Fuck this guy. He got his bag and fucked off to Martha vineyard or wherever the fuck. CHANGE, my ass.

  45. So do something about it. Pretty sick of people like him and newsom just pointing at a problem that regular people are unable to affect.

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