Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lynn McGuire Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Awfully quiet in here... Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 19:14:08 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 02:14:08 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e65e33b4f0c03cfa18bf3263781018f9"; logging-data="1321165"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+uftaGt4B6dsW8sHt4rMoYJSNiTlhaBlI=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:/EVbtRpv37dth2kGvXoXBkBiUX4= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 1992 On 11/11/2024 6:38 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote: > Paul S Person wrote: >> I believe he also had the Brownshirts >> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung], which were both larger >> and more disciplined than any "militia" existing in the USA today. >> >> So the parallel fails at the critical point: no large disciplined >> group of thugs designated as Republican Party security to carry out >> Trump's will. > > Trump attempted in 2020 in Oregon to use Federal police to shut down > demonstrations and he mostly got away with it. > > I think that use was actually constitutional although the courts never > got a chance to rule on it. I don't think it -should- be constitutional > however. > --scott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army Lynn