Subj : Re: Democrat Protesters
To   : Lee Lofaso
From : Dan Cross
Date : Sat Jun 13 2020 00:41:47

On 12 Jun 2020 at 03:36a, Lee Lofaso pondered and said...
 
 LL> >And I answered that unequivocally: No.  I am not, nor
 LL> >was I ever, under any obligation to follow any illegal
 LL> >order, no matter who issued it; I would not do so.  You
 LL> >evidently know me better than I do, though, and disagree
 LL> >with me on what I would do and what I have seen other
 LL> >military officers do.
 LL> 
 LL> Notice the president and his entourage waited until the protesters
 LL> had been cleared for them to make their appearance at the church.
 LL> 
 LL> Fact of the matter is you have no idea what you would do
 LL> in certain situations.

Actually, haven been in situations like that, I do.

 LL> If during a time of war your commanding officer gives you a
 LL> sidearm and tells you to take a prisoner to headquarters and
 LL> return in fifteen minutes, you would do it - even though it
 LL> would take you a full hour driving through heavy fighting in
 LL> enemy territory. You would do it just to save your own sorry
 LL> skin, knowing what your commanding officer would do to you
 LL> if you failed to follow that order.

Are you describing yourself?  Because you sure as shit
aren't describing _me_.  I've been in situations like
that and know full-well what I'd do.

 LL> Soldiers exist to follow orders. That's it. They are not there
 LL> to think. Only to do what they are told. Nothing more, nothing
 LL> less. The commander in chief is head honcho, and all his toy
 LL> soldiers and sailors and airmen are compelled to comply. Even
 LL> his spacemen, although not really sure what branch the space
 LL> force is supposed to be part of. In Robert Heinlein's world the
 LL> spacemen were Marines. But this is Trumpland ...

That's one of the most laughable things I've ever read.
That's empirically not true.  Maybe for bootlickers like
you who want to follow Trump off an authoritarian cliff.

 LL> >But you've also admitted to being a Trump supporter, so
 LL> >this is unsurprising.
 LL> 
 LL> I said I wear a red hat and have a huge banner on my wall.
 LL> How does that make me a Trump supporter?

Your statements and actions do, symbols aside.

 LL> >I am not retired, as I told you.  That's a very specific
 LL> >status; I served and left the service prior to retirement.
 LL> >I am honorably discharged.
 LL> 
 LL> So is US Senator Tammy Duckworth. But at least you still have legs
 LL> to stand on. Unlike so many others, some who have lost far more.

What does that have to do with anything?

But since you brought here up.... Why don't you go tell
Sen Duckworth that she was there to only follow orders,
not to think, and that she'd commit war crimes if told
to do so by Donald Trump?  She may have lost her legs to
the RPG round that hit her Blackhawk, but I'll bet she'd
tear you apart so fast you'd have no idea what hit you.

 LL> --Lee

The rest of your post was an incoherent wall of text.
Very well.

*PLoNk!*

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