MrEd wrote:
No matter how much they hate Obama, he is still their commander and as such they are bound to obey him. I know it is frustrating and you want to see something done, but that is not the way to do it. Are you ready to fight all the departments that will not agree with what you are doing? How about Congress, will you get them to go along with your coup?? There is a lot more to taking over a government then just taking out one guy.
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MrEd;
I have great respect for you and your post on OPP, however disagree with your thinking that the POTUS is automatically installed as commander in Chief over all US Military. That simply is not true. According to the US Constitution, Article 2 - Section 2 states ' The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States.
The operative & key phrase in this is when called into actual Service of the United States. So the question is what does it mean when called into Service? Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States gives us the answer and states:
The Congress shall have Power
To declare War
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress.
If we are to believe the words of our founding fathers, Congress has the power over the military and NOT the POTUS, unless congress grants him those powers as CIC. We need to look to Congress to control that individual in the Peoples House. If Congress can 'call into actual service' and grant the POTUS the powers of acting as CIC, then Congress can remove that grant and restrict the POTUS from acting as CIC. Period!