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when the US military can be used against our own citizens

Everyone who enlists in the armed forces has to swear to an oath that includes "I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic".

And we have certainly seen the military used against our own people. In the George Floyd protests, 96,000 personnel from the National Guard, State Guard, parachute troops, and others, were deployed against protesters in 30 states. [1] [2] [3] This was not a small, targeted operation, it was a broad effort to suppress protests.

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