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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSS agents took an oath to protect us against enemies foreign and DOMESTIC
Secret Service agents are protecting America's biggest domestic enemy.
Why aren't they standing by their oath?
mathematic
(1,439 posts)Cyrano
(15,050 posts)Alea
(706 posts)Cyrano
(15,050 posts)Alea
(706 posts)What more are you proposing they do?
Cyrano
(15,050 posts)jmowreader
(50,562 posts)He would like our current White House resident to be taken into custody because he is a domestic enemy. And while this is true, it is not the job of the Secret Service to overthrow the president.
It is the job of the Senate to overthrow the president, and they have already proven they wont do it.
Cyrano
(15,050 posts)It doesn't mention the senate or anyone else. The oath is taken as a personal responsibility. It's not a group thing. It's an individual promise to protect America regardless of where the threat comes from.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Oath taken by people who believe in a god:
Oath taken by people who do not believe in a god:
Where in that oath does it give anyone permission to overthrow the president on their own accord, regardless of how rotten or corrupt he is? Because I have news for you: if Secret Service agents were allowed to do that, they would have overthrown President Obama in a heartbeat just for the fuck of it.
There are exactly two ways to overthrow the president of the United States: impeachment and the 25th Amendment.
Alea
(706 posts)Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)rownesheck
(2,343 posts)all these oaths people (politicians and such) take is just ceremonial bullshit that means absolutely nothing.
Cyrano
(15,050 posts)Turin_C3PO
(14,032 posts)That would be a coup and the military might even intervene in Trumps favor.
Cyrano
(15,050 posts)According to your reasoning, the oath is meaningless.
If he really did shoot someone on 5th Avenue, the New York police would arrest him.
A man who has kidnapped children at the border and put them in cages. A man who has intentionally ignored a virus, that could end up in thousands of deaths, when he could have acted to minimize it, is, by any definition, a domestic enemy. I could continue, but you get the idea.
Yet, the Secret Service continues to protect him while ignoring the oath they took.
Turin_C3PO
(14,032 posts)the oath probably refers to non-elected troublemakers. Congress and President are likely immune. Otherwise, you might have a SS that arrests a President just for being liberal, for example.