{"id":79518,"date":"2021-09-16T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79518"},"modified":"2021-09-15T21:34:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T02:34:22","slug":"the-praetorians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79518","title":{"rendered":"The Praetorians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Our last defense against liberal tyranny has always been the military. They won&#8217;t fire on us, they are us, the military think the way we do.<br>Not anymore. In a couple of years, the new officers trained under the new regime will be in the field commanding troops. Either we will see officers leading troops against Americans, or a massive surge of fragging. Neither is good for the nation.<br>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The US military has over 20 years of constant warfare become one of America\u2019s most respected institutions.<\/p><p>For the past 40 years or so, Americans have trusted it to be the last, best defense against tyranny, whether imposed from abroad or within.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think Joe may be a tad Pollyanna-ish: The flag rank officers who came up through the upper field grades under the Obama administration, reflect in the politics of that era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our founding fathers were right to be nervous of the standing military. I\u2019m hoping we don\u2019t we don\u2019t find out exactly how right they were in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Our last defense against liberal tyranny has always been the military. They won&#8217;t fire on us, they are us, the military think the way we do.Not anymore. In a couple of years, the new officers trained under the new regime will be in the field commanding troops. Either we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79519,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79518\/revisions\/79519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}