U.S. Air Force veteran Capt. Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger III launched his 9-tweet thread ─ So, click on the picture in the tweet ↓ ↓ to open the complete thread ─
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Nov 3, please vote in person, not by mail, for POTUS; remember that POTUS is an Electoral Office.
Please read Greg Palast’s book “How Trump Stole 2020” (note the past tense “Stole”, not future tense “will steal”) especially pp. 32-37 to see an encyclopedia of ways mail-in ballots won’t be counted, contrary to what many believe which is that they will be counted. Palast documents so many GOP tricks to not count ballots in “blue” precincts-counties-states that it’s zero surprise that Atty. Gen. Barr has said the ballots and counting them is up to the states, even when people try to vote by both mail and in person. And read the press release of 2 Sep 2020 → “ THE ACLU OF GEORGIA RELEASES THE PALAST INVESTIGATIVE FUND REPORT: THE STATE LIKELY REMOVED NEARLY 200,000 CITIZENS FROM THE VOTER ROLLS WHO NEVER MOVED” ─press release webpage can download full ACLU report and more!
CIC (Commander-in-Chief) is an Appointed Title, Not an Electoral Office.
- U.S. Const. Annotated → Art. II. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT → § 2 → cl. 1
- COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF → Development of the Concept:
Virginia ratifying convention → Madison, replying to Patrick Henry’s objection that danger lurked in giving the President control of the military, said: “Would the honorable member say that the sword ought to be put in the hands of the representatives of the people, or in other hands independent of the government altogether?”
North Carolina convention → Iredell said: “From the nature of the thing, the command of armies ought to be delegated to one person only.
U.S. Constitution as it was ratified delegates a title, CIC, its power granted by the clause, “The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States ...[...]...”. The power is not granted by an electoral victory but by a person making affirmation of duty to and protection of the U.S. Constitution.
Purely military aspects of the Commander-in-Chiefship were those that were originally stressed. Hamilton said the office “would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the Military and naval forces, as first general and admiral of the confederacy.”
In 1850, Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, for the Court [SCOTUS] , wrote into the Opinion on Fleming, et al. v. Page., 50 U.S. (9 How.) 603 (1850).: “His duty and his power are purely military. As commander-in-chief, he is authorized to direct the movements of the naval and military forces placed by law at his command, and to employ them in the manner he may deem most effectual to harass and conquer and subdue the enemy. He may invade the hostile country, and subject it to the sovereignty and authority of the United States. But his conquests do not enlarge the boundaries of this Union, nor extend the operation of our institutions and laws beyond the limits before assigned to them by the legislative power. . . .[...]… But in the distribution of political power between the great departments of government, there is such a wide difference between the power conferred on the President of the United States, and the authority and sovereignty which belong to the English crown, that it would be altogether unsafe to reason from any supposed resemblance between them, either as regards conquest in war, or any other subject where the rights and powers of the executive arm of the government are brought into question.”
After the Civil War in 1866, a powerful minority of the Court [SCOTUS] described the role of President as Commander-in-Chief simply as “the command of the forces and the conduct of campaigns.” ── Ex parte Milligan, 71 U.S. 2 (1866)
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Most blistering condemnation I’ve seen is from West Point legacy Paul Eaton, who was interviewed last night by Rachel Maddow after he posted this tweet ↓ ↓
My sympathies go to Son of Col. Norman Dale Eaton, a veteran of Rolling Thunder and Steel Tiger, k.i.a. loss 13 Jan 1969 on B57 Canberra mission over Laos; Remains returned 16 Dec 2015, at rest in Arlington National Cemetery.