“He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.”

“For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:”

My first case of that.

We are looking into the facts.

Blah, blah,blah…

It will be business as usual. No accountability, and just a waste of taxpayers money in going through the motions like something is going to change. I never thought I’d see the days when private armies who can operate outside the law would be acceptable in America.

Remember Paladin?..” Have gun, Will travel”… sorta like an early Blackwater type of hired gun.

As soon as an elected leader can wage a war with our money and without our commitment then the situation is ripe for dictatorship. The questionable domestic use of a pointless mercenary force in place of our National Guard of/for/by the people only adds insult to injury and is frightening as our military keepers have yet one more degree of separation from the voting public.

If anyone had asked 10 years ago whether this would come to pass, my answer would have been “Never in America!”