"... against all enemies, foreign and domestic; ..."
Each and every federal employee, from the President of the United States on down, must swear an oath to the Constitution that begins with the phrase: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; ...
So my question is, what's a "domestic enemy?"
Is a domestic enemy someone in a position of maximum power who threatens a civil war?
Is a domestic enemy someone in a position of maximum power who threatens the safety (and perhaps lives) of political opponents?
My answer to those questions is yes. And that would make the current pResident of the United States a domestic enemy.
Everyone in the Secret Service took that oath. Why are they protecting a domestic enemy?
Everyone in the military took that oath. Why are they following the orders of a domestic enemy?
It seems to me that that oath overrides everything except the right to remove a sitting president -- for which there are other remedies. Nonetheless, that oath implies that no one who took it should be following the orders/whims/fantasies of a demonstrable domestic enemy.
Agree? Disagree? Seems there's a conflict here. What do you think?
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