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roamer65

(36,747 posts) Mon Oct 31, 2016, 12:54 AM Oct 2016

If Trumpistas start violence, what recourse do we have under the National Emergencies Act?

Looks like it would give the President very sweeping powers to quell any violence. At least from my glances at it.

Passed in 1976, it has been used in many situations in the past. The Iranian hostage crisis and Hurricane Katrina appear to be examples.

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If Trumpistas start violence, what recourse do we have under the National Emergencies Act? (Original Post) roamer65 Oct 2016 OP

I'm genuinely worried about that. Vinca Oct 2016 #1

Arrest them...these keyboard warriors will be sobbing in their shacks. Demsrule86 Oct 2016 #2

There may come a time... backscatter712 Oct 2016 #4

Vinca

(50,314 posts)

1. I'm genuinely worried about that.

Reply to roamer65 (Original post)

Mon Oct 31, 2016, 07:13 AM

Oct 2016

If the race is called early in the evening for Hillary, I wouldn't be surprised if there's rioting.

Demsrule86

(68,703 posts)

2. Arrest them...these keyboard warriors will be sobbing in their shacks.

Reply to roamer65 (Original post)

Mon Oct 31, 2016, 07:34 AM

Oct 2016

Trying on their hoods...

backscatter712

(26,355 posts)

4. There may come a time...

Reply to roamer65 (Original post)

Mon Oct 31, 2016, 08:46 AM

Oct 2016

...when one must not simply participate in democracy to make it work, but one must rise up to defend democracy.

Like during the Civil War. The South did not like the results of a democratic election, namely the one that elected Abraham Lincoln, so they raised their weapons and started shooting. The rest of this nation, the part that was fed up with slavery, had to get up, fight, and protect this nation and protect democracy, and they had to prosecute the War of Southern Treason until the South was bloodied and battered into submission.

Took a war that cost thousands of lives, but absolutely worth it.

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