Thoughts on the Memphis Guard deployment.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

4. As the Wizard of Ooze has almost singlehandedly proven for us: any act is only as illegal as the consequences that...

...go along with it. Who will enforce the illegality of this act? The only true consequence of doing this is political, and he knows it. There may be subordinates that should be thinking very carefully about the consequences they might face from following illegal orders, but King Tangerine himself is untouchable in the current political configuration of Congress and the Supreme Court. Obviously his Administration--which is supposed to be ensuring laws are enforced--will not do anything to enforce any laws against him--and neither will the state of Tennessee.

Without changing the political makeup of the three branches of government, there do not seem to be any options to stop it.

Normalizing it is another matter, but short of protests and sternly worded letters there are few if any good options...unfortunately.

We find ourselves waking up to the fact that the political right has been planning and working toward this takeover for years while the political left was busy fighting to make average people's lives better.