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Baron2024

(1,492 posts)
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 01:48 AM Feb 2025

Stopping Musk

Musk and DOGE seizing the Treasury payment system is illegal and unconstitutional. It is a long shot, but perhaps Federal law enforcement could retake control of the Treasury payment system from Musk and his DOGE Agents.

If a Judge rules again that freezing federal money is unconstitutional then the FBI and other Federal law enforcement agencies would have a legal basis for retaking the Treasury payment system. They must be loyal to their oaths to defend the Constitution, not illegal orders to support an unconstitutional action by Musk. Hopefully these Federal Agents would be loyal to their oaths to defend the Constitution and not to those who are in violation of the Constitution.

The Federal Agents could restore control of the payment system to the civil service, who could then lawfully restart the federal payments. If Musk and DOGE stop the federal payments (no Social Security payments, no paychecks to federal employees, etc.) and this was ruled unconstitutional by another Judge then the FBI and other federal law enforcement would be able to legally seize the payment system back from DOGE. The loyalties of Federal Agents must be to the Constitution, not to Dictators who are flagrantly violating the Constitution

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Stopping Musk (Original Post) Baron2024 Feb 2025 OP
Elon is doing to the United States what Osama Bin Laden only dreamed of. Initech Feb 2025 #1
Yeah Baron2024 Feb 2025 #2
It isn't only about him controlling it intrepidity Feb 2025 #3
Right Baron2024 Feb 2025 #4

Initech

(109,262 posts)
1. Elon is doing to the United States what Osama Bin Laden only dreamed of.
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 01:50 AM
Feb 2025

I personally look forward to the day when he's given the same treatment we gave Bin Laden.

 

Baron2024

(1,492 posts)
2. Yeah
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 01:58 AM
Feb 2025

Honestly I would love to see him arrested and tried. He is an enemy of the Constitution. He is a fascist and a traitor to America as far as I am concerned. If you are a Nazi you can't be an American. We beat the Nazis and the Fascists in the 20th century. We will beat the MAGA Fascists in the 21st century.

intrepidity

(8,595 posts)
3. It isn't only about him controlling it
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 02:11 AM
Feb 2025

If he scrapes the data and nestles it into some other database of his, he still has the data.

 

Baron2024

(1,492 posts)
4. Right
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 02:18 AM
Feb 2025

Which is another crime that he will eventually be charged with if we can save the Republic and preserve justice in this country. Thanks for commenting.

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