I think the showrunners are showing what happens when one guy has total control over the government. Did he ever suggest the Congress of the United States okayed this two Billion dollar program? Or that they signed off on preemptive use of this firepower?
It should be remembered that the Claymore was not created overnight. Technology of that caliber had to have been in development for
years--including during the stint of the previous president. Meaning, many in the executive branch were well aware of the project and were perfectly happy to
not let the public know anything about it. Sounds like innumerable defense and intelligence programs initiated by the real life U.S., and discovered only in the wake of some scandal, such as Operation Northwoods, COINTELPRO (including Kennedy-approved wiretapping / film surveillance of MLK, among others in the Movement), and other programs. The point being that national security is rarely shared with the public, so it should come as no surprise that some in the government were also kept out of the loop--probably due to some doubts about their service and/or proximity to the very problems they're dealing with.
This falls immediately apart with the fact that if you don't act on your conscience then you are a failure as a human being.
How often people forget that numerous domestic terrorist organizations have used that same rationale, from the Weather Underground, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the White Aryan Resistance, the Black Liberation Army, the Posse Comitatus, and others--all believing they had a conscience-driven call to attack their dreamed-up enemies. This series' Elite is no different--a gang of mass murderers not representing morality, justice or the will of the people.
Ever hear of a thing called the American revolution?
One of the most astoundingly (and deliberately) misinterpreted events, as many--like the aforementioned terrorist groups--have all misused the American Revolution as evidence that their subversive, murderous actions were in lockstep with those attributed to the founding of this country, and/or the need for some societal change. Real history has and always will take the opposing side to that.
It's a weapon designed to kill any alien who approaches Earth, which is a home for refugees.
Earth is the one and only natal home of humans, so it should be expected that they will feel their lives are a priority. There should be no question or underestimation about that. Moreover, this is happening at a time when endless, often super-powered beings are settling on earth with barely any idea of who they are, the beliefs/politics of their world (also a major security issue), and what their motives are. That--and after several alien attacks nearly destroying the world cannot be swept aside in favor of some misguided notion of unchecked migration.
Again, we're a nation founded on rebellion.
Since when has rebellion against tyranny been anti-American?
Again, the same--the very same (and purposely skewed) argument for entirely subversive hate-fueled barbarity used by the Weather Underground, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the White Aryan Resistance, the Black Liberation Army, the Posse Comitatus, and other domestic terrorist groups. Good company.
What is the proper action when the President commits atrocities? George Washington would say kick him out.
Hit the brakes. Washington was an atrocity-committing terrorist himself, embracing abominable acts of savagery in his treatment of African slaves and habitually circumventing laws to re-capture escaped slaves who were free In other states. He spent the last three years of his life trying to recapture Oney Judge, one of his wife's slaves. Considering his own history, he should have kicked himself out.
