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Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests

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Re: Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests

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Post by anon84873628 »

daft_pink wrote: post #114

I lived through the BLM protests in a liberal city. They let them destroy everything, then they called in the National Guard to stop looting that already happened. Everyone’s okay with peaceful protests, but they should call in the national guard and prosecute people for violence. You might hate Trump, but in my previous experience, it’s the residents of the most liberal districts that suffer all the consequences of…

LA had plenty of local police to handle the scale of the protests (it's something like 88 different jurisdictions in the whole region).

Of the 2000 national guard deployed, only 300 have actually been operationalized.

There was hardly any looting or rioting. Certainly not more than could be handled locally. Trump is doing this to deliberately escalate the situation.

Re: Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests

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Post by MaxHoppersGhost »

khazhoux wrote: post #119
MaxHoppersGhost wrote: post #113

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And how will they protect? When a protester throws a rock at a federal building’s window. Or when they run towards the fed building with a can of spray paint. Will the Marines merely deploy harsh language?

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Re: Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests

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Post by khazhoux »

IG_Semmelweiss wrote: post #85
hypeatei wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Here's hoping this is purely an optics play and they are only there to waste money and incite nationalism They don't deserve any benefit of the doubt at this point. Ask yourself what the MAGA reaction would've been to troops being deployed to their riot at the Capitol.

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It’s not crazy to want protection.

It’s dangerous to have the military do it. The Founding Fathers knew this.

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Post by tayo42 »

koolba wrote: post #96
WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #16

Reminder that the authority under which the the US military is deployed against US citizens was intended to be used in exceptional (extreme) circumstances - ostensibly because no other options would suffice. The Insurrection Act authorizes the president to deploy military forces inside the United States to suppress rebellion or domestic violence or to enforce the law in certain situations. The statute implements Cong…

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They don't want their communities raided, for multiple reasons, like being a victim of misidentification.

They're proud of their heritage, and its the reason why they are being targeted.

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Post by vkou »

giardini wrote: post #82
unethical_ban wrote: post #52

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We need more like you to teach how to do this right. I tell my friends that we need to look to Hong Kong and France in case the protests move to Texas.

In Texas, if you drop rocks on someone or destroy their property, they are, in many instances, free to use deadly force to stop you. Such "protests" would be much rarer and shorter in Texas.

And if someone starts shooting you with less-lethal bullets for no good reason, do you have the right to use deadly force to stop them?

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Post by khazhoux »

monero-xmr wrote: post #115
perihelions wrote: post #13

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You're not cynical; it's his plain, revealed character. He's been openly fantasizing about soldiers shooting protestors for years. He's asked his own defense secretary if he could do it for him, https://www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1097517470/trump-esper-book-d... ( "Former Pentagon chief Esper says Trump asked about shooting protesters" )

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I can’t tell if you’re American, but we here

* We value human life over property

* We only empower police to use lethal force to prevent that person from taking a life.

Seems you’d like to change this? Enough’s enough, steal a TV and you die on the spot?

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Post by vkou »

WatchDog wrote: post #118
lenerdenator wrote: post #81

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I'm not American, thus I had no vote in the election, nor do I like Trump for a number of reasons. However, enforcement of immigration laws has been one of the biggest parts of his election platform, if not the central part(build the wall, etc). I imagine his voters are happy to see some action being taken. The protestors could really do with some better optics, destroying property and waving foreign flags is just go…

> However, enforcement of immigration laws has been one of the biggest parts of his election platform

Then this would be a great time for him to start following them.

Many of his actions this year have been in violation of immigration laws. Incredibly brazen violation of them, in fact.

Re: Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests

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Post by dgfitz »

daft_pink wrote: post #114

I lived through the BLM protests in a liberal city. They let them destroy everything, then they called in the National Guard to stop looting that already happened. Everyone’s okay with peaceful protests, but they should call in the national guard and prosecute people for violence. You might hate Trump, but in my previous experience, it’s the residents of the most liberal districts that suffer all the consequences of…

If it’s the city I think you’re referring to, the governor was literally begging the mayor to ask for help from the national guard, and she refused for hours. They would have been deployed long before that. I believe the quote the mayor said at the time was something like “give them room to destroy” and basically gave the rioters the green light.

Edit:

Fwiw, the governor probably shouldn’t have waited for permission. A white man encroaching on the city run by a black woman at the height of Freddie Gray, tough spot to be in.

> where the mayor of the city said that she was going to allow, give protesters room to destroy and wasn't going to stop them.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/hogan-says-defunding-police-wors...

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