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Troops and marines deeply troubled by LA deployment: ‘Morale is not great’
(www.theguardian.com)
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Similar when they were doing border patrol in Texas.
Military training is kinda big on threat identification and assessment. You don't have to like the military to appreciate some of the stuff you can learn from it.
Protesting is not a threat to America. It's a threat to the people who are in charge.
That’s why it’s essential we keep it peaceful while we increase our numbers. If we are non-violent, we cannot be determined to be a domestic threat, and it’s the military’s duty to protect us.
If we are non-violent, TACO will just say "They're violent!" and a majority of this country, including our military, will believe him. Things can only go downhill from here.
Arm yourselves.
And if we're still non-violent, someone will join who isn't and ensure some violence exists. It's Plan 1A in the dictator playbook.
Yup, that too. There is no happy ending.
It's not the military's duty to protect protestors. Just as the police have no obligation to protect and serve citizens.
I wholeheartedly agree with regards to the cops and ICE.
But I actually completely disagree on that statement being applied to the NG and Marines.
I’d argue that the armed forced have a rather explicit duty to protect their own fellow citizens as best they can.
And if some dipshit commander orders the marines or CANG to actually open fire on US civilians, I really do think that the E4 mafia might have something to say about that, and that the commissioned officers and cops and ICE fascists might very quickly find themselves staring down the barrels of the deployed troops.
Put another way: if active duty troops are ordered to fire on unarmed protesters, I would not at all be shocked if the enlisted and noncoms refuse the orders and mutiny, up to and including fragging the officers who gave the orders if they keep pushing.
Orangeboi et al seem to think the troops are robots. They’re absolutely not.
I really hope you're right
One way or another, I feel like we’re all gonna see the answer to that question before this bullshit settles down in any meaningful way
The path of enlistment starts like this:
Peaceful protest is our constitutional right.
The swearing-in of the President starts with something very similar, if not identical.
And yet, here we are.
Just because Trump isn't performing his duty doesn't mean that he doesn't have a duty.
My point was that that also applies to the military. Just because they have a duty to uphold the Constitution doesn't necessarily mean that they will perform that duty.
Police rules of engagement is shockingly 0, cops kill anyone for any reason if they perceive even the slightest chance of a threat to themselves. The military has a rigorous 5-6 steps for using increasing amounts of violence from shouting to actually firing.
Maybe they can identify the actual threat and neutralize him.
You means the person(s) funding all of this?
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