Posted on 03/12/2021 7:54:22 AM PST by A.M. Smith
A newly obtained memo shows that the National Guard chief of bureau sought to withdraw 2,280 troops from the nation’s capitol, but was overruled by Biden-nominated Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
..a four-star general who is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sought to pull the troops due to mission “overstretch” and the “indefinite nature” of the D.C. security mission.
“I am concerned that the continued indefinite nature of this requirement may also impede our ability to man future missions as both adjutants general and guardsmen alike may be skeptical about committing to future endeavors,” the National Guard chief’s memo stated.
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Queen Nancy needed her praetorian guard. How dare he deny her!
Send the guard to Portland!
The troops and 7 foot fence with razor wire are there as a political 'photo op'
to remind the peons that this is a political/military takeover.
Remember all the troops surrounding the statues as they were being torn down because someone "felt offended " ? Yeah, me neither !
Oh yeah, “the guy who runs that outfit over there.”
Hmmmmm.....
Interesting.....
Were the Guard Soldiers called to federal duty by the President?
Or can just anybody mobilize the National Guard?
I could use somebody to keep an eye on my neighbor Steve and his filthy chickens.
No, they weren’t. But, the way the Guard works in DC SURPRISINGLY complicated, ambiguous and not entirely tested, judicially. The legal principles at work in DC are clearly not the way it works in the rest of the states (primarily because DC obviously isn’t a state).
If this were TX or FL we were talking about, pursuant to Article 32, ALL the power to command the Guard is vested solely in the Governor and unless those troops are federalized under Title 10.
But, there have been a number of enabling statutes passed over the years that guide how the Guard is deployed in DC. Generally, they’re activated under Title 32, BUT - and here’s the ambigous part - Conrgess also aluthorized ‘dual status commanders’ for DC which gives some degree of control over those Article 32 troopers to the Pentagon, something that wouldn’t be possible anyplace else unless the mobilization was done under Article 10.
When Barr/Trump ordered Troops deployed last summer under ARTICLE 32 (the same as has been done since January), all the leftists were having a cow because the power Barr was asserting was potentially not supported by law. And you know what? They may have been correct. As I said, it’s really ambiguous and untested in Court.
Of course, now that Biden/Pelosi are the ones running the show, absolutely no one cares if what is being done is actually legal.
TL;DR: The troops there today were mobilized under Article 32, not Article 10. Because of that, the Pentagon may be exercising authority it really doesn’t have.
Indeed. I assume you’re just amplifying me and hope the omitted /sarc tag was understood to apply to my post.
This and the border are the real insurrection.
Just wait until Nancy starts her Firing Squads
Quite true, just amplifying your post with reality.
The choice of 'praetorian guard' is exceptionally apt and appropriate.
I think that it is necessary to think about the purpose of the National Guard when discussing their use this way.
They are called Soldiers and not police officers.
They receive basic combat training, not police training.
This is just a dirty attempt by the Democrats to bypass Posse Comitatus.
The Democrats need to be slapped down on this.
These are the actions taken by a regime that knows that the majority of the public does not see them as legitimate holders of power.
Troops and the fence are proof the democrats have something of great danger to hide from the public.
The Trump administration (the official US government) was overthrown around January 7-8.
It was an America style classic South American coup.
A junta formed against the legitimate leader. THEY ordered a giant force of soldiers into the capitol and locked it down. They unleashed the secret police to arrest dissenters across the nation. They “seized the radio station” and shut down anything supporting Trump or arguing his case.
IMO, Pence was the center of this. There was a clear move by him to support the steal of the election, he made sure he landed on he right (winning) side. Pelosi and Mitch were both united that Trump would be deposed. So Pence basically told Trump he had two options. STFU and leave on the 20th, and take no actions not approved by the junta (pardon Snowden, pardon Assange, pardon his family, release evidence of the steal..etc)
Or option 2, Pence would immediately invoke the 25th and Mitch and Pelosi would finalize it a day later there in the capitol with broken windows. Maybe they told him they wouldn’t prosecute him or his kids if he played ball.
The military quickly chose their side and followed the orders form the junta to send a giant force to DC. The force came from nearly every state. (like how you have everyone shoot a bullet into the body so everyone is involved)
All I know for sure is that Trump did not function as a president in any way after the 6th.
He was silenced and muzzled.
Someone else was issuing orders to deploy massive numbers of troops into the streets and deploying the FBI to arrest dissenters nationwide. Trump was nowhere to be seen in this. He never claimed it was on his orders. He was not out interacting with the occupation force the way he normally would.
Our government was overthrown, and we are now in the hands of an authoritarian junta wearing the skin of the dead American republic it murdered. It’s as obvious as the nose on your face.
Ahhhhh.....
You’re a “Big Picture” thinker.
You might be right.
I was just looking at the role of the National Guard.
Much smaller.
They are being misused, and in a perhaps evil way.
The Guard is mobilized by the Governor of their state.
So, if the Governor of California wants some more land, he can just send the California National Guard to occupy Oregon?
And it all happened after January 6th because that was the date that the final legalistic sophistry of the election steal was formalized. Trump stood across the mall and called it a steal. That was he ultimate direct challenge and that started the military moves by the junta (including Pence).
With or without the trespassing in the capitol, the troops would have locked down DC the same way and Trump would have been silenced. The troops would have been called prep for inauguration.
This was a coup.
I’m either a big picture thinker, or others would say flat out crazy! But it’s pretty apparent to me we are we beyond the rule of law.
We just got a very refined version of a 1950s-70s coup. NO need for jets to bomb the palace in this day and age. It pacifies the people better to make it LOOK like it was all nice and legal. Just another day in government.
But I think your question is the Rosetta Stone of the coup. WHO issued the orders for the troops to roll and conduct the operations they did? We still don’t know. I think it’s because it was Pence or Pelosi or the Sec Def on his own... none of which have that authority without the President’s will.
Someone knows... and someday it will get out.
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