Posted on 10/06/2025 7:02:26 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Think this is his next step?
Let us most fervently hope so.
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When I served in the National Guard in the late 80s to mid 90s we were trained to handle domestic riots. Note this was NOT the same thing as taking place in civilian law enforcement. We were not trained or authorized to go around writing police reports and deciding how to apply the law and such like cops do. But we WERE trained to aid the police when they were faced by violent mobs...say EXACTLY like Antifa.
He said he wouldn’t use it unless people (I guess referring to Federal officers) were getting hurt.
Then how did two presidents from different parties—Eisenhower and Kennedy—get away with calling in federal troops against our fellow Americans?
>That was different
Yes, it was: residents of Arkansas and Alabama were not committing arson, assaulting federal LEOs and blockading federal buildings.
I don’t see the Supreme Court siding against POTUS on this one.
Seems a matter of time before an ICE agent is shot.
A group of citizens in Chicago stopped an ICE arrest to fight with ICE agents. Saw the video today.
He is setting it up because it’s coming.
This is incredibly simple to understand, even for brainwashed democrats.
Other than foreign embassies and Indian Reservations, there is no place in the US or any of its territories where federal law does not apply.
The US Constitution states explicitly that Federal Law is the Supreme law of the land.
There are no caveats, no exceptions.
Congress created these immigration laws and it is the sworn duty of the president to uphold these laws.
End of discussion.
Anyone old enough or who can search the ‘net remembers or can see the 101st airborne holding southerners angry with the federal government interfering with the states’ police powers, at bayonet point.
In Portland a few nights ago, some [expletive deleted] was swanning around waving a red Soviet flag.
They are supporting an invasion sponsored by their party that broke federal immigration laws. They are breaking laws now, impeding federal officers in the performance of their duties.
This is is open insurrection.
"...In theory, the Insurrection Act should be used only in a crisis that is truly beyond the capacity of civilian authorities to manage. However, the Insurrection Act fails to adequately define or limit when it may be used and instead gives the president significant power to decide when and where to deploy U.S. military forces domestically..."
I read this and thought: "What is the difference between 'beyond the capacity of civilian authorities to manage' and 'beyond the refusal of the civilian authorities to manage'..."
To me, this is closer to a state initiated secession because they REFUSE to address the situation.
This is akin to the stupid characterization of the invasion by illegals as a "Border Crisis". That was never a crisis. It was a deliberate process by the Democrats to BREAK the existing law and decriminalize that law. Leftists like that jack-off Pritzger WANT this violence.
Yes, it appears that they’re intentionally provoking civil violence.
2020 was the closest these Marxists came to their utopian dream of absolute power.
Rather than voluntarily surrender their vile agenda and advocate policies agreeable to American voters, they made the conscious decision to abandon their voters and import foreigners that they could manipulate into voting for them.
What they did was the very definition of treason, and every one of them should be taken into custody and charged with facilitating an illegal invasion of the US.
No bail, as every one of them is a flight risk.
Biden, Mayorkis, Garland, the whole lot, no exceptions.
When state and local officials defy and obstruct Federal law and even make declarations that Federal law does not apply in their jurisdictions I don’t know what else it could be called other than insurrection.
Although seditious conspiracy might apply.
It sounds perfectly worded to me.
I think the keyword in all of this is “militia.” We have fallen so far from the original intent of the Constitution that even the term “militia” has been impugned.
The militia per our founders’ understanding comprises all able-bodied men from a local community who are armed and trained in the use of those arms to protect the community. Membership in the militia was a civic duty for our country up until the 20th century. In the case of the Insurrection Act, it calls out militia as something the president could call up, as they were generally understood to not be professional soldiers from across the nation but instead members of the local community. It was likely assumed that if the local community tended to their civic duties, then insurrection wouldn’t be a problem, but here we are.
The National Guard is NOT the militia. They are trained and provided arms similarly to the general military, funded by the government, and usually staffed by former full-time soldiers. If we had a nation that understood the civics of our founding, we wouldn’t be in this situation for a variety of reasons, militia notwithstanding.
“To address these concerns, Congress should amend the Insurrection Act to define more clearly and precisely what situations may trigger it. Congress also should establish mechanisms for review of the president’s decision that will guard against abuse while still preserving the president’s flexibility in a crisis.”
Good luck with getting the Senate to agree with any of that.
If the public citizen starts taking care of this problem, ANTIFA will wish they were fighting troops.
It’s not a war crime the first time.
Trump, like Washington, Lincoln, FDR, Ike, JFK, Johnson et al.....
.....do what he wants and let the historians justify it....which if he wins, they will.
Pursued to its end....Trump will win.
I pray he pursues it to its end.
But what do I know and I do not feel strongly about it. :->
It can only be part of a multifaceted strategy but, as I’ve elaborated prior, I’ve grave concern about such moves without Congressional action for obvious reasons.
One extension to address the core of the problem demonstrates that a federal troop/reinforcement response is rather myopic. What we’re seeing isn’t just a reaction: It’s a strategy, highlighting a much different response requirement.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4344476/posts?page=28#28
The useful idiots getting all the attention? C’mon, man.
Think about it.
I am hoping and praying that the year 2020 was their “high water” mark.
Strange.
I try to tamp down the conspiracy theorist in me, but over the last few decades, I have come to believe there are forces outside this country that are driving this, and not just outside money.
It is strange, and stranger still, at least to me, is the underwhelming response by our political leaders.
We have a multitude of enemies, some who want to destroy us and others who want to replace us.
All of Islam is pushing very, very hard to destroy the power of the West, and they are getting help from the inside.
Islam has already overtaken most of Western and Central Europe, being led down the path to destruction by their largest economic unit, Germany.
The Germans know that they will never live down their history of the 20th century, and their only hope was to disappear into a much larger entity, the European Union.
This is similar in style and consequence as the eleven American states that rose in rebellion in the mid 19th century. They were reabsorbed by a much larger entity, the Union of American States.
While the centuries of slavery have not been forgotten, and some politicians still use the issue for political gain, America and the world has by and large moved on from our Civil War.
Not so for Germany.
For one, their atrocities were not contained within their own borders, as in America, and their history is much more recent.
I think this explains, at least in part, this suicidal policy of mass immigration with people who have absolutely nothing in common with the people of Western and Central Europe.
Add to this the Imperial ambitions of China, and the incredibly stupid concept of globalization.
The US gave away its manufacturing base, the goose that lays the golden egg, to a hostile power, thanks to the RINOs, who view America as an economic unit, and not as their country.
Consequently, they are completely lacking in loyalty to the US, which is bad news for the rest of us.
We’re surrounded by entities trying to destroy us, and our response has been shameful.
Not to mention that the entire democrat party actively and ardently hates America, and works daily to undermine all we do.
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