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Members of 82nd Airborne Division in North Carolina on standby to deploy to Minnesota
KTSP Channel 5 (ABC) Minneapolis ^ | May 31, 2020 | Anonymous

Posted on 05/31/2020 11:27:22 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom

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To: SmokingJoe

“If we can use the military against veterans, it should be a no brainer using the military to smash ANTIFA who are clearly terrorists.”

That’s a very good point!


81 posted on 05/31/2020 1:46:56 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: DoodleDawg
“Well if you can point me to what federal law or what Supreme Court decision that the Governor of Minnesota is refusing to enforce or is blocking the enforcement of then I might agree you have a point.”

The Minnesota governor is unwilling, or unable, to protect federal property - the U.S. Post Office according to Fox News.

And like Governor Faubus, the Minnesota Governor is unable or unwilling to stop rioting.

I gather you are making a larger point: not enough damage has been done yet to the people of Minneapolis to justify a federal intervention.

82 posted on 05/31/2020 1:49:15 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: A Navy Vet

They actually can. It’s under some Sedition Act from 1909 (Or something like that.). It was used back in the 1990’s.


83 posted on 05/31/2020 1:51:36 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Enlightened1

Good post except they are not tax free.

What was the movie recently where the Chinese digitally removed a large patch from an aviator’s jacket? I think it’s the new remake of Top Gun.


84 posted on 05/31/2020 1:52:08 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ConservativeInPA

Thanks for the direct info from your SIL (and “thank you” to him as well). It’s good to have direct info rather than a TV station.


85 posted on 05/31/2020 1:53:48 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: A Navy Vet

Isn’t that what Antifa is? Isn’t their stated goal the destruction of the US? If the FBI actually has evidence of interstate conspiracy to commit the violence by Antifa groups, wouldn’t that be enough?


86 posted on 05/31/2020 2:30:50 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
The police let our neighborhood burn.

Buy the rider on your insurance, install a security system on your own dime, and keep your damn mouth shut because the police and the black community are in a sick co-dependency. And if you object, you're a racist.

The rest of us outside the black community bought home security systems when our police forces left our neighborhoods to protect the ingrates in 'the black community'...

Now we'll have to buy riders to our homeowners insurance policies to protect ourselves financial ruin when thugs burn our homes down.

Why?

Because the police don't have the balls to arrest looters and arsonist because they're afraid of being called racists...

Get that? Our cities are being destroyed because the police are afraid of being called racist. If they had arrested the first looters, none of this would have spread.


87 posted on 05/31/2020 2:36:55 PM PDT by GOPJ (The mood in the country changed last night. NO ONE supporting looters will win.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

We need to spend more money on insurance because the cops won’t protect us, our property, the stores, we shop at or our homes. I suspect they won’t protect our lives either. They’re afraid of being called ‘racist’...

So, we’ll die...


88 posted on 05/31/2020 3:28:47 PM PDT by GOPJ (The mood in the country changed last night. NO ONE supporting looters will win.)
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To: A Navy Vet; Travis McGee; archy; DuncanWaring
If this regular Army, they are not permitted to operate on American soil. If National Guard, a okay.

FALSE!

The regular Army has been used twice within my memory:

The Posse Comitatus Act does limit the use of the US Military in domestic law enforcement, but has an exception for "insurrection"

Accordingly, actions taken under the Insurrection Act, as an "Act of Congress", have always been exempt from the Posse Comitatus Act.[2][3]

SO:The claim that the regular Army cannot operate in the USA is an old wives tale.

The law is clear: when the conditions in the Insurrection Act are met the President may use the regular Army to restore order.

It is meant to be used in only the most extraordinary circumstances.

The Detroit Riots of 1967 and the 1992 Rodney King L.A. Riots are generally considered the most severe riots in the post-War era. (Of course, we don't know where the current events will end, so the list may soon have an addition.

And, by the way, thank you for your service.

Of all the jobs that our US Military has to do I will always consider among the most important is to restore order in times of civil insurrection, which is a nice way of saying "big race riots".

Having grown up in Detroit, and being in the exact center of the destruction when the riots kicked off (Belle Isle), our family were very happy to see the U.S. Army arrive and bring the riots to an end. I will never forget it, including the row of APCs they parked on 8 Mile road (city limit) as a sort of final barrier to prevent the spread of the riot into neighboring cities.

A few pics of Detroit 1967:


Paratroopers, heavily armed, stand guard on the lawn of the Fifth Precinct police station in Detroit, July 25, 1967. The East Side station was under sniper fire at night from old movie house across the street. Note pock marked building where Army bullets, aimed at the snipers, hit the building. Other soldiers stand guard on the roof. (original caption, Detroit Free Press)

Federal troops land in Selfridge Field, Michigan after President Johnson ordered them to help quell race riots in Detroit, July 24, 1967. About 5,000 troops were called in.

Cheers!

89 posted on 05/31/2020 5:23:44 PM PDT by Jack Black
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To: Jack Black

Fed troops to airports in 2001.

And you are correct. Posse comitatus did not erase the Insurrection Act. Feds do not need to consult states.


90 posted on 05/31/2020 5:29:45 PM PDT by jjotto (“Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.”)
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To: DoodleDawg

I was in Dundalk when the 82nd was sent to Baltimore for the MLK riots in 1968.


91 posted on 05/31/2020 5:34:07 PM PDT by Sicvee (Sicvee)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

One of the best regiments we have. You don’t want to mess with the 82nd Airborne.


92 posted on 05/31/2020 5:38:15 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Sicvee
I was in Dundalk when the 82nd was sent to Baltimore for the MLK riots in 1968.

Spiro Agnew was Maryland governor at the time and he requested federal troops from Johnson.

93 posted on 05/31/2020 6:58:33 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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