"Killin' Generals could get to be a habit with me!"
Posted on 06/04/2020 2:16:03 PM PDT by livius
Generals WIN battle with Donald Trump as 82nd Airborne soldiers are REMOVED from D.C. after chairman of joint chiefs publicly slammed president telling troops to 'uphold the Constitution'
Soldiers with the 82nd Airborne division of the Army were ordered out of Washington, D.C. and back to Fort Bragg, North Carolina on Thursday night
The about 200 active duty troops were kept on standby at bases near the nation's capital and were never called into the city in the midst of riots
The move is a clear reversal after Donald Trump faced backlash for calling in the military to serve as backup should the National Guard need assistance
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, former Army General John Allen and former Defense Secretary James Mattis all pushed back against Trump
Milley told troops in a Thursday memo to 'uphold the Constitution' 'We all committed our lives to the idea that is America' after he defended protesters' right to assemble,' he added in pen at at the bottom of the letter
Mattis and retired four-star General Allen both bashedTrump in separate op-eds
They specifically called out police clearing Lafayette Park with tear gas and rubber bullets so Trump could visit a church across the street for a photo-op.
'It may well signal the beginning of the end of the American experiment,' Allen said of the church visit where Trump held up his bible for photos .
'Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people - does not even pretend to try,' Mattis wrote
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
"Killin' Generals could get to be a habit with me!"
Washington was the first to use state militias to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion. It has been common to use the state militias, later the National Guard, for foreign and domestic conflicts. Shortly after Fort Sumter, Lincoln called for 75,000 militia to suppress the rebellion in the cotton states. That call impelled the Upper Southern states to secede. Kentucky declared as neutral. Maryland was occupied fairly quickly, and the Ohio militia captured much of what became West Virginia.
That’s coup territory.>>>>>>>>>>>
And that’s US Marshall/Military Police Arrest time.
Lets see how far hey want to push it.
We all know that PDJT will not just stand by and accept such sedition or treason.The ball is in his court.
So basically Trump can call out state national guards.
This story is being steadily de-bunked and put in perspective.
Perhaps another good question is — why did you post something that was clearly a false narrative designed to hurt President Trump?
And a correction that there was no rubber bullets or ter gas? Do they think repeating a lie often enough will suddenly make it true?
Fake news??? I wish I could ask my son who started out in the 82nd in time for Gulf War 1, and then moved to Special Forces where he still serves, how he feels about all this. Unfortunately, it is hard to reach him since he is currently in Afghanistan and will remain until this fall.
The personnel used to clear the area in front of the church (which included church people on church property) were NOT DC police. They were US Park Police and National Guard troops.
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/867532070/trumps-unannounced-church-visit-angers-church-officials
Various rights and responsibilities were spelled out between DC and Congress when DC gained Home Rule in 1973. DC currently has more population than Vermont and Wyoming, and slightly more white people now than black, with some Latinos and Asians added.
Very much so. FDR did the same thing before WW2...several such units (armored companies), including one from my state’s national guard, were organized into the 192nd and 194th Tank Battalions, and were subsequently lost in the Philippines.
The OP on this is really helping to fan the anti-Trump flames
here is my deconstruction, and compare it to how the article is made to sound
1. read this: This is the actual tweet — of a letter issued June 2 — to troops generically. And not to the 82nd Airborne company specifically
https://twitter.com/thejointstaff/status/1268239884013142017/photo/1
and then they’re going to leave
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/06/03/active-duty-troops-deployed-dc-region-start-leave.html
then they’re going to stay, based on concerns of possible further unrest
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/06/03/army-esper-reverses-plan-send-active-duty-troops-home.html
and finally, they actually start to leave
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/06/04/82nd-airborne-soldiers-deployed-dc-region-start-leave.html
See? those are the facts. But the original poster — and far too many freepers — FEAR Bros — are only too willing to believe — and spout — the worst possible interpretation and one that is designed to hurt the President.
And this is the correct deconstruction of the Daily Mail fake news
SMDH
You are skating on very thin ice here.Mathis is loved and adored here. I have read the posts that lauded him, sang his praises, applauded him, adored him.
And most pathetic of all, I bet the increasing Band of Bozos on Free Republic forgot about the amazing events northwest of Hawaii 78 years ago, near the tiny Midway Atoll on this very day.
as of 11 pm Eastern Time, President Trump forgot as well. Not a word. not a tweet. Not a single word from our President to commemorate this great battle, one of the greatest military victories in world history. Too busy fighting with pathetic Sen. Murkowski and Gen. Mattis and too busy digging up letters from some attorney.
Midway Battle. Nah. Free Republic. hardly a peep. Forgotten by nearly everyone.
6-4-1942. A day when our men, our American men, irrevocably turned the tide against Japan’s totalitarian dictators and sent 4 Japanese aircraft carriers to the bottom of the Pacific.
RIP our wonderful sailors.
RIP brave, gallant Yorktown, you great lady and your men.
Thank you Chester Nimitz, Jack Fletcher, Ray Spruance, Wade McClusky, Richard Best, Dusty Kleiss. So many of you to thank. You were real men. Men’s men.
Thank you for helping to save us all.
We are busy preparing for our new Midway.
In home schooling I had lots of history to read esp. WW1 and 2 and what happened - sorry state of affairs.
So, did Trump cave like Drew Brees?
A POTUS has the authority to use “the militia or the armed forces, or both, or by any other means, shall take such measures as he considers necessary to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy....” when States refuse to “insure domestic Tranquility”.
The generals are wrong as is Esper. The governors and mayors of Blue America are refusing to insure domestic tranquility by refusing to suppress domestic violence. In many cases they are promoting domestic violence.
Preamble to the US Constitution
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense,[note 1] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Title 10, Section 253
The President, by using the militia or the armed forces, or both, or by any other means, shall take such measures as he considers necessary to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy, if it—
(1) so hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States within the State, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the constituted authorities of that State are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; or
(2) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.
In any situation covered by clause (1), the State shall be considered to have denied the equal protection of the laws secured by the Constitution.
Understood!
Stay Safe and remain vigilant.
I’ll be interested to see what Trump might have in mind for Saturday, not to mention Band of Bozos.
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