[norcal joe]

Why do you keep posting crap articles (and not even comment on them)?

[Williams]

Except they aren’t chiefs of anything any longer.

[rxsid]

Past presidents have invoked the Insurrection Act 19 times, both with the request of the Governor of the affected state, and without their request. Note that every one of those 19 previous invocations of the act, were due to violence or disorder in a single city or single state/territory. President Trump invoking the act due to NATION WIDE violence, looting, arson and depravity of civil rights is certainly lawful and warranted.

List of invocations of Insurrection Act

Date of invocation	Invoking President	State requested?	Affected area	Occasion
April 19, 1808	Thomas Jefferson		Lake Champlain	Embargo Act violations[7]
August 23, 1831	Andrew Jackson	Yes	Norfolk, Virginia	Nat Turner's slave rebellion[10]
January 28, 1834	Andrew Jackson	Yes	Williamsport, Maryland	Labor dispute by workers on Chesapeake and Ohio Canal[11]
October 17, 1871	Ulysses S. Grant	No	South Carolina	Suppression of Ku Klux Klan[12]
September 15, 1872	Ulysses S. Grant	No	New Orleans, Louisiana	Unrest following 1872 Louisiana gubernatorial election[13]
May 13, 1874	Ulysses S. Grant	Yes	Little Rock, Arkansas	Brooks–Baxter War [14]
October 7, 1878	Rutherford B. Hayes	Yes	Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory	Lincoln County War[15]
July 7, 1894	Grover Cleveland	Yes	Chicago, Illinois	Pullman Strike[16][17]
April 28, 1914	Woodrow Wilson	Yes[18]	Colorado	Colorado Coalfield War[19]
July 22, 1943	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Yes	Detroit, Michigan	1943 Detroit race riot[20]
September 24, 1957	Dwight D. Eisenhower	No	Little Rock, Arkansas	To protect Little Rock Nine[21]:8
September 30, 1962	John F. Kennedy	No	Oxford, Mississippi	Ole Miss riot of 1962[7]:13
September 10, 1963	John F. Kennedy	No	Alabama	Enforce desegregation orders on Alabama public schools[7]:13
July 24, 1967	Lyndon B. Johnson	Yes	Detroit, Michigan	1967 Detroit riot[22]
April 5, 1968	Lyndon B. Johnson	Yes	Washington, D.C.	1968 Washington, D.C., riots[23]
April 7, 1968	Lyndon B. Johnson	Yes	Baltimore, Maryland	Baltimore riot of 1968[24]
April 7, 1968	Lyndon B. Johnson	Yes	Chicago, Illinois	1968 Chicago riots[25]
September 1989	George H. W. Bush	Yes	Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands	Disorder following Hurricane Hugo[26]
May 1, 1992	George H. W. Bush	Yes	Los Angeles County, California	1992 Los Angeles riots[27]

 

Notice something about the incidents where the states did NOT ask for help, but the feds went in anyway? ALL having to do with race/race relations.

[PsyCon]

I read Free Republic because articles (even annoying ones) I would not see otherwise are posted here. I appreciate the comments pro and con.

If this site can survive Fear-Flu it can survive anything.

[griswold3]

Too early. Wait until late September and have a Town Hall of Military to denounce Trump as “Unfit”.
For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction.
This is not going to end well.

[CMailBag]

Who knew we had a Deep State Dept of Defense???

[GreyHoundSailor]

I would have guessed that Mike ‘Missy’ Mullen would have weighed in. Apparently it wasn’t enough for him to set the US Navy back by decades during his tenure, with the Little Crappy Ship (LCS) and his ‘Global Force for Good’ crap.

[falcon99]

Let’s not forget that Mattis is a Democrat and for Democrats, it is party first over everything else. Let’s also remember that Mattis wanted the female that Hillary Clinton had designated as her SecDef in waiting after she won the election as his deputy. That says a tremendous amount about Mattis none of it good since that person would not have supported Trump or his policies - which Mattis did not either once he was in. As far as Murkowski, she is Romney in a skirt. Always has her hand out for help from Trump but always turns around and stabs him in the back. All three are useful idiots for the Demcrats and I have zero respect for them because of their hypocrisy and two facedness.

[centurion316]

These are not “Military Leaders” With a very few exceptions, this list consists of civilian political hacks who were appointed to civilian positions in the DoD by Obama. The very essence of Fake News. Amazing how Freepers have fallen for this crap on this and other similar thread.

[jospehm20]

Mattis seems to have an achy vagina. She probably needs to put some Vagasil on it.