Seattle Mayor says President’s threat to send military is unwelcome, illegal

KTTH ^ | June 11, 2020

[kevcol]

The mayor also assured Washingtonians that there is no imminent threat of a U.S. military invasion, as President Trump threatened on Twitter. She said the threat is not only unwelcome, but illegal. Durkan also said the President painted a false portrait of what is happening in Capitol Hill.

“It’s simply not true,” she said. “Lawfully gathering and expressing first amendment rights, … is not terrorism.”

“The right to challenge authority and government is fundamental to who we are as Americans,” Durkan added.

[shelterguy]

“Lawfully gathering and expressing first amendment rights, … is not terrorism.”

She is a retard, Jim.

[CrappieLuck]

So to be “anti-Trump”, they go full Pro-Terrorist.

That will play well in November LOL

Best President EVER

[sheehan]

clueless, incompetent dumb dyke trying to save her job and her political future....

scary that she was the U.S. Attorney in Western WA (under Obammy)

[lastchance]

She is full court press maroon.

[goodnesswins]

“Lawfully???”

[EvilCapitalist]

Ooohhh… So now the democrats believe in states rights. It sure didn’t seem that way when “the won” was President.

[ThunderSleeps]

Two words: insurrection act. When you’re peacefully assembling fine, 100% support that. But when you’re advocating violence and lawlessness, I’m 100% in favor of whatever it takes to disburse the rioters - up to and including lethal force.

[Zathras]

The FBI showed up in Oregon at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
I guess capturing a building in the middle of nowhere is a bigger crime.

[DarthVader]

No its not buzzbrain. Mogadishu like paramilitary forces are not allowed. You are not free territory and those bums represent a threat. If your governor does not deal with this problem, the POTUS will.

[rxsid]

The military may be unwelcomed by her and her occupied city, but it most certainly is LEGAL in this case.

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.

 

Prior to the 1807 Insurrection Act, President Washington used his federal authority and personally lead nearly 13,000 militia to put down a rebelion on the enactment of an excise tax.

Whiskey Rebellion

In January 1791, President George Washington's Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton proposed a seemingly innocuous excise tax "upon spirits distilled within the United States, and for appropriating the same."1 What Congress failed to predict was the vehement rejection of this tax by Americans living on the frontier of Western Pennsylvania. By 1794, the Whiskey Rebellion threatened the stability of the nascent United States and forced President Washington to personally lead the United States militia westward to stop the rebels.

George Washington reviewing the troops being deployed against the Whiskey Rebellion - Washington Reviewing the Western Army, at Fort Cumberland, Maryland, ca.1795.

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However, by 1794 the protests became violent. In July, nearly 400 whiskey rebels near Pittsburgh set fire to the home of John Neville, the regional tax collection supervisor. Left with little recourse and at the urgings of Secretary Hamilton, Washington organized a militia force of 12,950 men and led them towards Western Pennsylvania, warning locals "not to abet, aid, or comfort the Insurgents aforesaid, as they will answer the contrary at their peril.

The calling of the militia had the desired effect of essentially ending the Whiskey Rebellion. By the time the militia reached Pittsburgh, the rebels had dispersed and could not be found. The militia apprehended approximately 150 men and tried them for treason. A paucity of evidence and the inability to obtain witnesses hampered the trials. Two men, John Mitchell and Philip Weigel, were found guilty of treason, though both were pardoned by President Washington. By 1802, then President Thomas Jefferson repealed the excise tax on whiskey.

[butlerweave]

She’s worried the Military will take her out first

[preacher]

L8r 1

[SkyDancer]

Right - let them dissolve into anarchy themselves.

[odawg]

I watched a PBS documentary on the coal miners’ strike in the twenties, I believe it was. A large army of miners formed, and the Federal government sent the United States army in with machine guns to quell the disturbance. No one talked about it being illegal.

[EBH]

Gee when we do it to protect our neighborhood we are vigilante group. Funny how that works?

[Levy78]

Waterboard this dyke whore to get ANTIFA operational info ASAP.

[bramps]

They got what they wanted from Trump.
A threat that he will not back up.
And consequently looking weak.
Trump needs to let go of his pride and start listening to someone with some wisdom. He can’t fight this war alone.

[Sarah Barracuda]

If Seattle wants to destroy themselves, I say let them go ahead and do it..like all Communist societies they will destroy themselves eventually..and what Antifa did over there is nothing new, they stole the idea from Family Guy, when Peter Griffin created his own country Peteria, it lasted 1 week

[Regulator]

So she’s saying that armed rebellion with the goal of evicting her from her office by force is cool?

Don’t recall her saying that about the Bundy’s in Oregon.

Why bother talking about elections? Looks like the guys with the guns already won.