Do you really think that most of the National Guard would be likely to follow orders to do this? I may be slightly optimistic, but I believe much of the National Guard is there because they hold freedoms of US citizens at the very heart of their enlistments.
You know, I don’t believe every German person was evil and maniacal. Somehow though, they managed to do what no rational person would ever think they would do in an irrational time.
I never thought I’d see the President call a police officer stupid for arresting his friend on national TV during a press conference. I never thought I’d see members of an administration encourage people to bring a ‘gun to a knife fight’, or ‘get in their face’, or even use terms like ‘punch back’ when encouraging their base to work on a bill they wanted passed.
There are a lot of things that have occured in the past six months that even I couldn’t comprehend, even as bad as I imagined Obama to be. He has surpassed anything I ever imagined. So it’s not unreasonable when we see actual ads for our military for ‘interrment camps’ to become a little frightened.
I would HOPE our military would fight back against these orders, but forgive me for not being as confident as I was 7 months ago.
“........ I believe much of the National Guard is there because they hold freedoms of US citizens at the very heart of their enlistments.”
I would hope that what you say is true. However, the thread seems to be revolving around what the National Guard would actually DO in such a situation. As an arm of the government, that could include executing unconstitutional measures against the country’s own citizens. Would the NG actually follow such orders?
Historically, the west coast US citizens of Japanese extraction might speak to what the military has done in the past. The outlines of those internmnent camps (they were NOT POW camps), can still be seen from the air in eastern Colorado. It has not been that long ago since the rights of US citizens were violated by their government through the actions of the military. Unfortunately, I am not nearly as optimistic about the NG’s concern for individual rights (though some within the ranks might decide to have nothing to do with such orders, I fear that the majority would comply as they have in the past).
Maybe they’d come through shining, but history does not support such a blue sky assumption.
The first ones to be interred would be those who refused to follow orders. That would pare down the troops to those who would follow orders.