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Trump calls for National Guard to help stop 'smash-and-grab' looting: 'It is all not even believable'
Washington Examiner ^ | 30 November 2021 | Matthew Miller, Social Media Producer

Posted on 11/30/2021 8:00:10 PM PST by blueplum

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It is hard to believe this is just some spontaneous 'reparations shopping therapy'
1 posted on 11/30/2021 8:00:10 PM PST by blueplum
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I wonder if Trump really knows what he is doing.

You don’t send the military in to do local enforcement’s job.


2 posted on 11/30/2021 8:02:46 PM PST by Safrguns
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The national guard isn’t needed. What is needed is a fleet of moving trucks for the few remaining conservatives in these areas.


3 posted on 11/30/2021 8:09:27 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (Culture, culture, culture. Not partisan politics. )
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Bezosabub’s goons making brick and mortar shopping hazardous.


4 posted on 11/30/2021 8:10:48 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (Cornpop was a good dude.)
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You mean like Nancy did in DC?


5 posted on 11/30/2021 8:10:50 PM PST by Track9 (Agamemnon came home to a HRC type party. )
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bookmark


6 posted on 11/30/2021 8:13:46 PM PST by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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Perhaps Amazon’s Bezos is funding all these physical retail store attacks to drive more Sales to Amazon. It wouldn’t surprise me.


7 posted on 11/30/2021 8:17:58 PM PST by WMarshal ("Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.")
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Hey, smash and grab dudes: Why not hit the gun stores? Think of all the great guns you could grab. And you don't have to worry about the owner or employees being armed - it's a little-known fact it's illegal for them to actually have loaded guns inside the stores.

So what are you waiting for? It will be like taking candy from a baby.

8 posted on 11/30/2021 8:20:28 PM PST by Veggie Todd (Let's go, Brandon!)
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What if the locals need assistance? Doesn’t the state step in?

Look what happens during hurricanes/disasters. National Guard assists, typically, if needed.


9 posted on 11/30/2021 8:23:07 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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DannyTN''s anti-organized looting plan

  1. State legislatures need to immediately impeach any DA's who are failing to prosecute according to the law. No sense in asking law enforcement to risk their lives if you aren't going to prosecute.
  2. Ditto for mayors and police chiefs that refuse to enforce the law, once prosecution is assured.
  3. Identify the most likely targets.
  4. Increase in-store camera surveillance and recording. Goal is to gather prosecutable proof and to separate guilty participants from innocent bystanders.
  5. Increase parking lot camera surveillance. Have computer monitoring identify vehicles that aren't showing clear tags, or groups of vehicles that enter a parking lot that fit the profiles of the looter gangs.
  6. Develop early alarm systems. In addition to the alarms raised by the software above, store staff need to be able to trigger silent "suspicious activity" alarms.
  7. Police presence need to be maintained nearby, ready to pounce and round up the whole gang.
  8. Have security guards in the parking lots, affix tracking devices to suspect vehicles while looters are still in the stores. Track them back to their base of operations, and ensure none get away.
  9. Install fences that spring up from the ground outside the store to catch the thieves as they are exiting. I would just have trap doors that lock the thieves in the stores, but that could create dangers for store workers.
  10. Work with insurance to help them foot the bill. Pass 3 strikes and your out laws for looting related crimes and misdemeanors.

10 posted on 11/30/2021 8:24:02 PM PST by DannyTN
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you do when local enforcement isn’t doing their job

of course, it could result in ‘bad optics’ as some reparations looter gets photographed getting shot by a Guardsman.

but since President Trump isn’t in the office... then it doesn’t matter


11 posted on 11/30/2021 8:25:17 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style )
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"What is needed is a fleet of moving trucks for the few remaining conservatives in these areas."

Shades of Sam Kennison

12 posted on 11/30/2021 8:25:36 PM PST by DannyTN
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How is Trump getting his message out?
Is he using this Matthew Miller’s account?
That must be a very secure account.


13 posted on 11/30/2021 8:32:35 PM PST by lee martell
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Not sure he is funding them - but he sure is benefitting from them. Imagine all the folks in Nebraska, who were never even going to be caught dead in a Nordstrom’s in SF seeing this and simply saying screw it - I’ll go to Amazon or WalMart.com. Retail has become a total bloodbath - what else could go wrong?


14 posted on 11/30/2021 8:35:55 PM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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Who here remembers the Viet Nam protests of the 70s? I lived in Carbondale IL when the National Guard was called out to try to keep the piece. (Fun fact: they were housed in the Girl's Gym for several weeks. And there were several teen pregnancies that resulted...but I digress.) Tear gas, the works.

Then there was that little problem at Kent State.

So there is precedent for calling out the Guard.

15 posted on 11/30/2021 8:43:08 PM PST by asinclair (Political hot air is a renewable energy resource)
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Yup, the best thing that sane citizens can now do is to peacefully separate from the madness and all who support it.

The Free States Of America would draw to its bosom all who cherish freedom, responsibility, sanity and love of God, family and country... we all know what sort would gravitate to the socialist states... they would soon collapse in an epic fail that would serve as a warning to future generations.


16 posted on 11/30/2021 8:45:12 PM PST by Bobalu (Figure out what you like, learn enough to be dangerous, and then start fiddling around)
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I have a home near Carbondale, it is in Marion, a nice area that is blighted by the madness that is Chicago...


17 posted on 11/30/2021 8:48:21 PM PST by Bobalu (Figure out what you like, learn enough to be dangerous, and then start fiddling around)
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Find out where they are organizing and lie in wait.

The FBI has the tools but they are busy harassing PTA moms.

“Police! Get your hands up! You are all under arrest!”

...and the first one who disobeys the commands, shoot them dead and zip tie the rest. Charge them all with domestic terror.

Rinse and repeat.


18 posted on 11/30/2021 8:52:23 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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Gonna have to disagree Trump. These leftists voted for this. They can embrace the suck! If they keep getting bailed out, why change?


19 posted on 11/30/2021 8:58:53 PM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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Trump (still) doesn’t get it. The riots and looting are a symptom. The cause is government corruption at the fed/state/local level with considerable chicom influence. Until Governors and/or mayors, corrupt DA’s etc are rounded up and dealt with as conspiring to foment the conditions that caused unchecked rioting and crime, like no-bail release, tying the hands of law enforcement, beating the drum of racism, then the problem will never be solved. Also the plug needs to be pulled on the marxist money machine. Arrest Soros and eliminate all non-profits, regardless of cause or political affiliation. And before anyone gets upset, remember the sage words of Colonel Jessup.


20 posted on 11/30/2021 9:00:23 PM PST by SpaceBar
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