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Pete Hegseth Puts Nearby U.S. Marines On High Alert As Los Angeles Burns
The Daily Wire ^ | Jun 7, 2025 | Virginia Kruta

Posted on 06/07/2025 7:49:20 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced late Saturday night that in addition to the National Guardsmen — who were being deployed to restore order in Los Angeles — he was placing active duty U.S. Marines at nearby Camp Pendleton on high alert.

Hegseth’s announcement, made via a post on X, came just hours after it was reported that President Donald Trump was invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 in order to deploy a number of National Guard troops as protesters clashed violently with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents across the Los Angeles area.

“The violent mob assaults on ICE and Federal Law Enforcement are designed to prevent the removal of Criminal Illegal Aliens from our soil; a dangerous invasion facilitated by criminal cartels (aka Foreign Terrorist Organizations) and a huge NATIONAL SECURITY RISK. Under President Trump, violence & destruction against federal agents & federal facilities will NOT be tolerated. It’s COMMON SENSE,” Hegseth said.

“The @DeptofDefense is mobilizing the National Guard IMMEDIATELY to support federal law enforcement in Los Angeles. And, if violence continues, active duty Marines at Camp Pendleton will also be mobilized — they are on high alert,” he added.

Under normal circumstances, the Posse Comitatus Act prevents the federal government from deploying the military for law enforcement purposes within the United States’ borders, but the Insurrection Act — actually a combination of several statutes enacted between 1792 and 1871 — stands as the one major exception to that.

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To: Lurker; Lockbar

They’re testing the waters to see how far they can get away with.

If that had been a Pro America march with dems in charge of Fed Inc., the dems would have ordered their gestapo to fire on them.


141 posted on 06/08/2025 4:57:49 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Fix bayonets.

Go kick ass.


142 posted on 06/08/2025 5:03:21 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: All

LA is gone. Any city that allows punks to ride around the city streets on dirt bikes and ATV’s has lost control. Note how long the charred car remained in the intersection as well as the tipped over lamp post.

No wonder they can’t handle fires or mudslides. They can’t even remove/replace a friggin’ lamp post.


143 posted on 06/08/2025 5:06:15 AM PDT by FLNittany
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To: Ditto

It is an invasion by illegal aliens. There are many millions of them in the LA region.


144 posted on 06/08/2025 5:18:05 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Leaning Right

Yep!


145 posted on 06/08/2025 5:35:58 AM PDT by wintertime ( )
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To: odawg
And standing up for what’s right is so crude and old-fashioned.

There was a time in our nation when common sense people knew that if you put your finger in an electric socket you'll be shocked and it will be your fault. How far we've fallen away from common sense.

146 posted on 06/08/2025 5:41:09 AM PDT by spirited irish ( )
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To: MinorityRepublican

No marines. National guard or let it all burn until citizens come in shooting. That’s how America is and must be.

We don’t need marines interfering. Locals only.

Some times things have to burn and locals need to come in shooting and hanging. Not country folk; city locals.


147 posted on 06/08/2025 5:44:58 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: butterdezillion
What does a laser pointer do?

These are not "laser pointers". They are high-powered lasers designed to be used as blinding devices against pilots and riflemen.

The blinding can be permanent.

You could buy these devices last year from various supplies via online ordering. It is legal to possess them, but not legal to use them in most circumstances as the power ratings exceed eye safe limits. Made in China, of course.

The use of these devices in a "mostly peaceful protest" should be considered a felonious assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. And it should provoke immediate lethal countermeasures.

This crosses the line into the kinetic phase of civil war.

148 posted on 06/08/2025 5:49:42 AM PDT by flamberge (The times, they are a' changing.)
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Lol, my wife and I have used that line for a long time when deciding who’s going to do this or that, haul kids to events, etc. suprising how few know the back story even here in Texas.


149 posted on 06/08/2025 5:56:42 AM PDT by snoringbear (,W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp, )
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Lol, my wife and I have used that line for a long time when deciding who’s going to do this or that, haul kids to events, etc. suprising how few know the back story even here in Texas.


150 posted on 06/08/2025 5:56:53 AM PDT by snoringbear (,W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp, )
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To: hal ogen

Just need to gather them up and drive them across the border. Like a huge cattle drive.


151 posted on 06/08/2025 6:07:47 AM PDT by Tammy8 ( )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Hat tip to Pete Hegseth teaching that law isn’t a suggestion it’s a ruel go by it or pay.


152 posted on 06/08/2025 6:31:03 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: butterdezillion

Can blind them...possibly more than temporarily.


153 posted on 06/08/2025 7:15:18 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: FLNittany

ALL illegal aliens...ALL of any age and circumstance must be kicked out forever...never to return. Anyone interfering with the ICE and others making this happen should be arrested and held until trial. I’d like to se lots of metal handcuffs and leg irons. If the situation is too in flux, let those detained lie in the street until the situation is under control.


154 posted on 06/08/2025 7:20:45 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: madison10

Bondi is doing her job. She promised arrest and prosecution, here are the means to carry out that promise.

What’s your problem?


155 posted on 06/08/2025 8:46:40 AM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going bac)
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To: Candor7

And could they be?


156 posted on 06/08/2025 9:42:49 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: flamberge

Let’s hope it will be dealt with accordingly.


157 posted on 06/08/2025 9:44:25 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: Karl Spooner

BZZZZT! You got it wrong but thanks for playing.

Here’s the short version -

The Bonus Army broke camp and returned home after negotiations with congress.

What remained were communists who infiltrated the Bonus Army. The commie agitators proceeded to attack federal buildings under construction and shooting and murdering one or more DC cops. The president called out the Army to handle the communists. And they did. The end.


158 posted on 06/08/2025 11:10:03 AM PDT by sergeantdave (AI training involves stealing content from creators and not paying them a penny)
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To: ifinnegan

Actually, after I posted that I did see a fire for the first time. But I do dislike hyperbole in what is supposed to be journalism and reporting.


159 posted on 06/08/2025 11:54:38 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DIRTYSECRET

What a fag.


160 posted on 06/08/2025 2:31:15 PM PDT by xone ( )
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