Live Updates: Federal Government Agrees to Return Police Control to D.C. Chief - The New York Times
Live Updates: Federal Government Agrees to Return Police Control to D.C. Chief - The New York Times
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Live Updates: Federal Government Agrees to Return Police Control to D.C. Chief - The New York Times
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That's great news, but let's not forget that the National Guard didn't sign up to be Trump's police, didn't want to be there, and had their lives disrupted by being mobilized for a cheap political stunt. They're not the bad guys here.
Let's not pretend there are no itchy trigger fingers in the national guard.
The Guard does have a good number of your ‘renta-cop’, ‘mall cop’, ‘southern hunting bro’ types… that get their rocks off by playing war on the weekends, or deploying every few years, absolutely.
But, there’s also a larger population of underprivileged, overburdened, and poverty stricken civilians trying to make ends meet by selling their very bodies to the elite so they can play their little war games.
Should we lump them in with the police and ICE? ‘They made their choices!’, sure… but, it’s class warfare here and the elite have an outsized hand on the lever. They make us poor, so that the crumbs they feed us are enough to turn us against each other.
The few photos I've seen showed unarmed Guardsmen. The national guard isn't automatically issued weapons and live ammo when called out.
Pretty hard to have an itchy trigger finger when you don't have a rifle or ammo.
They are. They volunteered knowing FULL well what kind of shit the US does and condones. Every single one of them.
Sure, but this is national guard, not enlisted service members. It's more a defensive force just in case, and they do a lot of domestic support work, like after natural disasters and stuff. Most of them aren't expecting to be involved in the shitty stuff the US does elsewhere.
You can argue they're still supporting it, but it's not the same as those who enlist. Now that they're being used to do shitty stuff within the US though, I wouldn't be surprised if they struggle to find as many volunteers.
The "just following orders" defense. That's a bold choice