Civil war

[bigtree]

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... a red-state Texas governor advantaging the republican president with armed military troops to invade Illinois at the same time Trump is threating to 'jail' the governor and mayor.

Let that sink in. A republican governor is enabling the imposition of republican policy, by the force of his state's military, on another state with a Democratic governor and a city with a Democratic mayor whose constituents have voted with expectations that officials THEY elected will provide for their safety and defense.

U.S. Northern Command @USNorthernCmd
Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area.

These soldiers are employed to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.

___The Texas National Guard, which arrived in the area earlier this week, has been expected in Broadview and other locations but were not in plain view. Those troops were federalized by the administration following a series of intense confrontations between protesters and federal immigration enforcement officers taking part in “Operation Midway Blitz,” the mass deportation mission being carried out in Chicago and the suburbs.

Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills told the Tribune that he was notified overnight that his officers spotted personnel at the ICE facility in the suburb that has been a magnet for protests who said they were with the National Guard awaiting further instruction.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/national-guard-employed-greater-chicago-135900915.html

The village issued a statement Thursday.

“Three vans with approximately 45 Texas National Guard soldiers arrived at the Ice Facility in the Village of Broadview late last night,” the statement read. “During their patrols, Broadview police officers observed the vans parked in the rear of 2000 25th Ave and all of the guards were sleeping. We let them sleep undisturbed. We hope that they will extend the same courtesy in the coming days to Broadview residents who deserve a good night’s sleep, too.”

In a letter sent to Broadview residents Wednesday night, Village Mayor Katrina Thompson offered no new specifics on the already heavily-publicized plans but condemned the move as “messed up” and said it was “rooted in the historic intimidation of African-American communities by government officials waving guns in our faces.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/national-guard-employed-greater-chicago-135900915.html


...notice how they cite the protection of 'personnel' in the first instance of justification.

That's standard for the U.S. military when operating in enemy territory. First they impose troops, then make it their primary mission to protect their own people and mission, not the citizenry, perpetuating and usually providing for the expansion of those forces under the same trumped-up pretext.

The way to quell resistance to their mission within American communities and neighborhoods, is to lessen and moderate their activity. It's an absurdity that we're basically talking about Americans who these forces are ostensibly deploying against, expressing American values in their own words and actions in opposition to Trump's immigration policy and enforcement tactics against their own community.

All we get from this administration is escalation and promises to expand the use of our own military forces across the entire country using the 'Insurrection Act' to declare martial law to effect his unilateral 'emergency' policy of mass removal of mostly working individuals and families without resistance.

At the end of all of the bullying and threatening of Americans to bend to Trump's disingenuous policy of deporting the 'worst of the worst,' we will end up with nothing but a self-interested, opportunistic federal government hyper-concerned with their own unpopular policies, coercing us to their political will behind destabilizing, unilaterally enabled military forces operating under a perpetual, contrived emergency based on defense against dissent and resistance to imposed authority that the founders of our Constitution anticipated and intended to protect the 'people' against this very type of heavy-handed exercise of government power and authority.

This isn't theoretical anymore. We need to stand up against what we already know about this president and his intentions to dominate Americans, including using the military to enable their interfering in our upcoming process of elections.


related:

Broadview Ill. police chief and officers enduring verbal attacks by ICE agents, teargas, and ICE making false 911 calls
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220702172

[Irish_Dem]

1. We have a red state invading a blue state.

Sounds like Civil War II to me.

[Sogo]

2. What's really going to throw a wrench into TSF's plans for civil unrest and "war," is that

in the north, we're coming into cooler temps and not far off, really cold temps and snow....

We'll see how those pansy-assed NG from the southern state of Texas handle that! LOL!

[Blue Owl]

3. Let's see if "ICE" is all it's cracked up to be

Bring on the Lake Michigan wind chills and watch those violets shrink back to mommy’s basement

[Kaleva]

4. Rule of thumb is about 20 troops to control 1000 citizens

However, that figure can vary wildly depending on how belligerent the citizenry is. It could be much higher or much lower. About 2.2 in post war Germany to over 60 troops per 1k citizens in Algeria.

[bigtree]

5. they'll ramp up once Americans are used to them in their neighborhoods

...intimidation is the game, more than actual physical control.