I've sat for an hour now pondering over this story.
Apparently....the National School Boards Association wrote up some letter in 2021, and asked the White House to 'call up' Army National Guard units (in particular the MPs.....Military Police) to restore order to school board meetings.
What happened with the request? The White House handed it to the Attorney General and he told the FBI to review the situation.
No deployments were ordered and no Guard folks were put into this mess.
The FBI? Well....much less has been said, and I suspect one of the odd things to occur in January of 2023....with the Republicans controlling the House.....there's going to be a investigation over their actions.
If the Guard had been deployed? I would guess in some states.....the state police would have been there to ask questions and demand to know who was running the Guard operation from the state (or DC)?
So here's the three things to come away from this with:
1. You've got an element of society who believe they should be entitled to elected jobs with real responsibilities but not have to answer to the public who elected them.
2. Once you deploy Guard people into a hostile situation....anything can happen (reflect upon Kent State). You could easily have forty MPs in some 'war-zone' in North Carolina....asking at the hospital for their gunshot wounds....how they got dragged into this.
3. Isn't this all leading to a civil war? Just a rational question....but how is it resolving the mess at hand.....to have armed soldiers in the midst of a school board meeting?
But I'm kinda interested what the FBI did, and how many files have been created. You see....this has the funny smell of the East German Stasi to it.
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The job descriptions are at odds.
The soldier has a duty to kill and destroy.
The military LawEnforcementOfficials have the duty to control by any means necessary.
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The phrase 'sovereign immunity' applies to civilian LawEnforcementOfficials... and other government agents including non-civilians such as soldiers.
Asking soldiers to follow their training while using their equipment tends to lead to seeing the situation as a war-zone, with the accompanying smoking hole in the ground.
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A way around all those legal inconveniences -- get the blue beanies to step up.
A big 'plus' for the United Nations supporters -- acclimating the locals to a bunch of foreigners staying in the spare bedroom...
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An aside:
I am pretty sure the American Constitution was scrapped prior to the Whiskey Tax Rebellion of 1792.
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