Pentagon was scrambling Monday to establish rules to guide U.S. Marines who could be faced with the rare and difficult prospect of using force against citizens on American soil, now that the Trump administration is deploying active duty troops to the immigration raid protests in Los Angeles.
U.S. Northern Command said it is sending 700 Marines into the Los Angeles area to protect federal property and personnel, including federal immigration agents. The 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines are coming from Twentynine Palms, California, and will augment about 4,100 National Guard members already in LA or authorized to be deployed there to respond to the protests.
A goddamn shame to call myself a Marine. Any Marine executing these fascist orders are not Marines. They are fucking Traitors. The same goes for any other service member.
Every single soldier that participates in this should be tried for fucking treason.
Well if they are just standing around and not actually shooting people they are still “participating” but aren’t doing anything wrong
Correct.
I was stationed in 29 for a while. They seemed like good people, I hope they still are.
I was in Quantico. Like you, I hope they still are too. Semper Fi, brother.
The rules are already drawn up: it’s not fucking allowed
Are you some kind of subject matter expert or a professor at a famous university because you know more than a corporate news journalist somehow
Edit: /s
Corporate news journalists are purposely avoiding pointing out that the Posse Comitatus Act forbids this very thing from happening.
You don’t need to be a professor to have heard of this law.
Very true
The Posse Comitatus Act is pretty clear on this. Not sure why anyone would need to be a professor or even an expert.
The bar to gather accurate information yourself is really low with some basic critical thinking.
Yeah sorry was just “slamming” the press - should’ve used an /s
Posse Comitatus - I haven’t heard ANY news outlet mention it to date. Complete failure of the press.
well, it’s been out-loud-and-proud failure since 2016 at least (we’re going to skip over Gulf Wars I and II and Afghanistan)
They are owned by republiQans, they print republiQan drivel and they have long ago abandoned any other pretense. Unless you’re talking about the Opinion column where they pretend they aren’t bought and paid for.
Does he think people will weekly slink away back to their houses and shake in their boots about what Trump will do next? This will only further inflame tensions. This guy wants to Crack down, thinks he can suspend the constitution, and rule with impunity, but what he’s really gonna get is a civil war. Everybody loses in a civil war. Fucking countries like Russia, Iran, and anyone else who hates us are probably reveling in the current situation.
Putin is absolutely pissing himself with glee. He could not have done this better.
