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2020-07-23 -War on Police-
Trump Stops Playing Around With Chicago, Expands "Operation Legend" Into the City
[Red State] - With Chicago’s out of control homicide rate not slowing down and its leadership playing politics rather than actually leading, President Donald Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr have decided to expand the "law and order" project known as "Operation Legend" into Chicago.

"This bloodshed must end, this bloodshed will end," Trump said during a speech at the White House.

"Today I am announcing a surge of federal law enforcement into American communities plagued by violent crime," he announced.

Trump said that due to the rate of homicides and crime in Chicago, he felt the federal government has no choice but to get involved.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-23 02:52|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top
 File under: Antifa/BLM 

#1 Somebody-- city government, state government or federal government-- has to take charge and end this madness in the cities; it cannot continue indefinitely or they will end up as depopulated, lawless ghost towns.

It seems to me the Democrat city governments and state governments are sitting on their hands with the intent of forcing Trump to act, in hopes that they and their paid Democrat propagandists in the media will be able to turn public opinion against him and result in his defeat in the November election.

Will they succeed in painting him as an out-of-control tyrant stomping on our civil liberties? Or will their efforts backfire and result in Trump being re-elected as the "law and order" president?

Who knows? We live in interesting times.
Posted by Dave D. 2020-07-23 05:02||   2020-07-23 05:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Already seeing leftie articles harrumping about how "law and order" won't play well this time. That's whistling past the graveyard if you ask me.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-07-23 06:34||   2020-07-23 06:34|| Front Page Top

#3 The laws are defunct. I think it's time to stress on the 'order'.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-07-23 06:39||   2020-07-23 06:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Why send in the uniform military? He, like Lincoln, can call upon the citizen militia to restore order. Bring your weapon, 200 rounds of ammo, and three days dry food. Simple rules of Engagement. Don't f*** with them or be shot.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-07-23 07:36||   2020-07-23 07:36|| Front Page Top

#5 @4

To be fair, the concept of the militia being used by governors or others is something so outside the living memory of people it seems scary and foreign. Armed people outside the set up command and control? Scary.

Been that way since at least WW1 after the formalized nation guard was set up.

As a former member of the military and a current member of a local militia, I would be very hesitant myself about calling them up for front line use. Security for neighborhoods? Yes. Active law enforcement? Nope.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-07-23 08:36||   2020-07-23 08:36|| Front Page Top

#6 If they are not on the ballot in NOV someone screwed up months ago when they should have begun a recall drive.

I'd bet every mayor or governor on the ballot in November has stopped the nonsense.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-07-23 08:56||   2020-07-23 08:56|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 you know how many prior military would show up and sort themselves out rather quickly. The non-vets would simply fill out the ranks. Use the latter for point defense and the former for area control.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-07-23 09:03||   2020-07-23 09:03|| Front Page Top

#8 It seems to me the Democrat city governments and state governments are sitting on their hands with the intent of forcing Trump to act, in hopes that they and their paid Democrat propagandists in the media will be able to turn public opinion against him and result in his defeat in the November election.

I doubt this will work. IMO, it will turn more people against such causes as BLM, Antifa and those left-wing politicians who mollycoddle these groups. The MSM fake suppression polls are not trustworthy and can't be taken as an indication of who is going to vote for Trump or Biden. There is likely a huge, growing number of convert Trump supporters among the voters.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-07-23 09:18||   2020-07-23 09:18|| Front Page Top

#9 #4
Shooting protesters/rioters dead didn't work well at Kent State and will not work in these days and times. I'm glad too. Politically it would be a disaster.
I have not served in the military, but know quite a few who have. I doubt they would shoot to kill fellow Americans, beat the crap out of them and toss them in the paddy wagon, yes.

Antifa are scum and the libs deserve the problems caused by them. But that is no reason to kill them.

It is important that LEO keep Antifa undead (at least until after the election). Soccer moms and snowflakes on the fence this election will not stand for dead antifa.
Posted by Vespasian Ebboting9735 2020-07-23 09:59||   2020-07-23 09:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Shooting protesters/rioters dead didn't work well at Kent State

Really? They burned down the ROTC building on campus prior to the shooting. How many universities burned after Kent State?

After the shooting in Albuquerque the local mob has been rather quiet about taking down statues.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-07-23 10:26||   2020-07-23 10:26|| Front Page Top

#11 I went to Ohio State at the time that Kent State occurred. There were protesters at OSU who were not particularly violent. There was another group of hard-core Marxists who traveled around the university circuit burning down ROTC buildings. These people were hard-core instigators and caused and participated in much violence. It was found that later, many of them had traveled to Cuba to cut sugar cane and get trained in insurrection methods.

These hard-core Marxists need to be identified, separated from the non-violent crowd and prosecuted as warranted. BTW, I wouldn’t put it past these Marxists to instigate a shooting incident or to shoot one of the non-violent protesters to incite an incident. We’re not talking about nice people.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-07-23 11:00||   2020-07-23 11:00|| Front Page Top

#12 ^ class of 73 here. Was there too. If you stayed away from the circus you never got gassed. Otherwise the Columbus police would toss first and ask later.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-07-23 11:10||   2020-07-23 11:10|| Front Page Top

#13 We’re not talking about nice people.

Hear, hear.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-07-23 11:39||   2020-07-23 11:39|| Front Page Top

#14 If memory serves, the college rioting mostly stopped after Kent State.
Posted by warthogswife 2020-07-23 12:30||   2020-07-23 12:30|| Front Page Top

#15 I wouldn’t put it past these Marxists to instigate a shooting incident or to shoot one of the non-violent protesters to incite an incident.

Agreed.
Posted by Vespasian Ebboting9735 2020-07-23 12:57||   2020-07-23 12:57|| Front Page Top

#16 The student riots did stop right after Kent State. There was one last outpouring that week--but then dead silence. And the spring of 1971 was the first one in 4 years without student protests.
Posted by Tom 2020-07-23 13:40||   2020-07-23 13:40|| Front Page Top

#17 Shooting protesters/rioters dead didn't work well at Kent State and will not work in these days and times. I'm glad too. Politically it would be a disaster.

After Kent State, Nixon won 49 states.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2020-07-23 16:44||   2020-07-23 16:44|| Front Page Top

#18 Armed people outside the set up command and control? Scary.

Oh, wait ....
Posted by gorb 2020-07-23 16:58||   2020-07-23 16:58|| Front Page Top

#19 #14
I think your memory may need to be refreshed. See the Spiro Agnew quote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
Posted by Thimp Clusort2035 2020-07-23 17:58||   2020-07-23 17:58|| Front Page Top

#20 If I remember, Columbus cops had a reputation of ticketing jaywalkers. I guess technically correct, but......

Meanwhile, GO BUCKEYES!
Posted by Clem 2020-07-23 18:29||   2020-07-23 18:29|| Front Page Top

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