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| Kurt Schlichter: Why Trump Doesn’t Just 'Send In the Troops' |
| 2020-09-04 |
| [Townhall] There are a lot of solid conservatives frustrated and appalled by the Biden Riots, and a lot of those folks wonder why Donald Trump doesn’t just make it all stop – you know, sort of like Grandpa Badfinger implicitly promises he will do if we restore the garbage liberal establishment, except with military force. “Call up the Guard,” right? But what folks do not understand are the practical problems with Trump using troops (sending federal law enforcement officers presents similar problems, but also a unique and big one – there just aren’t as many federal cops as there are soldiers). The devil is in the details, and the devil here makes Trump pulling the trigger on the troops in the current situation a very bad idea. We should support his strategic patience and not do what the Democrats want by getting mad at the president for refusing to stumble into an ambush. After laying out exactly what sending the National Guard into a politically unwelcoming domestic environment would entail — Mr. Schlichter was a lieutenant colonel at one point, first as a regular, then in the National Guard, so he knows whereof he speaks— he lands the piece with a flourish: These hard truths are not to say there is nothing for the feds to do. Until the Democrat regimes decide this needs to end and cooperate, the feds should do one of the few things the feds are good at – taking down large criminal organizations. Antifa is just like the drug cartels with less testosterone, and just like the mafia except with worse clothes and less testosterone. The feds should ignore the street thugs who make up the shock troops. It was no coincidence that 100 percent of the people Kyle shot had criminal records. The feds should focus on the LARPing middle class SJWs and the dedicated Marxist cadre and use RICO, conspiracy, and other federal charges to take them out and lock them up. When little Ashleigh from the suburbs realizes that she’s looking at five years in federal prison instead of heading back to the Evergreen State to finish her Bolivian Trans Dance of the 13th Century degree, the lawyer daddy buys her will get her to sing like a canary about her commie pals. The feds should identify and map the whole criminal organization, identify its players and funding, and wipe it out. Look, it’s perfectly understandable to be frustrated. But getting mad at Trump because he is not doing something that would turn into the cluster fark to end all cluster farks is doing exactly what the liberal elite and its media minions want. Let Portland and the rest of the blue cities trash themselves. Let the DOJ, which has already charged dozens of these degenerates with federal beefs, do its thing. And make sure you get out and vote straight Republican if you want any hope of this ever ending. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #12 Bolivian Trans Dance of the 13th Century degree is comedy gold but clearly it's cultural appropriation and even dimwit Ashleigh from the suburbs probably knows it by now. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-09-04 16:15 |
| #11 ^LOL |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-09-04 13:21 |
| #10 I'll take that as a complement, grom. But Ashliegh won't go to the federal lockup after she sings about her commie pals. The plan is that she might get six months at a country club. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2020-09-04 13:19 |
| #9 ^That's because you're an amateur bad person, Abu. If you were a professional bad person, you'd want to be a fly on the wall when Ashleigh gets to female prison and meets local transwomen. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-09-04 13:00 |
| #8 I'd love to be a fly on the wall When little Ashleigh from the suburbs realizes that she’s looking at five years in federal prison. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2020-09-04 12:19 |
| #7 I liked the deputizing state troopers angle. Takes local courts out of the equation to some extent which will gradually remove rioters from the riot/release cycle. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-09-04 11:17 |
| #6 They are not especially sophisticated. NSA probably has captures on their comms, it maybe isn't a priority to look for them (I hope it's not intentional neglect) Hopefully they will get the attention they actually deserve. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-09-04 09:42 |
| #5 "You created this shithole by voting for the Dem Politicians. Live in it til you learn good and hard what consequences are" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-09-04 07:55 |
| #4 Posse Comitatus Act was passed to remove federal troops in the south from protecting the rights of blacks following the civil war. It's a fall out from the Hayes-Tilden election fiasco trying to prevent Civil War part II. It applies to the use of Army personnel and by extension to the Air Force which originated with the Army. It does not apply to the Navy which includes the Marine Corps, cause the Corps was never that big in those days and not considered. He seems to forget that the President can call upon the militia as prior presidents have in the past. Just use the Insurrection Act. There are enough vets out there where they can get sufficient number of volunteers. They can sort themselves out. Those vols without experience you can use for point defense and blocking forces. Those vols with experience can be maneuver elements. Simple RoE, don't screw with the militia or you are already dead. It's not clean, its not tidy but it will work like a hammer on a spider. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-09-04 07:30 |
| #3 Just why would the deep-state feds obey Trump? First thing of his second term he needs to clean out the old and create new Justice departments who swear on a bible (or torah?) to obey the law as written. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-09-04 07:10 |
| #2 Kurt's exactly right. To smash these shitty little morons the Feds already have the only tool that's needed, the RICO laws. Kurt: These hard truths are not to say there is nothing for the feds to do. Until the Democrat regimes decide this needs to end and cooperate, the feds should do one of the few things the feds are good at – taking down large criminal organizations. Antifa is just like the drug cartels with less testosterone, and just like the mafia except with worse clothes and less testosterone. The feds should ignore the street thugs who make up the shock troops. It was no coincidence that 100 percent of the people Kyle shot had criminal records. The feds should focus on the LARPing middle class SJWs and the dedicated Marxist cadre and use RICO, conspiracy, and other federal charges to take them out and lock them up. When little Ashleigh from the suburbs realizes that she’s looking at five years in federal prison instead of heading back to the Evergreen State to finish her Bolivian Trans Dance of the 13th Century degree, the lawyer daddy buys her will get her to sing like a canary about her commie pals. The feds should identify and map the whole criminal organization, identify its players and funding, and wipe it out. |
| Posted by: Enver Crimble8461 2020-09-04 05:37 |
| #1 Troops are not made to control low level violence. They should only be sent if shooting begins. |
| Posted by: Thorong Grundy1520 2020-09-04 01:07 |