This was MB’s post and some here ticked me off when thought it was embellishment or headline grabbing, well BS, anyone who knows MB’s writings know he does not do that and it worsens today with the Madman in Charge. First of all, read the diary posted by MB. Thank goodness it is top of the rec list.
www.dailykos.com/…
Now know Orange man’s lackey has made it worse and puting us on the verge of a civil war which if he deploys them...the bear has been poked enough to throw us into that scenearo. Deploying Camp Pendelton troops on high alert? Really? For a Protest? A right? The only one kicking up destruction from what I see are the so called law.
www.hindustantimes.com/...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Saturday that US Marines at Camp Pendleton have been placed on high alert and could be deployed to support National Guard efforts in Los Angeles, as violent protests continue for a second day.
Camp Pendleton, located in North San Diego County, is the main West Coast base of the US Marine Corps.
In a post on X, Hegseth wrote, “The violent mob assaults on ICE and Federal Law Enforcement are designed to prevent the removal of Criminal Illegal Aliens from our soil; a dangerous invasion facilitated by criminal cartels (aka Foreign Terrorist Organizations) and a huge NATIONAL SECURITY RISK.”
He is so unqualified to be in this position...Obviously not familiar with:
en.wikipedia.org/...
The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385, original at 20 Stat. 152) signed on June 18, 1878, by President Rutherford B. Hayes that limits the powers of the federal government in the use of federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States. Congress passed the Act as an amendment to an army appropriation bill following the end of Reconstruction and updated it in 1956, 1981 and 2021.
The Act originally applied only to the United States Army, but a subsequent amendment in 1956 expanded its scope to the United States Air Force. In 2021, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 further expanded the scope of the Act to cover the United States Navy, Marine Corps, and Space Force. The Act does not prevent the Army National Guard or the Air National Guard under state authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within its home state or in an adjacent state if invited by that state's governor. The United States Coast Guard (under the Department of Homeland Security) is not covered by the Act either, primarily because although it is an armed service, it also has a maritime law enforcement mission.
The title of the Act comes from the legal concept of posse comitatus, the authority under which a county sheriff, or another law officer, can conscript any able-bodied person to assist in keeping the peace
The key to that authority is invoked by the governor and last I looked Trump is not the governor
If Trump and Hegseth keep poking that civil war bear, they will certainly get it.
This is the State’s call not Federal Troops.
2000 Troops have been deployed from the National Guard and Newsom says this is a spectacle now Marines are on high alert.
This is insane.
Thanks MB for your post for early warnings and you are right “Here we go”.
The only violence I have witnessed on the protest seemed to come from the peace keepers or so called Law enforcement. Trump does not want protests. Amazing...the mayor and governor are democrats...nooooooooooooo..that has nothing to do with this stink Trump is escalating. Ya think?
