• ThePantser@sh.itjust.works
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    3 天前

    Protecting the nation from who/what? They should never have been deployed against their fellow citizens. She would still be alive to defend against real threats.

    • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Oh I agree. And anyone with a non-fascist conscious would refuse the orders to occupy our own capitol.

      But she didn’t and she died doing her duty. So why the outcry? She’s a patriot or whatever.

    • gustofwind@lemmy.world
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      Hate to be this person but the national guard is authorized by the constitution to be used for suppressing domestic insurrections or repelling foreign invasions.

      Also, and unfortunately, the posse comitatus act doesn’t apply to the national guard when under state control. This means the national guard can also perform domestic law enforcement duties if they’re not federalized.

      All of this is to say they can absolutely be deployed against fellow citizens. We’ve just been living in a gentlemen’s agreements dream world where nobody would ever do such a thing until now.

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          My point is it’s actually always been this way on paper we’ve just been lucky to not have insane people abuse the system