Wow, helmets and rifles
Regarding General (retired) “Mad Dog” Mattes comments criticizing President Trump for holding out the possibility of using troops if governors and mayors won’t protect their citizens (see earlier post) and also regarding Trump’s own Defense Secretary Esper who seems to have sandbagged the president with insufficiently undeveloped comments about the same (see below).
Via WGN — Esper told reporters the Insurrection Act, which would allow Trump to use active-duty military for law enforcement in containing street protests, should be invoked in the United States “only in the most urgent and dire of situations.” He declared, “We are not in one of those situations now.”
For a week now leftists, looters, thugs and Black Lives Matter have destroyed and torched businesses and government buildings across the country.
Now this…
Secretary Esper ordered the National Guard troops sent to Washington DC to NOT carry any guns or ammunition.
Esper also ordered all active-duty troops out of Washington DC.
Esper reportedly made this order without consulting the White House.
Secretary Esper is now putting National Guardsmen in danger.
Related reading:
Esper now putting Guardsmen in dangerhttps://t.co/YsvX4HBEeO
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) June 6, 2020
thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/without-consulting-trump-white-house-defense-secretary-esper-orders-national-guard-not-carry-guns-ammunition-washington-dc/
It was a “racial time”
Esper is too young to remember Dwight Eisenhower federalizing the Arkansas National Guard in order to take them out of the hands of the Arkansas governor in order to insure they were not used to thwart the rule of law in that state. He then sent in regular Army troops to protect the rule of law and citizens.
It was a transitional racial time in the fifties and the Democrat Arkansas governor was interested in protecting racist laws even with the military. He ran the state after all. Republican President Eisenhower would have none of the use of the color of law and order to deny civil rights to people of color. The violence and threat of violence against the exercise of civil rights of all citizens would be stopped if local leaders would not, or indeed were part of the problem.
Now we have ANTIFA militants and garden variety looters using charges of racism where color blind law is working* to deny the rule of law with their rioting, arson, murder and pillaging. Local Democrat leadership in the effected areas when not weak are complicit with the anarchists for their own political purposes, just as Arkansas Democrat Governor Orval Faubus was in protecting segregation for his own political purposes. If current political leadership won’t put a stop to the anarchy President Trump will use his legitimate powers to do so.
Veterans what say you?
V’pac may not be the loudest forum in this community, but some of its readers have earned and can rightfully claim a special right to be heard on where our nation should be going vs. where it is apparently headed. Let us hear from you, and through this forum, let the community hear you!
* The catalyst for the current anarchists, always looking for a match and kindling, was the arrest and death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. One of the arresting officers has been charged with second degree murder and three others have been fired and are facing criminal charges. They deserve their day in court and it is important to see that a fair trial proceeds. Color blind law is working. We note that most of the rioting is occurring in Democrat run jurisdictions. Ironic don’t you think.
