That’s fucking bullshit. Detaining people is absolutely a law enforcement operation.

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      Compromise,

      Conformity,

      Assimilation,

      Submission,

      Ignorance,

      Hypocrisy,

      Brutality,

      The elite.

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    Here’s the relevant section of the article that the title is referencing:

    He emphasized that while troops can temporarily detain individuals, they must wait for law enforcement officers to make actual arrests.

    Unless the guard troops are working directly with law enforcement, or are there at the request of the state, or the Insurrection Act has been invoked, none of which have happened or are the case, then it is completely illegal for them to be detaining anyone for any reason. Those troops should be refusing to follow those illegal orders. As should their commanding officer, but I’m getting the impression this is not a guy with a lot of critical thinking skills.

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    Bold of you to assume this about enforcing law (or keeping peace).

    This is escalation for the sake of performative leadership. It’s another manufactured crisis. They find a manageable problem under someone else’s purview, exacerbate it, use the escalation to claim the other party is losing control, step in, and pretend to help while the other party solves the problem, then they take credit and walk away. It’s a power grab. Bonus points if it distracts everyone else from the supposed leader’s negligence, incompetence, and outright theft. The Big Beautiful Bill isn’t drawing the same portion of the public’s attention as it was before, is it?

    The bullest of shit indeed: enacting cruelty on the vulnerable to enable robbing the overwhelming majority Americans.

    This concludes the rant. Thanks for your post. I hope we never stop talking about this and never let future generations forget.

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    Given the lawsuit regarding the electoral votes, the military should be holding the house and president until that lawsuit is finished.

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      Our military is supposed to be fully beholden to the elected civilian government, the only “holding” possible is the current acting government.