Never mind that not a single syllable, let alone a single word, in the Constitution remotely would authorize such a thing.
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You simple bastard. You want national action for the COVID farce, but no national action for riots. It took you about 1 minute to contradict yourself. My god, son, you are just barely capable of speech. Back to deletion.
Am I the only one old enough to be snickering at that narrow-assed leiter of their's? Meyer Lanski? Really? Change that "i" to a "y" and hey presto! You've the mob's accountant from days of yore.
You seem to be a bit bipolar on your deploring of and shit talking about the po-po on the one hand while just now venting your seeming desire for some war porn along the lines of a Gordon Dickson dorsai novella.
Make up your mind.
The problem with those who have fallen into this deal seems to be this:
1) the belief that the virus is just a likely to kill anyone who contracts it
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2) rioters/looters are somehow justified, so they should get a pass
It is interesting to note how often the person who so fervently adheres to the COVID narrative, is the same one that will apologize for being non-black.
As evidence for #1, people chastise others for taking their kids out and about (my sister was yelled at because her 15 yo daughter was maskless at a WalMart) and talk about how the young will get sick if they go to school in the fall.....but won't talk to you about the death rate/hospitalization rate for those same kids. From what I have seen, it is essentially zero.
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Interesting to see the thought process of a man notorious for fighting a "total war". He seemed to be keenly aware of how drastic what he was doing actually was. I see and agree with the tactic of not just wiping this stuff out with military force. It will do more harm than good. Innocent people caught under the umbrella of terrible leadership will end up losing both life and property as collateral damage. But I do understand the frustration many seem to have with the apparent inaction. I also worry about how intense their frustrations are, many seem turned off entirely to voting for Trump a second time, and I have unfathomably even heard some say they may vote for Biden out of spite. But I think the string-pullers behind these things want armed response. Even if they can't get the feds to step in, they want opposing civilians to arm up and fight, because it will help spin their narrative of the "dangerous far right" and the "boogaloo movement" (an internet joke that is now apparently a terrorist threat). That's why they're targeting all the monuments now. They want to draw us out into conflict so they become the narrative victims, because we will be unable to say our persons or property were threatened. If we leave the public property to be defended by the people who are SUPPOSED to defend it, and they fail to, then all we really see is people trashing historical statues out of anger, and making fools of themselves in the process. When it comes to places like Minneapolis and the "Autonomous Zone", I feel for the people stuck there who don't support this garbage. I just hope they understand why the federal government isn't stomping it out and know that the secret ballot is their best friend.
I am not talking about cleaning up with a place. I am talking about dealing with the terrorists themselves. It isn't the Feds job to fix those cities. It is their job to deal with the terrorists there.
How do I think it is going to work? What do you even mean by "work"?
What happens when you don't enforce any other legitimate laws? How does that "work"?
I expect people to be arrested and jailed. People will inevitably be killed in the attempt....as is always the case when enforcing laws.
What does leaving have to do with anything?
The FBI and Homeland security shouldn't do anything ever if they are somehow obliged to stay after making arrests and such. But I'm guessing that if we can spend a few decades in shithole countries that didn't want us there and where we had no real business being, that we can at least try to sort things out for the actual Americans that were promised protection and pay for it.
They have a job. Fighting domestic terrorism is part of it. It takes what it takes. Either change the laws or do it.
And the motivation for the current dereliction of duty is clearly appearances/election not the practicality of doing that duty.
Jesus, Rip; he's obtuse, isn't he?
George, once again, tell us what you want the FBI and and HSA to do. The FBI shows up with Homeland Security. How many guys do they bring? What do they do when they get there? Do they surround the area, or do they penetrate it? Does it look like Fallujah? What are the ROEs? Who do they arrest? Where do they jail them? If they are attacked with bricks, how many do they shoot? Once the area is under control, how long do they stay? Are the arrested charged federally or locally? Who then tries the cases? If the locals refuse to police the now-orderly area, who does? What happens when the area is retaken by the mob?
This is what I mean by "work."
I lived through America's second civil war in the 60's and 70's. In my predominantly black high school it was two riots by the time I graduated in 68. In college, the city it was in Carbondale, IL, had a Black Panther shoot outs, the arson of Old Main on the SIU campus, and storming and interior destruction of two other buildings on campus, along with four days of rioting. This or worse was happening all over the US and particularly on campuses after Kent State. When the campus and local police couldn't contain it, 400 state police came in and finally 1000 National Guard also came in. Along with skirmish lines, gas, and riot batons. The gas was deployed from ground based launchers and broadcast from skid mounted sprayers on helicopters.
That was what I saw and experienced in my late teens. When I went into law enforcement, I had to clear streets a few times. It was dirty, grueling, and brutal. On both the cops and idiots being removed from the streets involved. It may sound pretty stirring, but it's only tiresome and it often gets you injured.
It was a thorough mess. Now I'm not advocating doing nothing, not then and not now. But I challenge you again. You and others here have bemoaned what you call "cop shit" in this thread. What you are advocating is cop shit on steroids. Be careful what you wish for or be consistent in your thinking. Because having it both ways is mutually exclusive.
You really think we are not testing as many as possible right now? In the US of A? In the last couple of weeks I got tested for the antibodies for free (negative), and could have gotten tested for the live virus at any of 4 different places within 2 miles of my house. You probably still don't have any idea why cases are "surging" in Florida do you you clown ass piece of shit.
By the way, with all of that testing available, there have been about 100 positive tests and 1 fatality in the county I live in.
You're probably one of those stupid motherfuckers that would prevent me from visiting my dying grandmother...
Rip lets you drag down the level of discourse here once in a while so we can vent on you.