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In reply to the discussion: If you're not able or are unwilling to protest in the streets, please do the actual protestors a favor [View all]RVN VET71
(2,934 posts)At heart -- or whatever the void in his chest can be called -- he's a con artist. But he is now a Pinochet-style dictator. And he's just starting out. L. A. is his baby steps. What happens there will show whether he can move up to the next step -- which includes permanent martial law and such things as helicopters seizing protesters and dumping them, screaming, into the ocean.
The L.A. police and ICE raids were deliberately provocative. The ensuing protests were carefully sprinkled with agents provocateur who prompted the looting and started the fires. The troops on the street are there to intimidate people, and to kill them -- at least shoot them -- if the protesters are sufficiently provoked by the provocateurs or if a nervous officer issues orders to file or bayonet people a la Kent State.
The Marines there face a challenge that goes to the heart of their being: will they dishonor themselves and their tradition of honor and love of Country (and its founding documents) by threatening American citizens with military force? If called on to attack the protesters, will they choose Trump over Country? Trump over Marine traditions? Trump over the very concept of honor? This is a matter of serious importance to the Corps.
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