The point is, regardless, there's a default "state". It could be the mob. It could be corporations. It could be a literal state.
The mayor is no longer in control and City Hall has been taken over with the assistance of a councilwoman Kshama Sawant. At what point do you declare it a failed city? It is really is looking like one.
Remind them that their "autonomous" zone is subject to federal law and treat them like insurrectionists if they want to act otherwise.
Wellllll, maybe cause it creates a dangerous precedent.
Say the next president doesn't have an R next to his name. Say a state, oh, I don't know, like Virginia, has ten of thousands of armed demonstrators show up for some kind of protest in one of its cities.
Say the governor of Virginia, also lacking an R next to his name, begs the president for help to prevent these "terrorists" from overrunning one of his cities.
Is that far fetched? Maybe.
IDK, jess spitballin here.
Wellllll, maybe cause it creates a dangerous precedent.
Say the next president doesn't have an R next to his name. Say a state, oh, I don't know, like Virginia, has ten of thousands of armed demonstrators show up for some kind of protest in one of its cities.
Say the governor of Virginia, also lacking an R next to his name, begs the president for help to prevent these "terrorists" from overrunning one of his cities.
Is that far fetched? Maybe.
IDK, jess spitballin here.
Check your sources. They left City Hall about 10pm and only protested while they were there. There were no armed confrontations.
We can be upset about what is going on...not what we imagine is going on.
Did those radical gun-totin terrorists burn down buildings, loot, riot and overthrow the local government? Or are they waving American flags and demanding that their Constitutional rights be protected?
What kind of precedent is set when government buildings are actually overrun, powers unknown declare an "autonomous zone" in an American city, and we just shrug our shoulders? This isn't some "what if" scenario.
Not in a constitutional republic established upon the Rule of Law.
Did those radical gun-totin terrorists burn down buildings, loot, riot and overthrow the local government? Or are they waving American flags and demanding that their Constitutional rights be protected?
What kind of precedent is set when government buildings are actually overrun, powers unknown declare an "autonomous zone" in an American city, and we just shrug our shoulders? This isn't some "what if" scenario.
Once a precedent is set to deploy the US military to a city, the bar will be lowered each time thereafter.
It won't take burning down buildings, riots, looting, or "autonomous zones". Just the mere possibility of such by a group the administration of the day considers "terrorists".
And that's already a label applied to most of us because of an organization to which many of us belong. When those who'd label us as such have the power, do you think they wouldn't use it?
The governor of Washington has his state's National Guard at his disposal. Let him use it. If he won't, f**k 'em.
Well. Yeah. That would be one of the "literal state" option. If only such a unicorn existed practically in the wild.
…all threats foreign and domestic.
Where is the strikeout text option for "domestic?"