What You Need to Know if President Trump Deploys National Guard Units to Your State.

"Unresolved Issues Pertaining to State National Guard Units:

A State Governor has not deployed that State’s National Guard to another State without the consent of the receiving Governor. It would violate state sovereignty and be subject to litigation.

An unresolved question is whether the President can commandeer a State’s National Guard when a Governor has actively deployed that National Guard.

The U.S. Supreme Court has not ruled on whether the President can order one State’s National Guard units to deploy to another state and engage in civilian law enforcement pursuant to 32 U.S.C. § 502(f). This issue may be addressed by the Supreme Court in the appeal from Illinois.

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Pentagon readying thousands of Guard ‘reaction forces’ as U.S. mission widens

Alex Horton and David Ovalle , The Washington Post
Thu, October 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM EDT

Excerpt: "The mandate, along with the growing presence of federal and immigration enforcement officers, suggests further military deployments within the United States could grow in size and scope. The deployments, which President Donald Trump has described as a bid to quell violence and crime, have infuriated Democratic governors in multiple states, who have fought the president’s deployments through litigation.

"The Defense Department did not respond to a request for comment. A defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe military planning, said the Pentagon is 'revising plans for the employment of [National Guard Reaction Forces] to guarantee their ability to assist federal, state and local law enforcement in quelling civil disturbances.' The Guardian earlier reported details of the documents."

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Why Western Governments heavily invest in the police and surveillance state while continuing to give billions in subsidies to the fossil fuel industry:
https://mastodon.scot/@simon_brooke/114787834448004333

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Gwennap and the 1801 insurrection: Part 2

By March 1801 the price of food in the market towns of Devon had reached an unbearable level. Residents began to adopt the by now familiar tactics of the food riot – imposing a maximum price at the markets and touring local farms with the aim of ‘encouraging’ farmers to send more grain to market.

Cornish mining communities, described at this time as ‘more in a state of independence and less subject to the influence of superiors’, needed no second invitation to join in. But the first place to see action west of the Tamar was not the mining west but the farming east. At the very end of March, a large crowd of women at Launceston seized some grain from a farmer and sold it at a reduced price.

This example was soon picked up elsewhere. By April 9th ‘rioting’ was being reported from Falmouth, where women again took the lead by insisting on a lower price for potatoes, and other places – Liskeard, St Austell, Helston, St Ives, Penzance and St Just were mentioned. A newspaper claimed that miners from Polgooth mine near St Austell ‘visited the farmers … carrying a written paper in one hand, a rope in the other. If the farmers hesitated to sign this paper … the rope was fastened around their necks and they were terrified and tortured into compliance’. 

At Redruth, it was widely expected that the miners of Gwennap would take action at the next market. William Jenkin uneasily recorded the unrest drawing ever closer as ‘Gwennap mines pour forth their hundreds of desperate labourers who can with great caution and difficulty be prevailed on to be quiet.’ William’s forebodings proved prescient. Sure enough, at the next market he ‘had the disgusting sight of a riotous assemblage of tinners from Gwennap who broke into the market and are now compelling the people to sell potatoes, fish, butter and salt pork etc. at the prices they choose to fix.’ Not barley it should be noted as Redruth had lost its grain market following a previous food riot in 1773.

Some magistrates had sympathised with the demand for price controls but after a little hesitation decided on firm action. On the succeeding market day, the magistrates swore in 50 ‘principal inhabitants’ of the town to help protect it from the Gwennap miners. This they did, although the presence of a small detachment of soldiers was no doubt a factor helping to keep the peace.

After this, the tumult slowly subsided as more grain supplies arrived along with more troops. The local magistracy, which had temporarily lost control, regained it. The miners drifted back to work. Nonetheless, fixed maximum prices remained at Launceston for a month until May 9th and at St Austell for over three months until late July.

Fifteen people were charged with various offences although no one was hanged (unlike in Somerset where it was thought a couple of executions would set a good example). In Cornwall 13 were found guilty, with fines of up to £5 and/or two or three months in prison. It was presumably concluded that any more draconian ‘examples’ would serve merely to inflame the populace once more.

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Gwennap and the 1801 insurrection: Part 1

In May 1800 a less than crystal clear entry was made in the Gwennap vestry records. The vestry agreed to pay the constables for ‘putting down’ the Cornish Supplementary Militia. The militia was made up of part-time soldiers and had been re-introduced in the 1750s. They were greatly expanded in 1796 during an invasion scare. In Cornwall, when active the militia were usually at this time housed at Penzance in the west and Lostwithiel in mid-Cornwall. The Gwennap entry suggests an extra force was raised and quartered for a time in the parish.

The harvest of 1799 had been a poor one and perhaps the magistrates were taking precautions in case of food rioting, the traditional recourse in the mining districts at times of high prices and scarce supplies. Indeed, in the previous month the overseers had been told by the parish vestry meeting to purchase a stock of ‘100 bushels of barley for the poor’. This anticipated the Parish Relief Act of December 1800 that permitted and encouraged parishes to lay in stocks of food.

In the spring of 1800, the militia proved to be surplus to requirements as no trouble ensued. A year later however things were not so quiet.

In fact, the harvest of 1800 in Cornwall was good, much better than the average further east where a second poor harvest had occurred. Yet the price of corn rose steadily over the winter months of 1800/01. This was because the usual supplies from East Anglia and parts of southern England were not forthcoming. Farmers in those places could sell their produce in markets nearer to hand where the price was higher than in Cornwall and Devon, a state of affairs that persisted until April 1801.

Yet by this time the increase of the mining population in west Cornwall and the wartime boost to the growth of Devonport and Plymouth meant that the district could not be fed solely from the resources of farmers in Cornwall and the south west of England. The continuously rising price of food was reflected in a growing number of people applying for poor relief in Gwennap

Some other parishes started to follow Gwennap’s lead and lay in stocks, Breage for example purchasing grain at the end of October 1800. But this just served to add pressure on supply. Growing talk of impending trouble became more than mere rumour in March 1801 when news of rioting in the towns of Devon provided the spark that lit up Cornish involvement in what one historian called the ‘revolt of the South West’.

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Committing genocide abroad, setting up the fascist police state at home. - Western democratic governments

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In the streets of Iran, voices cry
As hunger spreads and tempers gone
Food prices soar beyond the skies
And people struggle just to get by
Riots erupt with angry cries
As desperation takes its hold
The people's pain cannot disguise.

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#FoodRiots