GentlemanLoserVeterans quit DeSantis’ Florida State Guard over militialike training
orphiebabyWe live in hell, people.
Weeks into that inaugural June training, one volunteer, a disabled retired Marine Corps captain, called the local sheriff’s office to report he was battered by Florida National Guard instructors when they forcibly shoved him into a van after he questioned the program and its leadership.
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In a statement, Haas said the State Guard was a “military organization” that will be used not just for emergencies but for “aiding law enforcement with riots and illegal immigration.”
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On the first day of training, Newhouse said he was escorted off the base after lodging several complaints, including that the National Guard’s schedule required training on Sundays, instead of allowing members to use those days for religious services and personal time, as was the original plan.
mochiThis is all normal for State National Guard units. Training is on the weekends and two months out of the year. Religious activities are allowed if they don’t interfere with the mission, which comes first. Lots of States sent National guardsman to the southern border. None of this is new or alarming.
ChetzemokaUh...proposing sending a state guard to another state to enforce federal immigration law is VERY new.
“Not alarming” is relative to experience— to how naive or cynical you are so far. I haven’t been keeping up with these kinds of politics. I live in MN, a trans-refuge state. Wanted to keep my ears as far away from anything Florida-related as possible.
TheSaneWriterThis isn’t a state national guard, it’s a state guard. According to the legislation that created it, the United States federal government has no jurisdiction over the new state guard and cannot nationalize it, meaning they are unable to nationalize it like they can with a state national guard.
That’s fascinating. I wonder if it’s unconstitutional, though. It seems like this is the type of set up the 2nd Amendment was actually talking about rather than Bobby Boy in the woods with an M1 tank because why not.
There’s no “if” about this. Win or lose, this direction shows no signs of slowing. It’s just a matter of when.
But if it’s related to an election, it would happen if DeSantis lost, not won. The sith didn’t secede until Lincoln won.
Not a bad opinion, but I would just like to say that just because that’s how it happened once doesn’t mean every civil war will be like that (clearly)
TwoGemsSo we can’t let him. Volunteer for the 2024 voting groups which get people registered.
Until you get fined for every registration that isn’t “correct”
Oh, that’s already a law
And also, prepare for violence if he gets into power.
Study riot tactics and logistics points to hit, like rail. Organize with other antifascists.
Get armed if you can.
Sure, just let a republiccan government with republican judges and reps come up with laws that truly make it illegal. That’ll happen right?
GivingEuropeASpookIt’s all above board probably in the most literal sense. The State Guard would have to be called up and do something really heinous for any legal action to happen I think.
It’s quite fascist though. All his actions as governor come straight out of the 1930s.
Is he suggesting Florida needs to start invading other states because that’s hilarious.
If Georgia goes Blue in the next election, clearly there’s voter fraud that Florida will need to investigate for the sake of the Union.
Nothing funny about the Governors commitment to democracy here.
S/ just because there are really stupid people who actually believe that shit.
Isn’t that what they’re trying to do with the extradition of trans kids or whatever?
Definitely feels like DeSantis just wants an army of henchmen, even if it’s only for the threat of it.
He wants his own Schutzstaffel. These guys are really looking at nazi history like it’s a how-to guide.
Anyone that hasn’t read “It can’t happen here” needs to go do so right now. While it was responding to the wave of fascism in America during the 1930’s, it’s remarkably prophetic about what we face now.
I made an attempt a few years ago, but the way this book was written really hasn’t aged well. I found it dull and patronizing and gave up.
Philip Roth’s “The Plot Against America” is a much better book if you ask me, dealing with similar themes but written more recently.
It definitely took me a bit to get into, but the scathing indictment of the upper middle class liberal pearl clutching in the face of fascist violence eventually hooked me.
I’ll give “The Plot Against America” a try.
Disgusting. DeSantis is obviously trying to create armed forces loyal only to him to do his bidding, which can only have disastrous consequences. The damage he would do to American institutions as president would be incalculable, and he would probably destroy foreign relations between the United States and every other country.
Nazi trash
Oh look Desantis trying to be Putin again
So a fascist governor is trying to train a militia that answers only to him? Brownshirts anyone?
RaphaelRepublicans preparing for a coup?
ZILtoid1991Instead of being activated only during emergencies within Florida, they could be sent to any state to “protect and defend the people of Florida from threats to public safety.”
At best, it'll be used to terrorize people fleeing Florida for it's draconian laws. At worst it can be used in a military coup.