That’s fucking bullshit. Detaining people is absolutely a law enforcement operation.

  • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    1 month ago

    “We’re there to protect their federal officers, their federal personnel,” Sherman said in the interview. “We’re there to protect them so that they can do their job.”

    Negative, commander, you are there to protect the constitutional right of US citizens to safely assemble and express their first amendment right to protest.

    Make peaceful revolution possible. That is your duty, son.

  • Wilco@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    1 month ago

    Newsflash: The commander overseeing operations CANNOT temporarily detain people as it is a constitutional violation. What they are trying to say (between the lines) is that they have declared “Martial Law Light”.

    Shit is about to get (more) stupid.

      • amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 month ago

        On guys you are Americans! You love full fat milk, full fatty burgers, 100% sugar surely you can get full fascism if you wanted to! You still can’t get eggs but hey Kamala had a weird laugh am I right?

        • Upgrayedd1776@lemmy.worldBanned
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          1 month ago

          more like she towed the biden line of incompetency and bombing Palestinian babies. its hard to quantify the magnitude of failure that was the biden term and then his gnarled fingers clinging to the presidency and ruining most of Kamala’s chance of having a proper campaign, am I right? I cant wait to vote for Israel is his number priority Schumer to build cohesion in the party with is and that golem in congress with their glowing charisma

          • amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            1 month ago

            I hear you. But they are still bombing them babies, and now you are set to lose your freedoms that you love so much. As a guy born during communism you guys have no idea how bad it will get. And the communists didn’t have drones, internet disinformation and other cool tech toys. But sure, voting for the harmless less than perfect candidate sure sounds like a terrible idea especially when the other guy said exactly what he was going to do!

            • Upgrayedd1776@lemmy.worldBanned
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              1 month ago

              i didnt say voting was bad, i jsut said that both parties are owned by genocidal Israeli money and the ones obviously on the take and with no other pressing priorities, they need to be primaried and called out in every mention

          • AlexLost@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            1 month ago

            You are rewriting the past. The Biden administration did many times many good things, you are equating something every politician in America does to one guy because Cheeto Mussolini said so. How’s Trump doing on the not bombing Palestinian babies front? Oh?! Oh dear…

            • Upgrayedd1776@lemmy.worldBanned
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              1 month ago

              biden did nothing substantitive, name a something that wasnt just a stronger definition of what obama already did and the rest was tossed in court with no plans, just because you make a token effort knowing it is going to fail and then ignoring it afterwards is not a success. He was a horrible president and is directly and most responsible for Trump being back in office. You are the one rewriting the past. And then maybe you were someone in the narrow minorities he tossed token proclamations at, his assistance using our tax money to turn babies to ash is enough for me to ignore any minimal efforts he attempted

              • AlexLost@lemm.ee
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                2
                arrow-down
                1
                ·
                1 month ago

                The voters are responsible for Trump. Biden and Trump are on the same damn team, and they play us against each other. So you can’t abide Trump or any politician then, because they all are complicit in the atrocities in the Middle East. Republicans much more so them Democrats, but I digress as they are all guilty.

  • doug@lemmy.today
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    1 month ago

    🙄 is that why you’re in the military? to detain unarmed protesters on your own soil?

    get fucked.

  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 month ago

    Here’s the relevant section of the article that the title is referencing:

    He emphasized that while troops can temporarily detain individuals, they must wait for law enforcement officers to make actual arrests.

    Unless the guard troops are working directly with law enforcement, or are there at the request of the state, or the Insurrection Act has been invoked, none of which have happened or are the case, then it is completely illegal for them to be detaining anyone for any reason. Those troops should be refusing to follow those illegal orders. As should their commanding officer, but I’m getting the impression this is not a guy with a lot of critical thinking skills.

  • Ledericas@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 month ago

    Just now, israel attacked iran, as a distraction from all these protest, so typical of trump. the media immediately started focusing on that news instead of this.

  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 month ago

    Bold of you to assume this about enforcing law (or keeping peace).

    This is escalation for the sake of performative leadership. It’s another manufactured crisis. They find a manageable problem under someone else’s purview, exacerbate it, use the escalation to claim the other party is losing control, step in, and pretend to help while the other party solves the problem, then they take credit and walk away. It’s a power grab. Bonus points if it distracts everyone else from the supposed leader’s negligence, incompetence, and outright theft. The Big Beautiful Bill isn’t drawing the same portion of the public’s attention as it was before, is it?

    The bullest of shit indeed: enacting cruelty on the vulnerable to enable robbing the overwhelming majority Americans.

    This concludes the rant. Thanks for your post. I hope we never stop talking about this and never let future generations forget.