Why the DC-deployed Guardswoman shot last week may never see justice
From Ken Klippenstein via This RSS Feed.
The reason the panoply of federal agencies missed blaring signs like these was not that they didn’t have resources. Their problem is that led the Secret Service to allow a would-be assassin to come within an inch of killing Donald Trump at a rally in Butler Pennsylvania last year: mission creep. In a devastating review that went largely unnoticed, a Department of Homeland Security-appointed bipartisan panel blamed the Butler shooting on the Secret Service’s authorities not directly related to its protective mission. “The Secret Service’s dual mission has placed nearly unbearable demands on the agency,” the report found, expressing “extreme skepticism” for the agency’s second mission: “In this regard, the Panel expresses extreme skepticism that many of the Service’s non-protective (investigative) missions meaningfully contribute to the Service’s protective capability and is concerned that they may materially distract from it” and that this “may require shedding certain peripheral responsibilities like financial fraud and counterfeiting investigations, and perhaps all criminal investigative work that is not directly tethered to the protective mission.”
I don’t get all the outcry. She joined the national guard to protect the nation. She was stationed on the streets of the capitol. She died protecting the nation. Isn’t that what she signed up for? Wouldn’t she be proud of her death?
Protecting the nation from who/what? They should never have been deployed against their fellow citizens. She would still be alive to defend against real threats.
She could have not
Hate to be this person but the national guard is authorized by the constitution to be used for suppressing domestic insurrections or repelling foreign invasions.
Also, and unfortunately, the posse comitatus act doesn’t apply to the national guard when under state control. This means the national guard can also perform domestic law enforcement duties if they’re not federalized.
All of this is to say they can absolutely be deployed against fellow citizens. We’ve just been living in a gentlemen’s agreements dream world where nobody would ever do such a thing until now.
You point out technicalities while the same fascists in the government are breaking the law (and maybe committing some war crimes here and there, idk). Lol.
My point is it’s actually always been this way on paper we’ve just been lucky to not have insane people abuse the system
Almost like the system was rotten from the beginning.
Oh I agree. And anyone with a non-fascist conscious would refuse the orders to occupy our own capitol.
But she didn’t and she died doing her duty. So why the outcry? She’s a patriot or whatever.
It’s not very effective to point out Fascist hypocrisy. The hypocrisy is the point for them.
oh no! not the imperial jackboots!
