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Ron Paul See other Ron Paul Articles Title: Professor Begs Trump to Send Troops to Chicago To Stop ‘Wannabe-Commandos’ Professor Begs Trump to Send Troops to Chicago To Stop ‘Wannabe-Commandos’ By Chris Agee May 25, 2018 at 7:38am An immigrant from Jamaica who has gone on to become a DePaul University professor is publicly urging President Donald Trump to make good on one of the more aggressive domestic proposals of his fledgling administration. Just days after his inauguration, Trump referenced high levels of violent crime in Chicago in a tweet threatening to “send in the Feds” to address the city’s “carnage.” At the time, more than a few critics on both sides of the aisle denounced the proposal, as some likened the move to the imposition of martial law. For one Chicago resident, however, the radical response makes sense. In a recent editorial published by The Hill, Jason D. Hill called on the president to act decisively to address the “horrific” homicide rate. “Wannabe-commandos terrorize neighborhoods, challenging not only local authorities but the very authority you exercise as president of this great nation,” he wrote. “The potency of your own presidency is ridiculed when thugs and barbaric criminals take it upon themselves to establish lawless fiefdoms, usurping the law and order on which this republic was built and upon which its continued existence depends, as they kill innocent lives.” Hill specifically urged Trump to suspend the Posse Comitatus Act, which limits the use of military troops outside of congressional authorization. “Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both,” the act states. Hill called the legislation “dated,” using his personal story to make the case for a military deployment to the nation’s third-largest city. He described working tirelessly as a poor immigrant more than three decades ago, struggling to put himself through college. That effort paid off when he graduated magnum cum laude and went on to earn a doctorate in philosophy on a scholarship. “Not once did I believe that the state or America owed me anything except a chance to earn a living and pay my way as I journeyed through life,” he wrote. The professor celebrated the “American virtues of individualism and personal excellence” while lamenting their absence among many of his students. “But I am pained when my young student from the South Side tells me that he has to drop out of college and join a gang because that’s the only way he won’t get harassed or killed,” Hill wrote. “I am angry when I hear of the young woman who cannot cross the street to catch the bus to get to her university because she has to make herself sexually available to gang members before she can ‘cross turf.'” The net result of this systematic violent crime, he argues, is that those behind it have morphed into “operators of terror cells, nihilistic institutional organizations that invade the sphere of civilized life.” He ended his editorial with another direct call to suspend the Posse Comitatus Act and “unleash” the U.S. military against its own citizenry. “Do it not just to save black and Hispanic lives,” Hill wrote. “Do it because it is the moral thing to do. All lives matter. You are in a position to save them.” Poster Comment: There are so many things that people do not understand. Deploying regular troops is nonsense. This is why we have the National Guard to quell civil unrest and to reduce crime. National Guard can easily assist Chicago P.D. since most of the violence is black on black and either gang or drug related. A dusk to dawn curfew might be in order also, with exceptions of course. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
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Most people don't realize that National Guard troops do not have arrest powers and most times do not carry ammo.
The NG remembered to take live rounds to Kent State...
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
I remember that. When were rubber bullets invented? When were rubber bullets invented? Rubber bullets were invented by the British Ministry of Defence for use against rioters in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, and were first used there in 1970. Kent State shooting happened May 4, 1970. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
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