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>If I were Charlie Baker I would call up the National Guard and tell them to retrieve the masks that were sized by any means necessary. This is an absolute disg
by cryoshon 6y ago
>If I were Charlie Baker I would call up the National Guard and tell them to retrieve the masks that were sized by any means necessary. This is an absolute disgrace, and blatant theft by the Feds.
you are not the first to suggest this. and, in fact, the massachusetts national guard defended the shipment from kraft's plane to ensure it was not seized upon arrival.
by all appearances, the federal government is stealing and redirecting life saving and critical equipment on the basis of cronyism and political loyalty. this is an attack on the population of the states being stolen from.
make no mistake: just a bit further down this very road is the dissolution of the union between the states that comprise the country.
- ende 6y agoWhoa, you got a link about the NG guarding the Kraft shipment? That’s wild! I don’t think dissolution is in the future because dissolution doesn’t make any sense for anyone. Nobody but Putin’s propagandists want to split up the American geopolitical pie, everybody wants to control the whole pie. The geopolitical conditions just don’t exist for that to happen. Now we may see some wild intra-federal conflict, for sure, but nobody is going home with anything other than the full prize or nothing. More likely than not, Jonny Reb’s ancestors take a foolish stand and get Sherman’d just like their forefathers.
- caseyohara 6y ago"Gov. Charlie Baker will greet the NFL team’s plane when it arrives at Logan Airport with Patriots owner Bob Kraft and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito. From there, the state's National Guard will transport the equipment to a strategic stockpile in Marlboro" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/02/bob-kraft-patriots-plane-massachusetts-masks-160936 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/02/bob-kraft-patriots-...
- casefields 6y agoTrump could've federalized the national guard if he wanted to make it ugly. Congressional Research Service: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/LSB10121.pdf https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/LSB10121.pdf Disobeying the commander-in-chief isn't taken too lightly. FYI.
- dredmorbius 6y agoStates have their own police forces as well. Present situation's already bad. Federalising the Guard would drive it up a notch.