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The national guard was deployed yesterday. Today, the Marines.

• crazydoggers 1y ago
  Where are you seeing the marines where deployed? I am reading they were put on alert status, which is not the same. I would imagine this is being done as a signal to the state of California not to incite insurrection or the Insurrection Act could be invoked. I’m not making a judgment about the morality or correctness of the current federalization of the national guard, but we need to make sure we are not spreading misinformation at such a time and sticking to facts. Edit: I did just find this, so it seems they are being integrated somehow. So then yes, not clear how this would be legal: https://www.northcom.mil/Newsroom/Press-Releases/Article/4210889/usnorthcom-statement-on-additional-military-personnel-in-the-los-angeles-area/ https://www.northcom.mil/Newsroom/Press-Releases/Article/421...
  • acdha 1y ago
    Administration officials are saying deployment is in progress: https://www.latimes.com/california/live/los-angeles-protests-immigration-raid-updates#p=700-active-duty-u-s-marines-from-camp-pendleton-will-be-deployed-to-l-a-source-says https://www.latimes.com/california/live/los-angeles-protests... California isn’t “inciting” anything - this is a few people in a couple of parts of the city and so far it seems like a protest with some violence on the order of a bad Raiders game, nothing remotely like the 1992 riots much less an actual insurrection.
    • amanaplanacanal 1y ago
      Pretty mild compared to the rioters that invaded the Capitol in 2021, calling for Pence's head. Of course, the current president pardoned all of them.
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• queenkjuul 1y ago
  Marines are "activated" as in prepared for deployment but so far the story is Trump deploying CA Guard without gubernatorial approval, against which Newsom filed a lawsuit just today. Still relevant to today's news
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