from the here-we-fucking-go dept
How’s your Monday going? Properly, buckle up. The day ain’t over but.
No sooner had California Governor Gavin Newsom introduced the state could be suing Trump over his unlawful deployment of Nationwide Guard troops to Los Angeles to do no matter it’s they’re purported to do when deployed illegally than the Protection Division turned Pete Hegeth’s tweeted menace into actuality.
The Trump administration is mobilizing 700 Marines based mostly out of Twentynine Palms, Calif., for Los Angeles, the scene of protests towards immigration enforcement operations, a protection official confirmed with NPR earlier than it was publicly introduced.
U.S. Northern Command stated in a press release on Monday that the infantry battalion had been placed on “alert standing” over the weekend and will probably be working with the Nationwide Guard “who’re defending federal personnel and federal property within the larger Los Angeles space.”
If the Nationwide Guard deployment was largely unlawful, this one seems to be fully unlawful. The assertion from the army doesn’t make something any clearer. It does, nevertheless, recommend the continuing clusterfuck that’s the deployment of two,000 Nationwide Guard troops will solely get extra clustered/fucked.
U.S. Northern Command has activated the Marine infantry battalion that was positioned in an alert standing over the weekend. Roughly 700 Marines with 2nd Battalion, seventh Marines, 1st Marine Division will seamlessly combine with the Title 10 forces underneath Activity Drive 51 who’re defending federal personnel and federal property within the larger Los Angeles space.
The activation of the Marines is meant to supply Activity Drive 51 with ample numbers of forces to supply steady protection of the realm in help of the lead federal company.
Activity Drive 51 refers back to the 2,000 Nationwide Guard troops which can be already experiencing the enjoyment of getting used as pawns in Trump’s sport of 4-D Candyland. That is the way it’s going for the primary present of pressure illegally deployed by the administration:
Now one other 700 Marines are being added to this bed-less, toilet-less mess. And it’s all being carried out with the identical consideration of element we’ve grown accustomed to seeing from this administration: do no matter you need and when all of it falls aside, begin searching for scapegoats.
Los Angeles regulation enforcement truthfully has no concept the way it’s purported to deal with this inflow of men with weapons, a lot much less listening to something in any respect from the federal authorities when it comes to coordinating with federal officers and army members.
In case you can’t learn/see the embed, that is the assertion issued by LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell:
“The LAPD has not obtained any formal notification that the Marines will probably be arriving in Los Angeles. Nevertheless, the doable arrival of federal army forces in Los Angeles—absent clear coordination—presents a major logistical and operational problem for these of us charged with safeguarding this metropolis. The Los Angeles Police Division, alongside our mutual assist companions, have many years of expertise managing large-scale public demonstrations, and we stay assured in our skill to take action professionally and successfully. That stated, our prime precedence is the security of each the general public and the officers on the bottom. We’re urging open and steady strains of communication between all businesses to stop confusion, keep away from escalation, and guarantee a coordinated, lawful, and orderly response throughout this important time.”
If the true intent of those troop deployments was to guard federal property from violent acts and/or ease logistical calls for positioned on native regulation enforcement at the moment dealing with protests, it’s been an abject failure. However that may’t probably be the actual intent of the administration’s actions. It’s choosing a battle, each with the state of California, in addition to with federal regulation itself, which explicitly forbids what’s being carried out right here. And it’s hoping an extra present of pressure will provoke a response from protesters it could possibly then use to justify every progressive step in direction of martial regulation.
Filed Below: 1st modification, immigration, marines, martial regulation, mass deportations, army, nationwide guard, protests
