President Donald Trump's move comes after Gov. JB Pritzker said earlier this week the Department of Homeland Security requested deployment of 100 military troops to Illinois “for the protection of ICE personnel and facilities.”
Blue states need to cease operation of their national guard units. Transfer all personnel to the state guards. The national guard units can be activated by the president; the state guards can’t.
What exactly do you call a situation where state militias are using force to prevent armed federal employees dressed in military-style uniforms from attacking the people?
That’s not what I suggested at all. I specifically suggested disbanding the national guard units all together and just moving them to the state guard units. You could even let them keep their own command structure. Just basically shuffling state-level personnel around so that the president can’t take control of it.
Now, most of the other things you discussed would be major hurdles. It also would be seen as an escalation that Illinois was planning for a clash with National Troops.
It probably could be done under the pretense that the state guard needs more capacity to handle state emergencies while it’s national guard troops have been federalized.
What’s been interesting is that the “mission” the Federal Government has been tasking these units with are designed to pass the smell test. “Protect federal buildings and federal agents.” It’s a guise that makes the individuals objection to their mission orders harder to be considered illegal. It’s not “arrest protestors” or “detain illegals.”
Blue states need to cease operation of their national guard units. Transfer all personnel to the state guards. The national guard units can be activated by the president; the state guards can’t.
I will note that there is a huge financial incentive to not do that. Instead, they’re challenging the federal deployments in court, with some success
Well I’m sorry we had to democracy die. Doing otherwise would have been too expensive.
Actually launching a civil war is really really bad. I expect to see it done only after everything else fails
Yeah, better to just let the armed goons do whatever they want.
Where did you get this odd civil war idea?
What exactly do you call a situation where state militias are using force to prevent armed federal employees dressed in military-style uniforms from attacking the people?
That’s not what I suggested at all. I specifically suggested disbanding the national guard units all together and just moving them to the state guard units. You could even let them keep their own command structure. Just basically shuffling state-level personnel around so that the president can’t take control of it.
Anything but civil.
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Illinois already has a state guard in its constitution that would be able to be activated by the governor.
https://www.ilga.gov/Legislation/ILCS/Articles?ActID=317&ChapterID=5
Now, most of the other things you discussed would be major hurdles. It also would be seen as an escalation that Illinois was planning for a clash with National Troops.
It probably could be done under the pretense that the state guard needs more capacity to handle state emergencies while it’s national guard troops have been federalized.
What’s been interesting is that the “mission” the Federal Government has been tasking these units with are designed to pass the smell test. “Protect federal buildings and federal agents.” It’s a guise that makes the individuals objection to their mission orders harder to be considered illegal. It’s not “arrest protestors” or “detain illegals.”