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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Why? Because some talking head said to be afraid of something or someone?
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Thinking for yourself may be something new for some, but not for me. But you already know that.
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seems like they are trained on non-leathal packages for control.
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So are the ATF and FBI, but Waco was sure a mess. I'm not saying that this will lead to another Waco necessarily, just being trained for non-lethal strategies does not absolutely prevent lethal strategies.
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seems like they are going to have specific tasks for domestic deployment uses that seem to reasonably cover domestic issues "They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack."
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I've been in some areas that might have qualified as "civil unrest". I cannot imagine a situation where having military on the scene would make anyone, protester or not, more safe.
I wasn't alive for Kent state, but I wonder if other people were having this conversation as the National Guard was called.
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Originally Posted by Jozrael
And @Will: Honestly, I support the use of free speech zones in many examples. Notably what that church was doing by picketing funerals for American soldiers. Screaming at their family members that they were going to hell because they were defending a country that defended homosexuality.
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I don't like members of Westbro Baptist Church any more than you do, but not liking their message leading to removing their right to free speech doesn't seem like a good precedent to set. And I don't expect that these troops will be at WBC protests, more likely they will be at the kinds of protests at the DNC and RNC this year.