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Originally Posted by Willravel
Soldiers are for other places. Police are for here. When soldiers are here, acting as police, it's called "martial law".
The army has, as of October first, stationed a unit inside the US to act as an on-call federal response in times of emergency. They are trained for domestic operations. It's a dedicated assignment that's intended to deal with "civil unrest" and "crowd control".
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stationed....
you've got troops stationed not 25 miles from you just like I do... it has been like that for decades.
so far, it's still a FAR cry from martial law. If we were under martial law the economic crisis we're experiencing now would be 10000x worse. I have family that has seen the president of the country declare martial law. I have family that has lost their senate and congressional seats because the president dissolved the house of congress.
this is nothing like martial law, lite or otherwise.
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