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Originally Posted by smooth
why are you so focused on civil protests? are you interpreting crowd control to be a response to civil protests?
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I'm focused on protests because I'm a protester. I've seen police escalation during my few brief years of protesting and I'm very concerned about what a transition to military crowd control might entail. I won't stop protesting because it's become too dangerous, but I'm not looking forward to what seems to be coming. Still, the most important point is one that DC keeps making:
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Originally Posted by DC_Dix
Passive support by the military (logistics, command and control, etc) is one thing...active participation within the borders of the US by the standing army is another.
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Precisely.