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6/11/2025 10:30:30 AM

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Subject: Violent L.A. riots Msg# 1226547

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Tom Hemmick Forum Leader

Joined 7/21/2005

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Jim Matthews (Read)

Joined 6/10/2008

Here's another WRONG statement in your message.

with the possible exception of the Civil War, no active military was deployed in any of your "examples."

Here's examples of presidents who sent active duty military troops to help control riots.

< "President Lyndon B. Johnson deployed 13,000 federal troops, including active duty Army units, to Washington, D.C., on April 5, 1968" [ MLK’s Assassination riots]

< "President George H.W. Bush invoked the Insurrection Act, deploying 4,000 U.S. Army soldiers and 1,500 Marines in addition to National Guardsmen." [Rodney King Riots, 1992]

< "On May 1, 1992, Bush authorized the deployment of federal troops to assist state and local law enforcement in quelling the riots.....The federal response included the deployment of the National Guard and active-duty military personnel to Los Angeles."

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Again, the mass media and Dems are wrong in their reports regarding the riots. There were indeed deployments of active duty military to assist.

Such false media & Dem claims should be ignored.

One of the lessons learned from the summer 2020 riots is that lives and personal injuries can be saved, as well as property damage minimized, by promptly assisting local police with the help of military presence.

For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where:
History tells us that many presidents have a number of times activated the military, and sent troops into various states. Thus folks should not become confused by media and Dem claims that Trump's actions for L.A. are unusual, or are illegal. Such false claims should be ignored.

NONE of you "examples" are analogous to the current protests happening in LA. And you know that.

And, with the possible exception of the Civil War, no active military was deployed in any of your "examples."

This is a show of force by Trump. A sign of things to come. A way for him to intimidate citizens and those who appose his policies.

Trump has already stated that any protests related to his massive, wasteful ($150,000,000+) Kim Jung Un* style, birthday parade, will be met by extreme force.

Does this sound like someone who wants to unite the country? No. It is someone who demands that all citizens march in lock-step with the project 2025 policies of the Heritage Foundation.

And in LA, there is no riot. Protesters are voluntarily being arrested. This is what has long been known as non-violent civil disobedience (ala-MLK}. There are those who will use the opportunity be destructive, but those are a small minority and they are not part of the protest.

* Apparently not the current Kim, but the father and grandfather...

Since taking power in late 2011, Kim, the third generation of his family to rule North Korea, is believed to have established an absolute leadership similar to his predecessors. But his birthday has yet to be officially celebrated, unlike his late father Kim Jong Il and grandfather Kim Il Sung. Their birthdays are two of the North’s biggest holidays and are marked with great fanfare, loyalty campaigns and sometimes massive military parades.

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