Sec. 4. Using National Security Assets for Law and Order. (a) Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the heads of agencies as appropriate, shall increase the provision of excess military and national security assets in local jurisdictions to assist State and local law enforcement.
They have this in some European countries already. In Italy they have the carbineri or whatever who go around in camo uniforms carrying assault rifles.
I took a picture of a pair of those dipshits in a piazza and they made me delete it
Uhmmm, let me correct you. Carabinieri are uniformed agents, like a second police force that’s under the control of the ministry of defence, rather than the ministry of internal affairs, and while they are military, and may serve on military missions abroad wearing camo, they DON’T wear camo on normal duty, just search Carabinieri in your image search of choice and you’ll see.
We do have camo wearing people acting as police forces, something they introduced a few years ago (I want to say 10 but I don’t remember) but those are actually soldiers, and they’re always under the command of an actual agent.
Carabinieri are the ones with the fancy capes
In Denmark they let members of the “home guard”, a LARPing group set up during the cold war to fight the Bolshevik hordes, control passports at the German border.
Pretending to be a troop and doing border control ought to make any reactionary fully erect but in reality they are some of the most bored and miserable people you’ll ever see.
It’s like that interview with the Taliban guys who after taking over in Afghanistan realized that being in charge is fucking boring, and that being an insurgent not in an office was a way better life.
Unfortunately I see this executive order only leading to these fascist fucks shooting anyone to the left of them politically, and Trump’s media circus calling their innocent victims “leftist terrorists”
It’s also quite the escalation considering nothing shakes away the “this is happening to other people” liberal mindset quite as fast as getting shot at.
I can’t help but think that this is just step one of (this specific) violent campaign to incite retaliation. All it will take is one or two instances of shooting back for Trump to fast-track his brownshirts into civilian life
There’s hope. There are a fair amount of people that are arming and training.