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I feel and share nearly all of your well deserved contempt for the Democratic party.
But this is a W. National Guard is not with the cops in Minny. Maybe that won't be the case in Oklahoma or San Francisco, but it is here.
Take the W, thank these Guards for solidarity, keep that blowtorch aimed at the DNC.
At least that's my opinion.
The national guard works for the Governor, unless the president calls an emergency. There was a way to do that already, but lawmakers, including democrats, around 2009 expanded the ability to seize control of a national guard in a self declared emergency, apparently the thought that a want to be dictator would abuse the power never occurred to them.
So yes, it might help and it's good the governor is trying to do something.. But the lack of charges, and the lack of air support for charges, of holy hell being raised, is license for the feds to continue abusing people with impunity. The precedent is set, under these new rules the feds could shoot the governor in the head and not face charges either. Point being there needs to be state murder charges. It's preposterous to claim the feds have immunity from state laws, and directly contradicts the constitution.
The feds aren't investigating criminally, and if they did it would be to give their guys a pass. But they are just investigating the use of force, like if proper procedure was followed, and that just to quiet outrage. As per the NYTimes.
Anyway, it's a pyhric victory, if one could even call it that. With perpetrators getting off scot free, no consequences after setting the precedent of executing citizens then accusing them of being terrorists to justify it, investigating their friends and protesters in their favor, and of course creating secret lists of terrorists to discriminate against in a thousand ways that we will not know about.