• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    3 days ago

    I’m just gonna keep posting this any time I see the military acting as a police force.

    There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.

    -Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica (2004)

  • Tempus Fugit@midwest.social
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    3 days ago

    Maybe they shouldn’t let federal troops take over their state? They act like they’re not a top 10 military unto themselves.

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      Well, there are legal proceedings trying to show that using the federal troops in this way is illegal and have them removed. What exactly are you proposing, that the LAPD start a war with the Marines?

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    Which ignorant fucksticks don’t fear marines being deployed against American citizens?

    Ah, right, the fascist ones. They love the idea.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    I thought whenever military are sent to an area to control … they are ‘OCCUPYING’ it and controlling it for themselves through force

    … like what they’ve been doing for years in foreign countries.

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    The problem is that the distinction between the pigs and soldiers is academic. But didn’t we always know that the skills learned in Iraq and Afghanistan would be applied at home?