Where did that phrase come from?
Fascism, my friend. Fascism.
Well, a few things…
First and foremost, all authority is derived from a threat of force. Let’s just get that out of the way.
Second, the “agreement” not to use that force on our own citizens has been steadily blurred by an increasingly militarized police force. What we’ve been seeing in terms of civil unrest in this country is the inevitable result of that. The police in this country have turned themselves into an occupying force.
Third, conservative media has been gradually instilling a desire for violence in conservative culture. They’ve been doing this for decades. They’ve been playing the same familiar tropes that enable cultures to engage in the practice of othering, which makes them ambivalent to the idea of violence being inflicted on people outside of their cultural identity.
Lastly, Trump doesn’t give a shit about this, and neither do conservative representatives. Outright flagrant dishonesty is a pillar of cultural conservatism. Never believe what they are saying. They have a set of rules and protections that they apply to others, and an entirely different set that they apply to everyone else.
no government shall bare arms against its own citizens
Is this some kind of quote? Because 90% of what all governments do is exactly that: using weapons against their own citizens.
Yeah. In Germany it’s called the “violence monopoly”.
thats like literally what the executive does
I think you are mixing this up with the function of the executive goverment in a state with alleged separation of powers (one of the fundamentals of democracy).
A president himself sending out forces is in fact not normal.
Especially when both that city’s mayor and state governor explicitly do not want those troops there.
citizens are the government though. if they are not, its not democratic country.
Still, there should be no need to even threaten citizens with violence and if there is, it should be resolved mutually instead of just oppressing the people into submission.
citizens are the government though.
Did you mean that people in government are citizens? Because I’m a citizen of my country and not in the government.
if they are not, its not democratic country
Correct. The United States is not a democracy. It’s barely even a “representative democracy”.
people in government are citizens but not every citizen is in government. But every citizen should have equal right and opportunity to be in the government.
Trump found out that he can gas protesters. Permission was given to him for that church walk/photo op. No one did boo. So now, Trump is gasing protestors again.
When will you get gassed?.
Fascism.
Police officers are part of the government, they bear arms against citizens literally every day. The premise is entirely flawed.
police are the front line troops of the occupation regime.
Is it, or are you accepting a state of being that you should not?
Tell that to the kids murdered at Kent State.
What’s happening is that the other two branches of our government have (mostly) abdicated to the Executive branch; therefore, absent the lower courts who can’t act in real-time for the most part, Donald has carte blanche to do whatever he wants without any meaningful accountability.
Some court or another may intervene, but it can’t happen quickly enough to stop what ICE is doing right now.
Not to mention that both the SCOTUS and other courts have ordered this administration to cease deporting people without due process, which they’ve unsurprisingly have gone on to ignore.
There has been no blanket ban, however many individual cases are being reverse and TRO’s are flying in full swing. I’d suggest following this immigration attorney for a (very depressing) play-by-play including links to the filings.
Ahh, good to know. It’s hard to keep up with their constitutional crises blitzkrieg.
This is the perfect time to army up and storm Fox News. Salem Media Group, OAN, the Heritage Foundation, and every other Nazi organization in the US.
Bearing arms against it’s citizens is literally the entire point of a government. The state is just a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. The only time a government is not bearing arms against it’s citizens is when the threat of bearing arms against it’s citizens is enough to get what it wants.
The point of a government is looking after its citizens.
I’m socialist that way. Although, am I? Even in the middle ages when a lord didn’t look after his people he was in deep shit.
What a hopeless take. A governments role is literally to do things that individuals can’t - roads, schools, moon landings, etc.
Use of force against its own people is self harm and should not be something a government does.
It’s not quite the same thing as deploying soldiers against protesters, but technically all of those things are done ultimately through the use of coercive and violent force. Don’t want to go to school? Your parents will make you, because if they don’t they could be imprisoned. Slightly inconvenience drivers by walking across a busy street not at a crosswalk? Could be fined or arrested for jaywalking. Pose a hazard to rocket launches by flying a makeshift aircraft in federal airspace with no flight plan? You know the drill. That’s not to mention the funding for all those things, the violence inherent in which doesn’t stop at taxes, but also is a central factor in maintaining the value of a currency in a variety of different ways.
Securing the resources to spend on communal projects that benefit the state is one of the many reasons that state employs violence against its citizens, yep.
Roads are a great example because across the world, major road projects were always built to speed up the military getting to and putting down rebellious provinces - bearing arms against their subjects.
All states are instruments of violence, that’s their sole function. Anything they do that makes our lives easier is just the velvet glove over that iron fist. It’s easy to pretend otherwise when the state hasn’t turned its violence on you yet.
bare arms
Dude.
ICE and Feds are bunch of lil bitches
Get wrecked regime whores.
All the right wing “patriots” tucking their dicks when the time to stand tall came, tells you everything you need to know about the type of a “man” you are dealing with, a pathetic shit stain
DoNT ThrEaD oN ME
Why would right wing people come out to protest ICE? They all voted for exactly what is happening.
Posse Comitatus only applies to those wearing military uniforms. Dress them up with police uniforms and suddenly it’s “a okay”… 🤷♂️
A, uh, government bearing arms against its citizens….why you ask…?
