Gov. JB Pritzker called out the Trump administration on Sunday for defending its decision to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago as necessary to fight violent crime in the city, even though the federal government has emphasized in court and Pentagon memos that the mission is mainly to protect federal immigration enforcement agents and federal property.
Appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” Pritzker said President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance’s ultimate goal is to bring in the National Guard to cities like Chicago and Portland, Oregon, to militarize the country’s Democratic-controlled enclaves as a form of political payback.
“They’re claiming in court that this is about protecting (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facilities and ICE agents and not about crime on the streets,” the governor told the program’s host, George Stephanopoulos. “But then you hear Vice President Vance and the president of the United States contravening that and saying exactly what they actually think. They just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize, especially blue cities and blue states.”
“Why shouldn’t federal troops empower the people in Chicago to live safe lives when the governor and the local mayor (Brandon Johnson) just simply refuse to do their job?” -Vance
What he's saying is "why shouldn't we be able to unilaterally make decisions for the people of a City in direct opposition to those individuals will and what they voted for? And why shouldn't we be able to use force and violence to do it?"
I can only hope there is justice in this world and he gets to face a jury and is held accountable for his words and actions.
Quit the fucking around, blue states. Start actually resisting, like the Northern States Personal Liberty laws before your civil war. And if your compromised Supreme Court wants to allow your federal government to run a gestapo secret police, well too bad, Marbury v Madison was not in the original constitution either. Fuck shit up you fuckheads or you're going to lose your democracy!
I see from the comments so far that the disinformation trolls discovered that Lemmy exists.
Basically, any action from a non-fascist approach is attacked based on who they are rather than what they do. They also define who they are with straw men and inference.
From behind his desk in the comfort of his mansion while citizens are beat and disappeared.
Who gives a fuck what he's saying, he's a multi billionaire that would rather all this happen than a progressive willing to fight have his office instead.
We'd be better off if the fat rich fuck had a heart attack today, it would at least redistribute his billions to a handful of people...
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