The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers to be ready in case of a possible deployment to Minnesota, where federal authorities have been conducting a massive immigration enforcement operation, two defense officials said Sunday.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military plans, said two infantry battalions of the Army’s 11th Airborne Division have been given prepare-to-deploy orders. The unit is based in Alaska and specializes in operating in arctic conditions.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksOPM
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    3 days ago

    he wants people to fight back so he can declare martial law and then demand republican state governors to cancel the midterm elections,

    I agree. People think I’m a pacifist. No, I’m a realist. They want guns and chaos so they can do what you said. LA and Minneapolis have been doing amazing keeping this under control and peaceful. I’m so thankful for them.

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      the problem is that, on the path we’re currently on, if nothing changes, we end up like china or russia or even worse, under complete control of the state, no freedom of speech, no freedom of the press, every word you say scrutinized, people disappearing without a trace, no due process, no “innocent until proven guilty”-- all of that shit we’ve grown up with and taken as a given in life–goes away.

      or we may end up like iran-- trying to fight for change, and getting massacred by our own government.

      i know: “that’ll never happen here, this is america!!”

      how many things have happened that “would never happen here”…