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https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2020/10/texas-gop-governor-abbott-to-deploy-1000-national-guard-troops-for-election/snip:
In a disturbing and possibly unprecedented move Republican Governor Greg Abbott will deploy 1000 National Guard troops into Texas cities for the presidential election next week.
Get ready for more of this from Reich Wing Governors.
idziak4ever1234
(1,257 posts)LisaL
(44,962 posts)NT
ResistantAmerican17
(3,777 posts)rather than see it go to Rafael Cruz. Republican domination has run Texas into ground and it sucks. I can retire early next year and Ill never come back to this shithole.
Dustlawyer
(10,493 posts)"Scary soldiers with guns because we expect violence at the polls!!!" Abbott is hoping to keep us at home on election day.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)wryter2000
(46,016 posts)The guard might prevent trouble. Not what the governor intended, Im sure.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)It was the National Guard that shot people in Kent State. The effect was quite profound for us who lived then. Today its basically just one of the references to the 60s.
Of course being an old hippie makes me begin to think of the police today as pigs again. And Im late to the realization because Im white. Knowing the blm facts has changed my fundamental understanding of the true condition of our society. If anyone is suffering from this brutal inequality then we are not what were claiming we are. Its up to all of us, every one of us, to change things.
roamer65
(36,739 posts)Beto will WIN.
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)but it might scare away the trumper whackjobs, or mollify them so they don't go out.
Perhaps not a bad move, at least its a disciplined force which has sworn an oath to the Constitution. If anything, I think it may make voters feel safer.
bluestarone
(16,722 posts)Biden will win Texas!!!