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https://www.localmemphis.com/mobile/article/news/regional/arkansas-national-guardsmen-biden-inauguration/522-025680c0-777c-4568-87e2-e7e103d2d54aArkansas & Mississippi are sending National Guardsmen to Biden inauguration
The guardsmen are part of a broad contingent of National Guard soldiers from various states that will attend the ceremony.
Author: The Associated Press
Published: 1:10 PM CST January 14, 2021
Updated: 3:21 PM CST January 14, 2021
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. The Arkansas National Guard is sending 500 soldiers and airmen to Washington to assist with security for President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration. The guard on Thursday said Gov. Asa Hutchinson approved the mission.
The deployment begins on January 17 and the guardsmen are set to return to Arkansas before the end of the month.
The Mississippi National Guard is also sending troops to Washington D. C. for the presidential inauguration. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves' press secretary, Bailey Martin, said the governor told the Mississippi National Guard to send troops if necessary "even before the riots at the Capitol last week."
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TheBlackAdder
(28,182 posts)ret5hd
(20,489 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,182 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)to screen out the rightwing nuts. If so, that is exactly the way that it should go down.
TheBlackAdder
(28,182 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)You just assume some people from certain states are traitors, right?
Funny how much crap I see coming out of the Michigan militia and the other Midwest states, never you mind all the northwest states.
Wow.
TheBlackAdder
(28,182 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)want to see Biden and Harris in danger.
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)...to have National Guard that share the beliefs of the voters of those states.
Not saying that all Guard from red states are seditionists, or that no Guard from blue states might be, but...it really only takes one trained sniper from 500 yards or so away to take out anyone at that event, including anyone in the line of succession. Frankly, I like to minimize the odds of that happening.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)bullet proof enclosure. Those can be put up in an hour or less. I believe sane people that attend will understand why.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Isnt Oregon, Washington?
I think its time to think outside the box lol.
Under The Radar
(3,401 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)send troops or decline to send them.
getagrip_already
(14,697 posts)But this deployment is dubious on a lot of levels.
I doubt any nat guard unit would turn and fire in the wrong direction on command, but individual guard members are just people from communities. They aren't vetted for political beliefs.
Just ask sadat how it can turn out......
Net/net, not a lot has changed since 1/6. The same chain of command that refused to deploy the guard then is still in place. Only a couple of capitol police chiefs have resigned, but not the asshat they reported to.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)everyone on the platform will be installed last minute. The Secret Service certainly would not make that public before erecting it, but Biden and Harris would know about such plans. So if they are ok with going ahead, so am I.
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)Personally, I'd be very leery about NG from deep-red states -- I'm guessing that white supremacists and neo-Nazis would find it far easier to implant themselves in such units. At the very least, I hope they're assigned to positions around D.C. far from the President-elect.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Arne
(2,009 posts)as to which side they are on.
An arm band or red hat or something.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)The Coronavirus has clipped my wings a bit in terms of getting around. But what I know is that I am far more likely to see Blacks and Whites living side by side here in the South that I am anywhere else, except maybe Arizona and the Pacific Coast. The only thing that restricts people in many parts of the South is income, there are exceptions where Whites have tried to set up exclusive enclaves where only they can live, but there isnt any more than there is in other parts of the country.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)...that not a day goes by that he doesn't see more proof that the South has never forgotten the Civil War, and never forgotten their defeat by the Yankees. "They just won't let it go," he tells me.
Of course, I don't live thee, so I don't really know.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)But in the same drive 99% of the vehicles dont have that crap on them. So, it boils down to how sensitive a person is about that type of stuff, as a native born Black southerner, I just ignore the confederate morons, they stick out like skunks at a garden party.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)Lots racists in those states.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)dchill
(38,465 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)who's going to guard the guard?
BigDemVoter
(4,149 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)sarisataka
(18,570 posts)To send guard members?
TomSlick
(11,096 posts)I should respond to each of the posts above complaining about assuming that military personnel cannot be trusted simply because of from where they come.