by Al Bienenfeld, American Thinker:
On October 18, 2024, Law Enforcement Today had the following headline, which passed by almost unnoticed: “DoD secretly reauthorizes bill that would allow military intervention domestically…and adds ability to use deadly force.”
The reissue of Department of Defense (DoD) Directive 5240.01 was quietly put into effect on September 27, 2024, six weeks before our presidential election. It is a formalized license to kill.
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Why? Because the Democrat party has determined that civil unrest is bad after condoning the 2020 “mostly peaceful” riots that consumed much of our nation in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. It provides protection for the military to kill under clear cover of authority. Imagine the outcry if this had occurred under Donald Trump. This directive was not necessary.
President Trump argued for the use of National Guard or military assistance during this period of civil unrest as local law enforcement was unable to control the rioting mobs, although he was talked out of using an authority that presidents have used regularly over the last one hundred years:
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1. In 1932, President Herbert Hoover called on the military to quell rioting in our nation’s capital. It was the height of the Great Depression, and World War I veterans were demanding additional compensation as many were facing starvation and homelessness.
2. In 1957, President Dwight Eisenhower sent 1,000 members of the 101st Airborne to Little Rock, Arkansas, to protect black students who wanted to attend Central High School. The Democratic Governor, Oval Faubus, refused to acknowledge the 1954 Supreme Court decision overturning segregation proscribed in the 1896 “Separate But Equal” ruling.
3. In 1992, President George H.W. Bush used federal resources to stop the Los Angeles riot by people protesting the police abuse of Rodney King. During the uprising, four people were killed, with another 60 injured. Plus, $1 billion in property damage.
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