[Moderating]
A reminder that, while there is obviously political content to this question, we are in FQ. What the troops currently there are, in fact, actually doing is factual. What troops typically do in similar circumstances is factual. What Trump thinks of the troops is not factual.
In a sense it helps Trump though. The military rank and file aren’t going to get mad to Trump for this, they’re going to blame immigrants et al.
Why am I having to sleep on the ground and have no food? God damn Mexicans, will be the answer.
This will of course trickle down to the military families who are also put into this shitty situation.
Oops I see this probably not quite a factual answer response and I got carried away replying to something that was also not appropriate for FQ.
The Army dudes could seize whatever properties they want for housing. The might run into the Third Amendment, but when has that stopped Trump?
Suddenly the most forgotten and never-used amendment becomes important.
[Still moderating]
That said, it looks like there might be more interest in non-factual discussion here, and the facts have mostly been covered. So moving to IMHO.
But do mind what forum you’re in, in general, everyone.
Pet
It might be refreshing for people’s Third Amendment rights to be violated; violations of First Amendment, Second Amendment or Fourth Amendment rights are the usual issue.
Nah, just tacos-every conceivable variety of tacos. Breakfast, lunch, snack, street, dinner, dessert and street tacos. No other foodstuffs than tacos for miles around for the troops.
That poor amendment! Such a low number, but as obsolete as simony. Maybe it’ll get some attention!
The Third Amendment told me that it feels neglected; almost irrelevant.
Maybe it can have its day in the sun. A hero amendment, protecting us from the orange menace. On the front lines against tyranny.
And I have just the team for the job:
Just some trivia notes for any history nerds, but those National Guard armories: often red brick castle-looking buildings in most cities? They were built in the aftermath of the Haymarket Riot, the Pullman Strike, etc. in reaction to 1890s labor disputes. That’s who the modern national guard was created to protect “us” from.
Regular Army troops were used to suppress the Pullman strike, under the pretext that the strikers were blocking railroad cars that carried the US mail.
In the US, regular army troops wore blue uniforms while state militias wore gray. After Harper’s Ferry, membership in the gray-clad militias grew enormously in fear of more slave rebellions. And then against a federal government that may or may not have posed a threat to slave ownership.
We’ve been using troops against people who just wanted a fair deal since Shay’s Rebellion when farms were being confiscated by the newly independent US for back-taxes because the farmers had been fighting for that independence instead of farming.
There’s a National Guard base in my town, with several armories, and many people don’t know this when they post on Nextdoor or a local Facebook page, in freak-out mode, that they just saw a black helicopter flying overhead.
A neighbor on Facebook just reported that their buses are parked at the Holiday Inn in Carson.
OMG! How many to a room?
I like the way you’re thinking.
They will be getting their food, and their propaganda, directly from the military.
You’re assuming the powers that be bothered to provide for support staff. Given the rest of the logistic failures, I doubt that was arranged for either.
I’m sure that it varies from branch to branch, and from unit to unit, but I’m confident that the majority of taco trucks are considerably tastier than the majority of military messes. Bring the taco trucks, and even if military chow is available, even if the military chow is free and the taco trucks are regular price, you’ll still get troops buying plenty of tacos.
I’m sure they have been told or have realized that people will spit in their food.