Regarding the thumbnail, I figured procedure would be to remove your sidearms while on riot detail, being as you're getting within melee distance with multiple people at once, thereby risking it being snatched. It's more of a liability in that context, prison wardens do the same thing.
I guess asking a beat cop to give up his emotional support pistol is a nonstarter.
To be clear, the Pentagon has dusty filing cabinets full of playbooks and wargaming scenarios ranging from plausible to outrageous that various think tanks have cooked up over the years. There is almost certainly a plan to fight an extraterrestrial invasion. I recall one being made about a zombie outbreak during that pop culture craze. We've had plans to invade Canada and Mexico wholesale for decades at least. Their existence doesn't inherently mean that anyone at the Pentagon takes the possibility of the scenario seriously. They're thought exercises as much as they are preparation for the unlikely.
I'd be careful with that last point - when a modern people is suddenly forced to turn to the land for sustenance instead of the industrial supply chain, overfishing and overhunting become problems quickly...you won't be the only person out looking for a meal.
Nebraska is definitely not within 100 miles of a land or sea border, the claimed jurisdiction of ICE. It's probably about as far as you can get, actually.
ICE and their various fed retainers will still waltz into these neighborhoods without consequence. All it means is that they can't count on local cooperation.
If we let them arrest everyone who isn't an ideal leftist, then we'll be enough of a disparate minority to stuff into mass graves. So that poem/saying goes.
Spin the scenario around; follow the orders of a sane President or a regressive, criminal Governor?
Except that judgement call is largely subjective. The above is literally what any conservative voter who happens to be in the Guard would think of the current situation.
It's a messy situation to be in, one fraught with desertion, courts-martial, and sabotage.
I don't remember the law or EO that made it so, but sometime after September 11th the President was granted the power to take command of the National Guard. That's not what the Constitution says? Throw it on the pile.
In practical terms, in any given situation where both are giving conflicting or even antagonistic orders, do you listen to the governor of your state or the President of the United States?
It's a tough proposition, because Islamist militants have a recent history of destroying artifacts and desecrating historical sites. At least if they're stolen, the possibility exists of repatriation in the future, when Syria hopefully has a stable government.
But the people involved in this are most probably not curators in spirit like that, they're thieves and mercenaries looking for a cashout.
Revenge for personal slights is one of the only things Trump has the attention span for. It would not surprise me if he maintains a dwarf-esque Book of Grudges.
I don't think he will ever let this go, even if Heritage Foundation shitkickers try to smooth things over. With Tesla's stock price and perhaps even solvency being carried on the back of the Trump administration for the past few months, Elon and his ventures are in deep shit.
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