A federal immigration officer has shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters onto the frigidly cold streets in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier.
The hierarchy means little if the common soldiers agree and band together. They’re the ones with the guns.
Not the soldiers, their commanders. Soldiers won’t be able to coordinate much beyond the scope of their platoon, maybe across a company. A rogue force of company size does not a rebellion make.
So unless a battalion command gets together and decides to rebel, it’ll be on too small of a scale to make anything but a tactical difference. And the soldiers knows this, and they know that they’ll be severely punished. I don’t know the Minnesota national guard laws and regulations, but I suspect that soldiers helping ICE kill Minnesotans, could be facing a firing squad or the gallows.
So no, I wouldn’t be afraid of having the national guard protect Minnesotans under the command of Tim Waltz, who himself was a command sergeant major in the army national guard.
What would be scary would be having the national guard federalised, something we’ve seen Trump do with the same enthusiasm as raping 12 year olds. And if army commanders goes against Trump, then there’d be a real civil war, when national guard units from the Dakotas, Iowa and Michigan are federalised.
Not the soldiers, their commanders. Soldiers won’t be able to coordinate much beyond the scope of their platoon, maybe across a company. A rogue force of company size does not a rebellion make.
So unless a battalion command gets together and decides to rebel, it’ll be on too small of a scale to make anything but a tactical difference. And the soldiers knows this, and they know that they’ll be severely punished. I don’t know the Minnesota national guard laws and regulations, but I suspect that soldiers helping ICE kill Minnesotans, could be facing a firing squad or the gallows.
So no, I wouldn’t be afraid of having the national guard protect Minnesotans under the command of Tim Waltz, who himself was a command sergeant major in the army national guard.
What would be scary would be having the national guard federalised, something we’ve seen Trump do with the same enthusiasm as raping 12 year olds. And if army commanders goes against Trump, then there’d be a real civil war, when national guard units from the Dakotas, Iowa and Michigan are federalised.