President Donald Trump has signed a presidential memorandum deploying 2,000 National Guardsmen to disperse protests over immigration activity in the Los Angeles area, the White House said in a statement Saturday night.
How do you mean? Most authoritarian regimes are maintained with fear and violence. Even in democratic states that don’t primarily rule through fear the government generally has a monopoly on using violence to enforce the law.
I mean that as we’ve seen cops are easy to start using pellets and gas, and when people respond throwing rocks, suddenly it’s a ‘violent insurrection’; that’s why I said it’s important to see who started it.
It all depends on who started being violent first…
How do you mean? Most authoritarian regimes are maintained with fear and violence. Even in democratic states that don’t primarily rule through fear the government generally has a monopoly on using violence to enforce the law.
I mean that as we’ve seen cops are easy to start using pellets and gas, and when people respond throwing rocks, suddenly it’s a ‘violent insurrection’; that’s why I said it’s important to see who started it.