Questa volta abbiamo cercato: [Serious] Active US Military personnel of MassimoL, what are your thoughts and feelings about possibly being deployed to quell the protests occurring across the nation?
[Serious] Active US Military personnel of MassimoL, what are your thoughts and feelings about possibly being deployed to quell the protests occurring across the nation?
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Just got back from 9 month deployment in the middle east. It makes me really sad to see what happened in the time I left. The thought of possibly having to organize and gear up in my own country is really troubling. This is not the way I wanted to come home.
I likely won’t be called to do the quelling but it’s a shitty situation. There are serious injustices being done by the police that need answered for. Peaceful protest is fine and completely within your rights. Hell, imo even clashing with the police is fine because at least the anger is directed at the people who sparked it.
But burning and looting business that had nothing to do with anything is senseless and an injustice in itself. The local owners and workers are putting in the work trying to make a living like anyone else, and in the past big corporations have simply refused to rebuild, taking those jobs away. It takes away from the very legitimate arguments being made. That shit needs to stop, and I wouldn’t mind doing my part if asked to do so.
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Luckily I’m currently mobilized out of America and also work in a medical unit and am also in the Reserves so don’t have to worry about it. But honestly, it would be real difficult to stand in my uniform and full gear across from my fellow citizens during all this. I’d much rather be standing on their side. If I got called up during this, I’d prob already start drinking beforehand.
Quelling riots, not protests.
I would have a huge problem with stopping protests, even the flag burning ones, because everyone has a 1A right to speech and assembly.
Riots, less of a problem. The oath is to support and defend the Constitution and it says right in the preamble “insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty…”
That absolutely does not mean the military should be going house to house shooting civilians, that is what our corrupt and unaccountable police forces are for.
Helping to guard and secure private property and the lives of innocent people is an effort I have no problem with.