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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by Amezarak on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @06:00AM (#44234783)
The President who ordered the Kent State National Guard deployment won his re-election campaign in a massive landslide - 49 out of 50 states went for Nixon. I suspect that people that lived through it remembered Kent State very differently at the time than we do (or maybe than they do now).
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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by lurk2 on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @09:57AM (#44236880)
Nixon didn’t order the Kent State deployment. It was Ohio’s state governor, Jim Rhodes.
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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by distortionfield on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @12:57PM (#44238989)
Which makes this situation all the more remarkable, since Trump called in the national guard without Newsom’s approval.
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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by ImJamal on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @04:26PM (#44251439)
The Insurrection Act of 1807 allows the president to call the national guard to stop riots. It also allows the military to be sent in.

LA has had the marines sent in to stop riots in the past so this isn't exactly a new thing.

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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by Amezarak on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @02:00PM (#44239534)
That’s true enough, I should have said supported and perhaps instigated (by insulting the students beforehand) rather than ordered.
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