1y ago

This Trumpy Long Island Politician Plans to Deputize Armed Civilians

www.thedailybeast.com

If you aren't familiar with countries where powerful people have their own militias... would you like to be?

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That checks out for Long Island. For how blue NYC is, Long Island is beet red. At best, Stony Brook is purple because of SUNY. I lost 20 years of my life there. I can't wait for it to sink into the ocean.
All you have to know about Long Island culture is that they elected Lee Zeldin and George Santos, and that their bridges are purposefully built too low for busses.
They also worship cops like no one else.
- Yes, that guy who amassed tons of power designing roads and bridges to keep poor people from getting to the beaches. I think I learned about him from a Behind the Bastards episode.
  
  Robert Moses. He has a parkway named after him
  
  UK here. Is this really true?
  What a scumbag. I really despise rich types like that who think they are superior to everyone else.
I have bad news for you, but police and State National Guards are militias. And guess who controls them? Also, rich people hire private security, and they're just Capitalist Militias.
Greg Abbott is literally using his Texas Ntl. Guard militia to usurp federal law.
- There's a massive difference between police who are imperfectly accountable to the government as a whole, which is based on a semi-corrupt system which is still imperfectly accountable to the will of the voters, versus a singular entity which is explicitly under the control of one particular politician.
  (Yes I know about Sheriffs -- they are still accountable to the legal framework in a way that I strongly suspect this guy wants his not to be.)
  Put it this way: When they came to take over the capitol, the majority of the capitol police fought against the rioters and everyone took as it given that the National Guard would be there to fight against the rioters. This guy wants a police force that will fight for the rioters, without anyone getting put on administrative leave or anybody reviewing bodycam footage or anything if someone on the "enemy" side is getting shot during.
  
  the majority of the capitol police fought against the rioters
  Yes, because they are a militia that protects the political class. Are you under the impression that "militia" means "anti-government"?
  A militia is just a military force that is made up of non-soldiers. Police in the US are militarized, but they are civilians, not subject to military law. They are literally a militia.

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