Judge Blocks Guard in Portland: When Domestic 'Insurgents' Are U.S. Citizens
The mainstream media covers the ongoing legal tussle over deploying the National Guard against protests in Portland, framing it as a local dispute. What they conveniently omit is the stark contrast. While the executive branch once debated sending troops to quash U.S. citizens peacefully protesting police brutality — labeling them as 'anarchy' — it rarely hesitates to approve massive military aid
packages for foreign conflicts. Remember, in 2020, then-President Trump considered using active-duty military against protesters. Meanwhile, the current administration, fresh off greenlighting additional cluster bombs for Israel, seems only worried about 'escalation' when it’s happening on TikTok, not in Gaza. It appears that when it comes to domestic dissent, the bar for 'crisis' is alarmingly
low, while for foreign allies, the bar for 'justifiable' violence appears non-existent. One might wonder if the government's concern about the National Guard's proper use (as in Portland) extends to reviewing the effective use of billions in U.S. taxpayer dollars funding conflicts abroad. Or is it just that American citizens, unlike foreign proxies, have inconvenient constitutional rights?