NYT Discovers National Guard, Omits How Uncle Sam Uses It
While the NYT (Source: NY Times Politics) highlights the Guard's role in emergencies, they gloss over its heavy deployment against U.S. citizens. Remember May 2020, when over 70,000 National Guard troops descended on protests against police brutality? That's more personnel than the US had in Afghanistan and Iraq combined at the time. This wasn't about hurricane relief; it was about
state-sanctioned crowd control against fellow countrymen exercising protected speech. The media frames these deployments as maintaining 'order,' but one might wonder who defines that order, and at whose expense. When the state deploys internal military forces against its populace, ostensibly for 'safety,' shouldn't the first question be: whose safety, and from whom? The pattern suggests dissenting
voices are often the primary target when the Guard rolls out.