Re: National Guard guards Seals and Green Berets in Texas...
To address the original article in the thread, most on this board know the low opinion in which I hold journalists, but this journalist besmirches the already catastrophically low reputation of the genus. Instead of telling us the facts, he proceeds to tell the readers what they should think about the policy which the journalist obviously thinks is ridiculous.
But what is his argument? It is silly for anyone to be suspicious of the Federal government. Is that idea really that silly? The Federal government has broken hundreds of treaties with Native American tribes. The Federal government, the creature of the peoples of the several states, created by their action, now deigns to tell its creators which powers and rights they, the creators, retain. It has overthrown ten elected republican governments and replaced them with appointed military governors. This agency has infected black men with venereal disease, then denied them effective treatment, just to so what would happen. This agency has detained 110,000 Americans, the majority of whom were United States citizens (a policy the Supreme Court approved of, by the way). While I unequivocally do not endorse the overthrow of the Federal government, I'd say the Federal government has earned a healthy degree of skepticism.
If Texas citizens are concerned, then why not send someone (not in Federal employ) to watch? I should think daylight is the best disinfectant.
The irony is that Jade Helm is, in my opinion, absolutely no threat to Texas at all. I would have no problems with whatever officers the state wanted to send to observe the proceedings. It is no skin off my nose.
This "journalist's" work, however, is another example of why NPR should receive no Federal funding. His "article" is a piece of trash, in line with the lowest traditions of American journalism.