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Originally posted by TrueAmerican
“A city held by any organized rioters will be attacked generally in the same manner as one held by enemy troops.”
Originally posted by ararisq
Originally posted by TrueAmerican
“A city held by any organized rioters will be attacked generally in the same manner as one held by enemy troops.”
I think all of our presidents should have won the Nobel Peace Prize. I mean this is a lesson in hypocrisy. We are going to invade a country because its leader is attacking organized rioters in control of a city as if they were enemy troops -- and we'd do exactly the same thing.
Originally posted by TrueAmerican
Yeah great point.
Except a lot worse with the kind of weapons our military has. Tomahawk missile into Joe's pizza parlor. I swear, it could happen. Or hellfire missile into the village square. Who cares.
Originally posted by PsychoShado
Wow, I was unaware that American police had tanks. I can also hardly see a use for them in everyday situations either. However, if there are any, feel free to inform me of what and where they can be used. Spending on tanks for regular police is a good way to send the country broke and into the state it is in now.
The self-named Bonus Expeditionary Force was an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who protested in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932. Called the Bonus March by the news media, the Bonus Marchers were more popularly known as the Bonus Army. It was led by Walter W. Waters, a former Army sergeant. The veterans were encouraged in their demand for immediate cash-payment redemption of their service certificates by retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler, one of the most popular military figures of the time. Many of the war veterans had been out of work since the beginning of the Great Depression. The World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924 had awarded them bonuses in the form of certificates they could not redeem until 1945. Each Service Certificate, issued to a qualified veteran soldier, bore a face value equal to the soldier's promised payment plus compound interest. The principal demand of the Bonus Army was the immediate cash payment of their Certificates. On July 28, U.S. Attorney General William D. Mitchell ordered the veterans removed from all government property. Washington police met with resistance, shots were fired and two veterans were wounded and later died. President Herbert Hoover then ordered the army to clear the veterans' campsite. Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur commanded the infantry and cavalry supported by six tanks. The Bonus Army marchers with their wives and children were driven out, and their shelters and belongings burned. A second, smaller Bonus March in 1933 at the start of the Roosevelt Administration was defused with promises instead of military action. In 1936, a Democratic-led Congress overrode President Franklin D. Roosevelt's veto to pay the veterans their bonus years early.