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Bring In The Troops To Protect Students
Flat Tire 2:
I am old enough to remember when President Eisenhower brought in Federal Troops to protect students when they integrated Little Rock, Arkansas high school. It was a horrible scene and Ike showed leadership by bringing in troops to stop the riots and protect the students. I wonder if Biden will show the same moral leadership with the current situation.?
Big City:
Biden isn't calling the shots. He is just a puppet.
He's told what to do, what and how to say it. Can barely read it from the teleprompter.
marshallmark:
--- Quote from: Flat Tire 2 on April 25, 2024, 07:34:16 AM ---I am old enough to remember when President Eisenhower brought in Federal Troops to protect students when they integrated Little Rock, Arkansas high school. It was a horrible scene and Ike showed leadership by bringing in troops to stop the riots and protect the students. I wonder if Biden will show the same moral leadership with the current situation.?
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The "troops" were federalized national guard, not regular army. And they were sent to enforce federal civil rights legislation to integrate the local schools. Protecting the Little Rock Nine was just a fringe benefit of the military's involvement in integration. It was the right thing to do, or Ike risked allowing states to run all over federal law.
This is completely different. There is a safety factor, of course, but there's also a free speech component that everyone from the presidents of the universities to the local law enforcement agencies are having trouble understanding - let alone allowing and encouraging. They don't seem to realize that free speech stops when the person threatens another, or trespasses, or defaces public property. I don't have any issue with the encampments - "sit-ins" are a long standing tradition in this country; however, the first person that has a sign with "Hammas' next target" with an arrow to Jewish students should be spending time in jail.
Flat Tire 2:
--- Quote from: marshallmark on April 25, 2024, 09:10:33 AM ---The "troops" were federalized national guard, not regular army. And they were sent to enforce federal civil rights legislation to integrate the local schools. Protecting the Little Rock Nine was just a fringe benefit of the military's involvement in integration. It was the right thing to do, or Ike risked allowing states to run all over federal law.
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Just setting the history correctly. President Eisenhower show moral leadership, Biden not so much. Biden should be protecting the safety of Jewish students if the states will not. Texas and Californian officials seen to have some leadership on the issue.
"When Governor Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to surround Central High School to keep the nine students from entering the school, President Eisenhower ordered the 101st Airborne Division into Little Rock to insure the safety of the "Little Rock Nine" and that the rulings of the Supreme Court were upheld."
https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/civil-rights-little-rock-school-integration-crisis
marshallmark:
--- Quote from: Flat Tire 2 on April 25, 2024, 09:24:22 AM ---Just setting the history correctly. President Eisenhower show moral leadership, Biden not so much. Biden should be protecting the safety of Jewish students if the states will not. Texas and Californian officials seen to have some leadership on the issue.
"When Governor Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to surround Central High School to keep the nine students from entering the school, President Eisenhower ordered the 101st Airborne Division into Little Rock to insure the safety of the "Little Rock Nine" and that the rulings of the Supreme Court were upheld."
https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/civil-rights-little-rock-school-integration-crisis
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OK - corrected on the source of troops, but what do you propose that POTUS should do? If the local and state law enforcement agencies are doing their job to protect both sides of students (and removing non-students), which they are trying to do, what role do you see for the federal government? You're like the Jewish students who complain that the US isn't doing enough to get the hostages home. What, exactly, is the government supposed to do without escalating the conflict and, potentially, violating civil rights?
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