The stationing of military troops in Blue States to “fight crime” is a questionable practice. The Trump Administration has proposed sending military forces to Illinois. However, the violent crime rate in Louisiana, the state of the Speaker of the House, is 628 crimes per 100,000, while in Illinois, it is 287. Wouldn’t military forces be more effective in Louisiana cities like Monroe (2,104 per 100,000), Alexandria (1,972 per 100,000), New Orleans (1,361 per 100,000), and Speaker Johnson’s Shreveport (744 per 100,000)? Shouldn’t Speaker Johnson fight for the President to call up the National Guard in his state?
However, the artificiality and silliness of sending soldiers trained to kill enemies abroad to domestic locales is unconstitutional except in national emergencies. The whole charade is so transparent that many of the soldiers assigned to act as domestic policemen must not appreciate being called up to parade around on home soil.
However, their true purpose is clearly more for show, and their actual effectiveness is akin to baking cookies. We are paying soldiers to bake cookies metaphorically. Here are two scenes from this silly cookie-baking exercise.
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