Approximately 700 US Marines have been deployed to Los Angeles to support the California National Guard as it responds to the riots spreading throughout the county and its cities.
The Marines are primarily from Twentynine Palms, and their job is to secure and protect federal property and personnel. They are not involved with law enforcement activities, unless they are being directly attack or unless President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act.
The deployment comes one day after President Trump federalized 2,000 National Guard troops, following the inaction by Gov. Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass to stop the riots.
Newsom has criticized the move as unlawful and inflammatory, and he has already filed a lawsuit against Trump for federalizing the US National Guard in California.
Today, the California National Guard were stationed in front of the Veterans Administration hospital in Los Angeles, where violent protesters had set dumpsters on fire. This is a job that could be performed by the Marines.
The use of Marines is not without precedent. In the early 1920s, organized crime was rampant, and gangsters frequently targeted mail deliveries in search of cash. Between 1920 and 1921 alone, there were 36 armed mail robberies, resulting in the theft of more than $6 million in goods and currency, equivalent to over $86 million today.
At the time, the US Postal Service had fewer than 500 inspectors to protect nearly 250,000 miles of railway mail routes, an impossible task given the scale of the threat.
Recognizing the urgency of the situation, Postmaster General Will H. Hays appealed for federal assistance. In response, President Warren G. Harding dispatched Marines to safeguard the nation’s mail.
The initial Marine mail guard force deployed in 1921 included more than 50 officers and 2,000 enlisted men, strategically stationed at high-risk locations across the country. Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby—himself a former Marine who served in World War I—issued firm orders: Marines were to shoot to kill if attacked. “When our men go as guards over the mail,” Denby declared, “that mail must be delivered, or there must be a Marine dead at the post of duty.”
The impact was immediate. Armed mail robberies came to a sudden halt, and by the end of the year, attacks on post offices, mail trains, and carriers had virtually disappeared. The first deployment of Marine mail guards concluded in March 1922. For the next couple of years, mail theft remained largely under control.
In 1992, following the acquittal of police officers in the Rodney King case in Los Angeles, Marines from Camp Pendleton were deployed to support the California National Guard in restoring order during widespread rioting, looting, and violence. They secured federal property and assisted in calming the situation that was spiraling out of control.
Such domestic deployments typically operate under strict guidelines of the Posse Comitatus Act, which limits military involvement in civilian law enforcement unless authorized by the president through, for example, the Insurrection Act. Marines often focus on securing federal assets or providing logistical support in these scenarios and do not have direct law enforcement duties.
Wayne Root had an article today suggesting that authorities using water cannon equipment, spray blue dye on the protesters there by allowing arresting authorities ease of identifying the fools. Took that as a pretty darn
good suggestion. He also suggested using a chemical that smells like skunk piss with the spray. That too sounded like a sound suggestion. Better than walking about with a pencil and pad, one could say.
The concept of dyeing protesters/rioters has been used in a number of countries back to at least 1989 in S. Afrika.
Similarly with spraying with a foul smelling liquid.
Peace through strength.
The pathetic parasite Democrats are gonna find out now why the Silent Majority is silent. They don’t waste time with words fluff, they take action.
A word of warning to our local Democrats. You start riots in our towns, you will feel the results of your terrible actions, immediately.
Break the law, pay the price! Go get em!
Since sending in the National Guard and Marines is clearly the obvious, necessary and proper course of action in the face of these organized and coordinated riots/insurrection, radical leftists like Newscum and Bass, and all their fellow lemmings like some posters here on MRAK, will naturally oppose that course of action. ANYTHING to undermine, attack and destroy civil society is what they want, because it feeds their agenda of subverting and destroying existing social norms, so that they can “build back better” according to their totalitarian and dystopian dreams.
If the left wing Democrats want their paid agitators to push the envelope, let them try. They’ve been warned. This is not about the migrants, it’s a political stunt funded for the sole purpose of causing mayhem and destruction. Summer of 2020 all over again if allowed.
This political violence seems almost inevitable. The Bolsheviks in black clothing and masks seem to have financial support and an organization that is always in search of a motive to howl and to riot. The have always had the tacit – if not the open – approval to riot of the political party that is now out of power in D.C.
Violent insurrectionists must be met by force – a strong force, not by a mere handful of arrests. Declare martial law. Then, when individual insurrectionists show up at a street riot with injurious weapons of any sort they should be shot by law enforcement officers or soldiers of the National Guard – on first sight, and without warning.
As for my part, if I am approached at any place and time in this city by a masked person who is carrying a weapon, then that person or those persons will be shot without warning. And a mob of people ought not venture into my neighborhood; my neighbors and I have agreed (since 2020) that any effort to damage our property will at the expense of a heavy, mortal cost. So, let’s just all get along, hey?
Having seen the pictures of National Guard crammed into small sleeping quarters due, I see no reason to continue to disrespect the brave people who serve in America’s military by sending them to deal with an issue this administration itself has caused.
unhealthy non thinker, look pal, this nation had an election in November. A man was elected by the WIDE majority of the people to do a JOB. Ridding our nation od tens of millions of ILLEGAL Aliens was at the top of the list. The man we elected is now doing his job.
This mess was created by the commies that you helped elect. Del with it.
Oh BTW, where were you when Clinton was exporting Illegal aliens?
Good. Overdue.
As reported by this website, dozens of Alaskans will be carrying signs to oppose President Trump on June 14th. Should Marines be deployed and ordered to use lethal force against them?
Lol, for what? You could blow them all over with a feather colored like a rainbow.
No. Local police and/or AST should be deployed and ordered to use just enough force to maintain order, although protests here in Alaska have generally been civil. In the L.A. situation, as stated in this article, the Marines will be there to protect federal property and personnel. If protesters leave the federal property and personnel alone, the Marines will leave them alone.
The Marines are mostly peaceful.
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If they strictly carry signs, no.
If, on the other hand, they choose to attack law enforcement, destroy property (both public and private) and refuse lawful direction from authorities, then yes. The military should receive order to enforce the law, and use lethal force if necessary.
Good. The behavior in southern CA is no protest. It is a (real) insurrection funded by foreign billionaires who hate our country. The purpose is to disrupt, deceive and delude with chaos and lies.
Thank you Mr President and Semper Fi Marines.
Wonder what role the cartels have in these ‘protests?’ They certainly make lots of money from unchecked, illegal human smuggling.
The protestors are waving everyone’s flags but our own. It’s an act of war. 47 has every right to incarcerate and sort out the illegals, Adios Muchachos
Since it was raining all weekend I spent time watching live streams of the protests in LA. A shout out to all the independent reporters on the scene-I really appreciate being able to see what it happening and not just rely on someone else’s interpretation. The protest on Friday was relatively small but lively. One car on fire and a couple of idiots driving in a circle around it while a dozen people watched seems to have gotten the most coverage. It looked like a few hundred people total – definitely not a riot. LAPD was handling it. Saturday and Sunday saw more people out – maybe a couple thousand at the most, not all that well organized. The most violent thing I saw was the cops beating someone with their night sticks. Some bricks thrown from a bridge onto cops cars that were inexplicably parked below, some teargas, some yelling, but mostly people just standing around. I didn’t see any weapons or assaults on law enforcement. I don’t see a reason to nationalize the Guard and deploy Marines for the purpose of crowd control. So what is the reason? What are we being distracted from?
Jean,
We are being distracted from the long-overdue arrests and deportations of tens of thousands of foreigners who are convicted felons – human traffickers, drug gang members, murderers, rapists, hit-and-run drivers, home invaders, child abusers, and so on. If illegal aliens and visa overstayers are picked up in the process by ICE, then they need to be returned home, too. Any other questions?
A car on fire circled by rioters waving foreign flags. This is not a riot? Oh, let me guess, many of the “feeds” you reference were saying this was a “mostly peaceful” event. If a car were on fire in front of your house and it was circled by rioters waving foreign flags, would this qualify for you??
“…….I don’t see a reason to nationalize the Guard and deploy Marines for the purpose of crowd control. So what is the reason?………”
It was a mostly peaceful crowd, so the President sent a mostly peaceful battalion of Marines to help clean up the litter after the nice crowd goes home to their tents on the sidewalk.
It would have been more effective to deploy live fire at the border before the invaders crossed.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Anything to distract from tax breaks for $Billionaires
You mean tax breaks for everyone?
What bill has tax breaks for billionaires and billionaires only? HB# what, Frank?
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Frank?
Oh… that’s right. Cannot answer because the tax breaks are for every income earning US Resident.
Shame on the USMC.
I know.
The way they are obeying a lawful order from a superior officer. Shame on them. A disgrace to military personnel everywhere.
The only thing that would redeem them now is to choose do only obey the orders they receive that they feel are OK, and comply with woke principles. Now, that is what I want from a military. Disobedience at the drop of a hat for media driven reasons.
If you hate half of the people who live in your country, then it’s impossible for you to love your country
What to do? What to do?
It would be a crying shame to call off events such as Palmer’s Colony Days. It would be a disaster to refuse to have our law enforcement present to keep the peace.
How do we treat toddlers in full blown temper tantrums?
Ignore them? Have a kind conversation? Isolate them?
Eye for an eye?
Or get the oh so liberal Big City media in place to have their behavior documented?
What a conundrum!
Don’t give these twits what they want, someone will be hurt or worse.
And perhaps they should fix bayonets before marching to protect the federal facilities and employees.
Sending in the National Guard was a legitimate & adequate response to the LA riots. Sending in the Marines was pure theater and counterproductive. Trump has been doing some weird sh#t lately!