Washington Gov. Jay Inslee activated Washington National Guard members Friday, putting the guard on standby in the event that local and state law enforcement need reinforcements during election week.
Gov. Tina Kotek of Oregon did the same, and in Nevada, Gov. Joe Lombardo activated 60 members of the National Guard to be on standby in Las Vegas and Carson City.
Gov. Inslee gave the Adjutant General the authority to determine how many members of the Guard will be activated.
“This is a purely precautionary measure taken in response to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s nationwide warnings regarding threats to election infrastructure and other recent activities that have occurred in southwestern Washington,” his office said in a statement.
The Washington National Guard will be on standby for four days, beginning Monday, Nov. 4, ending just after midnight on Thursday, Nov. 7.
Read Inslee’s letter to Major General Gent Welsh activating the National Guard.
Oregon Gov. Kotek said she is “closely monitoring and coordinating with local, state and federal agencies to ensure Oregon voters can safely cast their ballot.”
In Portland, where the urban culture has devolved into widespread lawlessness with Antifa, anarchist, and socialist gangs that go on wildings during times of political change, police have been planning for protests, according to Mayor Ted Wheeler.
“We all deeply believe in our community’s right and ability to exercise free speech, and I believe the vast majority of Portlanders want to come together to do so peacefully,” said Wheeler. “While I am hopeful it will not be necessary, we are prepared to interdict criminal behavior if it does occur.”
A unified command team comprised of city, county, state, and federal partners has been working for months on extensive planning to ensure comprehensive preparedness for multiple scenarios and potential civil unrest, he said.
“We stand together today to demonstrate these commitments and ensure the community knows that we are united in our efforts and our expectations,” Mayor Wheeler said.
Police in Portland were told months ago they would have to cancel any planned time off during election week.
Last week ballot boxes were set on fire in Vancouver, Wash. and Portland, Ore.
Without law and order, we do not have civilization.
Could not agree more. The law applies to everyone equally, irrespective of belief systems, wealth, ethnicity, or any other defining characteristic.
It is the lying and deceit from the politicians and the mainstream media that has brought this on.
Never had we been so decided and angry between the masses but look what we voted for and got.
This mess is caused by people who think they are better than the normal citizen. These elites are after power and all the money. Do anything what you saw the last few years to get it?
Blue States. It’s always Blue States. The liars, cheaters, the brainwashed, the troublemakers, the mentally deranged……the Democrats.
Portland and Seattle will burn once 45 wins
Don’t hold your breath. Might be awhile.
No not really. I can’t wait to hear you screaming at the sky like 2016
All authoritarian regimes rely on the police and military to remain in power. They subvert legitimate authority that was instituted to protect our rights and twist it to serve them instead. Under the strict military chain of command structure the troops have little choice but to obey their superiors. Their only option is to risk punishment for disobedience. Law enforcement agencies all have paramilitary chain of command structures that are almost as bad when abused this way. Never forget that law enforcement doesn’t exist to “serve & protect” you. That’s just feel good PR. Police are the enforcement arm of the State. They work for the government and when the government is good the police are good but when the government turns into an authoritarian socialist regime the police become oppressors. That’s where America is today.
What law did you break?
the leftist causing disturbance will be shot with the Nerf bullets. they’ll reserve the exploding ones for Conservatives
Based on my understand of the situation in Washington and Oregon, activation of the National Guard would only be necessary for rounding up, jailing and disappearing the “garbage” in those states. It’s not like there is any doubt about the results.
Just activating the National Guard will intimidate Antifa-BLM rioters, the Chinese military, and Republican voters into not showing up?
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Chinese military? They’re here, somebody’s worried, what do we expect them to do, given such a grand opprtunity to help bring down a Trump presidency or empower a Harris-Walz dictatorship to do their work for them?
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(‘https://www.newsweek.com/china-military-personnel-us-southern-border-national-security-mark-green-1807287)
(‘https://nypost.com/2024/09/30/us-news/house-oversight-panel-issues-subpoena-after-whistleblower-said-dhs-employees-discussed-serious-concerns-about-tim-walzs-china-ties-in-internal-group-chat/)
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Never happen in America, but what if it does?
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But we digress. Activating the National Guard… zero chance of another spectacular multi-agency command and control FUBAR like the July 13, 2024, Butler Pennsylvania disaster, right?
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What’s it to be this time, real bullets, real dogs, fire hoses… Selma, Alabama all over again, America’s very own Tiananmen Square?
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Lest we forget: ‘https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/03/06/390943835/photographer-helped-expose-brutality-of-selmas-bloody-sunday
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What do you suppose Antifa-BLM and various government agents-provacateurs learned from watching illegal alien mobs, including women and children, shove Texas National Guard troops out of their way?
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Here’s a bit of what they learned: ‘https://nypost.com/2024/03/21/us-news/migrants-break-barriers-and-rush-border-guards-in-el-paso/.
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Government agents-provacateurs? You’d hire them if you want really big, ongoing riots to sabotage a Trump presidency or give a Harris presidency reason to impose martial law and suspend habeas corpus indefinitely.
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National Guard shuts down Las Vegas due to riots… there’s a headliner, no?
All a crooked scare tactic. These 3 governors are clowns. Evil ones at that. The main stream media is also guilty of insiting violence if this indeed blows up. God bless America if we fail the entire world fails right behind us.
Sounds like voter intimidation, any bets on the election will be suspended.