The National Guard belongs to the respective DOD branch and can be activated for federal duty by order of the President of the United States. Failure on the part of leadership or members to do that will have extremely negative consequences - the end of a military career and likely jail time in a very unpleasant prison. As part of the US military, they are part of a large organization which will enforce consequences. It’s not something trivial.
Abbott can use state troopers or Texas rangers or whatever, but if Biden orders the Texas National Guard into federal service, then Abbott and the Texas police will be put into a position of facing the US Army.
Florida has its own “guard” unit in additional to the Florida National Guard because DeSantis wanted brown shirts, but again they’d have to think it’s an important enough issue to face the US Army, and the group is really just a private DeSantis Proud Boys unit.
I would love to see Assface deploy his Flo-derr brownshirts only for them to end up in Leavenworth for a nice long stay. You know some of those idiots are guardsmen themselves.
Yes, exactly this.
The National Guard belongs to the respective DOD branch and can be activated for federal duty by order of the President of the United States. Failure on the part of leadership or members to do that will have extremely negative consequences - the end of a military career and likely jail time in a very unpleasant prison. As part of the US military, they are part of a large organization which will enforce consequences. It’s not something trivial.
Abbott can use state troopers or Texas rangers or whatever, but if Biden orders the Texas National Guard into federal service, then Abbott and the Texas police will be put into a position of facing the US Army.
Florida has its own “guard” unit in additional to the Florida National Guard because DeSantis wanted brown shirts, but again they’d have to think it’s an important enough issue to face the US Army, and the group is really just a private DeSantis Proud Boys unit.
I would love to see Assface deploy his Flo-derr brownshirts only for them to end up in Leavenworth for a nice long stay. You know some of those idiots are guardsmen themselves.