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Originally Posted by Maggy J
No!The minute you put our troops on the streets to keep order is the day I leave this country.Only a fool would put fighting men into a civil disorder situation.Any government doing so would most certainly lose my respect and my vote.A standing army is for defence against enemies of the state not it's citizens.
Look at how the US National Guard got it so wrong in the University protests against the Vietnam war.
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but we can't put the police in because they get accused of being heavy handed when faced with violence and i am prepared to wager that before this is all over guns will be used by the rioters on the police