Daily News | Why are Texas and Florida building their own large, sadistic armies?
on the project so far, deploying about 10,000 troops and law-enforcement officers at any given time — with no end in sight.
State national guards — under the ultimate control of a governor, responding to everything from floods to urban riots — are a long-standing convention, but everything about the Abbott mission feels off. It’s not only the massive scale and cost of Operation Lone Star, but the fact that these Texas troops aren’t working in concert with the federal government.
It’s more than noteworthy that Texas isn’t the only large Republican-red state with a politically ambitious governor that is amping up its military capacity in a way that Americans haven’t seen in more than 150 years. In Florida, the nation’s third-largest state, Gov.
It seems not unreasonable to ask why the two largest states of the former Confederacy are building back their own armies, citing their own disagreements with the federal government. Indeed, it feels like another alarming downward spiral in the coming apart of America, as states with radically different cultures and
s around everything from banning abortion to whitewashing slavery to the treatment of migrants look to enforce all of this at the barrel of a gun.
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