It begins

wapo:

A law called the Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the domestic use of military for law enforcement purposes without specific congressional authorization, said Stephen Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas Law School. But a different law, the Insurrection Act, provides the president authorization to do so under certain circumstances, he said.
According to a Congressional Research Service report, the act has been invoked “on dozens of occasions” throughout U.S. history, though its recent use has been “exceedingly rare.” The act was invoked in 1992 during riots in California over the beating of motorist Rodney King, though in that instance, the state’s governor requested it.
It was also used during the civil rights movement, including when President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent the Army into Little Rock to desegregate its schools, Vladeck said. The law says the president can intervene if state authorities are unable to give their residents the protection of law.
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Former vice president Joe Biden, the presumptive 2020 Democratic nominee for president, said on Twitter, “He’s using the American military against the American people.”

wapo:

“I am the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and was not given even a courtesy call, that they would be clearing [the area] with tear gas so they could use one of our churches as a prop,” Budde said.
She excoriated the president for standing in front of the church — its windows boarded up with plywood — holding up a Bible, which Budde said “declares that God is love.”
“Everything he has said and done is to inflame violence,” Budde of the president. “We need moral leadership, and he’s done everything to divide us.”

business insider:

Law enforcement used tear gas, rubber bullets, and other tactics on Monday to clear out protesters in Lafayette Square so US President Donald Trump could have his photo taken in front of a church near the White House.
Those protesting George Floyd’s death a week earlier in Minneapolis were pushed out of the park — which is next to the White House grounds — at about 6:30 p.m. local time, roughly 15 minutes before Trump gave remarks in the White House Rose Garden.
As the Associated Press reported, “Tear-gas canisters could be heard exploding as Trump spoke in the Rose Garden.” According to a pool report, the area near St. John’s Church, which is across from Lafayette Square, was still thick with gas when the press arrived ahead of the president’s walk there from the Rose Garden, prompting “coughing and choking.”
Reporters who had been on the scene earlier said protesters had not engaged in any violence before the police fired tear gas and began herding them away.
“There was no warning. The crowd was entirely peaceful,” Jackson Proskow, the Washington bureau chief for the Canadian outlet Global News, posted on Twitter. “Trump had police move in with tear gas and horses so he could stage a photo op outside a church across the street.”

https://kyma.com/news/politics/2020/06/02/biden-says-were-in-battle-for-the-soul-of-our-nation-in-philadelphia-speech/

“The president held up the Bible at St. John’s Church yesterday. I just wish he opened it every once in a while instead of just brandishing it,” the former vice president and presumptive Democratic 2020 nominee said in Philadelphia.
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“When peaceful protestors are dispersed by the order of the President from the doorstep of the people’s house, the White House — using tear gas and flash grenades — in order to stage a photo op, a photo op, at one of the most historic churches in the country or at least Washington, DC, we can be forgiven for believing that the president is more interested in power than in principle,” Biden said.
“More interested in serving the passions of his base than the needs of the people in his care,” he said. “For that’s what the presidency is: a duty of care — to care to all of us, not just those who vote for us, but all of us; not just our donors, but all of us.”
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“I promise you this: I won’t traffic in fear and division. I won’t fan the flames of hate,” Biden said.
“I will seek to heal the racial wounds that have long plagued this country — not use them for political gain. I’ll do my job and take responsibility. I won’t blame others. I’ll never forget that the job isn’t about me. It’s about you. And I’ll work to not only rebuild this nation. But to build it better than it was.”
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Biden also directly addressed Floyd’s killing, calling it “a wake-up call for our nation” as he began his speech.
“‘I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe.’ George Floyd’s last words. But they didn’t die with him. They’re still being heard. They’re echoing across this nation,” Biden said.
“They speak to a nation where too often just the color of your skin puts your life at risk. They speak to a nation where more than 100,000 people have lost their lives to a virus and 40 million Americans have filed for unemployment — with a disproportionate number of these deaths and job losses concentrated in the black and minority communities,” Biden said. “And they speak to a nation where every day millions of people — not at the moment of losing their life — but in the course of living their life — are saying to themselves, ‘I can’t breathe.’”

flatus, good thinking.  might check the rations, your meds and store some extra water just in case.

aside from a pesky pandemic and imminent martial law being announced, it is hurricane season you know.

yes, of course jack and bink have a right to express their opinions which they’ve one well.  I respect their points of view.  I will do my best not to further offend anyone’s sensibilities (except for trump who I doubt has any). 

my intentions are never to hurt any one on the trail and apologize if I have done so in my feeble attempts to comment on the conditions we now find ourselves – 106,000 + deaths from a deadly disease and the obvious threats to our democracy (both due to trump) .    the horrific murders of George  Floyd and Breonna Taylor and the terrible injustices being visited on persons of color are not separate from nor diminished in importance by pointing out these conditions.