Trump calls the navies. Democracy is in danger.

Early this afternoon, the Pentagon activated 700 navies from the Marine Corps Air Ground Comb Center in Twentynine Palms, California, to join the military occupation of the Federal National Guard of Los Angeles. In mid-afternoon, the written orders had not been made public, but the staff of the American senator Alex Padilla and in the offices of some of the delegations of the State Congress had been informed by the contacts of the Chamber and the committees of the armed forces of the Senate according to which the deployment was confirmed.

Sources of conversation with the Governor’s office told me that local marine commanders “pushed” and informed the Pentagon that they did not think that the deployment in Los Angeles was justified. From 3 PMThere is no indication that they were in the streets of the second city in the country. But President Donald Trump and defense secretary Pete Hegseth seem determined to train the soldiers to enforce their ugly political agenda.

The navies will be, if they will be involved in active measures of the application of laws, violate the COMATATUS Posse law – the law of 1878 which generally prevents the US military from participating in the application of national laws. Trump did not invoke the 1807 insurrection law, which would usurp this, and the president would have a steep mountain to climb to prove that the demonstrations of the constituted a real insurrection. The navies are clearly deployed against an nonexistent emergency and an nonexistent insurgency and an nonexistent invasion as a political cascade to strengthen Trump’s anti-immigration program.

The last time the navies were deployed in the streets of the, it was in 1992, in response to the riots of Rodney King in which many city miles of the city were burned and dozens of people were killed. On the other hand, today, the Marines are activated against the wishes of the mayor of Los Angeles and the Governor of California, in a situation in which the local police clearly kept the situation and a day when California announced that it was pursuing the federal government to end the federalization of its national guard.

Having used the provocation of a deployment of the National Guard to transform largely peaceful protests against the raids at the place of ice work into a chaotic uprising, Trump and Hegseth have now increased the bet. They started the process of introducing the American army in a situation of control of the crowd in a dense urban environment. As Trump seems to know and savor, it increases the probability of significant blood output.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the President of the United States, for the political score, is willing to encourage residents to a violent confrontation, creating the kind of chaos that would justify a massacre.

The use of the American army to deal with domestic adversaries is something that occurred regularly on American soil, for example, the army being used to kill the union organizers and the Amerindians resisting the conquest of their land, but it is not something that has happened in recent decades. Indeed, there has been a consensus for generations that the American army, unlike that of totalitarian regimes such as Russia and China, should not be used as a domestic murder team and that countries that TO DO Use the army to suppress domestic dissent in clear violation of international standards.

By raising the challenges more, Trump responded on a question from Peter Doocy on Monday afternoon, a Fox News correspondent, on the question of whether the border tsar Tom Homan should stop the governor of California Gavin Newsom saying that he should and that it would be a “big” movement from Homan. “I like Gavin Newsom. He’s a nice guy, but he is roughly incompetent. Everyone knows it,” said the gangster-president, convicted of 34 crimes and accused of dozens of others.

Sources of communication with Newsom staff told me that Newsom was taking the threat seriously and had discussed with the best aid on how to respond if he was stopped.

I repeat: walking towards totalitarianism East happens here, and that East now happens. Trump steals the game book of each modern leader who has already tried an authoritarian putch. He created false emergencies, then implements real military interventions. Los Angeles is the victim today; You can bet that it will not be the only one in the weeks, months and years to come.