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2020.06.29

PART I: The Protest Imperative
President Trump raised the issue of deploying active-duty troops, and this triggered a furious debate...

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2020.07.01

PART II: Peaceably to Assemble and Petition
Civil disobedience often breaks the law. How then does our government draw the line between the type of peaceable civil disobedience which is a First Amendment right and the type which is not?...

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2020.07.06

PART III: Army 82nd Airborne and the Marines
Nixon called in the active-duty Army 82nd Airborne paratroopers, and dozens of helicopters also landed next to the Washington Monument, bringing Marines into the city...

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2020.07.08

PART IV: The Marines and Army Infantry
LAPD officers were videotaped savagely beating Rodney King. There was no Facebook Live. There were no bodycams and no dashcams at the time; the witness just sent his tape to local news station KTLA (after LAPD refused to look at it)...

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2020.07.10

PART V: The Insurrection Act
Neither the National Guard nor active-duty troops has the sad history of killing Blacks that the local police do.

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2020.07.16

PART VI: Defending the Constitution
In a system with accountability, if orders from a governor, a commanding officer, or the president of the United States violate the First Amendment, then police, National Guardsmen, and active-duty soldiers must refuse those orders...

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2020.09.29

PART VII: The Defunding Fallacy
Cities have power over their police departments. Police Department budgets are controlled by the cities. Often, it is a vote by the City Council signed by the mayor...

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