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"One thing above all else will restore order to our streets: an overwhelming show of force to disperse, detain and ultimately deter lawbreakers."

These people are dangerous.

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2/ LA's Mayor Bradley requested federal troop in 1992. They weren't shoved down his throat by a president threatening to "quickly solve the problem for [him]."

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3/ And as far as IKE is concerned, his use of the military was to disperse mobs intent on preventing school desegregation, which was in defense of Brown v. Board of Education, an unanimous Supreme Court opinion (i.e. federal law).
4/ Is this who we want overseeing the deployment of the army into our cities & states?

Oliver Wendell Holmes supposedly said that FDR possessed a "second-class intellect; a first-class temperament."

Its situations like these where temperament matters.

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