Gov. DeSantis seeks to reinstate Florida State Guard

[demmiblue]

Source: ABC

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday he's recommending $3.5 million be used to re-establish the Florida State Guard.

DeSantis spoke from the National Guard Armory in Pensacola with Major General James O. Eifert, the Adjutant General of Florida.

"We also want to make sure we have the flexibility and the ability needed to respond to events in our state in the most effective way possible and some of that will require us to be able to have access, and be able to use support in ways that are not encumbered by the federal government or don't require federal government," DeSantis said. "So, I'm going to be recommending in the budget $3.5 million to re-establish the Florida State Guard."

DeSantis said the state guard would act as a civilian volunteer force that can assist the National Guard in state-specific emergencies. He said the money would support training and equipment for up to 200 members.

Read more: https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/state/gov-desantis-seeks-to-reinstate-florida-state-guard

[Mr. Evil]

1. In other words...

a state sanctioned right-wing goon squad.

[olegramps]

13. Lord, Oh, Lord; 200 big belly Goons in Brown Shirts and Hobnailed boots.

[madville]

37. FL already has that, known as FHP, a paramilitary highway patrol with a god complex.

[Lonestarblue]

2. The Republican private armies.

Most likely made up of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys who will now be paid by taxpayers to commit domestic terrorism. Is it legal for a state to have its own military?

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

11. yea its legal, most states already either have an active state defense force

or the laws in place for them. Florida falls into this category, they already have the laws in place, they just had no funding allocated and have no active units. I don't know of any that are armed though. All seem to be used for disaster relief type stuff.

[gab13by13]

3. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph

hundreds of Rittenhouses patrolling the neighborhood.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph and their wee donkey.

I love to curse in Irish.

[PatSeg]

30. Ha, ha, ha!!!

[Irish_Dem]

4. DeSatin with his own private army.

What could go wrong?

[ancianita]

6. Great. Now he can do house-to-house sweeps to purge undesirables who he deems a "threat."

able to use support in ways that are not encumbered by the federal government or don't require federal government

200 who cover for the other thousands who they deputize

[justhanginon]

7. DeSantis has probably already ordered the brown shirts and boots.

That would be for the volunteers that do not already have them. I bet they have a snappy salute set to go and it starts with "Heil" something.

[TeamProg]

8. And we know just the type of gun-nut-power-hungry-racist-assholes who will sign up

for it.

[TheRealNorth]

9. Fascism is coming

[Thomas Hurt]

10. Was only a matter of time...our first christofascist brownshirt army....taaa daa!

Kind of like mustering local units during the confederate years I imagine.

[Mr.Bill]

35. Yeah, and how did that go? n/t

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Great. It's going to be a sanctioned militia.

[Biophilic]

14. Well, if that's not scary I don't know what is. Frig, I just moved to Florida.

Guess I'm needed here.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

15. Most states have them

I don't know of any that are fully armed(I think some might have pistols in some cases) and all seem to be oriented for disaster relief, logistics support, etc.

[ancianita]

16. Wait. He's spending $120 million more to make FL literal police state.

$87.5 million to expand the National Guard Readiness Center in Miramar and build three new armories, which cause house up to 1500 soldiers when complete

$8.9 million for existing armory maintenance

$2.2 million for the National Guard Counterdrug Program

$5.1 million to support Guardsmen seeking higher education

$12.2 million in scholarships for children and spouses of deceased or disabled veterans

$3.6 million to improve base infrastructure and support projects

[orangecrush]

17. Let's see if the riff raff

Are willing to die for DeSantis when regular troops are sent to Florida to stop the civil rights violations they will undoubtedly commit.

[obamanut2012]

18. And zero raises for State employees for many years

With the COL here exploding.

I have friends who work at State universities and colleges who haven't gotten an actual raise for a decade.

[Walleye]

19. He will be sending them to the Texas/ Mexico border soon

[Javaman]

20. Watch for this in other red states

Amassing forces

[onenote]

39. Most already have them. As do blue states like CA,NY, MD, etc etc.

[Carlitos Brigante]

21. If we had a useful press in this country. Every time one of these pigs yells "small govmnt." in

an interview. They should be laughed out of the room. Or at the very least made to answer the endless examples of them talking out of both sides of their ass.

[Escurumbele]

22. "It Can't Happen Here" - Sinclair Lewis - It is happening, Lewis saw it in 1935, amazing

This is what dictatorships do, they build their own militia, that bring chaos, corruption, killings, robberies, kidnappings, they terrorize citizens.

Venezuela, with Chavez created what they call "Colectivos", which is the same thing DeSantis wants to do.

Here you can read about it:

[link:https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2019/5/9/venezuela-who-are-the-colectivos|

Scary stuff...of course that these kind of militia always ends up badly for even them, at the end they start shooting each other, but it only happens years after they have committed horrendous crimes.

[ashredux]

23. Pretty obvious, he wants his own "Brown Shirts"

[jmowreader]

24. If anyone needs a State Guard, it's Florida

They do get hit by massive hurricanes on occasion, and having 200 people armed with heavy equipment like dump trucks and front-end loaders would come in REAL handy at those times. He already has the National Guard if he decides to start shooting liberals.

[heckles65]

25. In my experience they are not overly manned with out and out fascists so much as

guys who want the prestige of military service without, you know, going to foreign lands and getting shot at.

And oh yes...who like elaborate ceremonial messes.

"Many good men fell in that engagement!" "Yeah, under the table."

Seriously, their job has long been taken over by state police forces. Like Space Force, they're a military organization in search of a mission.

[CRK7376]

26. In the late 80's early 90's

as a young NC National Guard Infantry Company Commander I had a bunch,5-6, bubbas or Yahoos take your pick show up at my armory expecting they would be allowed access to all our stuff....WRONG!!!! I gave them nothing, no access to our arms room, supply room or our Motor Pool. They sat around smoking and drinking our coffee. I did let them drink coffee and use or latrines,. When they finally figured out that I was going to train them or give them access to my stuff they gave up and left. The next month the showed up and tried again to us my stuff and our armory....No luck for round two. Then they stopped showing up.

[Mysterian]

44. Your stuff would have disappeared

if you had given them access to it.

[sop]

27. Knowing DeSantis, this won't end well.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

28. He'll preferentially hire UNvaccinated goons with zero empathy or care for other people's lives,

... all the UNvaccinated goons he is hiring from New York (good riddance).

[Kaleva]

29. Might be something like what Michigan has.

"The Michigan Volunteer Defense Force (MIVDF) is a military force, duly constituted as a state defense force and an element of Michigan Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. The MIVDF is one of the three components of the military establishment of Michigan; the Army National Guard, the Air National Guard, and the Michigan Volunteer Defense Force.[1]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Volunteer_Defense_Force

[machoneman]

31. It started with the brown shirts, then the SA, who morphed into the SS and then........

Gee, history may be repeating itself. Yet, when they came for me, their was no one left to speak up...........

[monkeyman1]

36. Reichsmarshal Deathsentence -

better have good set of ambulance chaser,s on staff ! I can law suits will slam dunk him civil right's shit & phony arrest charges ! I wonder what he is using for thinking power between his ear's ?

[sarisataka]

32. Meh, as pointed out above many states have

Such an organization. Some even have a "navy".

In practice they are much like reserve police officers, pretty much only used to direct traffic.

[onenote]

40. +1

[turbinetree]

33. Alrighty welcome to the Sun Shine state we have our own vigilante force

and I'm going to take it from the taxpayers....nan, nan, nan

[LiberalLovinLug]

34. Most American seem to adore a man (or woman) in uniform

The worship of the military, National Guard included, is disturbing to those outside your country.

But this will get him votes. For that reason alone. And I dare any Democrat to speak against it.

Nobody denies the MIC. Nobody.

[onenote]

41. Why would Democrats speak against it since states like CA and NY already have the same thing?

[LiberalLovinLug]

42. That's kinda my point

[Shellback Squid]

38. what is up his sleeve?

[Mysterian]

43. His own little freikorps

which ultimately will be used to do violence upon political opponents.