The nation’s third shutdown in 12 years is once again raising anxiety levels among service members and their families because those in uniform are working without pay. While they would receive back pay once the impasse ends, many military families live paycheck to paycheck.
During previous shutdowns, Congress passed legislation to ensure that troops kept earning their salaries, but time is running out before they miss their first paycheck in less than a week.
Not American, but what’s this about the military saying they’ll protect protestors? That’s pretty big, thats what toppled Egypt in 2011, the military sided with protestors.
The general headed to Portland said this in an interview in the last 48 hrs. News cycle is insane right now; tough to find.
It was a subdued but a clear statement. Said they’ll follow lawful orders, and they’ll protect Oregonians, which he in a word clarified, the protestors.
I’ll edit this if I find it. I saw it from a content creator who does a good job gathering these clips by being more terminally online than I can manage.
Content creator was Parkrose Permaculture.
Found it
Clip of general’s statement is at 2:58.
3:40: “[Those deployed] will be protecting any protestors at the ICE facility.”
I hate how hard it is to find “old news”.
I feel it’s deliberate.
Just because I was curious, here is the article that YT video is covering. From The Oregonian
Oregon general’s testimony that National Guard troops ‘will be protecting any protesters’ gains traction online
The article is from October 8th, the video clip is “A nine-day-old snippet of testimony in front of Oregon lawmakers.” My curiosity did not extend to digging up the source recording of the full testimony.