Comment on If no government shall bare arms against its own citizens. Then what is happening in LA?

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah. In Germany it’s called the “violence monopoly”.

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• lennee@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  thats like literally what the executive does

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• passepartout@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think you are mixing this up with the function of the executive goverment in a state with alleged separation of powers (one of the fundamentals of democracy).

  A president himself sending out forces is in fact not normal.

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  • bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Especially when both that city’s mayor and state governor explicitly do not want those troops there.

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• reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  citizens are the government though. if they are not, its not democratic country.

  Still, there should be no need to even threaten citizens with violence and if there is, it should be resolved mutually instead of just oppressing the people into submission.

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  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    citizens are the government though.

    Did you mean that people in government are citizens? Because I’m a citizen of my country and not in the government.

    if they are not, its not democratic country

    Correct. The United States is not a democracy. It’s barely even a “representative democracy”.

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    • reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      people in government are citizens but not every citizen is in government. But every citizen should have equal right and opportunity to be in the government.

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