The Goon Show - Fascist Florida

matthunter · Nov 23, 2023

So, looks like DeSantis' state-sponsored "Florida State Guard" is just a private army intended to do stuff the National Guard would balk at, and attracts the types you might imagine would like to be part of a right-wing group that gets military training.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/11/report-shows-desantis-has-private-fascist#google_vignette

Why DeSantis needed his own alternative to the National Guard was always sketchy, and critics warned from the beginning that the authoritarian-minded, vengeance-obsessed DeSantis was exactly the sort of political leader who should not be given his own dedicated paramilitary force. The suspicions were that Florida Republicans were not creating an "emergency preparedness" force, but a state-sponsored anti-federal militia.

Those fears quickly proved to be grounded. Last June, scandal erupted when a founding supervisor and other volunteers quit, warning that the training program for the new state guard was "heavily militarized," with "marching drills and military-style training sessions on weapons and hand-to-hand combat." The governor's office then appeared to bend the previously stated purpose for the guard, telling The New York Times the group would help "ensure Florida remains fully fortified to respond to not only natural disasters, but also to protect its people and borders from illegal aliens and civil unrest."

That gave the game away. DeSantis and Republican lawmakers may have sold the program as one of emergency preparedness, but the training appears to be focused on an imagined future of armed and hand-to-hand combat with "illegal aliens," or with the state facing "civil unrest."

Last week, the Miami Herald broke the news that the DeSantis administration had hired Stronghold SOF Solutions to recruit and train guard volunteers. The paramilitary-minded company "trains police and military members on tactical shooting, explosives and urban combat," reports the Herald, and "lists as one of its instructors a former U.S. Navy SEAL accused of war crimes."
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Jason Van Tatenhove, who served as a high-ranking Oath Keepers official and now speaks out about the perils of the antigovernment movement, warned Hatewatch that FSG seems to be playing the same public relations game his old militia group did – saying FSG focuses on emergency preparedness when it actually concentrates on paramilitary and combat training. He described FSG as a “professional, private paramilitary organization that is extremely well funded.”

Task Force Butler, a non-profit that trains veterans in research and operations to counter extremism, portrays FSG as possibly the “single greatest direct cash infusion” the antigovernment militia movement has ever seen.
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Tererune · Nov 23, 2023

So what happens when descumbag is not able to be governor anymore? Let us say next governor election in the duh I run and become governor. Do I get to command these wackos?

Diacanu · Nov 23, 2023

But Obama Brownshirts tho!!
Remember when we were all killed by the Obama brownshirts!?!?!?
Member?!!?!?

*Desantis makes actual brownshirts*

Rightforge-

Bickendan · Nov 23, 2023

Tererune said: ↑

So what happens when descumbag is not able to be governor anymore? Let us say next governor election in the duh I run and become governor. Do I get to command these wackos?
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You'd actually be an improvement for Florida, and I find you annoying as fuck most of the time

Spaceturkey · Nov 23, 2023

Tererune said: ↑

So what happens when descumbag is not able to be governor anymore? Let us say next governor election in the duh I run and become governor. Do I get to command these wackos?
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If there's any beauty or justice in the world, I hope so.

They'll look so awesome with the cat ears on their helmets

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