National Guard Deployment, University Campus Protests
Donald Trump called for the National Guard to address university campus protests, leading to media accusations of authoritarianism. A BBC analysis featuring Professor Scott Lucas compares the current deployment to historical events like the 1992 LA riots and the 1950s desegregation of schools in Arkansas under Dwight Eisenhower. Critics argue the current use of the Guard at detention centers is a political stunt lacking an imminent threat.
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00:00 Alright, this is the time of the year to plant. Cutting through the crud and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas school country, right here in FEMA Region No. 6 In The Morning everybody! I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley where they've called out the National Guards It's authoritarianism! I'm John C. Dvorak Everybody's on the quad, oh no! Trump calls out the National Guard. Doing what people asked him to do stop stop stop we can't have it
00:49 It's authoritarianism. Yeah, it is authoritarianism man and the National Guard is standing there like smoking cigarettes They don't know what to do they're all standing around nothing going on everyone else is...they're rioting! No they burned their old panties and everyone's live streaming it on Instagram and TikTok I have not seen anything really happen Well, there's that car on fire. Oh a car on fire they do that when we win the ballgame It's true in his Super Bowl and they put more cars on fire Don't park around the Super Bowl Well I have a couple of clips because the BBC thinks this is a big deal oh yes well The BBC would because it's gonna happen in their town soon yeah real but but this is interesting this clip is interesting because
01:46 You know they want to turn it around and make it about Trump somehow being Hitler. Yes, of course! And so they talk about the event... They have some woman standing there in LA, isn't LA by the way? For people out there who don't know where this is taking place. By the way for people who don't know what The Quad is I have YouTube TV has a four screen multi-view CNN MSNBC Fox and BBC that's The Quad Just like that. So there's this woman who reports, she got nothing to say so they bring on the course the main BBC guy so he's gonna bring an analyst in to discuss this and here we go Well earlier I spoke to Scott Lucas professor of US and international politics at University College Dublin's Clinton Institute He is a professor, he in Ireland And his specialty is Trump derangement syndrome? I'm presuming
02:40 Yeah. Well, National Guard is a long established institution dates back to the 17th century when the US was British colony and that is it was a local effectively militia now as the U.S. developed as a country. Wow! You of course would eventually have the national military but the National Guard would be overseen at state level Now, they could be used in two cases. The federal government could request that the states deploy them and provide them say for example at the start of the 21st century in Iraq I mean Afghanistan They can also be used in national emergencies, and I emphasize real national emergencies. For example, in 1992 as you mentioned, in the LA uprising after the beating of Rodney King they were called out when the city suffered more than $1 billion dollars in damage and they could be deployed when states refused to observe
03:36 the law. So, the federal government in the 1950s under Dwight Eisenhower called out the National Guard to make sure that schools could be desegregated in Arkansas when Governor Falvis refused to do so. In very specific situations where there is an imminent threat, the federal government can override the states and call out the National Guard. Hold on a second he says two things here let me just get this right and you've probably looked this up So the president can call out the National Guard in a situation where the state is disregarding The law and that could be a danger and then at the end he says but you know if it's just as if It's crazy that he can call it. The National Guard and In this case I presume legally President Trump has called in the National Guard because of
04:25 the state of California is not cooperating with ICE to hand over criminals. That sounds right, it sounds like the president is in his constitutional right. You're too logical Oh I'm sorry! I don't work for the BBC that's the problem So a couple things he did say I want to point out because he's going to be forced to contradict himself He says, he makes the point of real. He says real national emergencies and uses the word national...real. That's what he said! Yeah it was real. Rodney King was not a national emergency No It was a local situation in LA but I suppose you could... You know? It wasn't it was not a good time. It was not a party
05:11 The other one was Fauvist. There was a black kid, they wouldn't let him in the school so they brought to National Guard and forced him to go in or her I think it was a woman. That was during Johnson? No this is Eisenhower. Oh Eisenhower! I'm sorry yes way before that of course. And so that was you know hardly a national emergency but whatever the case he's going...he's kind of wandering here The BBC, he's not on the script because he should have already slammed Trump by now. So the BBC guy interrupts him... Prompts him! Hey you're not doing it right! Interrupts them and puts them back on track and then we get to hear what they're really trying to tell us here. What do make of Donald Trump's decision to do it in this instance?
05:56 It's unprecedented. It is unprecedented for the National Guard to be called out when you do not have that imminent threat, and I need to emphasize protesters gathered last night as you mentioned outside this detention center because people are just being swept up many of whom have no criminal records and with a threat they'll just simply be disappeared deported without any due process of law There were some people who were arrested when they failed to disperse but there was some total of two Two people who were arrested for assaults on police officers, one with a Molotov cocktail. Do you think that in the literature this professor has studied that they speak of sweeping people up?
06:35 Or is that just hyperbole from our professor? And he also used the word disappeared, which is a left-wing trope. I'll take it back to that. Deported without due process of law there were some people who arrested when they failed to disperse but there were some total of two Two people who were arrested for assaults on police officers, one with a Molotov cocktail allegedly. So there was no imminent threat here. This needs to be called out what it is. It is a political stunt by the Trump administration both as part of that crackdown on migration and also to try to expand its authority at the expense of the states in what would some see as being effectively authoritarian. Oh very good authoritarian.
07:22 Every single one of my British and European friends, you know what they say? Man I wish... I can just imagine. Man I wish we had a guy like that here! That's what they all say! Yeah there is that element. Of course. That's when it actually cracks me up. Yeah, of course they won't say in their own country for fear of retribution and You know, all the news. All of it is all swept up, you know, disappeared. Disappeared is my favorite! This is political speech that's what that is and its kind of baffling... well no not really I guess. It's not baffling? What am I thinking? It's not really baffling Do you have more? I have Ice Barbie who was on CBS Face The Nation
