WHY DOES DESANTIS NEED A "PERSONAL" MILITIA NOT OVERSEEN BY THE PENTAGON?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 12 December 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Alarm sets in as DeSantis moves to form his own militia. He already has a national guard but they are overseen by the Pentagon. He wants to oversee his own military. What could go wrong? What happens when other red states do the same? We now know how a civil war begins.
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| 0:49.4 | Now you've got Rhonda Santas trying to create his own personal militia in Florida. |
| 0:59.5 | Seriously, this is like bringing back the slave patrols, right? |
| 1:04.0 | He wants to, he already has a national guard, but the national guard is overseen by the Pentagon. |
| 1:09.0 | And he doesn't want that. |
| 1:11.1 | He wants to have a military force in the state of Florida that is not to quote to Santas. |
| 1:18.5 | Would not be encumbered by the federal government. |
| 1:21.4 | He's calling it the Florida state guard. |
| 1:23.9 | He's going to use millions of dollars of Florida taxpayer money to do it. |
| 1:29.6 | Now, you know, it raises an interesting question. |
| 1:31.7 | What does he intend to do with this new military force? |
| 1:34.9 | Charlie Chris, who wants to run against Santas next year as governor. |
| 1:38.2 | He says no governor should have his own hand-picked secret police. |
| 1:43.1 | My colleague, Dino Badala, here on Sirius XM, he says to Santas also said this unit would quote |
| 1:48.1 | not be encumbered by the federal government. |
| 1:50.0 | And quote, in other words, it would be Rhonda Santas' personal militia, you know, |
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