Kinzinger: Do We Want to Live in a 1984-Style World ‘Where You Just Occupy Every City Because of So-Called Crime’?

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KINZINGER: “Yeah, you do it as a partnership. So, the military can be helpful. The Guard can be helpful, for instance, if they want to cover certain duties of the Chicago police that are non-law enforcement, to allow more cops on the street. That’s important. But, Jake, here’s the thing as a country we have to think about. You could put a soldier in every square mile and reduce this country to have zero crime. I read the book 1984. That’s what they did there. Is that what we want to live in, where you just occupy every city because of so-called crime? That is how dictators come to power. It’s how authoritarians come to power on the backs of that, of safety and security. It’s one thing when the — if the mayor said we need help here, then do that as a partnership. But to do it against it — and, by the way, when the president federalizes these troops, because he won’t have state authority to do it, they won’t have law enforcement capability anyway. They’ll be Title X federal troops and they can guard, like, federal buildings.”