It's not clear if this would even be legal and that may be the only reason Maine Governor Paul LePage hasn't given the order yet.
The lunatic governor is threatening to deploy the National Guard against the state's drug dealers if the state legislature doesn't give him what he wants.
The governor told Bangor radio station WVOM on Tuesday that he’ll deploy the guard if “the Legislature refuses to give us the resources we need.”
He has repeatedly asked lawmakers to include money in the state budget for hiring additional agents at the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency. The Legislature approved funding to add six MDEA agents, two state prosecutors and two judges for additional arrests and court cases this year, but LePage has said he wants more. He called the funding “chump change” during an interview with WVOM’s George Hale and Ric Tyler.
I don't know if LePage's demand for more funding is reasonable or if the legislature's actions have been adequate, but it's clearly fucking insane to me to use the threat of state military force to make demands.
If we are to take the word of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services and Governor LePage himself at face value, the state actually has a surplus of funding available for drug treatment.
LePage is not in favor of prioritizing drug treatment programs, however, instead preferring harsh law enforcement.
LePage made reference to the excess treatment funds Tuesday, saying, “there’s always more money.” [...]
The governor also criticized Democrats for pursuing more treatment funding while not completely fulfilling his request for enforcement money.
“If I didn’t know better, if I was a real cynic, I’d think that the Democrats like drug dealers,” he said, before adding that the perfect place to put drug traffickers was in the “super-max,” a reference to the maximum-security unit within the Maine State Prison.
A guy who says Democrats "like drug dealers" is threatening to deploy the National Guard to serve as law enforcement. What could go wrong?
Paul LePage is an unhinged nincompoop.