Insurrection, Part 2

Insurrection, Part 2

Are riots part of the resistance?

It is apparent that there are no moderate democrats left when every democrat governor signs a letter condemning President Trump’s use of the California National Guard and the Marines to quell the rioting in Los Angeles. The letter read in part “President Trump’s move to deploy California’s National Guard is an alarming abuse of power. Governors are the Commanders in Chief of their National Guard and the federal government activating them in their own borders without consulting or working with a state’s governor is ineffective and dangerous.” But Trump did call California governor Newsom (though Newsom denies it) and told him to “get his ass in gear.” 

Yet Newsom and LA mayor Karen Bass seem content to let parts of the city burn and be looted if it serves to stop the ICE raids and the deportation of illegals. Alarmingly so do apparently every democrat governor. We know that Tim Walz thwittled his thumps while Minneapolis was engulf in flames during the George Floyd riots and actually ceded a police precinct station to the mob. Remember CHAZ (capitol hill autonomous zone) where it was a “police free zone”? It is clear that Trump was no going to allow the mob to take over parts of Los Angeles regardless of the wishes of the democrats, socialists and anarchists who run (ruin) the state.

The riots present the American public with a contrast. Trump’s tariffs are unpopular and will become more so if he persists. When empty shelves appear in the store and consumer prices increase, even the MAGA folk will find their loyalty faltering. Yet the same American public will be hesitant to exchange republican legislators for democrat ones when the democrats prioritize criminal activity over peace keeping. Burning vehicles, looting stores, burning American flags while carrying Mexican and Palestinian ones, spitting on and injuring law enforcement all are bad looks. If these protests were peaceful then there would have been no need for Trump to mobilize the California National Guard and the Marines.

However, the Administration speaks out of both sides of its mouth. Tom Homan declares that all the ICE raids have warrants for the arrests of illegals who have committed crimes. That makes the protestors who are attempting to thwart the arrest and deportation of criminals a losing issue for most voters. But on the other hand we have Trump’s immigration zealot Stephen Miller chastising ICE for not arresting and deporting more illegals and telling them to target Home Depot and 7-Elevens to arrest day laborers. That puts a lie to Homan who should be upset by it. Of course, every one of the 20+ million illegals in the country have broken the law but it is a stretch to call them criminals. If Trump were to override Miller and tell Homan and Kristy Noem to concentrate on the criminals, they would have enough work to keep them busy for a lifetime, not to mention the next three years.

The White House said that “Radical left lunatics are taking to the streets of Los Angeles — attacking law enforcement, hurling projectiles at police cruisers, burning vehicles, and shutting down freeways — because the Trump Administration is removing violent criminal illegal immigrants from their communities.” Well then go after the bad guys and quit targeting the day laborers at the Home Depot. Last week I was at the Georgia farm and my overseer was having some block work done on his house. I looked at the workers and said “Where are the Mexicans?” The reply was “They are all hiding.”

That the California democrats care more for providing sanctuary to the illegals than to enforcing the law is evident by the state suing Trump and asking a Federal court to enjoin the use of the national guard and the marines. The court denied the request.

So the basic question is whether the Federal government should allow the state and local authorities to allow their city to be looted and pillaged?  in Los Angeles, the police chief said that the “disgusting” violence “overwhelmed” his forces. adding that “there’s no limit to what they’re doing to our officers” and

“we’ve seen violence at a level that disgusts every good person.” Yet, Newsom, Bass and the democrat governors are whining about state’s rights while letting their cities burn and turn lawless. What about the rights of the citizens who are caught in the maelstrom? Speaking of which, a new touch to the rioting was the summoning of the Waymo autonomous self-driving taxis to the scene to be set on fire. The taxis are EVs and the fires are difficult to extinguish. Waymo then suspended service to downtown LA. One business owner said “This is so ridiculous. This doesn’t look like they’re protesting for ICE or anything. They are doing [it] just for the looting of the stores.” Another owner said that the politicians just don’t care. “These people don’t care. The only way it’s going to stop is if many troops come in, round them up, put them in the back of trucks, and bring them into a cell. “We’ve got a lot of empty jail cells here in Los Angeles. We need to put them in jail cells, as many as we possibly can. If it’s thousands, it’s thousands.” 

Finally, in contrast to the letter from the democrat governors condemning the president, the republican AGs also wrote a letter. It read that they stand “united in condemning violent attacks on law enforcement, the normalization of mob violence as ‘activism,’ any attempt to delegitimize efforts to restore order,” and “leaders who put politics above public safety. “We will always defend the right to peacefully protest, but there’s nothing peaceful about arson, assault, and anarchy. If you set police cars on fire, throw Molotov cocktails at law enforcement, and loot businesses, you must be held accountable.”

Kentucky and Pennsylvania have a democrat governor and a republican AG pitting the two are on opposite sides of the issue. These are interesting times.