"A once great American City, Los Angeles, has been invaded and occupied by Illegal Aliens and Criminals. Now violent, insurrectionist mobs are swarming and attacking our Federal Agents to try and stop our deportation operations — "
Truth Social, President of the United States
Okay. Now it's official. We have a real insurrection this time. Which is different from last time when progressive Democrats pronounced the J6 riots to be an insurrection. And then they prosecuted them as such.
J6 was a political protest that turned into a riot. It wasn't a very substantial riot as far as riots usually go, but it was a riot that took over the US Capitol building for a short time with the help of some very polite staff and FBI-adjacent agitators. A protester was killed by the authorities, the inverse was not true, and most of the arrested were guilty of little more than trespass. However, the government spent a great deal of time and resources hunting them down and putting them in jail for years, violating their right to a quick and speedy trial and using the arrests to make a point rather than to punish for the infraction of actual statutes.
Democratic Party bosses labeled this an insurrection and formed a panel of progressive politicians (sans any conservative politicians) to advertise and politicize the event. In reality, if this was an insurrection, it was the lousiest and weakest attempt at one ever in the history of Western civilization. Nobody burned anything, nobody threw rocks at law enforcement, and two or three were found to have brought guns. Some were found to have brought bear spray. In the real world, nobody is going to overthrow a government with bear spray. (Now remember, I'm not defending those types for what they did. I'm comparing them to what those types are doing now.)
However, in LA, we have an actual insurrection now. This has been thoroughly covered on this website already, so there's no need for me to list the videos and accounts. In the parlance of current political-speak, "Make no mistake" and "Let me be clear," we have an insurrection against the federal government that dovetails perfectly with any sane definition of it.
Good on the president for calling it out for what it is.
Eventually, the government will win, and order will be restored because Trump clearly has the one thing in his quiver needed to deal with it. He has the political will. Nobody in the previous four years ever did. Biden, nor his cabal behind the curtain, nor his Democratic mayors, nor their police forces who were subservient to those political machines, nor their cheerleaders in the Congress and media, ever had the political will to stand up and end, or call for an end, to the BLM and progressive riots, that struck our cities and burned them up.
This is different. This isn't just a bunch of goons throwing rocks and burning cars because they "see injustice." This is a bunch of goons throwing rocks and burning cars because they want to stop the enforcement of federal law by federal officers through violence. That's what insurrection is.
18 U.S. Code § 2383 - Rebellion or Insurrection
Any act of rebellion or insurrection against the U.S. government constitutes a serious federal crime punishable by serious jail time and fines. This crime is embodied under Title 18 U.S. Code 2383.
There's no nuance here, and either the government is going to prosecute these people or it isn't. J6 can be argued as either a riot or an insurrection. Los Angeles cannot. It's an insurrection, and it's an insurrection against the federal system that we all vote for every time there is an election. No one here votes for a system based on laws that are followed only by those like them, and no one here votes for laws that apply to some but not others. In the end, you might get people who live by the former, but that's what jail is for.
Gavin Newsom Prepares to Sue Trump to Keep the LA Riots Going
After watching the insurrection take place over the weekend, and Trump's appropriate response to it (National Guard, Marines, etc.), part of me wishes that we could build a wall around California and deport the illegal aliens from the other 49 into that state to make it one big sanctuary campground. California is a land of excess, and so I should think its people would be ecstatic at the idea. It really seems they're serious about the love they have for their illegal aliens. I guess as a country, we could give them all of ours, but you can't. There are still a lot of normal Californians there; they just don't all live in the cities where the progressive power centers control the vote. It would probably be a disservice to make them live in a Third World hellhole just because the progressives' name for that is Utopia.
Anyway, I don't think the open insurrection is going to last very long because Trump will shut it down. Then it will go underground, and that's where it will get more troublesome. The Feds already know they have the ability to identify through software (thanks Democrats), and they have the political will to make arrests, prosecute, and incarcerate. But unlike conservatives and the J6 experience, progs will likely find a different way to obstruct or come out physically to contest each and every one. The judiciary is getting high off its newfound power and will be a weapon for Democrats. The media, no doubt, the same. Antifa and those of like mind will do what they do, and some Californians might even employ the methods of Gandhi on Throwback Thursdays.
No matter what happens, it's going to be interesting and it's going to be historic. And the outcome is going to result in a society that either believes in the same law for everybody or just some. For a lot of reasons, Trump is a historic figure, but right now, none so much as being the guy with the political will to enforce the Constitution's theme that we are a people who are all subject to the laws that we create.
Editor's Note: President Trump isn't going to allow lawlessness to reign in America. We will not have a repeat of 2020's "Summer of Love."
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