LA Says Enough

I'm glad I waited until today to write about the events of this weekend in Los Angeles because by Sunday night there was a noticeable change in activities. Mostly all not good or not helpful. As a young person in the 1960's and 1970's I saw, and participated in, my share of protests, mainly against the Viet Nam war but also in support of civil rights so I know what a good and bad protest looks like.

What happened this weekend in Los Angeles was mostly peaceful crowds came out to protest the rounding up of innocent people by ICE in their effort to make the felon in chief happy by getting the numbers up, like he promised his radical base, of illegals to deport. The fact that many of them are not illegal and none of them have been given due process hasn't stopped the heavy handed and illegal actions by ICE and DHS.

Things got off to a shaky start on Friday and Saturday when ICE decided to visit the parking lot of a couple of Home Depot's and grab day workers standing around looking for jobs. They also visited a few shops in a strip mall across the street as long as they were in the area and dragged people out of work to arrest them. None of them were the dangerous criminals the felon and Tom Homan promised they would be focusing on. Instead this circus has now become ICE arresting anyone that isn't white including children that they took from a school for no reason.

Well there is a reason and all this is about a couple of important things we can't lose sight of.

First, this was all laid out in the Project 2025 playbook and many of us warned everyone that if they elected the felon it would lead to this very action. Second, they want this to be as cruel as possible. Remember that disgusting program from his last regime where they took 5000 children away from their parents with no record keeping of who they are or who they belong to? I sure do and it still makes me sick to my stomach. Being cruel is the point of this. Third, by doing what they are doing they hope and expect the crowds to grow bigger, angrier, and ultimately more violent so that they can install the insurrection act and allow the felon to become the dictator he dreams of becoming.

As I said this was a mostly peaceful weekend event. Yes there were provocateurs who wanted to spice things up and if you are into rumors and conspiracy theories then the online mill is saying that many of these people are MAGA infiltrators, paid to show up and cause problems. I lean to likely not the case. There are professional trouble makers out there that love when events like this pop up so that they can come in and make things worse. They live for chaos and anger.

This is what kicked things into high gear Sunday. The felon, against the wishes of the mayor and the governor, nationalized the national guard and deployed them to Los Angeles when there was zero justification to do so. It was meant to do what it did, create outrage and anger and swell the crowds who were protesting in the hopes it would lead to violence so he could invoke the insurrection act once and for all.

Lucky for us the Los Angeles police stepped in and created a buffer between the guard and the protesters and kept things relatively calm and peaceful. The guard are trained to kill people not manage crowd control and that is just what the felon and his thugs wanted to happen. The police were mostly well behaved, a few over zealous officers on horseback and with batons playing whack-a-mole, but for the most part I would give them high grades for their restraint and professionalism.

This was all over the social media outlets yesterday hoping to give any guardsman help if they felt they were being asked to do something outside the bounds of their sworn duty. I applaud the offer being out there but doubt anyone was going to take advantage of their help. I have not seen an interview with any of the guard but I would guess that if asked they would say they would rather not be there doing what they are being asked to do.

I have been saying since before the election that if the felon won he was going to lead this country into a horrible civil war and I'm afraid that I'm going to be right. These three above are the first ones we need to wipe out if and when it comes to war. Well, right after the felon himself. The asshole on the left, Stephen Miller, is the most evil and dangerous of them all. He was the architect of the separation policy and he is the idea man of this latest plan of rounding up anyone they can find. Our invisible VP JD Vance, in the middle in case you've forgotten what he looks like, is VP because the Project 2025 folks want him to take over as President once they eliminate the felon, and they plan to do just that. Finally, the dipshit on the right, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, is busy stoking fear and anger in the base to keep them fired up for when the call to arms is announced. They all need to be put down early in the war.

One of the great moments of yesterday was the Governor Gavin Newsom going off on the idiot in chief in an interview on MSNBC. He also challenged Tom Homan to "stop playing games and come and get him if he thinks he can." Newsome called the felon a liar, an idiot, and the person responsible for what was happening on the streets of Los Angeles right now. I have never seen him that mad and he was forcefully repeating that the felon was a liar and the bad guy. It was classic TV and it should get an Emmy.

No matter which side of the political spectrum you are on we all mostly agree that violent illegal people in our country should be sent packing. Only the truly deranged among us think it is acceptable to go into a retail store and drag people out and arrest them with no warrant or cause, or even worse, go into a school and drag kids out of classrooms and place them in handcuffs when they have lived here most of their lives. This wasn't what anyone voted for and even the MAGA loyalists agree that is overstepping the bounds of what is fair and right.

Don't believe what you are hearing on rightwing media. There is no "riot" happening in Los Angeles. Even the police chief called it a peaceful demonstration. There was no need to call in the national guard and for sure there is no reason to call in 500 marines like the Secretary of Defense is offering. If these idiots send the marines to patrol the streets of any city that will be the match to light this country on fire and then things will really be in a horrible mess.

It is OK to peacefully protest, that is our right as a citizen and our duty when we feel things are going sideways. It is never OK to destroy property, or throw things at police or other people. And it is OK to voice your feelings about what you think about the political leadership of our country. Call them, email them, or stand in front of their district offices and shout at the top of your lungs to them. But do it peacefully and safely and don't give the felon what he wants.

We are at an inflection point in our country's history and in the next few months it is either going to take a step back and calm down or we are going to race head long into a bloody and long civil war.