It is not far-fetched to look at history and that half a century ago, Presidents from Eisenhower to LBJ had to use federal officers to enforce laws that southern states refused to honor - equal rights for minority students, and the insistence of racist state governments that "state's rights" prevailed.
Now some states that are fully in thrall to leftists politics claim "independent state grounds" for interpreting their states' constitutions as usurping the federal constitution. They can get way with it when states like Oregon decide that identical wording gives the state supreme court the authority to reject practices like drunk driving roadblocks that the US Supreme Court has said meet constitutional muster.
While cloaking themselves with self--endowed moral authority, the Governors of Oregon and California have no more right to violate federal law than did George Wallace or Orval Faubus. Immigration laws are - properly - the province of the federal, not local, government, and while America is indeed a nation of immigrants, that needs many of the hard-working people seeking a better life in America, that does not mean this nation should be alone in the world by offering "open borders."
When I was DA in Astoria I was struck to learn that Canadian border police routinely turned away Americans who had recently earned a DUII conviction. I remember being quizzed by immigration officials in Britain about the length of my stay, what my source of income was, and proof that I had a ticket OUT of the UK when my trip was completed!
Similar screening when I traveled to Israel a few short years ago Mr Marquis, multiple levels of screening and questioning. And that was in the USA. Went through more when I arrived in Tel Aviv. A little frustrating yes, but what the United States should be doing.
Clearing customs upon re-entry in NY was almost too easy.
I find it rather ironic that that the party espousing DEMOCRACY is the one trying to destroy it. if you don't like the law of the land change it, but DEMOCRACY means that the will of the majority should prevail.
LA’s mayor says “sow terror in our communities and disrupt basic principles of safety in our city.” referring, of course, to the Federal crew rounding up those in the country illegally and guilty of who-knows-what conduct. You should insert the ones being arrested into her statement above. Right now, these are some of the worst of the worst and guilty of preying on their communities in the most evil ways while the Democrats just stoke the violence and push everything further into the sewer. It’s about time the criminals and politicians causing this unAmerican activity be held accountable.
This is the best article I've seen regarding the LA riots. It's outstanding because you have used facts (not ideological tropes) to support your stance. And, as I recall, it was John Adams who declared: 'Facts are stubborn things.'
Another fact: Portland has yet to fully recover from its 2020 riots.
Lastly, the late Congressman Sonny Bono when asked about his position on illegal immigration, (supposedly) replied: 'What's to say? It's illegal.'
Portland won't be far behind. The City Council already tried creating an ordinance to abolish the ICE offices in Portland. This will be their next step if the agents show up in Portland. You can assume they will be out front leading the pack of rioters with their "milkshakes" and molotov cocktails. 🍸
Will be interesting to see if what's happening in LA spreads on its own, or whether similar responses will happen whenever/wherever the feds conduct immigration raids or it's a one-off. Could be a run on plywood in Portland.
Yeah nothing says open for business like plywood! We use to call it Alberta glass until they gentrified that neighborhood. Now we should just call if Portland glass.
It’s time for the Democrat party to have a reckoning within itself. On June 1st. we saw a deranged anti-Semite set peaceful Jewish senior citizen protesters on fire in Boulder, Colorado. The peaceful protesters had been gathering each Sunday since the Hamas intrusion into Israel on “October 7th” during which they killed, raped, maimed and took hostages. After the killing of two Israeli embassy diplomats in DC, the killer chanted “free Palestine.” The killer admitted he killed for Hamas and was arrested on the spot after he wrapped himself in a keffiyeh. The young couple were going to get engaged the following week, but they did not live to see that day. This was an unfortunate, but predictable event given the hate and childish emotions we have been witnessing on college campuses from east to west. For nearly 18 months, the left (i.e. The Democrat Party) in America justified, coddled, and explained away tens of thousands marching and demanding the eradication of Israel with chants of “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and “Globalize the intifada.” We have seen the shooting up of Tesla dealerships and firebombing of Tesla cars as well as key swiping them all over America. We have seen conservative Supreme Court justices lives threatened and illegal intimidation marches and protests outside their homes. Who will ever forget about the billions of dollars of property damage and the people injured and killed during the “summer of love” with BLM rioters all over the nation, the tearing down and desecration of statutes and two assassination attempts against Trump?! And look at the deification of Luigi Mangione who is accused of killing United healthcare, CEO Brian Thompson in New York City on December 4, 2024. I could continue with a much longer list of outrages, including this weekend’s riots in LA against ICE agents.
Yes, the Democrat party’s far left has a violence problem and yet, we don’t see any leaders from the party taking a strong stance against these actions. All we heard from Biden and his administration for four years was that “white supremacy” is America’s most dangerous threat domestically. The wink and nod from the Democrats to the pro-Hamas types over the past 18 months must stop. If these were all people carrying tiki torches and wearing white hoods, America would be rightly outraged. There’s a power vacuum in the Democrat party. Desperation is setting in and there’s nobody on the left to speak with a moral voice, which is what the party needs. The party has been co-opted and radicalized. Leftists hate capitalism and Western civilization. The Wall Street Journal recently had an opinion piece titled “the alienated knowledge class could turn violent”with the subtitle that “societies which exile their intellectuals risk turning them into revolutionaries. It happened in the 1970s.” Some conservative pundits has said that the Left is the new Confederacy and that we have a nascent and tacit Civil War occurring right now.
Islamism, wokeism, and neoliberalism need to be reined in and the Democrat party needs a strong, moral voice to do it, or they will continue to fall lower in the polls, which recently show the approval rating for the Democrat party in the 25% range based on Quinnipiac, NBC, CNN and Gallup polls.
Interesting that the WSJ refers to societies exiling their intellectuals, and thereby "turning them into revolutionaries." The intellectuals are certainly not the ones being exiled in the current scenario, except when their comrades shun them for impure thoughts. The exiled would appear to resemble more the "fascist" Americans who fall short of the class status deemed minimally acceptable by highly educated elites. .
It is not far-fetched to look at history and that half a century ago, Presidents from Eisenhower to LBJ had to use federal officers to enforce laws that southern states refused to honor - equal rights for minority students, and the insistence of racist state governments that "state's rights" prevailed.
Now some states that are fully in thrall to leftists politics claim "independent state grounds" for interpreting their states' constitutions as usurping the federal constitution. They can get way with it when states like Oregon decide that identical wording gives the state supreme court the authority to reject practices like drunk driving roadblocks that the US Supreme Court has said meet constitutional muster.
While cloaking themselves with self--endowed moral authority, the Governors of Oregon and California have no more right to violate federal law than did George Wallace or Orval Faubus. Immigration laws are - properly - the province of the federal, not local, government, and while America is indeed a nation of immigrants, that needs many of the hard-working people seeking a better life in America, that does not mean this nation should be alone in the world by offering "open borders."
When I was DA in Astoria I was struck to learn that Canadian border police routinely turned away Americans who had recently earned a DUII conviction. I remember being quizzed by immigration officials in Britain about the length of my stay, what my source of income was, and proof that I had a ticket OUT of the UK when my trip was completed!
Those safeguards haven't seemed to have prevented the Muslim takeover of their society, especially Londonstan. I get your point, though.
Well said.
Similar screening when I traveled to Israel a few short years ago Mr Marquis, multiple levels of screening and questioning. And that was in the USA. Went through more when I arrived in Tel Aviv. A little frustrating yes, but what the United States should be doing.
Clearing customs upon re-entry in NY was almost too easy.
I find it rather ironic that that the party espousing DEMOCRACY is the one trying to destroy it. if you don't like the law of the land change it, but DEMOCRACY means that the will of the majority should prevail.
LA’s mayor says “sow terror in our communities and disrupt basic principles of safety in our city.” referring, of course, to the Federal crew rounding up those in the country illegally and guilty of who-knows-what conduct. You should insert the ones being arrested into her statement above. Right now, these are some of the worst of the worst and guilty of preying on their communities in the most evil ways while the Democrats just stoke the violence and push everything further into the sewer. It’s about time the criminals and politicians causing this unAmerican activity be held accountable.
This is the best article I've seen regarding the LA riots. It's outstanding because you have used facts (not ideological tropes) to support your stance. And, as I recall, it was John Adams who declared: 'Facts are stubborn things.'
Another fact: Portland has yet to fully recover from its 2020 riots.
Lastly, the late Congressman Sonny Bono when asked about his position on illegal immigration, (supposedly) replied: 'What's to say? It's illegal.'
Thanks! Bono was in the House when I worked back there during the last ice age.
Portland won't be far behind. The City Council already tried creating an ordinance to abolish the ICE offices in Portland. This will be their next step if the agents show up in Portland. You can assume they will be out front leading the pack of rioters with their "milkshakes" and molotov cocktails. 🍸
Will be interesting to see if what's happening in LA spreads on its own, or whether similar responses will happen whenever/wherever the feds conduct immigration raids or it's a one-off. Could be a run on plywood in Portland.
Yeah nothing says open for business like plywood! We use to call it Alberta glass until they gentrified that neighborhood. Now we should just call if Portland glass.
I'm seeing on SM, valid or not, that Portlands' fun begins tonight, CharP.
Fortunately many downtown buildings are still vacant. Sad for the property owners and first responders though.
It’s time for the Democrat party to have a reckoning within itself. On June 1st. we saw a deranged anti-Semite set peaceful Jewish senior citizen protesters on fire in Boulder, Colorado. The peaceful protesters had been gathering each Sunday since the Hamas intrusion into Israel on “October 7th” during which they killed, raped, maimed and took hostages. After the killing of two Israeli embassy diplomats in DC, the killer chanted “free Palestine.” The killer admitted he killed for Hamas and was arrested on the spot after he wrapped himself in a keffiyeh. The young couple were going to get engaged the following week, but they did not live to see that day. This was an unfortunate, but predictable event given the hate and childish emotions we have been witnessing on college campuses from east to west. For nearly 18 months, the left (i.e. The Democrat Party) in America justified, coddled, and explained away tens of thousands marching and demanding the eradication of Israel with chants of “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and “Globalize the intifada.” We have seen the shooting up of Tesla dealerships and firebombing of Tesla cars as well as key swiping them all over America. We have seen conservative Supreme Court justices lives threatened and illegal intimidation marches and protests outside their homes. Who will ever forget about the billions of dollars of property damage and the people injured and killed during the “summer of love” with BLM rioters all over the nation, the tearing down and desecration of statutes and two assassination attempts against Trump?! And look at the deification of Luigi Mangione who is accused of killing United healthcare, CEO Brian Thompson in New York City on December 4, 2024. I could continue with a much longer list of outrages, including this weekend’s riots in LA against ICE agents.
Yes, the Democrat party’s far left has a violence problem and yet, we don’t see any leaders from the party taking a strong stance against these actions. All we heard from Biden and his administration for four years was that “white supremacy” is America’s most dangerous threat domestically. The wink and nod from the Democrats to the pro-Hamas types over the past 18 months must stop. If these were all people carrying tiki torches and wearing white hoods, America would be rightly outraged. There’s a power vacuum in the Democrat party. Desperation is setting in and there’s nobody on the left to speak with a moral voice, which is what the party needs. The party has been co-opted and radicalized. Leftists hate capitalism and Western civilization. The Wall Street Journal recently had an opinion piece titled “the alienated knowledge class could turn violent”with the subtitle that “societies which exile their intellectuals risk turning them into revolutionaries. It happened in the 1970s.” Some conservative pundits has said that the Left is the new Confederacy and that we have a nascent and tacit Civil War occurring right now.
Islamism, wokeism, and neoliberalism need to be reined in and the Democrat party needs a strong, moral voice to do it, or they will continue to fall lower in the polls, which recently show the approval rating for the Democrat party in the 25% range based on Quinnipiac, NBC, CNN and Gallup polls.
Thanks, Kent. Great analysis.
Interesting that the WSJ refers to societies exiling their intellectuals, and thereby "turning them into revolutionaries." The intellectuals are certainly not the ones being exiled in the current scenario, except when their comrades shun them for impure thoughts. The exiled would appear to resemble more the "fascist" Americans who fall short of the class status deemed minimally acceptable by highly educated elites. .
Tax remittances out of the country at 90% and the self-deportation will accelerate.
While the principle of nullification is great, these rioters have no principles, only misplaced feelings.
Waiting to see if the rioters are funded. A proper interrogation might discover that.
Look at the funding of these riots. Soros and Quincy foundation among others
FWIW
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