Re: Los Angeles Has Surrendered

On Jun 9, 2025 at 5:33:17 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
 

Encouraged by the mayor and city council, over the weekend, violent leftist
protesters took to the streets and attacked police and federal agents while
they were in the performance of making legal and constitutional arrests.
This,
of course, is the very definition of insurrection under the U.S. Code but
none
of our legacy media came anywhere close to using that term to describe it.
Insurrection is a crime they apparently believe only conservatives can
commit. . . .

 
Over Governor Newsom's objections, Trump federalized and deployed the
California national guard. Newsom said army troops were unnecessary but
police have been using anti-riot tactics, so what's the difference. The
violent protests have continued for three days. News reports say that
national guard troops have been deployed to protect federal property. If
that's all they are being used for, I don't see how that usurps
federalism. Newsom is going to court this morning anyway.

Based on what? The media never actually spells out the legal theories
presented in court in these cases. What law is Trump violating other than
making Newsom look like a feckless idiot? (And if that was a crime, then
Newsom himself would have been in prison long ago because he routinely makes
himself look that way.)

Police declared all of downtown Los Angeles "an unlawful assembly area".
Why didn't they just declare a straight-forward curfew? What does that
mean for a building owner trying to get security guards deployed?

What does that mean for people who live and work in downtown? Can you be
arrested just for going to work or walking your dog?

*This* is what Newsom should be litigating in court, not the president's
long-established use of national guard troops to quell insurrections.

And I'll note that despite being mocked for years over it, the media has
immediately reverted back to its 2020 Summer of Love propaganda effort. I lost
count of how many times reporters and news anchors described the violence in
the streets as "mostly peaceful" over the last few days. I thought about
making it a drinking game, then realized I'd be in an alcohol-induced coma by
the end of the week if I did. My favorite was the reporter who was standing in
front of burning car in the middle of an intersection while black-bloc thugs
hurled chunks of concrete they'd chiseled off the curbs at passing vehicles
and telling the camera that "it's a mostly peaceful protest out here in
Paramount".