Re: Los Angeles Has Surrendered

On Jun 10, 2025 at 4:07:50 AM PDT, "Dimensional Traveler" <dtravel@sonic.net>
wrote:

On 6/9/2025 6:47 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

 Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

 On 6/9/2025 8:36 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

 Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

 On 6/9/2025 5:33 AM, Adam H. Kerman 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.

 

 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?

 

 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/06/08/national-guard-los-angeles-protests-live-updates/84103374007/

 

 Reports I had read indicated there were all of 100 protesters.

 

 That was Friday. Numerous other people began protesting over the next
 several days.

 

 In part because of the overboard heavy handed Trump response.

 
 Oh, I agree. Trump and the protestors are two sides of the same coin,
 thriving in chaos.
 

I have to disagree with that. I admit there are _some_, a small
fraction, who were protesting violently but until Trump sent in military
forces the great majority were protesting peacefully.

Which is, of course, absolute bullshit, Dimensional. On Friday, long before
Trump sent anyone in, ICE agents were not just being attacked, they were
subject to multiple murder attempts. Cars were burning in the streets, stores
were being vandalized and looted, and every square in of wallspace in
Paramount was spray-painted with vulgar graffiti. Only in California do you
have people claiming that you can't send police to stop violence and crime
because that might upset the criminals.