WHEN PRESIDENT DONALD Trump announced on Saturday night that he would send the National Guard to Los Angeles to crush protests, a narrative emerged on social media that demonstrators had somehow given a gift to the authoritarian president by escalating confrontations with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
“Los Angeles — violence is never the answer. Assaulting law enforcement is never ok,” Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., posted on Sunday. “Indeed, doing so plays directly into the hands of those who seek to antagonize and weaponize the situation for their own gain. Don’t let them succeed.”
In reality, the protesters throwing rocks at heavily armed security forces or attempting to damage the vehicles used to kidnap their immigrant neighbors did not introduce violence. They are instead acting in militant community defense.
After all, would the situation somehow be less violent were ICE left to snatch and disappear people without impediment? Does Schiff imagine either his pronouncements or the empty condemnations of his Democratic Party colleagues will slow down the deportation of our neighbors?
LA is doing a great job of keeping everything calm. There was no reason to send the National Guard and now the Marines. Trump knows he looks like an idiot and is going to try and speed up the dictatorship early. Let’s not give him a reason to look like he’s doing anything and continue to be calm. Republicans, you’re in on this or I would hear something from you. You r’s better start speaking up mf’s.
Right? It’s the cops with the guns and the gas canisters, not the protestors.
And the protests are well into the thousands, yet only a few dozen arrests, and no reports of serious police injuries or death (if anything like that had happened, news everywhere would have been plastered wall-to-wall with that story). On the other hand, plenty of reports of protestors and media being harmed by police weapons. That is less violence and injury than after a major sports game.
Always has been.
The cons hate America, hate freedom, and hate the Constitution. Always have.
Do you actually believe that? It’s a pretty simplistic view of the situation.
I think if you honestly look at the situation, it’s pretty clear to see that conservatives definitely love America, but they have a VERY different idea of what America is and how to make it better. They are working towards that goal of making America better, it’s just that their privileged, bigoted, deeply problematic views would produce a truly horrifying version of the US.
The other issue is conservatives seem comfortable using an “ends justify the means” mentality, when the means are evil and the ends are only based on one interpretation of their faith. That kind of thing would certainly bother most progressives, but in their own eyes, they’re “doing God’s work”.
The cons truly hate America, yes. They want America to be something other than what we have in the rule of law and the Constitution as it was actually written and the path that the Founders set us on. They hate a huge swathe of Americans and they hate the notion of others actually having actual freedom.
Not really sure how else to put it. If these people want a hard-right theocracy, they have options they can choose from. If they are trying to turn a secular nation into that, they clearly hate the current system.
Yeah, nobody’s been hurt except by the cops. Some waymos and cop cars got burned; that’s what they call Monday in LA.
whats a waymo?
It’s a robotaxi or on-demand flammable barricade, depending on your particular use case
ahh gotcha. thanks!
those that make peaceful protest impossible…