Justin Amash? Oh…are you a Palestinian? Where do you stand on the Oct 7th massacre? Its obvious you hate Israel from your comments. I’m neither a fan nor a proponent of of them, but now its making sense why you’re a Trump hater and likely a libtard.
Amash received national attention when he became the first Republican congressman to call for the impeachment of Donald Trump, a position he maintained after leaving the party.
What is your favorite boot flavor? Asking for a friend.
First off, the liberal media is framing ICE raids in the most emotionally charged way possible because outrage drives clicks. Stories often center worst case outcomes while giving less airtime to warrants, criminal history and due process details. ICE enforcement’s get framed as morally illegitimate by default, not as a legal function that can be done well or poorly. That doesn’t mean abuses dont happen, but selective framing makes it look like every raid is lawless or racist, which isn’t accurate.
Second, many protesters genuinely believe that immigration enforcement itself is immoral, Therefore any resistance is justified. The problem with that is blocking ICE vehicles, interfering with arrests or harassing agents doesnt stop enforcement, it escalates risk for migrants, agents, and bystanders. It hands political ammunition to hardliners who argue for harsher tactics. And protest energy often substitutes moral signaling for results. It feels right, but it rarely changes policy.
Third… Most resistance isn’t ideological, it’s panic People are told (often falsely) that any cooperation equals permanent disappearance. Social media spreads half-truths like, “ICE cant touch you without a warrant”, well that depends on the warrant. Or, “If you run, they cant deport you”, which usually makes it worse. The result being people flee or fight, charges escalate, deportation cases get stronger, not weaker. Ironically, resistance often
hurts the very people activists claim to protect.
This is the real core problem. Communities don’t trust enforcement. Enforcement doesn’t trust media coverage. Media doesn’t trust government statements. Everyone assumes bad faith.
When trust collapses, every action is interpreted as oppression and every enforcement response looks brutal, even when procedures are followed.
Finally, a country like ours cant have borders and selective enforcement based on vibes or personal belief systems. Enforcement need to be legal, which most of it is, and just seems poorly executed. Compassion without law creates chaos. Law without transparency creates fear.
Both extremes benefit politically from the chaos. Regular people don’t.
From Lenin to Alinsky, forced confrontation has been a tactic of Marxist activism. It’s amusing hearing these self-aggrandizing activists treat protests as great acts of bravery.
But wake up: You’re not actually living in a fascist state.
Those marching against the clerics in Iran risk their lives. As did those who marched in Tiananmen Square in 1989, who rose up against the Communists during the Prague Spring of 1968, or who engaged in civil disobedience against the Stamp Act in 1765.
You can be as passionate as you like here in these United States, but our laws governing the border and immigration, and ICE itself, were all democratically instituted.
You’re free to vote in the next election.
Failing to get your preferred legislation passed isn’t repression, and you’re not Gandhi.
Though it’s heartening for the rest of us to know that most protests are merely performative acts with little political consequence.
Demonstrations are rarely a barometer of public sentiment.
In the left’s hagiographic rendering of the 1960s, peace-loving demonstrators took to the streets and ended the Vietnam War.
In the real world Richard Nixon, who won a historic landslide victory in 1972 against peacenik George McGovern, ended the conflict.
Anti-war protesters couldn’t stop the Iraq War, either. Or any American war, for that matter.
Tea Partiers couldn’t stop Obamacare.
“Occupy Wall Street” was unable to overturn the laws governing basic economics.
Pussyhat marchers embarrassed themselves, but they didn’t stop Donald Trump from occupying the White House — any more than Jan. 6 marchers and rioters did Joe Biden.
And the anti-ICE nuts disrupting church services who accuse parishioners of being “white supremacists” will likely have similar luck.
That’s good news.
The “right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances” is our inheritance.
It guarantees anyone can march without worrying about punishment or reprisals from the state.
Though it shouldn’t escape our attention that many of the same progressives who treat public demonstration as the purest form of “democracy” advocate for censoring views they find dangerous — and regularly conflate speech with “violence.”
Democratic socialists nearly always shed the adjective as soon as they gain power.
Let’s face it, though, most unhinged activists you see ranting and raving act like children.
And children have trouble comprehending the distinction between things you can do and things you should do.
You can cosplay as Islamic revolutionaries on campus. What you should do is read some books about the Middle East.
But nothing in a free country compels the rest of us to celebrate spoiled adults making a spectacle of themselves — or to treat them as anything but nuisances.
By, *David Harsanyi is a senior writer at the Washington Examiner.
- If you are here illegally, whether that is visa overstay or unlawful entry. You are a criminal according to the law.
- If you impede any officer from performing any form of enforcement, you are obstructing justice, which is a crime.
- In Minnesota it is illegal to possess a firearm while protesting LEO or government. (Summarized).
Now, try and put yourselves in the shoes of ICE, constant harassment and threats while you are performing YOU’RE facking JOB! The actual restraint demonstrated on a daily basis is actually pretty impressive.
Protesting and allowing ICE to do their job is allowed, hell it’s part of being an American. Impeding their ability to work is a criminal act.
Since when is that acceptable?
Ahhh Slickrick with a clever line. You hate anything that doesn’t conform to your small ass boomer thinking. You are too old to be a child so grow up. Your tribal bullshit is what is killing this country.
Keep licking boots. #respectfully
So I was right, libtard.
I criticize Trump when he’s wrong.
You criticize Trump when he breathes.
We are not the same.
You probably spent four years telling everyone Trump was literally Hitler… then spent the next four years telling everyone he’s simultaneously too weak, too senile, too broke, too orange, and still somehow about to install a thousand-year Reich.
Pick a narrative before you come at me about ‘bootlicking,’ champ.
You can make up whatever narratives make you feel better. Seems you do that with your political views so it comes easy to you. Hope you have a great night Pumpkin.
You guys do realize in the last year there has been maybe 100 people let in through the southern border who were seeking asylum, so the Borders are closed.
As for what happened in Minneapolis was a tragic accident perpetrated by all the paid insurrectionists that are fight CBP and ICE. Mr. Pretti shouldn’t of went to observe federal agents with a loaded weapon and extra clips (makes it look like he was waiting for a reason to use his gun). The 2 women were agitating and trying to impede in a lawful operation, that is when one Agent pushed the ladies off the road and pepper sprayed them when they wouldn’t. That is when Mr. Pretti pushed that Agent to get to one of the women (that is felonies Assault of a Federal Agent), so agents sprayed Mr. Pretti with pepper spray to try to deter him and then grabbed him, that’s when he started fighting with the Agent. An agent noticed the gun and announced it, that notified all agents to the known threat. With all the other agitators around blowing whistles and car horns, the noise was very distracting and the action was quick and chaotic. It looks like one of the Agents might of taken the gun off of Mr. Pretti and thats when the first shot rang out, then spit second later an agent fired 4-5 shots, and I’m guessing that Mr. Pretti was still moving and they didn’t know where the gun was and thats when another agent or the same agent shot another 4-5 times. It was a complete chaotic scene that happened in a very short amount of time. It is tragic what happened, however if he wouldn’t of came to “Observe” with a gun and multiple magazines he might of came out with just a felony charge.
I agree with you on immigrants. It’s the ones that entered our country illegally without going through a port of entry and do not posses proper paperwork that all have to go. Documented immigrant workers are a great thing.
I saw a video last night where Braden Langley on YouTube went thru several different video angles of the shooting and provided solid evidence that would expain how this very unfortunate turn of events happened. When the gun was removed from Mr. Pretti’s possession by the man wearing gray shirt and gray hat, as he moved away from the scuffle the gun went off. The video shows the slide action of the pistol when it’s fired by accident and also shows a couple of the agents jump back from the pile. So, Pretti interferes with law enforcement operation carrying a gun, gun is seen, gun-gun is hollered out, then a shot goes off from the seized gun and that’s when two agents fire their weapons and Pretti is killed. The elements of this situation would translate and happen again anytime anyone interferes with law enforcement doing their job and is carrying a weapon. Not a good combination whether it happens during a traffic stop or deciding to interfere in highly charged law enforcement operation.
And that’s what they want. They’re looking for people to make examples of in order to suppress the protests. Wrong or right, it’s obvious that’s what’s happening.
I saw the same video where the gun goes off. The gun goes off, spooks the agents and they empty half a clip into a completely subdued individual. How do you reconcile that?
I think of myself as a pretty rational thinker but cmon… if you truly believe 0 people have come into this country illegally in 12 months outside of asylum seekers you’re out of your out of your mind.
The US has over 5000 miles of unprotected boarders and people risk their lives to come to this country for a better and potentially safer life because of how bad their life might be in their home country. If someone just sneaks through an unfenced part of the border and no one sees them, no one will know so you can’t even count that number…. So the chance of saying not a single person has crossed the border this year besides asylum is next to impossible
Also, there is nothing stopping departments and people just straight twisting data, or falsifying numbers as it has never stopped the government before… regardless if it’s the left or the right.
I also guarantee Trump is just turning people around at the border and just not reporting it vs Obamas method was counting turn arounds as deportations which was about 85-90% of his deportation numbers…it’s all about how you cook the books.
Also only 100 asylum seekers is incorrect as well as Trump is allowing 7,500 a year per his new policy.
Let’s not forget the 600k H1-B recipients, something the Right was vehemently against. Now that it’s a Trump policy, I haven’t seen one “conservative” talking head complaining about it.
Bottom line.
Don’t harass and interfere in Federal law enforcement.
Don’t encourage an insurrection.
Pretty simple.
If you don’t like the law, change the law.
ICE is doing its job very peacefully in most of America. ICE is not the problem.
Some of you are.
I’m still on the fence if Petti’s gun was the first one that discharged. Yes the gun makes a weird motion in split frames but it’s cold as fack there. There was no smoke coming from that muzzle. But I from the lady in the pink coats video you can see smoke that looks like it’s coming from on of the officers on the back side of Petti, but you do t really see recoil.
But if If the gun did accidentally discharge the “guns don’t kill people” and “guns don’t accidentally go off” argument is dead and SIG may go out of business as they may get sued for every penny they have.
So when exactly is civil disobedience acceptable? When the American revolution was started, were those protesters just pesky leftists?
Btw, the entirely of the Republican congress is telling us we should be invading Iran because the government is killing protesters. So who is right? Is it ok for government suppression of protesters or not?
The people that are being targeted have legal deportation orders. These are who the left (especially in MN) are protecting and defending.
It’s not the same as protesting taxation without representation.
I know. I’m not trying to make that equivalency. And I do believe that the targets are people who need to be kicked out of the country, in most cases.
But American citizens have constitutionally protected rights. I’m trying to establish a baseline on when social revolt is acceptable. If neighborhoods of law abiding American citizens are acting as shields for certain targets, maybe they know something DHS doesn’t? Maybe DHS is wrong, as they have been several times? There has to be some nuance in this discussion because too many variables are at play. Society as a whole is not benefiting from turning on the news and seeing dead American protesters every few days.
As long as there is a 2 party system there will never any acceptable answer on what will be acceptable by half the people. Right is saying it currently, the left was saying it on Jan 6.
All I think about when seeing all this is we are beyond close to reliving basically the Boston Massacre.