Mainly Peaceful? Mostly Peaceful? Largely Peaceful? Are Folks Rioting in the City of Angels?

 Anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles have gone on for almost a week.  As Matt Taibbi pointed out in a recent blog, the legacy media have characterized these demonstrations as "mostly peaceful." Still, commentators avoid using that exact phrase because a CNN reporter was mocked for using it while standing before a burning building during the Minneapolis riot in 2020.

President Trump thinks the ruckus in Los Angeles is a riot, and he called out the National Guard and the Marines. Governor Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass claim they have the protests under control and that Trump is overreacting.

Nevertheless, Mayor Bass imposed a curfew on downtown LA yesterday, acknowledging incidents of vandalism and looting. Protesters have set vehicles on fire and pelted local police with rocks and broken pieces of concrete. The anti-ICI crowd has stopped traffic on the 101 freeway. And then there are those Molotov cocktails.

I'd call that a riot. 

Whether President Trump should intervene to stop the rioting is another matter. Calling out 4,000 National Guard soldiers and a Marine battalion is a serious business, and most folks would rather local authorities deal with the civil unrest if they are capable of doing so.

Federal Judge Charles Breyer will rule on Governor Newsom's request for an injunction against federal intervention within the next few days.

My position from Flyover Country is to support President Trump. Violence, arson, and looting got entirely out of hand during the George Floyd riots of 2020--especially in Minneapolis and Seattle. Who wants a repeat of that season of discontent?

Today, Governor Greg Abbott mobilized the Texas National Guard in anticipation of planned anti-ICE demonstrations in San Antonio. That makes sense as well.  

The last thing this nation needs is for urban rioting to spread to other cities. Governor Newsom contends that the military presence in LA foments more violence. I don't think that's true.

What's a little rioting among friends?

Why aren't we angrier about the Boulder terrorist attack?

 Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian national, attacked a group of Jewish Americans in Boulder, Colorado, a few days ago. Using an improvised flamethrower and Molotov cocktails, he injured a dozen people, including an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor.

Why aren't we angrier about this racist attack on American citizens?

Why aren't we outraged by a visa policy that allowed Solimon, his wife, and five children to enter the United States on a tourist visa, and to remain illegally after the visa expired? 

Why aren't we angrier about a self-indulgent political philosophy that inspired a majority of Colorado counties and 14 Colorado towns to declare themselves sanctuary jurisdictions to thwart ICE from deporting people who are in this country illegally?

Why aren't we enraged by a judge who stopped the State Department from deporting a terrorist's family members who had no legal right to be in this country? And why is a terrorist who burned Jewish Americans alive able to get an attorney to represent him when middle-class Americans can't afford legal representation?

In the months to come, a lot of lawyers will get paid so that this racist madman gets due process. Mohammed Solimon should be executed for his crimes, and it should have happened yesterday.

Colorado counties that have declared themselves sanctuaries for illegal migrants  

 

Soliman hated Jews, and the elderly Jews who were participating.