JASON LEWIS: The Rioters Return

Say what you will about Tim Walz and his fellow Democrats in the Land of 10,000 Lunatics. They’re trendsetters.

Five years after Minneapolis exported a new era of mayhem not seen since the Watts riots of 1965, the City of Angels is now being wracked by violence and thuggery again. Boy, didn’t see that coming.

And just as Walz & Co. did in the face of epic destruction from BLM during the George Floyd riots, California’s political ‘leadership’ is standing down and doing their level best “not to engage” the lawless criminals taking the streets.

Governor Gavin Newsom said “California didn’t have a problem ‘until Trump got involved.’” Really. Not to be outdone, Los Angeles part-time Mayor Karen Bass said the President’s National Guard deployment was a “chaotic escalation.”

And doing her best to remind voters once again why they don’t vote for imbeciles, Kamala Harris called the stone throwing, cinder block dropping, burning carnage “overwhelmingly peaceful.”

Of course, none of this is about protesting anyway. Whether in the Twin Cities, Los Angeles or Newark, Democrats and their violent counterparts (otherwise known as their base) are willfully interfering with federal law enforcement officials at Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE.

That, my friends—above and beyond the derelict failure of local politicians to keep the citizenry safe—is a federal crime which may require more than calling up the National Guard.

No one dare call it an ‘insurrection,’ however, “[t]o the extent that protests or acts of violence directly inhibit the execution of the laws, they constitute a form of rebellion against the authority of the government of the United States.”

What else would you call a violent group of transnational criminals replete with foreign flags and money? Indeed, in support of the L.A. rioting, Antifa International quickly called for open border anarchists to ‘mobilize ’ at the San Francisco ICE facility.

Yes, the same Antifa that miraculously has the resources used to organize and assist nearly every disruption across the country for a decade.

All part of an an ugly ‘war on law enforcement’ that includes George Soros-funded ‘social justice’ prosecutors who summarily drop any charges and put criminals back on the street.

Now tell me again, Gavin, who’s the ‘threat to democracy’?

Let’s cut the crap. Contrary to what their media enablers would have you believe, these are not ‘protestors,’ but violent thugs and should, at long last, be treated as such.

The same applies to elected Democrats (and a few local judges) who insist on giving aid and comfort to what the ‘greatest generation’ would have surely described as treason.

One is tempted to ask: what don’t you understand about the word ‘illegal’? But the Democrat apologists understand it completely; it’s America they don’t like.

Which is nothing new these days, thanks to the cultural Marxism that has fed the ‘revolution’ for far too long.

Outgoing Minnesota Senator Tina Smith may have kicked it all off when she so irresponsibly fanned the flames during the Floyd riots by encouraging more “righteous protest” and declaring, “there is something dangerously wrong with the role that police play in our society.”

Rep. Angie Craig, who hopes to replace her, not only voted to eliminate qualified immunity for police officers but co-sponsored H.R. 1280, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021.

Their handiwork is alive and well in California today.

So much so that not long ago, an LAPD union leader warned tourists to stay away because the city isn’t safe. The National Fraternal Order of Police decried, “The spewing of anti-police rhetoric by some political and media figures as well as the failed policies of rogue prosecutor and judges are placing our officers in greater danger. This culture of lawlessness must stop!”

Here’s hoping Trump sees that it does. Indeed it must. The choice, as Justice Jackson so famously reminded us, is not between liberty and order. No, “the choice is between liberty with order or anarchy without either.”

Former Congressman Jason Lewis is the author of “Party Animal, The Truth About President Trump, Power Politics and the Partisan Press.” This article was originally published on the author’s Substack page, which can be viewed here. Lewis is also the weekday host of Jason Lewis Live on Patriot.TV.

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