If you listen to Mayor Karen Bass, if it wasn’t for Donald Trump, everything would be hunky-dory in LA. Sorry, Ms. Mayor. The rest of the nation does not agree with you.
As you watch scenes showing the riots as depicted on CNN or the big three TV networks, you have to wonder. What are they not showing? Clearly, the fake stream media selectively films and broadcasts as standard policy. If someone strikes a police officer, drops bricks from an overpass, smashes government building windows, or commits other acts of violence, you can bet it won't be shown on CNN.
Well-Coordinated
Who in their right mind would enter the fray other than hardcore Leftist, illegals, communists, and Antifa types? How can they participate on weekdays for most of the day, and then into the night? Don't any of these people have jobs? Don't they have to rise early the next morning?
The most active people on the streets do have jobs – temporary jobs – as highly paid protesters. They remain in the streets for long hours, and especially after sundown, because they can collect thousands of dollars in doing so.
The signs that they exhibit are distributed to them at a checkpoint. Such signage is produced long before the actual riots, which are far from spontaneous. They are funded by agencies via your tax dollars from the Biden Administration, by American Leftist billionaires and by those who seek to harm our society, such as the Chinese Communist Party, and various socialist and Marxist groups. These provocateurs have long known how easy it is to fool much of the American populace by orchestrating such events and having the likes of CNN selectively film them.
A New Sheriff in Town
Peaceful protests, it must be noted, are not the same as non-violent protests. If a group marches in the center of a street without a parade permit, blocks traffic on a highway, hinders passage along a sidewalk, or stops people from entering a building, such a protest might be non-violent but not peaceful. Likewise, gathering in groups larger than permitted by authorities, traversing beyond law-enforcement posted barriers, or marching past curfew is no longer a peaceful protest.
Could there be a silver lining to what's occurring in Los Angeles and which will soon emerge in other cities? Yes. Unlike the Biden Administration, which gave violent protesters a free pass, helped to spring them from jail within 24 to 48 hours, and publicly praised lawbreakers (eg, Vice President Kamala Harris), the situation is now different.
Today, we have real leaders in place, starting with Donald Trump, Pam Bondi as attorney general, Kash Patel as the director of the FBI, Christy Noem as Secretary of Homeland Security, and Tom Homan as the Border Czar, among many others.
Rabble rousers, paid to provoke law enforcement, are arrested and plasticuffed. Anyone who forsakes the parameters of peaceful protesting is subject to arrest.
A Snowball Effect
Hundreds of people have already been taken into custody. As each of them is processed, their names go into an FBI database, the National Data Exchange, and can be linked to their past activities. As more protesters/rioters in LA and elsewhere are taken into custody, a huge file accumulates of those who seek to wreak havoc on our streets. As an increasing number of agitators are incarcerated, tried, and hopefully convicted, the effectiveness of their sponsors -- those who paid them to protest -- will diminish. At the same time, light will be shed on these sponsors.
Constitutional scholars say that paid protesters have a right to peaceful assembly but not to engage in transgression, intimidation, or violence. One doesn't necessarily have to throw bricks. Suppose you disrupt traffic, hinder others from moving about, congregate too close to a public building, or disobey a direct order from law enforcement. In that case, all this and more are grounds for being detained and handcuffed.
Those who throw heavy objects, obviously, openly clash with police, damage property, commit arson, or encourage others to commit acts of violence are breaking the law. Such individuals need to be taken off the streets and prosecuted.
Round'em Up
The number of those who actually protest in the streets is a small percentage of those on the Left. If you subtract the paid protesters, the actual, heartfelt protesters rate is even smaller.
By rounding up the lawbreaking and violent participants, we can inexorably diminish the effectiveness of those who seek to turn our cities into ashes.