Posted on 08/13/2024 10:03:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Pro-Palestine protesters shut down a major Los Angeles freeway during the height of rush hour, leading California Highway Patrol to detain several protesters.
The protest of several dozen individuals, the organizers for which include pro-Palestinian Jewish organization IfNotNow Los Angeles, started at around 9:00 a.m., which is peak rush hour. Protesters, who demanded an arms embargo on Israel and an immediate ceasefire, were largely cleared out by the end of the hour.
“LA Jews and allies from @ifnotnowla are sitting on the 405-S freeway in West Los Angeles, observing Tisha B’Av through mourning while demanding an arms embargo on Israel and an immediate ceasefire,” said IfNotNow Los Angeles on Facebook. “To all those stuck in traffic, we sincerely apologize for the disruption to your day … However, we also know that what hurts working class people more than standstill traffic is our tax money being spent on military aid to Israel while working families struggle to make ends meet in our own communities.”
The United States approved an additional $26 billion aid package to Israel in April, including $14 billion in unconditional military aid. According to the Council on Foreign Relations, Israel is the largest recipient of US assistance, having received $320 billion in inflation-adjusted economic and military aid since 1946.
After one shutdown on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge trapped hundreds and another held up critical organ transplants, California Assemblywoman Kate Sanchez, R-Trabuco Canyon, proposed doubling penalties for preventing emergency vehicles from passing, creating an up to $500 fine for the first offense, and up to $1000 for each subsequent offense. The bill passed the Assembly Transportation Committee but was held by the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
“Oh look, another highway blocking that’s diverting resources, preventing people from getting to work, and could even be slowing emergency response times,” said Sanchez on X. “My bill to enhance penalties for these clowns was killed by #CALeg Dems earlier this year.”
Now that he’s shifted from a Minnesota war hero to a nationally cheered icon, Walz and his wife can get goosebumps and tingling feelings all over when they know Leftists are protesting the Israelis like this in LA.
Can go hug his pal Muslim cleric Asad Zaman, who praised Hitler and Hamas.
RE: preventing people from getting to work, and could even be slowing emergency response times
There have now been several different protests in which first responders were blocked including from ambulances getting through in emergencies.
One had EMT crew beg to be let through because a little boy had to have an emergency procedure right away at the hospital. Protesters said “No.”
We have drivers on our street who on a daily basis almost completely block the road by parking on both sides of the street adjacent to each other and could care less if you can’t fit your vehicle through the skinny opening left between the two of them. All the homes have double driveways. Doesn’t matter. If you call law enforcement they laugh at you. Literally. They will not come out. Our neighborhood streets have become grid-locked with vehicles parked everywhere oftentimes facing the wrong way on the wrong side of the street. Just what the hell is wrong with these people? I’m about to contact the county commission. I don’t know what else to do that is legal without starting a war. People buy a hunk of metal and then think they own the world just because of the damned oversized bucket of bolts.
There must be a term which better describes a mass of people V.I. Lenin called “Useful idiots”. We need to update this term for people completely removed from reality and truth who infringe on the free right of passage on roads and some Jews who believe their brothers and sisters in Israel deserve to die.
In the name of reason and truth how can these Left Jews be so blind as to hurt their own people and in the end, themselves. Is it self-hate and ignorance or something far more evil?
To do this on the Jewish solemn day of the 9th of the month of Av is beyond belief. Is there no limit to stupidity and foolishness?
There must be a term which better describes a mass of people V.I. Lenin called “Useful idiots”. We need to update this term for people completely removed from reality and truth who infringe on the free right of passage on roads and some Jews who believe their brothers and sisters in Israel deserve to die.
In the name of reason and truth how can these Left Jews be so blind as to hurt their own people and in the end, themselves. Is it self-hate and ignorance or something far more evil?
To do this on the Jewish solemn day of the 9th of the month of Av is beyond belief. Is there no limit to stupidity and foolishness?
A blunt-stoned Jamaican killed an American on a crucial Cape Cod (MA) bridge yesterday, causing a 6-hour backup.
They’re making friends everywhere!
They should have a task force ready to go for freeway protestors. Up and out, on the scene in 20 minutes, cleared and gone in 15.
Are working families also being harmed by the massive $250 billion we’ve sent to Ukraine in 2 yrs? Or is it only Israel which causes such consternation?
1. One clear fair warning to disperse
2. Water hoses
3. Tear gas
4. Mustard gas
5. Tanks
Apparently it's a real status symbol to have a 2-car garage and not park any cars in it.
One addition,A-10s
WTF!!Don't these idiots realize what their Palestinian pals would do to them given free reign?
People sometimes ask why a just God would allow mankind to discover things like Sarin, Tabun, and other readily dispersible, effective, lethal nerve gases.
WTF!!Don't these idiots realize what their Palestinian pals would do to them given free reign?
There was an article the other day that stated that one of these groups was run by Muslims and had few if any actual Jews in it. As their Prophet said "Warfare is deceit".
Both nations are a drain on working families. But there are plenty of people on FR who are "only" concerned with Israel, so the hypocrisy evens out.
And Israel's received way more from the U.S. than any other foreign nation over the course of history.
From 2002: Economist tallies swelling cost of Israel to US.
Since 1973, Israel has cost the United States about $1.6 trillion.
What would the Middle East look like if we had no presence? I rather suspect it would be an opaque cauldron of our destruction.
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