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Posted on 01/27/2026 8:03:09 AM PST by texas booster
Why are at least two people dead and multiple federal law enforcement officers injured?
What broader principle are Democrats, liberals and leftists rioting over in Minneapolis?
It certainly isn’t the idea that states can defy the federal government on immigration law. Obama took Arizona v. United States to the Supreme Court to prevent states from enforcing their own immigration laws. The Biden administration dispatched some of the same federal immigration law enforcement officers now being assaulted and booed to dismantle barriers and fencing put up by states like Arizona and Texas to control the mass invasion of millions of illegal aliens.
Democrats however never actually believed that states couldn’t defy the federal government on immigration law, more properly they believe that states can only defy the federal government by moving further leftward. That’s why they support sanctuary states like California and Minnesota whose defiance of federal authority has escalated to the point of armed conflict, but went after states that tried to secure their borders and block illegal aliens from overrunning their cities.
The broader consistent principle at stake isn’t federalism: it’s leftism. The entire political and cultural machine that has been mobilized over Minneapolis opportunistically supports wielding federal authority over states and state rejection of federal authority on immigration law only when the end result, whether state or federal, is open borders and mass illegal alien invasions.
This is true in all areas. The Left has no legal, let alone constitutional, principles, only goals.
Does the same network of politicians, media talking heads and professional agitators oppose police crackdowns, federal interventions and harassment of innocent people? Obviously not.
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Today’s ‘born-again’ leftist libertarians implemented state regimes that criminalized everyday conduct. They marked their federal takeover by filling D.C. with troops and holding an inauguration under a virtual martial law while hunting down the people who took part in a political riot of the kind their leftist allies pull off every other month, including in Minneapolis, because it’s not about the act, it’s about the politics.
The objections to federal immigration law enforcement raiding homes or deporting children are certainly not grounded in any kind of principled position. Bill Clinton, who emerged from defying a congressional subpoena in the Epstein case, to condemn federal law enforcement in Minneapolis, had Attorney General Janet Reno, known for staging multiple confrontations that ended in mass deaths, build a plan with 250 immigration agents to raid a Miami home and, in defiance of the court, kidnap a 5-year-old refugee boy from his family and send him to Cuba.
Heavily armed border patrol agents operating under an illegal warrant used a battering ram to smash their way into the family home, kicked down doors and screamed at the 5-year-old boy’s cousin, “Give me the f – – – ing boy or we’ll shoot you.”
Tony Zumbado, an NBC cameraman, was kicked in the stomach. “We got maced, we got kicked, we got roughed up.” The NBC sound guy was hit in the head with a rifle butt and lay bleeding on the ground. Members of the little boy’s family were not only held at gunpoint, but reportedly had laser dots trained on their foreheads. Clinton’s feds put a boot on his back and the NBC cameraman was told, “don’t move or we’ll shoot.”
NBC News not only had no objection to its people being assaulted and hospitalized, but it celebrated the kidnapping, and an NBC spokeswoman, when asked about the assault on one of its own people, replied, “It’s too early to say how we feel or don’t feel.” While all of that happened a while back, the NBC News affiliate in South Florida had a more recent upbeat twentieth anniversary sit-down interview with the man behind the operation and the assault on NBC News personnel was tactfully not brought up by anyone involved.
Suffice it to say that neither the Democrats nor the media have any objection to sending in the Border Patrol, battering down the doors of private homes and seizing and deporting kids, while bypassing court rulings and the rule of law, as long as the political objective is a leftist one.
The Left usually wants to keep illegals and refugees in, rather than out, but the moment that it decides that its political agenda is served by deporting someone, it will send in the troops, smash down doors, beat up reporters and threaten to kill family members.
So once again that’s not the principle that leftists are trying to kill and die in Minneapolis over.
The principle isn’t states’ rights. That’s a principle that only comes into play when asserting that states can block federal law enforcement from arresting illegal alien criminals, sign treaties with China, set their own fuel emissions standards or some other leftist policy goal. ...
America will either have the rule of law or the rule of leftists. That’s what this is about.
A long article but well worth your time.
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Illian Gonzales was the Boys Name.
I remember it like yesterday.
The issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution.
With the leftist/communist activist judges we now have at the DC level, we are a nation without true decisions and laws. All their decisions are for the commies and never for the law. We are rapidly heading towards a civil war if something is not done. When does the time come in the future that some DC-level judge chooses the president and the Supremes agree? Courts are not always correct in their decisions when their mind is made up the moment the case is filed.
“COVID lockdowns during which protests were banned”
Yes. The ridiculous COVID lockdowns ended the day the George Floyd riots began. The proponents of the draconian COVID protocols are total frauds.
C'mon man! Everyone knows you can't contract CVD19 at the Floyd riots. Six feet of separation and all that....../s
Recall that summer when the COVID nuts were hoping that the Sturgis rally would turn into a mass infection event. Bikers disproved that theory. Maybe beer was better than the shot?
Are we a nation of laws or a nation of the mob? These people pretend there is no law. Just their feelings and how they interpret it. And only applied when convenient.
None of the democrat's butt boys in the press objected - because they hand out passes to democrats...
Once again, Greenfield nails it. Why isn’t he a top adviser in the White House?
Wonder if Elion is doing OKay ?
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As I recall Leftists were Cheering that he Was Sent back to Cuba.
It sent Chills thru me.
I checked on Elian...
He’s a Good Commie now.
Powerful piece and well worth the read. An important corollary would be to find out how the Hive (Joe Sobran’s apt metaphor) develops and transmits its ideological positions. I mean, these people can turn on a dime.
Elián.
He was treated like a king by Castro as soon as he went back, made into a poster boy for the regime, and believes he is happy to stay there. There’s lots of info about him online, but you need to spell his name correctly to retrieve it.
Beer is ALWAYS better than “the shot!”
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