Posted on 07/28/2020 7:17:19 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The mayors of Portland, Oregon, and five other major U.S. cities appealed Monday to Congress to make it illegal for the federal government to deploy militarized agents to cities that dont want them.
This administrations egregious use of federal force on cities over the objections of local authorities should never happen, the mayors of Portland; Seattle; Chicago; Kansas City; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Washington wrote to leaders of the U.S. House and Senate.
Video from early Tuesday showed law enforcement officers filling a street with gas to disperse protesters. Several loud booms could be heard. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty late called for a meeting with Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf to discuss a cease-fire and removal of heightened federal forces from Portland.
Earlier in the day, a U.S. official said militarized officers would remain in Portland until attacks on a federal courthouse cease and more officers may soon be on the way. It is not a solution to tell federal officers to leave when there continues to be attacks on federal property and personnel, U.S. Attorney Billy Williams said. We are not leaving the building unprotected to be destroyed by people intent on doing so.
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My solution is, close and cease all federal assistance and operations in the cities that don’t want the US marshals there. Take all operations and rebirth them in other cities. And that includes the jobs.
Good point. There is precedent for that when in rebellion. These mayors are enabling rebellion against the federal government.
Because Democrats think they can force Trump to do what the idiots want him to do, send in federal troops and create a bloodbath (they will make sure of it by killing their own if they have to), so they can rally Biden around “ending government fascism” and defeat Trump in November.
This should be obvious but as these comments show, sadly it is not. Most people are incapable of strategic thinking.
Wont work. Mayors will assure protection, then hamstring local police.
Federal buildings will be destroyed that night.
A great line from that one: “The first thing I’m gonna do when we get home is punch your momma in the mouth!”
I want a couple billion dollars in tax-free cash.
These jackazzes can crap bricks too; if they’re well-fed and got a square butthole.
its amusing the parallels that you can draw - democrats are against the federal institution now, just like they were during the civil war. Just like they are the actual racists now, just as then. Etc. etc. the list goes on and on.
Voters better smarten up real fast or they will lose their homes and livelihoods.
Hold their trials for sedition in Gitmo.
The Leftist Mayor of Portland should read up on John Calhoun, South Carolinian, slaveholder, states rights and nullification supporter, and opponent of Federal intervention into local affairs.
he would probably find a lot of sympathy in Calhouns words.
I agree. Move federal infrastructure and resources from those cities and abandon them to their fate. Let em burn. Fk em all.
Voters in these cities and states should take note that these liberal democrat mayors when provided with free resources to bring law and order to their towns, were fought tooth and nail by their leaders.
Election time is coming....
It is illegal. Those mayors are engaged in a conspiracy to violate civil rights under color of law. Its legally exactly the same as a sheriff department in Mississippi in 1960 protecting the KKK as it terrorized people.
Lars Larson (conservative radio talk show in Portlan(D) spoke of closing to the public, all the federal offices in these cities for two weeks. People would be screaming for them to reopen after they couldn’t get thing$ done.
I believe that the mayor of Charleston objected to the attempted replenishment of Ft Sumter in April, 1861.
No federal funds, for ANY purpose, to any city that rejects federal law enforcement.
If these mayors are going to stick to the lie that the rioting is a “myth” and that all of the protests are “peaceful”, then they should have no need for any federal funding to repair the damage to their cities. Any requests for federal funds should be summarily rejected by President Trump.
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