The general theme here was addressed not so long ago in the ‘…there can only be one rule. I didn’t want this to be the rule, but they overruled us. So they can choke on their new rule…’ post back in November. Of course, the whole point of existing under the anti-intellectual cover provided by the progressive left is that they get to play by different rules. I do, however, suspect that a broader swath of American society now with their eyes wide open to the game (ala Minnesota) will not be so effortlessly eased back into the mindless slumber of those feel-good days when they entered undefined “Hope and Change”.
As for today’s issue, I will just point out that most of those who are so vocally butt-hurt about ICE enforcing federal immigration laws (and the lawful methods they are driven to in so-called sanctuary states and cities) were thrilled to masturbatory ecstasy a few years back at the very thought of 80,000 new IRS agents (most of them armed under the Biden Politburo) free to wreak havoc on the American middle-class (i.e. those who actually work to pay the bills). And don’t think for a second that federal judges would have supported every use of every “law enforcement style” tactic and armament that this militarized revenuer army would have used in the homes and streets of red cities and towns from sea to shining sea.
But if the progressive forces in the streets, newsrooms, and courts overrule us on such state and local declarations of “sanctuary” status…so be it. Let them then choke on it.
I wonder how those same unthinking dolts will react when, upon the election of the next progressive-friendly president (or puppet), many red states and cities across this land declare themselves to be Second Amendment Sanctuaries and refuse to enforce federal gun control laws. (Even the “common sense ones” <<spit>>.) Furthermore, the elected leaders of these 2A sanctuaries may refuse to cooperate with (or provide assistance to) federal entities sent to their locale to attempt to enforce those laws. They may also even incite their citizenry and any imported “rent a mob of peaceful protesters” to obstruct those federal entities in their assigned unconstitutional duties. I look forward to all the support those 2A sanctuaries will get from those who cheer on, enable, and assist the Governor of Minnesota, Mayor of Minneapolis, and this lawless movement today.
As much as the typical braindead modern leftists may not like to recognize it or want it to be, such consistency is required for an informed and aware society based on liberty and the rule of law to continue to be just that. Whether through something like the example discussed here or something completely different, I believe there is more than enough of that old rugged American Individualism – of both the long vigilant and the lately reawakened varieties – to insist on it.
The coming days in and around Minneapolis, MN will do much to define the importance of enforcing federal laws under the American compact and the seriousness which we will all uniformly apply to state and local declarations of “sanctuary status” going forward. It is time to settle on the rules now, folks…
…choose unwisely and I will gladly watch you choke of your own rules later.
“You know, you hear about the 3,000 federal law enforcement officers and special agents that are deployed to Minneapolis. Majority of those, if not most, are to protect the men and women that are out there trying to make those arrests, and that has definitely changed our tactics. Where we would go and have five to six officers on an arrest team, now you have to go with 10 to 15, just to protect those individuals that are trying to arrest the bad guy. In my 30 years of law enforcement I never thought we would have to send law enforcement to protect law enforcement. But I don’t think you’d see as many issues, if political leaders would allow their local and state law enforcement to work with us. It’s never a public safety issue to pit law enforcement against each other.”
ICE Director Todd Lyons explains how Minnesota leaders are responsible for the ICE surge, by refusing to cooperate:
"In my 30 years of law enforcement, I never thought we would have to send law enforcement to protect law enforcement." pic.twitter.com/cdBFOtw26N
[Ward Clark, RedState]: There are federal laws involved, which state and local governments are either ignoring or openly defying. The logical process would be for local law enforcement, once an arrestee is identified as being in the country illegally, to notify ICE and turn him or her over to the federal authorities for deportation. But instead, too many of these goblins are simply turned back out into the community.
This isn’t a matter of justice, no matter how the Democrat jurisdictions try to claim it is. It’s about the woke horse squeeze that “no person is illegal,” not even murderers and sex offenders, leavened with a big dose of Trump Derangement Syndrome. …
We may well be in a doom spiral in this affair. Local vs. federal, rule of law vs. an attempted mob veto. And it’s likely to get worse before it gets better.
For the record, as far as I am concerned, anything short of complete capitulation by the progressive left (to include all forces in the streets, newsrooms, and courts) to proper constitutional order (i.e., federal supremacy) leaves the option for state and/or local sanctuary exceptions on the table for the next cycle through the White House. I urge them to choose quickly…this will likely get irreversibly messy if President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act – as he would be completely justified in doing at this point – before they choose sanity and adulthood.
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