The Blue City rebellion
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What’s really disturbing is we’re starting to see a new—I would call it—neo-Confederate successionist ideology in these cities. In these blue cities, the officials who run them, the mayors or the police chiefs, believe they are a law unto themselves. In other words, within the confines of Chicago or within the confines of Portland, they can nullify all federal laws, just in the way that South Carolina said it could on the eve of the Civil War: The Union does not apply to us. We are morally superior.
I wanna remind everybody how that works out in reality. If you are an ICE agent and you’re in an ICE detention center, you may not be able to get in or out of work or you can’t fulfill your duties because there is a siege on of Antifa semi-terrorists and their sympathizers that surround you. And the Oregon police will not help you. In fact, in a recent demonstration, a reporter was arrested while reporting on the inaction of the Oregon police and the violence of the protesters.
If you look at a recent suburb in Chicago, resisters to ICE actually did a blockade. They had 10 or so cars and they, by design, ambushed an ICE patrol and stopped the agents from being able to go forward or backward in their vehicles. One of them was armed with an automatic weapon. When ICE called for the Chicago police to lend assistance, because they were an extremist, the Chicago police did not.
Gov. Pritzker sort of, basically, said that ICE lies. And so, we don’t really pay any attention to them. Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago didn’t help.
In other words, we’re starting to see now organized resistance, not on the street by thugs and terrorists and resisters, but we’re starting to see, in neo-Confederate fashion, elected officials.
And the premise that they’re using is, again: We are a law unto ourselves.
I would like to remind them of two things: Not all Americans are Portlanders or Chicagoans. But everybody that’s a citizen in Chicago and everybody who is a citizen in Portland is, first and foremost, a U.S. citizen. And therefore, subject to the laws, the federal laws of the government. First and foremost.
And what these elected officials are doing and what law enforcement is doing, at the municipal level, is no different than what caused the Civil War.
They are actively encouraging resistance, and nearly armed resistance because these officers are law enforcement, to federal agents who are trying to dutifully fulfill their constitutional mandates to protect the border and ensure that people who come across do so legally. They’re just fulfilling the law—federal immigration law. And yet they’re being resisted by—I guess you would call it—neo-Confederates.
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Their resistance to US immigration law is not supported by the majority of American voters. In fact, it is only supported by roughly 20 percent of the American citizens. Support for Trump is growing more than when he was elected. I suspect that Democrats know they are in the minority and are hoping they can make the illegals voters to boost their numbers.
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (6 percent approval rating) and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker continue to demonize federal law enforcement officers. And the Chicago Police Department shamed itself by telling officers to stand down rather than come to the aid of Immigration and Customs enforcement agents being swarmed by leftist mobs on the Southwest Side and nearby suburbs.
Johnson and Pritzker shamed themselves, but their constant screaming against ICE agents put pressure on police to turn their backs on ICE agents calling for help on Saturday. Their vehicle was rammed by rioters. They were surrounded by the angry crowd whipped to a frenzy by Pritzker and Johnson. They were abandoned by CPD. Many officers were disgusted and ashamed. Police Supt. Larry Snelling did himself and his department no favors by not speaking clearly as to who gave the order to abandon the ICE agents.
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