It’s no secret that when leftists carry out widespread “peaceful protests,” a whole lot of non-peaceful riots, arson and looting ensue, especially if they’re happening in Democrat run cities where they know public officials sympathetic to their cause-of-the-week will keep police away and give them “space to destroy.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott isn’t putting up with such nonsense, and is nipping it in the bud…
…before it can even get started by deploying the Texas National guard before the riots can start.
As riots erupt in cities like Los Angeles and protests targeting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are planned for this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is deploying the Texas National Guard across the state to deter potential violence and maintain order.
“Texas National Guard will be deployed to locations across the state to ensure peace & order,” Abbott posted on social media. “Peaceful protest is legal. Harming a person or property is illegal & will lead to arrest. [Texas National Guard] will use every tool & strategy to help law enforcement maintain order.”
Under both the Texas Constitution and federal law, governors have broad authority to activate their state’s National Guard in response to emergencies, including civil unrest. In his role as commander-in-chief of the Texas National Guard when not federalized, Abbott can deploy troops to assist law enforcement, protect property, and respond to threats to public safety.
“The State of Texas stands ready to deploy all necessary personnel and resources, including Texas Department of Public Safety troopers, to uphold law and order across our state,” Abbott’s press secretary, Andrew Mahaleris, told Texas Scorecard earlier this week. “Peaceful protests are part of the fabric of our nation, but Texas will not tolerate the lawlessness we have seen in Los Angeles. Anyone engaging in acts of violence or damaging property will be swiftly arrested and held accountable to the full extent of the law.”
After one demonstration earlier this week in Austin that turned destructive, Abbott noted that more than a dozen protesters were arrested.
“Peaceful protesting is legal. But once you cross the line, you will be arrested. FAFO,” Abbott posted.
Abbott’s approach stands in sharp contrast to that of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has opposed efforts by President Donald Trump to bring in federal troops or National Guard units to restore order in cities such as Los Angeles. Newsom has called such deployments provocative and unnecessary, even as violent protests and property destruction continue nightly across the state.
Meanwhile, Republican attorneys general across the country, including Texas’ Ken Paxton, are supporting Trump’s deployment of the National Guard.
“If you set police cars on fire, throw Molotov cocktails at law enforcement, and loot businesses, you must be held accountable,” posted Paxton on X. “We stand with law enforcement, we support President Trump’s action, and we will not let chaos take hold in our states.”
Seems entirely logical. So why don’t Democratic governors take similar precautions to prevent “peaceful protests” from turning into the usual riot, arson and looting sprees we keep seeing over and over again?
Simple: Many Democrats want to see the riots happen. From Ferguson to Minneapolis to the current LA riots, Democratic office holders seem to sympathize with far left goals and seem perfectly happy to let those riots sweep across their city in bursts of revolutionary violence.
What they hope to accomplish by letting such violence flourish I leave as an exercise for the readers…
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“[W]e need an Intifada Revolution in the heart of ’empire,’ right here in the belly of the beast of the most dangerous and aggressive imperialist state on Earth. And we need to confront not just who is breaking Gaza and the world but what is breaking Gaza and the world. The what is the underlying system of US capitalism-imperialism, which will always find new leaders — new whos — to blame for its crimes until it is overthrown by an intifada revolution at home and abroad.–Paul Street Reporter
If it seems odd that the Los Angeles riots feature “Palestinian” flags, the connection has its basis in anti-colonialism. What was once a favorite talking point of Barak.Obama has emerged as the unifying force of hard-Left politics.
A Great Tragedy has occurred. Federal agencies are holding “undocumented workers” for deportation. “OH, STERN INJUSTICE AND CONFUSED WRONG!
Mexico was cruelly deprived of its sovereign territory by Yankqui colonialist invaders who are now arresting the land’s rightful owners–just like the Jews are doing in Palestine.
So okay, this is transparently nutz but anti-colonialism provides a theoretical framework for political cooperation between Islamic jihadists and homosexuals, English-based Pakistani rape gangs and Parliamentary feminists. At the philosophical level, Hegelian dialectics cancels out these “superficial” contradictions by forming a new synthesis.
So communism.did not die in1991; it simply substituted hot-blooded fanatics for superannuated bureaucrats. The Cold War is gone and a hot one is striving to take its place.
The root cause is that these people’s lives are so devoid of meaning and fulfillment that they latch on to these causes to fill that void, and it becomes their religion. Look, we’ve all had fantasies about time traveling back to the 1930s and killing Hitler (or Stalin) but for the great majority of us, it’s just a fantasy. These folks are attempting to make the fantasy real (twisted thinking I know but such fervor is rarely rational).
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Of course, the ‘colonialist’ narrative is itself incoherent. The United States of Mexico is no less a colonialist power than the United States of America; if the objection to ‘colonizers’ means anything, then it applies to Spanish colonizers as much as to those from England.
One sometimes sees it framed with Mexico as heir to the Aztec empire; after all, it’s where the nation gets its name and they share a capital city and everything. It’s a hard story to sell, especially since when Mexico dallied with monarchy they imported a Hapsburg to sit on the throne.
[…] are making moves to make things better. Democrats Democrat governors are doing nothing, and I think it is really quite obvious as to why. […]
to those who say we are colonialism invaders in Texas and California: Mexico sold the land to the United States. We bought it.
it is not a legitimate argument. Go read a history book.
You can’t sell you house to someone and have your grandkids show up 50 years later and demand it back for free.