The far left, emboldened by Democrat leaders and the media, and funded by leftist dark money groups, is engaging in an organized campaign to obstruct, subvert and physically attack federal law enforcement officers and facilities in cities across the nation.
Democrat-led jurisdictions are aiding this violent campaign by preventing local law enforcement from assisting American federal officers, deliberately leaving these officers vulnerable to attack.
This is clearly an organized, and often armed, Democrat-led, multi-state and city insurrection against U.S. federal authority.
President Trump understands this. He should call it what it is and invoke the Insurrection Act. (RELATED: DOJ Official Urges Probe Into George Soros’ Foundation)
The Insurrection Act is the ultimate exception to the Posse Comitatus Act, which bans presidents from deploying the military domestically for law enforcement. The Insurrection Act authorizes the deployment of troops to suppress an insurrection, rebellion, domestic violence, or similar events that obstruct federal law or state law.
While Democrats, and their compliant allies in the media, wildly screamed Trump/MAGA/GOP “insurrection” for years after a violent but short-lived afternoon riot at the Capitol in January 2021 — where the only person killed was a protester by Capitol Police — they refuse to call the current ongoing violent uprisings against federal law enforcement, particularly Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, anything but peaceful protests.
This, even as federal officers are being attacked, ambushed and shot at with increasing frequency and Democrat politicians continue calling ICE agents “fascists,” “Nazis,” and “secret police,” inciting even more violence against federal agents. (RELATED: Report: Virginia AG Nominee Suggested Police Deaths Might Bring Positive Change)
Trump recently said in the Oval Office: “We have an Insurrection Act for a reason.” He added: “If I had to enact it, I’d do it. If people were being killed and courts were holding us up, or governors or mayors were holding us up.”
Referring to the Act, Trump recently said: “Well, it’s been invoked before,” and he is right.
Invoking it isn’t as extreme an action as the left wants you to believe. The law has been used 30 times in American history. Most recently, President George H. W. Bush invoked the Act in 1992 to quell violent race riots in Los Angeles, sending in federalized National Guard troops.
In fact, the last 29 years is actually the longest period the United States has ever gone without an invocation of the Insurrection Act.
Meanwhile, though intense, deadly and destructive, the LA riots were a spontaneous, localized threat, but what is happening now is nation-wide and orchestrated. And it is being aided and abetted by Democrat politicians at the local and national level.
It is also increasingly violent.
ICE says law enforcement officials within the agency have faced a 1,000% increase in assaults against them since the beginning of the Trump administration.
In July, nearly two dozen armed leftists connected to various Texas-based antifa-like groups ambushed and shot at an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas. (RELATED: From Portland To Hamburg: The Global Footprint Of Antifa Terror)
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and FBI have issued a joint intelligence bulletin that warns of more attacks on ICE personnel and facilities, including by “domestic violent extremists” claiming to respond to immigration enforcement activities. I would call them insurrectionists.
CBS News reported:
The memo — circulated to state and local law enforcement nationwide on Wednesday — assesses that since June, extremists in at least three states have conducted targeted, pre-planned violent attacks against ICE personnel and facilities. It says the attacks represent “an evolution in tactics and an escalation in violence compared to [domestic violent extremists’] past attacks, which primarily resulted in property damage.”
The intelligence memo also notes the recent attack where a 29-year-old leftist gunman fired from the roof of a building into three ICE transport vehicles and windows of a Dallas ICE facility. The terrorist killed two immigrant detainees, and himself.
As CBS added, the FBI and DHS acknowledge that “as immigration enforcement operations continue, DHS and the FBI remain concerned there is an increased risk of [domestic violent extremists] and criminal actors conducting targeted attacks on ICE personnel, facilities, or operations, or law enforcement officials supporting immigration enforcement operations.” (RELATED: Democrats Pushing Anti-ICE Senator To Run For Blue State Governorship)
Most recently, in Chicago, DHS was forced to deploy Special Operations forces after multiple violent attacks on federal law enforcement. According to a DHS bulletin:
The scene became increasingly violent as more domestic terrorists gathered and began throwing smoke, gas, rocks, and bottles at DHS law enforcement. Another domestic terrorist was arrested for assaulting CBP at the scene. Following [Illinois governor] JB Prtizker’s refusal to allow local police to help secure the scene, Secretary Noem has deployed special operations teams to restore law and order.
As our ICE law enforcement was responding to the shooting, a domestic terrorist followed them and rammed their vehicle in an attempt to run them off the road. This individual has also been arrested and is in HSI custody.
An ICE vehicle popped a tire and was subsequently mobbed by domestic terrorists, forcing law enforcement to abandon the vehicle for their own safety. The vehicle was significantly damaged.
This isn’t peaceful protest or free speech. This is violent insurrection. So, how could Trump invoke the Insurrection Act to deal with this growing insurrection against federal authority?
Well, Sections 252 and 253 of the Act allow the president to deploy troops without a request from the affected state, and even against the state’s wishes.
Meanwhile, Section 252 permits deployment of Guard troops to “enforce the laws” of the United States or to “suppress rebellion” whenever “unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion” make it “impracticable” to enforce federal law in that state by the “ordinary course of judicial proceedings.”
Violently attacking and preventing federal law enforcement from performing their lawful immigration enforcement duties, or allowing radicals to do so, clearly falls under Section 252 of the Act. It is time to call this a left-wing insurrection and invoke the insurrection Act to quell it.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.
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If we need to.build more jails to hold them all, we will.
Gee, I can tell from your inflammatory reports that you’re right-wing and just as extreme as antifa. Why should I believe anything you report? If you fail to see the wrong in the Jan 6th storming of the capital, then you don’t have my vote.
Follow the money. Put the full force of the FBI and Homeland Security to track who exactly is behind this. This is organized and don’t be surprised if there are foreign governments involved.
Your reporting has some mental defects apparent. It is certainly not unbiased. Perhaps the extreme left is not emboldened by the democrat leadership, but is only reacting to the extreme right activities of the Trump crew. Both sides have abusive, criminal behaviors.