From Bloomberg:
Philadelphia’s Top Prosecutor Is Prepared to Arrest Federal Agents
After Trump said he would send agents to more cities, Philly’s district attorney lays out how he might criminally charge federal officers.
In one of those cities, the city prosecutor has already preemptively warned Trump’s police forces what he will do if they bring the same tactics to Philadelphia:
“My dad volunteered and served in World War II to fight fascism, like most of my uncles, so we would not have an American president brutalizing and kidnapping Americans for exercising their constitutional rights and trying to make America a better place, which is what patriots do,” said Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner in a statement. “Anyone, including federal law enforcement, who unlawfully assaults and kidnaps people will face criminal charges from my office.”
First of all I’m getting really fucking disgusted with the rhetoric implying or calling federal Leo’s Nazis. It is absolutely grotesque.
Also, a lawful arrest in which a person is then taken and arraigned before a judge is not kidnapping.
But here we have a local prosecutor who wants to violate the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution to engage in political resistance.
These cities and states are getting dangerously close to secession.
I think the only thing that has stopped them is the sweet, sweet federal money they use for everything else.
Stop giving these turkeys federal money but still tax the state. When the states protest to stop the taxes just tell everyone the states are trying to seize their peoples tax return and the only thing stopping the state from getting it’s money is compliance with federal law.
Time to move federal buildings out of these giant cesspool cities. if it needs to be in that area, pick a suburb as far away as you can get. Then they have to make a huge commute every time they need to deal with any federal agency. Which will be more often than they think.
Geographical center of the state, perhaps? That’s equal and fair access for all, right?
*shrug* Let him try it, see how far he gets. And how long before he’s charged with obstruction.
So the Dems have rotated back to ‘states rights’ ?
I just finished an excellent history of the Civil war (and how the Mexican war and the Kansas/Missouri conflict led up to it). One revelation is how little the Democratic party has changed from those days.
What book. I’m looking for my next thing to download from Audible
Battle Cry of Freedom, by James M. McPherson. Got mine from B&N, 1100 pages total, 900 pages for the main book (rest is index and footnotes).
Trump is the WORST KIDNAPPER EVER!
Seriously, what kidnapper posts pictures and locations of their victims? Incompetent.
Chicago and Lori Lightfoot have already caved,
https://nypost.com/2020/07/23/trump-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-agree-to-deployment-of-feds/
Who exactly is this DA going to send out to arrest the big, bad feds?
Frankly, these cities have already seceded by their spoken and written statements. While I am concerned for the people suffering under these evil local governments (often aided and abetted by their State governments), another part of me wants to tell them “fine, we’ll put up the border fences and have checkpoints with DHS and FBI and DEA around your pitiful pieces of real estate, and impose a 10% tariff on everything you want to sell to the rest of the Fifty States, and a 10% export duty on everything you want to buy from the rest. Welcome to Coventry, and have a good life!”
One way to look at this: “… Anyone, including federal law enforcement, who unlawfully assaults and kidnaps people…” That sounds like a threat of legal action against the rioters, but not against the Federal LEOs. After all, the former “unlawfully assault… people” while the latter act lawfully, and in any case don’t “assault” let alone “kidnap” people. Words have precise meanings…
…as if…
What bothers me is the honest and good people that are being hurt by this violence in their cities-The District Attorneys are getting a little big for their britches-THEY ARE SUPPOSE TO SERVE ALL PEOPLE-not just actual criminals