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Subject: Re: Denver Mayor Threatens Violence Against ICE Agents
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 07:42:32 -0800
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On 11/24/2024 7:24 AM, NoBody wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 05:30:48 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 23, 2024 at 7:29:05 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/23/2024 9:48 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>   Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>>>>   On 2024-11-23 7:15 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>>>   Look at this chucklehead. He's willing to use violent force against
>>>>>>   American law enforcement officers but he won't do a thing to stop the
>>>>>>   barbaric illegal alien Venezuelan thugs who are taking over entire
>>>>>>   apartment buildings in his city, extorting and terrorizing the U.S. citizen
>>>>>>   residents.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   --------------
>>>>>>   https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1859445390342246474?s=46
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   The Democrat Mayor of Denver, Colorado Mike Johnston has challenged Trump
>>>>>>   to try to deport any illegal migrants from his city, saying he would deploy
>>>>>>   the Denver City Police and volunteers from the local community to use force
>>>>>>   against federal forces trying to deport illegals.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   "More than us having DPD stationed at the county line to keep them out, you
>>>>>>   would have 50,000 Denverites there. It's like the Tiananmen Square moment
>>>>>>   with the rose and the gun... You'd have every one of those Highland moms
>>>>>>   who came out for the migrants. You don't want to mess with them."
>>>>>
>>>>>   Has Denver lawfully seceded from the United States? I feel like I would
>>>>>   have heard about it if it had happened but maybe I missed it....
>>>>>
>>>>>   If Denver remains part of America, I'm pretty sure he has to obey the
>>>>>   law. I don't recall any exceptions for mayors of largish cities in the
>>>>>   Constitution. What's it called if you declare in advance that you will
>>>>>   not obey a law and in fact threaten to use force on a substantial scale
>>>>>   to avoid obeying it? That's sedition isn't it? Or does it qualify as
>>>>>   treason? Either way, the mayor seems to be talking himself into a jail
>>>>>   cell. Or maybe even a civil war if he actually persuades Denverites to
>>>>>   do what he's threatening and open fire on ICE employees.
>>>>   
>>>>   Yeah, the whole thing seems a little insurrectiony to me. And this would be
>>>>   an actual insurrection with the guy at the top actually responsible for
>>>>   greenlighting it.
>>>
>>> In this instance, the "guy at the top" has backed off.
>>
>> Imagine the gall of this grinning manlet referencing Tiananmen Square in
>> support of illegally present non-citizens and violent narco-cartel gang
>> members against the safety and welfare of American citizens.
>>
>> Per 8 USC § 1324, aiding or abetting the illegal entry or illegal presence of
>> an inadmissible alien is a federal felony, with penalties including fines,
>> imprisonment, or both. And violating 18 USC § 111 (assaulting, resisting, or
>> impeding federal officers while conducting official duties) can get you a dime
>> bid at a federal pound-you-in-the-ass penitentiary. Non-enforcement of these
>> laws in the past by Biden/Harris does not guarantee future immunity for
>> violating them. Something about which Mayor Clowndick's city attorney should
>> brief him. Maybe the receipt of such a briefing is why he quickly backed off.
>>
>> Had Mayor Soy continued the pursuit of his bold and excitingly
>> unconstitutional course of action, it would have resulted in one of the
>> all-time biggest examples of political fuck-around-and-find out in the
>> nation's history.
>>
> 
> I suspect someone from Trump's incoming administration tapped him on
> the back and told him "you REALLY don't want to do this".
> 
They don't have the authority yet.