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From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Denver Mayor Threatens Violence Against ICE Agents
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 21:34:34 -0000 (UTC)
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On Nov 24, 2024 at 7:42:32 AM PST, "suzeeq" <suzeeq@imbris.com> wrote:

> 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.

Not having any authority didn't stop Denver's mayor from acting the fool.