Denver Mayor Threatens Armed Resistance to ICE Deportations Under Trump

This is actual insurrection, and should be violently crushed, if they carry through with the threat.

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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."

Denverite:

The vast majority of law enforcement is local. Johnston is doubtful that federal forces would raid Colorado to round up immigrants, even if Trump tried to mount a national crackdown.

"I do not believe that our governor is going to let them use our [Colorado] National Guard at the state level," he said. "Unless they were planning on bringing national guards mobilized from Texas or Alabama to come invade Colorado, I don't know where they would find the forces to begin to do that.

"And that seems to me like a very, very bad idea from start to finish that no reasonable American would support," he said.

The mayor also takes heart that the people of Denver -- not just the administration -- would likely resist a mass deportation effort from federal forces.

"More than us having DPD stationed at the county line to keep them out, you would have 50,000 Denverites there," Johnston said. "It's like the Tiananmen Square moment with the rose and the gun, right?" You'd have every one of those Highland moms who came out for the migrants. And you do not want to mess with them."

I'm not actually sure we should crush the insurrectionist cities. Once all other jurisdictions begin deporting their illegals (the criminals first) and these cities proclaim that they are a haven for illegal alien criminals, they'll all go to these holdout resistance bastions.

We will cut all police funding and all city aid to these insurrectionist cities. They will just become hell-holes of foreign criminals.

This is what they voted for -- let them have it good and hard.

Instapundit quoted this article by a self-described "childless cat lady" who says she realized what the right said was true -- liberals voted for this. They deserve what they get.

I am a woman living alone near Philadelphia with a cat, so I guess you could call me a "childless cat lady." I never wanted children, so I never had any. Since I have dedicated my life to helping other people, for many years I subscribed to all of the social justice causes. That began to change when the neighborhood I live in became a hotbed of crime and leftist intolerance.

Recently, I witnessed a woman throw a large object at a man's car, break the passenger window, and then casually walk across the street. The man got out of his car and ran across the street to attack her. He wrestled her to the ground but eventually let her go, getting back into his car and driving off. She kept walking, talking on her cell phone the entire time.

I was standing on my front stoop on my way to take out the trash. I stood there, stunned with horror. The man saw me. I did not call the police because I recognized him. He lives in this neighborhood, where one can expect retaliation. It didn't look like the woman called the police either. She just kept walking.

Yesterday I stopped by a cafe for a bagel. I began frequenting this this locally owned cafe after walking past it one Sunday morning and seeing that all its storefront windows had been smashed. I went in and asked if everyone was OK. Apparently the vandalism had occurred in the predawn hours of the morning. Nothing was stolen--just windows smashed.

I later discovered that on the neighborhood Facebook group people were extoling the act as a way to fight gentrification! The cafe is not a chain and it employs residents of the neighborhood. But that didn't stop commenters from suggesting that smashing out their windows, gunfire, and loud groups of youth are all good ways to ward off would-be gentrifiers.

In other words, they're praising the civilization-destroyers, because if the civilization-destroyers turn the neighborhood into a high-crime slum, the dreaded "gentrifiers" will not buy property there.

Win-win, I guess?

About a month ago I heard five rapid-fire gunshots across the street from my apartment. The sirens came a bit later, along with police helicopters.

All of these kinds of things make it so that I am afraid to leave my apartment at night. When I have to, I make sure I am on the phone so at least someone can call the police if I am attacked.

She then details the neighborhood becoming a pro-Hamas suburb of Gaza City. I'll skip that because you all know how that goes.

She also details being verbally assaulted on the street by a trans maniac.

Speaking of the slumlords and squatters...

I suppose they want everyone to live in the squalor they enjoy.

Of course I want to move. I do not care if people don't like me, but I fear violence. Violence is so well accepted in this neighborhood, as my experience noted above shows.

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A few months ago, there was a meme on Facebook that showed a white woman saying, "I don't feel safe in my neighborhood," and a man answered her, "You literally voted for this." I now understand that my situation resembles this cartoon.

I have voted Democrat all my life. I supported soft-on-crime candidates because I didn't want to see people go to prison and lose their chance at a better life. But now I see the ruin that we have to live with as a result of these policies. The white liberals in the suburbs do not live with the consequences of their votes. I do.

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Like most people, I just want to be safe. I want to live in a place where I can leave my apartment without fear that the man who saw me watch him attack a woman will come back and attack me. I want to live in a place where I'm not risking verbal violence for engaging in private phone conversations while taking a walk.I want there to be police who are here to protect me and other innocent citizens who just want to do our jobs, buy affordable food, and go to the YMCA in peace.

Is that too much to ask? Democrats seem to think it is. Many of my liberal friends expressed horror that "Americans value their pocketbooks more than my human rights." Apparently wanting to pay the rent and afford food and medications is something we should be ashamed of.

My entire life, I saw myself on the left. But now I understand that the left has left me. I am a childless cat lady for law and order. I want a government that will protect me and my cat, that cares about the price of food and doesn't say people should be satisfied with a lot of new minimum wage jobs that will not allow them to support their families. I am tired of being told my safety doesn't matter and that I'm racist for pointing out that there is crime on the streets of my neighborhood.

Homan says: Insurrectionists will be prosecuted.

posted by Ace at 03:38 PM

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