Can US Americans Protest?

New blog on the kid: ICE Is Not Doing the Right Thing · Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere: Can US Americans Protest?

I suppose Maryland, Kentucky and Tennessee, good places as they are, are not the best places from which to assess the realities of LA or of California.

Dodgers Match Opens with a National Anthem in SPANISH?!
Matt Walsh | 17 June 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN7f2P4YMDM

1:29 Platform for a protest .... in honour of English friends who like to nickname 4th of July "Traitor Day" ... wasn't there one in Boston, about some tea-leaves?

More seriously, ICE may right now be pushing California out of the Union. Because ICE is in LA violating states rights.

3:43 It was inconceivable to her that a Star Spangled Banner commissioned by President Roosevelt could be off-limits in a state with one of the highest number of Spanish speakers, most of whom are US Citizens, simply never gave up Spanish in some cases (you are aware that "los angeles" is Spanish for "the angels", I hope).

But you had to twist that into her being the kind of person who's never heard a no in her life.

4:25 Oh, even if LA is actually welcoming these foreigners and taking ICE as the actual invader?

It's still reprehensible for her to stand up for States rights and the rights of her city?

7:10 Nezza is not a legal or illegal immigrant. She's born of two immigrants, but of an ethnicity well represented where they came. An ethnicity which arrived there before certain gold diggers of English language.

For how many generations do you propose that immigrants and their citizen descendants are good for hard work and nothing that smacks of entitlement?

I thought the whole point of the application process was so one could be legally entitled to things. Like residing or doing things citizens do, depending on what the application process was for.

8:14 You are completely out of touch with the case you are commenting on.

Vanessa Hernandez' parents are middle class. You don't become middle class by not respecting the laws of the country you are in.

And as to LA, citing the general case for Trump's policy, that's pretty inflammatory after Alex Padilla, a US Senator, was handcuffed.

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Reporter shot with rubber bullet in LA: The FULL story | Lauren Tomasi interview | Today Show
TODAY | 13 June 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOoeZFR9DY4

Australian reporter shot in LA riots video holds sinister detail
news.com.au | 10 JUne 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBQyeM-JpqQ

A MAGA member asked me why I turned off the biometrics on my phone ...
Parkrose Permaculture | 17 June 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcKbAR3nNO8

I am happy I have no such phone.

Look at what CELLPHONE spells out in ASCII. What cops are doing is probably part of why this kind of phones are a bad idea in the end.

3:38 Yeah, someone actually does remember those leaves of Camellia sinensis that touched the wrong type of water to get a drinkable beverage in Boston.

I just saw someone who thought using El pendón estrellado as a protest was so disgusting, a desecration of what America (to him) stands for ....