"I’ve read your responses. Breathe. Fight doesn’t equal armed resistance." Daniel, I will remind you of what you said, just a few days ago. bsky.app/profile/sird... "Can Illinois National Guard checkpoints be setup to prevent out of state guard from invading Chicago?" One can't do that.
One can't obstruct somebody acting on behalf of the federal government from doing his duty, even if he has been sent to do it unlawfully. That would be an act of rebellion. bsky.app/profile/sird... "National Guard are usually unarmed." If they're being sent into Englewood, they won't be.
"Arming them in DC is an outrage. We can fight in the media and Pritzger is doing a good job." No quarrel with that, but you're using a Motte and Bailey tactic, and I am going to call you out on that. You WERE talking about a lot more than just fighting with words.
"I’m not placing a lot of trust in the courts." Try arresting the National Guard, and I guarantee that you'll wish you had. Not that I believe for a second that you were being anything more than a keyboard warrior on the 22nd. The problem is that there are always hotheads listening.
Hotheads eager to do foolish things, in response to your intemperate words. Nobody who has lived through the last few years could doubt it. The riots showed us all just how out of control some of our neighbors could be. If that happens again, it could give Trump his pretext.
"The SC gave Trump immunity and we see the results." Sorry, buddy, but no go. I can dislike Mr. Trump without supporting every shady thing somebody wants to do to get rid of him. Trying to get him sent to prison for alleging electoral irregularities was highly shady.
We're not going to pick a fight with the federal government, just because you're feeling frustrated that you couldn't imprison a politician that you hated, on a meritless charge. The rule of law wouldn't mean anything, if the law was just whatever an angry mob wanted it to be.
Much like the MAGAs, a bunch of you on the Far Left want this to all be about Machiavellian Political Tribalism, and it's not going to be. In a fight between the MAGAs and Antifa / BLM, a lot of us would just stay home, because that's Psychopath-on-Psychopath action. No thank you. We'll pass.
Come to us with a reasonable proposition, and we can talk, but get this straight: we are not pawns that either side gets to move around on a 4-D chessboard, and sacrifice as needed. Anybody who comes here with bullshit gets called on it, and to Hell with his feelings. That's the Chicago way.
Capiche?