IT’S ALL BAD.
At 5pm tonight (Saturday the 19th, and probably coming Saturdays) – the third protest at the Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base. We want our heroic National Guard to be freed from Trump’s unconstitutional orders to assist ICE’s indiscriminate raids, and free to do what they signed up for, and also be available to help with the wildfires and other emergencies California needs them for.
Furthermore, ICE and Border Patrol have been using this Training Base as a station, and we want them OUT. This will be at Lexington & Farquhar from 5 to 7, here’s the flyer:
But the holiday also marked a moment when those who aren’t thrilled with the federalization of the National Guard, or the use of U.S. military to control Americans on American soil, made their presence known. Dozens of people turned out on the Fourth for a protest just outside the base’s main gate, on Lexington
Many of the protesters chanted “Question your orders,” said Robert Winter, a photographer and longtime resident of Cypress. He said he came by the event at Los Alamitos — and has gone to other protests — to give balance to what he sees as a “lack of coverage” about anti-military protests by the mainstream media.
Protesters, according to Winter, were “quite informed” about the military’s historic role, and were frustrated by the current administration’s use of American troops on American soil.
“These folks were remembering Vietnam and the Nuremberg Trials and said they know there is a high chance of someone would give an order that is really bad,” Winter said, summing up what he heard from the protesters.
When troops were first deployed to L.A., advocates for service members warned of low morale. The GI Rights Hotline received a flurry of calls voicing concern about immigration enforcement, Woolford said.
Some military personnel told the hotline that they did not want to support ICE or play any role in deporting people because they considered immigrants part of the community or had immigrants in their family, Woolford said. Others said they did not want to point guns at citizens. A few worried that the country was on the verge of turning into something like martial law, and said that they didn’t want to be on the side of being armed occupiers of their own country.
Many were shocked that the deployment orders were for 60 days.
“There’s no way they’re really going to keep us here that long, are they?” Woolford said he was asked.
But as the military brought in more contractors and set up giant tents with cots, Woolford said, callers to the hotline seemed more resigned to the idea that they would remain in L.A. a long time.
VERN HERE: Just threw this together quickly so you know about this and can come. I will try to be there, and add a lot more to this.
This is a few houses down from me. Super obnoxious. There’s 10 retired boomers and a few children mindlessly doing call and response chants. Obviously led by 2 with most of the people there just standing there with a sign, a glaze on their eyes and drool on their shirts.
They do have a PA so they’ve successfully waked the baby, but in terms of building any kind of support for their “resistance”?
Deport them all. -MAGA
Hi – were you one of the two folks who drove by and flipped us off? Because you were WAY outnumbered by all the folks who honked, waved, thumbed-up.
Also there were 10 of us around 5, more like 30 as it went on.
Also, how do you like that Epstein letter?
My time for the week is almost up, but I wanted to chime in one last time to say that the Epstein Letter is hilarious and that if I stick around for long enough I may be getting a new roommate. I didn’t like the sound of his jolly laughter this time. (Who is Maury Comey, anyway?)