LA riots Archives - Dr. Rich Swier

Déjà vu.

That’s what Americans felt after the recent riots, violence, and left-wing antics centered in Los Angeles, California. Radicals used President Donald Trump’s deportations of illegal immigrants from communities around the nation as their pitiful excuse for the chaos. After weeks of simmering opposition to the federal government’s enforcement actions, those advocating for lawlessness began a relentless cycle of violence under the guise of “protesting.”

Lest we forget, the Los Angeles riots commenced due to left-wing agitators attempting to stop federal agents from executing their sworn duties to arrest immigrants who are illegally in the United States. Some of these out-of-control individuals went so far as to block and impede progress of the law enforcement agents and to assault them in the light of day.

Despite clear evidence of the lawlessness occurring on their streets against federal officers, California politicians, led by Gov. Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass, refused to lend aid and quell the growing violence across Los Angeles, emboldening the rioters. With violent escalation all around his federal agents, Trump was forced to call out the National Guard and U.S. Marines to ensure the safety and security of American assets and sovereignty in the face of hateful and unlawful behavior.

It’s important to note that what unfolded in California under its extreme leftist government was nothing short of an atrocity. These ongoing altercations should never be confused with “protests,” which are protected under the First Amendment. Rather, these were violent riots carried out by criminal thugs threatening life and property. Yet again, California politicians jeopardized the lives and livelihoods of both our law-abiding citizens and federal agents, while also undermining the rule of law, thanks to their blind allegiance to a fundamentally anti-American ideology of open borders and lawless streets.

What the nation observed in California hearkens back to another recent period of American history—the riots of 2020, where anarchists again took to the streets in many communities across the country and caused irreparable harm to brick-and-mortar establishments and the seats of governmental power—like federal courthouses in some jurisdictions. As in California today, many left-wing politicians stood by or even fanned the flames of anarchy as their own cities and towns burned to the ground. These results would have been the fate of Los Angeles had not Trump put his foot down and increased manpower and political will of the federal government to protect his men and women in uniform against the lawless rioters.

Protesting a government’s policy is one thing—lawful assemblies of many forms are the hallmark of our American constitutional republic to beseech those in authority over us to change or modify the laws that keep order in our communities, states, and country. However, it is another thing entirely to resort to violence to accomplish that same goal—and the Left has a perpetual tendency to do just that when they run into severe disagreements. These antics are not the American way and are dangerous to our nation’s unity and survival.

Unfortunately, like many areas surrounding the political arena these days, the ability to riot or not to riot has encountered a partisan divide. Democrat governors, including Arizona’s own Katie Hobbs, issued a scathing statement, writing, “Trump’s move to deploy California’s National Guard is an alarming abuse of power.” Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes joined a legal fight against the president’s decision to bring the National Guard into action to defend federal agents.

These Democrats know full well who started the mess in Los Angeles; they simply wanted to prevent the president of the United States from having a clear runway to enforce the law and provide peace and safety to our schools and neighborhoods from the many documented harms of illegal immigration. They would rather compromise the rule of law and let lawbreakers run free than to join with the Trump administration and Republicans on enforcement of federal immigration laws, deportations of criminal illegal aliens, and accountability for those who violate state laws when demonstrations spiral out of control.

Americans are tired of the violence on our streets fueled by left-wing politicians who are content to see their cities become failed Third World-like displays to advance their schemes throughout the entire nation. The United States should never tolerate such unlawful antics, nor should our leaders give in to threats and violence over attempts to enforce the law and secure our communities. I am proud of the president’s efforts to keep the promises he made to the country over the past year, and I am grateful for the men and women in both federal and local law enforcement who risked their lives to keep our neighborhoods safe.

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Warren Petersen is the president of the Arizona State Senate.

As promises of peace fall apart, the globalist plan for the final takedown of America is entering its final stage. Will it succeed?

I have long held the view that the globalists’ plan for the final takedown of America will involve getting us into a major international war at the same time we’re engulfed in growing civil strife and possible civil war at home.

In other words, let them fight each other while fighting Russia, China and Iran simultaneously. That’s enough to take down any superpower. In the fog of war and with now comfortable lives turned upside down by death and destruction, the globalists will roll out their AI-powered digital surveillance slave-state — a beast system nobody will be able to avoid or resist because it will make Orwell’s Big Brother look like a benevolent dictator.

And that script is proceeding right on schedule with the riots heating up in Los Angeles and now spreading to other cities, while at the same time we see President Trump’s so-called peace talks breaking down with Russia and Iran.

The latest round of nuclear talks with Iran, set for Sunday, have now been canceled.

The Cradle reports that Iran’s Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh said Wednesday that Tehran will strike US military bases in the region if nuclear talks fail and Washington decides to launch an attack on the Islamic Republic. We can also count on countless Islamic cells being activated in the U.S., cells that have been preparing for years for what the Muslim Brotherhood refers to as a “zero hour event.”

Warning the US to leave the region in the case of any conflict, the Iranian defense minister stated:

“Some officials on the other side threaten conflict if negotiations don’t come to fruition. If a conflict is imposed on us… all US bases are within our reach and we will boldly target them in host countries.”

He said Iran had recently tested a missile with a two-ton warhead, adding that:

“We have made very good progress in defense affairs. Our operational forces are fully equipped. If a conflict is imposed on us, the casualties of the other party will definitely be much heavier than ours.”

Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin is done with Trump’s two-faced efforts to end the war with Ukraine and Putin has now launched what looks like a final massive assault designed to collapse the Kiev regime.

Trump boasted during his campaign that he would end the war in Ukraine “in 24 hours.” He also talked a lot about getting Iran to give up its nuclear program. But his whole strategy against Iran seems predicated on the notion that “if you don’t do what I say and stop enriching uranium, we will bomb you into oblivion.” Predictably, both of Trump’s efforts in Ukraine and Iran have ended in failure. And, honestly, I’m not convinced they were ever intended to succeed. Washington is built for war, not diplomacy.

The script always calls for war. All talks of peace in Ukraine were simply meant to give Ukraine some temporary breathing space to re-arm and re-organize its exhausted military forces. Putin was too smart to accept a deal like that. He demanded one that addressed the “root causes” of the war, which go back to the 2014 Washington-instigated coup that installed a Western puppet regime in Kiev and built its army into the largest in Europe, for the sole purpose of using it as a battering ram against Russia. Ukraine is NATO’s proxy, everyone with half a brain can see that, and the war had no other purpose other than trying to deal a strategic defeat to Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

The last two remaining obstacles to the New World Order are America and Russia. They are too strong individually to be folded into a global superstate. The globalists need to take down those two countries before they can proceed with redrawing maps and setting up their one-world totalitarian system based on digital IDs and digital tokenization of everything. What better way to destroy America and Russia than to pit them against each other in World War III?

So don’t be surprised when the war continues even after Ukraine is defeated. That’s because the war was never about Ukraine. It’s about defeating Russia. As crazy as that sounds, they believe they can do it, ignoring the risk of a nuclear holocaust.

Ukraine is just Act One of World War III, the launching pad but not the final destination. NATO will not back off of its plans to defeat and Balkanize Russia, the only question is whether Donald Trump will join in the fight or leave that one to the Europeans. If the neocons Trump surrounds himself with get their way, the U.S. will be all in for war with Russia, and that means war with China and North Korea as well. It’s a given they want war with Iran and I believe Trump has already committed to striking the Islamic Republic now that his fake peace talks have been extinguished.

So amid all the talk about bringing peace, the West will continue the escalations, even to the point of a nuclear exchange. The madmen and madwomen in Washington, London, Paris, Brussels and Berlin will never let go of their anti-Russia obsession. Even if they have to take on half the world to get at Putin, they will jump at the chance.

Trump still has the chance to hold off the hard-charging war hogs and fulfill his pledge to be a “peace president,” but will he? It would take a lot of courage at this point to go against the necon warmongers in Congress and in his own Cabinet. Powerful Senators like Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Tom Cotton of Arkansas serve the interests, not of peace-loving American citizens, but of the profit-driven military-industrial-intelligence complex. Secretary of State Marco Rubio worked for the same interests during his long career in the Senate, so why would he suddenly change his stripes and advise the president at this pivotal time to make any serious effort to avoid World War III with Russia, China, Iran and North Korea?

Pray for peace while preparing for war. Now is the time to stock up on essentials. Get enough food and water to supply your family for at least a couple of months should the supply lines get disrupted. You should also stock up now on the little things that come mostly from China and won’t be available once the war kicks off in earnest. Things like matches, lighters, candles, gasoline and gasoline containers. Most important of all, establish a relationship with your neighbors and get right with God.

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