This week, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass caught wind of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweep of an infamous hellhole in her city, MacArthur Park. Within minutes, she was there demanding to see the manager. What she dropped to be there to shake her fist at the feds tells you everything you need to know about this woman's priorities and how screwed normal-thinking Angelenos are.
Los Angeles, if only the mayor loved you as much as illegal aliens and drug cartels, I'd say you'd have a chance. Once again, however, the woman who led a Castro-backing Venceremos Brigade gang years ago chose her personal, far-left luxury beliefs over the very real needs of the city.
We now know that Karen Bass was on her way to an event, noting the six-month anniversary of the catastrophic L.A. fires, when she was tipped off about the ICE raid on the park. As I note in my piece this week about the raid and Bass's response, Remember the Time LA Mayor Karen Bass Barged Into MacArthur Park and Ordered the MS-13 to Leave, the Trump administration had a very good reason for wanting to clear the area of its cartel-run drug dealing and the park's MS-13 overlords.
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Instead of bringing L.A. an update on how her (awful) efforts to rebuild the Pacific Palisades are going and the progress being made, she ordered her driver to take her instead to MacArthur Park, where she declared the raid "un-American."
Bass has never declared the nearly 70% illegal alien populated Westlake area around the park "un-American," nor has she ever characterized the Mexican cartel-run operation around the park engaged in fencing stolen merchandise as "un-American."
No, she saved that characterization for the American agents and National Guard troops trying to root out criminal alien gangsters.
“What I saw in the park today looked like a city under siege, under armed occupation. Spending many years traveling into conflict areas — you know, it’s the way a city looks before a coup," said the leftist who, as a congresswoman, cheered the efforts to "coup" President Donald Trump.
"To have armored vehicles deployed on the streets of our city, to federalize the National Guard, to have the U.S. Marines who are trained to kill abroad, deployed to our city – all of this is outrageous and it is un-American," said the woman who worships the now-dead Cuban military dictator, Fidel Castro.
One of our VIP Members, "T_Edward" noticed and commented:
I am retired military. I take it as a grievous insult what she implied about the military. Military personnel have children and raise families. There is no reason for acting fearful of the military being around children.
If only she wanted to keep gangs, thugs and terrorists away from our children!
No, she's never had that reaction about the "un-American" cartels taking hold in a city that unwisely chose this hack to lead them.
Indeed, Bass has accused the Trump administration of sowing "chaos" by sending in federal troops to keep the peace. She's never characterized gangsters that way.
“Deploying federalized troops on the heels of these raids is a chaotic escalation," she proclaimed after the first raid in June. “The fear people are feeling in our city right now is very real – it’s felt in our communities and within our families, and it puts our neighborhoods at risk," she said.
“I turned around, we went to the park,” she told Fox News L.A.
This is something she never said when she was warned about the weather conditions that threatened to spark fires last January. Instead, Bass chose to ditch the city and go to Africa, ignoring the warnings about fire dangers. And then, at the six-month anniversary of the catastrophic fires, she chose to ditch the news conference about her rebuilding progress.
You chose her, L.A., but she didn't choose you. It's your move.
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