Gee, I don't know, charging people for protection and when they refuse to pay, stealing their businesses and/or harming the business owner(s).
Still a state issue, IMHO
@libertybele Federal intervention would still need an invitation.
Once they seize a couple of businesses, do you really think they will stop and won't hesitate to expand their borders? Trump needs to step in IF the governor and mayor continue to do nothing and this escalates
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I don't know what's going to goad them into expanding their "borders". (Love the wall, BTW
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If they seize local businesses it's a state issue. But if they seize satellite offices of US businesses and the HQ across state lines object, well.... we're getting closer to a federal intervention. But still Washington state government must be given the right of first response. Under these circumstances feds could move if the state declines to end it.
Thinking that they won't expand into other cities I think is being overly optimistic.
And reacting before they do is not helpful, either. It could encourage the very response we're trying to prevent.
This needs more time to "ripen".
Feds won't get a second chance at a first response. They must get the reason for action and the action itself right the first time.