When will it be "time"?
The Constitution contains (Article 4, Section 4):
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence.
We are approaching a point -- at least in Portland -- where the actions (or inactions, if you wish to call them that) of the municipal authorities are now in direct conflict with Article 4, Section 4.
That is to say, persons such as:
- The mayor of Portland
- The police commissioner of Portland and other high police department officials
- The city council of Portland, and others
- The district attorney of Portland, and others in that office
... may be considered as conspiring to violate the civil rights and equal protection of the laws that are guaranteed to the citizens of Portland.
As such, it has become necessary to call them out on this...
By ARRESTING them and charging them with violating Article 4, section 4 and the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.
And if the federal "agents" operating in the vicinity of the Federal building in Portland aren't enough to control the area, it's time to "send in the troops" to restore order on the streets. With the use of all options to force as required.
The Portland police rank-and-file should be placed under temporary command of the feds -- since the "current authority" over them (mayor and police commissioner) seem to be ordering them NOT to perform the duties that police are sworn to do.
If there is a deputy mayor, and if that person also refuses to get the city under control, then he/she too should be removed from that position.
If need be, a federal or military administrator should be installed until order is restored.
---------------------------------------------
It's easy to sit back and say, "let it burn".
And I really wouldn't care if every building owned by every leftist there burnt to the ground (with them inside).
BUT...
Our inaction will only encourage the communists to escalate their anarchy/insurgency. What we consider "restraint", they perceive as "failure".
After all, from their position, our side is unwilling, unable, or simply afraid to fight back.
Not only do the communists see this, so do many of the American people, too.
The left has a goal, and right now, they're winning.
What do we have?