DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: When did Molotov cocktails, burning buildings, and threatening people’s families equate to peaceful protest – I missed that memo

Has anyone stopped for a hot minute to think about the rioting going on in Los Angeles (www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/08/us/la-immigration-protests-photos-map.html), and I believe Minneapolis had issues there too recently?

We’ve heard the narrative, but I’m asking who’s fueling the division and paying the bill?

ICE agents, due process, immigration raids, fiery protests, and burning buildings – how much does a protest cost these days?

Is Georgie Soros running low on cash yet?

And the “it’s not fair” narrative is so last year.

What’s not fair? One’s ability to break the law – and not get away with it.

Ask yourself why this is happening right now.

What are the masses being distracted from this month?

Remember anger, fear, and violence keeps a person in constant stress and reactive mode. It leads to unproductive behavior that often leaves one dependent on the person who is saying “I am here to help” even though that very person is the reason you need the help.

Reacting is not thinking.

Are we so used to the lies people tell us that we can’t discern the truth when it’s in our face?

There’s nothing wrong standing up for what’s right and honorable.

But who are you getting your information from about the rightness of your crusade? Whose narrative are you marching to these days?

And why do you believe it?

I want to ask these protesters the above questions. I would bet more than half have no idea why they’re even there.

And way too many people have their head in the sand playing victim and blaming everything on Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and blah, blah, blah (insert name here).

I’m not even that much of a Trump fan, but people – PLEEEEASE!

I honestly believe if an asteroid hit the Earth and killed half the world’s population, somehow it would be blamed on the DON himself. In some way he would be blamed for having access to that asteroid and steering it to planet Earth on purpose because he’s a “felon” (go look and see when those charges were dropped).

Newsflash: you know you give your power away when you play the blame game and have reactive twitches every time the Deep State pulls the puppet strings and gets the masses worked up.

It’s like clockwork – the protests and the injustice and the hollering about it all. Has anyone noticed the blue or red people you put in charge tend to do nothing about your hollering except for pass another law half the constituents don’t agree with anyway!

In the case of these LA riots, has anyone taken the time to stop and think that perhaps if the former administration had not let millions of illegal people into this country, we might not be sending people back at breakneck speed?

We might not have put women and children in harm’s way to face rape, murder, and aggression that could have been avoided if the border had been closed.

I don’t remember federal agents being harassed during the Obama Administration when he deported 3 million illegals – why the issue now (www.cnn.com/2019/07/13/politics/obama-trump-deportations-illegal-immigration/index.html)?

There are those of the mind that we should let every warm voting body into the US. However, there are also those who don’t agree that just anyone should be living off the land, unless they obtain the right to do so through the proper channels.

I’ve talked to legal immigrants who went through the proper channels to get their citizenship – is anyone listening to their voice?

We’re not breaking new ground here with immigration law. No country (other than the US the last four years) will let a person come in and squat like a bad wife trying to take her husband’s home and money without repercussions.

What we are breaking new ground on is, as one man pointed out “Illegal immigrants and liberal Americans are fighting federal agents while holding up flags of the countries they ran from. Make that make sense.”

Actually, this could be considered an act of war on American soil.

Would you go to China illegally, beg them to take you in, and then cause chaos while waving the American flag.

No, because you would not last one minute if you were such a fool.

One red person reiterated on social media, “At the core of all of this is people being mad at the president for enforcing the law and arresting people who are doing something illegal.”

I still want to know WHO is paying the protesters now.

And will the price go up if said protesters have to scuffle with the 2000 National Guards Trump just sent to California using Title 10 bypassing California Gov. Gavin Newsom?

Ouch, Newsom was big mad. In fact, he’s planning to sue the Trump Administration for this deployment.

You’re aware no one WINS when both sides are losers, right?

I’m still trying to understand if it’s factually true that so many people believe their lies.

I keep asking when is that moment when a person breaks from reality and begins to believe the spin they are spewing.

Another tidbit about these riots (www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/la-riots-multiple-police-cars-attacked-by-protesters/ar-AA1Glehr?ocid=BingNewsSerp) and the ICE agents wearing masks.

As one uninformed blue person said with laughable arrogance, they were hiding their faces so they wouldn’t be held liable.

Liable for what, lady? Removing people who are breaking the law?

For all the uninformed people in the room, here is the kindergarten explanation for the need for our federal agents to wear masks so you don’t have to ask again.

Acting U.S. ICE director Todd Lyons explained, “They’re wearing those masks because we ran an operation with the secret service, when we arrested someone that was going online, taking their photos, posting their families, their kid’s Instagram, their kid’s Facebooks, and targeting them.”

Another little factoid reportedly there are 10M people living in Los Angeles county and at least 1M are illegal. I believed this because I lived there for 10 years and saw these facts with my own eyes.

Sit on that number. Triple it for the count of all the bodies Joe Joe’s auto pen let in during that train wreck.

Most people don’t believe open borders will work. The riff-raff often comes because they have ruined their redemption at home, and for every good soul that needs true help, there are those who have no soul at all.

Did you watch when Aaron Hietke, former Chief Patrol Agent for U.S. Customs and Border Protection during the Biden Administration admitted he was told to hide information about terrorist coming into the US at an alarming rate under Biden.

It’s not okay for protesters in LA to be making Molotov cocktails to throw at US Federal agents.

Do you think that’s the way to get your point across?

Yes, people need to be able to protest and stand up for their rights.

I wonder if these LA protesters voted in the last election?

I wonder if Molotov cocktails and burning down homes equals peace, because not in this space where I am.

Is the game plan to destroy America, and the global consumerist capital oligarchy (deep state) are terrified everything is crumbling so, they tell the stories to keep the sheep in line?

The US could be one step away from Martial Law. At that point, every violent loud protest in which you think you’re defying the government is bringing you only closer to the key to your cageless prison being lost forever.

How many protesters – you know the unpaid true patriots who in their own mind believe the US needs change – are willing to see change done the correct way and not reactively?

And no, I’m not talking about those money grab protesters who suck up the media narrative and think anyone gives a damn about their protest sign.

How many people truly have the courage to stand up peacefully and see who the real enemy is – beginning with demanding the removal of politicians from both sides of the aisle who need to be put to bed? And I’m not talking about Trump at this moment, I’m talking about greedy corpses who should have retired years ago – don’t they have enough money?

What about term limits, can we all agree to peacefully protest to get that passed?

Or removing lobbyists – let’s do that.

If you think for one minute the disease in our government is not so deep that it has been playing out as far back as when we were all in diapers you either MUST go back and do more research or grab a beer, turn on your television and play LaLa land for the remainder of your vacation time on Planet Earth.

Rita Cook is a freelance writer for The Ellis County Press. She can be reached at rcook13@earthlink.