{"id":41758,"date":"2025-06-08T13:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T20:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=41758"},"modified":"2025-06-08T13:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T20:47:14","slug":"ana-del-castillo-on-ice-in-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/06\/08\/ana-del-castillo-on-ice-in-l-a\/","title":{"rendered":"ANA DEL CASTILLO\u00a0ON THE NATIONAL GUARD IN L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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June 8, 2025 (Facebook.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those unaware or not in the know, here\u2019s a quick update and context: In California, protests against ICE actions are escalating, and T has deployed the National <\/a>Guard. As a reminder, these are legal, constitutionally protected protests that are taking place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s put this in perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last time a President deployed the National Guard without a governor\u2019s request was 1965 \u2013 LBJ did it to protect civil rights protestors. This time a president is doing it to intimidate protestors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the same prez that refused to call the Guard to protect the Capitol during the J-6 attempted coup. In fact, when he returned to office, he freed those convicted traitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a moment, I want you to consider the massive amounts of resources we\u2019re committing to terrorize people, versus feeding and housing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Never tell me again that both parties are the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s the significant development here: California, the world\u2019s 4th largest economy, is refusing to comply. And Governor Newsom blasted the action and criticized it as \u201cpurposefully inflammatory\u201d and unnecessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not (just) politics. This is history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A sitting governor critical and opposing federal power marks the beginning of a profound fracture. A reckoning. A fight over meaning, over power, over who truly gets to call themselves free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is how it starts: not with armies, but with ordinary people refusing to kneel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t think many fully grasp what California represents. It\u2019s more than just beaches and tech. It\u2019s a superpower. A cultural supernova. A mythic entity currently holding half the country\u2019s future in its jaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, when California says NO, it matters. It matters profoundly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re feeling chills reading this, your body is recognizing the shift. The facade is cracking. The quiet roar of a state remembering it doesn\u2019t have to comply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if you believe any of this is only about immigration enforcement, then frankly, you\u2019re too uneducated or too far gone for productive engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took him 138 days to declare war on Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are in the opening chapter of something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pay attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ana Del Castillo <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Contributed by Geyllm Llwydd)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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