Wheels

 Up until very recently, a law in Los Angeles read:  “No person shall play ball or any game of sport with a ball or football or throw, cast, shoot or discharge any stone, pellet, bullet, arrow or any other missile, in, over, across, along or upon any street or sidewalk or in any public park, except on those portions of said part set apart for such purposes.” If you read that statute and thought, "Hey, this is a law that forbids me to play catch with my kid," then you were paying attention. Violators could be fined up to one thousand dollars and face up to six months in jail. This law was believed to have been enacted some eighty years ago, and fast-thinking City Council members voted to repeal it. 

Something about the wheels of justice turning slowly and all that. 

Right about this same time, Stephen "Nosferatu" Miller issued what he labeled a REMINDER to the goons under his purvey: “To all ICE officers: You have federal immunity. Anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop you or tries to obstruct you is committing a felony. You have immunity to perform your duties, and no one—no city official, no state official, no illegal alien, no leftist agitator or domestic insurrectionist— can prevent you from fulfilling your legal obligations and duties.”

It's kind of a shame that he didn't finish up by outlawing hopscotch or touch football. That way the ridiculousness of his pronouncement would have fallen directly in conflict with the hard work of the Los Angeles City Council. Little Steven and his Disciples of Cruel were announcing their position above the law. No city, state, or civilian interference with their stormtrooper tactics would be permitted moving forward. The newly minted notion of "weaponizing vehicles" is not something suited for a Mad Max sequel, they're talking about a Honda Odyssey trying to get past a bunch of masked nincompoops as they terrorize the neighborhood. 

Did I just mention "terror?" Well, yes I did. It was conjugated, but it was the term I used to describe what the Department of Fatherland Insecurity is doing across this land of ours in hopes of making it "great again." 

Great as in, "The stormtroopers are here. Oh, great," with a derisive roll of the eyes. 

The next step for the LA City Council should be to declare its sidewalks sanctuaries. For balls and human beings alike.