There is ongoing rioting in Los Angeles over deportation of illegal aliens, who are very numerous in the Los Angeles area.
Peter Brimelow’s Substack today points out that as long ago as 1995, when Brimelow published Alien Nation, which called for limiting LEGAL immigration, and deporting ILLEGAL immigrants, a writer in The Atlantic Magazine, Jack Miles, now 82, wrote that
I strongly agree with Brimelow that American immigration law needs to be reformed severely and quickly. And many of his proposals make good sense. However, his call for a new version of Operation Wetback—the hated federal program that forced a million illegal Mexican immigrants to return to their homeland in the 1950s–is worse than reckless. In a 40 percent Hispanic, heavily armed city like Los Angeles, the mass expulsion of illegal Mexican immigrants could not come about without a violent disruption of civic, economic, and even religious order, and probably not without provoking a major international incident. Such an operation could be implemented only at gunpoint, and it would be resisted the same way. Its announcement would be a virtual declaration of civil war. The Coming Immigration Debate, by Jack Miles, The Atlantic Magazine, April 1995.
Brimelow’s response: “this simply concedes that the U.S. had lost control of its national territory—as early as 1995!”
Which is why we need a Great Repatriation
The Great Repatriation and Hispanics – (1/4)
Further from Jack Miles, back in the 90s, which were statistically much more violent than today:
[T]he same huge California majorities that supported Proposition 187 would probably support the full militarization of the border if asked–particularly if the recent devaluation of the peso produces, as expected, a new flood of economic refugees from Mexico. But if such an armed force were to cross over from guarding the border to rounding up aliens for Brimelow’s new Operation Wetback, I am confident that there would be armed resistance.
Has Brimelow completely forgotten the Rodney King riot?
No conservative has forgotten the Rodney King Riot, or the Watts Riots, or Ferguson, or Baltimore.
What we remember, from a famous speech by Pat Buchanan (watch it here) was that
Friends, in those wonderful 25 weeks of our campaign, the saddest days were the days of that riot in LA, the worst riot in American history. But out of that awful tragedy can come a message of hope.
Hours after that riot ended, I went down to the Army compound in South Los Angeles, where I met the troopers of the 18th Cavalry who had come to save the city of Los Angeles. An officer of the 18th Cav said, “Mr. Buchanan, I want you to talk to a couple of our troopers.” And I went over and I met these young fellows. They couldn’t have been 20-years-old. And they recounted their story.
They had come into Los Angeles late in the evening of the second day, and the rioting was still going on. And two of them walked up a dark street, where the mob had burned and looted every single building on the block but one, a convalescent home for the aged. And the mob was headed in, to ransack and loot the apartments of the terrified old men and women inside. The troopers came up the street, M-16s at the ready. And the mob threatened and cursed, but the mob retreated because it had met the one thing that could stop it: force, rooted in justice, and backed by moral courage.
Patrick Joseph Buchanan, “Culture War Speech: Address To The Republican National Convention” (August 17, 1992)
While we don’t know how many of the current rioters in LA are Mexicans, Mexican-Americans, or other Hispanic immigrants, we should remind you that in the Rodney King Riots of 1991, one-third of the 6000 people arrested were illegal, and 51 percent were Latino, although the first Bush Administration did nothing about it.
“At a Cabinet meeting today, Attorney General William P. Barr said nearly one-third of the first 6,000 [Los Angeles] riot suspects arrested and processed through the court system were illegal aliens, according to a senior Administration official. Barr has not proposed any special effort to have them deported, a Justice Department spokesman said.” Tape Shows L.A. Police Abandoning Area Where Riot Began, By Paul Taylor, Washington Post, May 6, 1992.
See also this, from the Los Angeles Times:
The answer to such riots has always been to suppress them with force as soon as possible. That’s the lesson of the 60s riots, the 90s riots, the Obama-era riots in Ferguson and Baltimore, and the riots against the first Trump Inauguration.
As conservative writer Eugene Methvin wrote in National Review in 1991:
The time to halt a riot is right at the start, by pinching off the criminal spearhead with precise and overwhelming force. The cops will usually be caught flat-footed (no pun intended) by the initial outbreak. But they need to spring into a pre-arranged mobilization that should always be as ready in every major city as the fire-department or hospital disaster-response program….
Moral Holiday
In a nutshell: Riots begin when some set of social forces temporarily overwhelms or paralyzes the police, who stand by, their highly visible inaction signaling to the small percentage of teenaged embryonic psychopaths and hardened young adults that a moral holiday is under way. This criminal minority spearheads the car-burning, window-smashing, and blood-letting, mobbing such hate targets as blacks, or white merchants, or lone cops. Then the drawing effect brings out the large crowds of older men, and women and children, to share the Roman carnival of looting. Then the major killing begins: slow runners caught in burning buildings and—as civic forces mobilize—in police and National Guard gunfire
A Riot Primer | The importance of using force to control the spread of urban riots, By Eugene H. Methvin, National Review, June 10, 1991
Methvin had been studying this stuff since the Watts Riots of 1965, and wrote an entire book on it: The Riot Makers: The Technology Of Social Demolition, Arlington House , 1970:
The “riot makers” of Methvin’s title, by the way, were not random social forces, nor yet disgruntled minority youth on street corners where the riots happen—they were the left-wing organizations (which today include Antifa, the Sunrise Movement, and various George Soros-backed “immigrant rights” NGOs) that backed the riots, and the politicians who let the riots go on.
There’s also the question of punishment—in addition to prison sentences, there should be an effort not only (unlike the first Bush Administration above) to deport illegals caught taking part in the riots, but to revoke the visas of immigrant rioters who are legally present—every visa issued by the State Department issued on an basis of “good behavior” which as foreign-born Hamas supporters at universities have been finding out, means “no rioting”.
Visas for Me but Not for Thee
During the Ferguson Riots, I recall that Steve Sailer observing that modern police had a lot more armored cars, body armor, and rifles than they used to, so if they wanted to stop riots, they could. (This is one reason Jack Miles’s 90s fears of a Mexican insurrection were overblown.)
In Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass and California Governor Gavin Newsom have been, in effect, giving orders not to stop the rioting.
That’s why Trump has federalized the National Guard, and sent in locally-based regular Marines—because he knows that illegal force must be met with legal force.
Peter Brimelow wrote during the Obama Administration in 2014 on the subject of the Ferguson Riots that “The Answer To Race Riots Is Ruthless Coercion. What Is America Waiting For?
The answer is that they were waiting for Trump.