This oughta be fun

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Ugly for the transantifas, maybe, but entertaining for the rest of us. My guess? Few, if any of these people will show up, despite their call for reinforcements from Seattle and Los Angeles, and those that do won’t dare to assault armed federal troops who, unlike the local cops won’t be handcuffed by Portland’s administration. But we can always hope.

Following President Trump's announced intention to surge federal forces into Portland, Oregon, where riots are held daily outside Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters, the useful idiots of Anti Profa are planning a "direct action" for Sunday, September 28th. 

…. A direct action has been planned for Sept. 28 at the Portland ICE facility after Trump issued a statement that he plans to send in troops to protect the federal property. Antifa and communists have said they refuse to back down and plan to escalate their rioting. They have called… pic.twitter.com/bsh4CW4BC

Antifa was recently designated as a domestic terrorist group by President Trump, and they richly deserve it. The question is this: How in the world do the actions Antifa claims to be planning not constitute an insurrection under the Insurrection Act of 1807? 10 U.S. Code § 252 - Use of militia and armed forces to enforce Federal authority, would seem to apply here. That section states:

Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.

That would appear to state that the President of the United States would, in the event Antifa does what they claim they want to do, have the legal recourse to unleash the full might of United States federal forces to restore order. To point out that this wouldn't end well for Antifa is the grossest of understatements. What's a trifle baffling is that this legal recourse hasn't been invoked before now.

Britannica defines an insurrection as:

...an organized and usually violent act of revolt or rebellion against an established government or governing authority of a nation-state or other political entity by a group of its citizens or subjects; also, any act of engaging in such a revolt. 

That's precisely what Antifa is doing. It was even more egregious in the summer of 2020, when not only did rioting useful idiots cause several deaths and a billion or so dollars in property damage, but some actually seized a portion of the city of Seattle, installed an armed thug as the ruler of the area, and expelled civil authorities. Granted, they were so incompetent that they couldn't feed themselves, and their rebellion collapsed, but that doesn't make the crime any less.

Sunday will tell the tale. Will it be a violent conflict? Or a fizzle?

Fingers crossed.