The Insurrection of 1807 stood unchallenged all these many years until "Brownie" screwed up the response to Katrina.

The Insurrection Act does not allow Trump to unilaterally deploy troops into the interior of the USA.

Does Esper still have the option to go back to his old boss, Raytheon? He should consider it.

To begin, there is no insurrection, there are people with masks marching in the streets of the USA EXPECTING the government to pay attention to overbearing police actions throughout the country. Is Trump sure there isn't a police insurrection?

The Insurrection Act needs the request of governors to deploy the USA military. 

There is an amendment that was passed because Michael D. Brown, the "W" director of FEMA screwed up the response and the circumstances in New Orleans became critical and people were dying.

Katrina was the first major Climate Crisis storm and arrived in Louisiana with a 20-foot storm surge that traveled right up the Mississippi and deposited ships at the shoulder of the river. Lake Ponchartrain of Louisiana swelled and between the storm surge and the lake, water volume caused the destruction of the levees. When the levees broke, and "The Big One" finally arrived the residents of the Ninth District were underwater and many died. I don't recall the exact number at this time, shame on me, but it was over 1100 people dead in the USA due to a hurricane and the most in decades.

General Honore (click here) was sent to the interior of the country to rescue New Orleans from being stranded, hungry, and without medical access. I remember his arrival. It was after some military soldiers arrived and were actually preparing their weapons, his helicopter touched down, he lept out and stated, "Put your guns down!"

Obviously, General Honore was not interested in terrifying Americans more than they already were after they had very little warning to leave New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. They were terrified and many lost family members. They didn't need Ameican troops pointing their weapons in their face. Honore was magnificent and never once overstepped the unusual authority. He reassured the people and directed the troops to help and bring about an understanding of order within a city and area with it being absolutely destroyed by a major hurricane that Louisiana rarely if ever experienced.

There was an amendment to the Insurrection Act after that event in Louisiana.

The amendment (click here)

That was the only change to the Insurrection Act for well over 100 years. The President of the USA is NOT a king and the founders of this country took every opportunity to reiterate the fact this was a free country and the president would never be a king. 

The amendment to the Insurrection Act is NOT permission for the USA military to turn their guns on the American people. The governors have to consent, or better said, ASK for the assistance of the USA military within their borders.

Trump's fantasy of being a tyrant in the USA is getting old. He has yet to address the death of George Floyd and it sure as heck didn't happen in front of a church across from the White House.

Enacted by: the 9th United States Congress
March 3, 1807 10 USC Ch. 13: INSURRECTION (click here)

From Title 10—ARMED FORCESSubtitle A—General Military LawPART I—ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL MILITARY POWERS

Let me know when Trump actually addresses the death of George Floyd.

The Minneapolis government has proved to be untrustworthy. First, they blamed looting and fires on an outside entity. Now, they lied about the autopsy. Why does this go on? This seems worse than Ferguson to me.

June 1, 2020
By Paul Walsh and Liz Navratil

Attorneys representing George Floyd's family (click here) released findings of their own autopsy that said the man was asphyxiated while now-fired officer Derek Chauvin had his kneeing pinning Floyd's neck. The results directly challenged preliminary results from the examination by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office that he was not strangled, but died from other factors, including being restrained.

"George died because he needed a breath, a breath of air," family attorney Ben Crump said during a news conference Monday afternoon. "For George Floyd, the ambulance was his hearse."

Crump added that Floyd "was living, breathing, talking until we see those officers restrain him while he's face down in handcuffs with Officer Chauvin having his knee lodged into his neck for over 8 minutes, almost 9 minutes, and the other officer having both his knees lodged into his back. And the doctors will explain the significance of that, as to the cause and manner of death."...

The guilt of lies and misinformation has to be purged from the cities of the USA. I believe Trayvon Martin required an independent autopsy as well.

This is all corruption and don't expect the greater American population to like it and simply dismiss this brutality that leads to deaths.

It is easy to be rough when a corrupt coroner has your back.

This happened in Seattle and it is very unhelpful. When is the USA's police going to demilitarize? Never? This is ridiculous.

There are two reports about the incident (click here).

June 1, 2020

Images of violence continue to come out of the US (click here) as protests over the death of George Floyd escalate.

Footage shared on Twitter earlier today shows a police officer kneeling on a protester's neck - the same type of tactic that the police officer charged with Floyd's murder did for nearly nine minutes, according to the official complaint.

The incident, captured on video, allegedly took place in Seattle and shows a Seattle Police Department officer putting his knee on a protester's neck during an arrest outside a T-Mobile store that was being looted.

The people surrounding the scene begin to protest the police officer's actions and a fellow officer physically removes the cop's knee from the protester's neck.

"Antifa" is an idea, not an organiztion.

It is no different than the idea of "globalists." It is an idea and not an organization. The government would find it easy to attack an organization as a domestic terrorist group, but, alas the only thing concrete about Antifa are the people showing up for a cause, not a meeting.

I guess everyone unable to come to terms with real pain for real reasons will need the idea of a scapegoat.

June 1, 2020
By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Sandra E. Garcia

Seeking to assign blame for the protests (click here) that have convulsed cities across the country this week, President Trump said on Sunday that the United States would designate antifa, the loosely affiliated group of far-left anti-fascism activists, a terrorist organization.

The president’s critics noted, however, that the United States does not have a domestic terrorism law and that antifa, a contraction of the phrase “anti-fascist,” is not an organization with a leader, a defined structure or membership roles.

Rather, antifa is more of a movement of activists whose followers share a philosophy and tactics. They have made their presence known at protests around the country in recent years, including the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017....

I find it fascinating the word violent is used about protests when they loot and light fires. No one is dead because of it. The injuries came from the cops and their rubber bullets that were even fired at people standing in the doorway of their home watching the police march through their residential streets as viewed by film loops on "Tic Toc."

Buildings can be rebuilt. Lives can't be brought back once dead.

The people feel a great deal of inequality for many reasons, but, the ability to realize wealth is a big problem.

I am very confident Mayor Lightfoot will seek ways to return small businesses to the Chicago landscape. I think she cares about the people. She, as other government officials, need to articulate the grievances of the people. Only when those grievances are part of the dialogue will people believe they will be addressed.

I think the observations about "The Loop" that was addressed by Mayor Lightfoot is a good beginning. Government leaders have to listen and hear as well as see and wish for peace.

June 1, 2020
By Gregory Pratt

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (click here) denied that the city prioritized protecting the Loop over neighborhoods on the South and West sides over the weekend and promised to help rebuild.

“There is no way, no way we would ever let any neighborhood receive more resources and protection than any others. Ever,” Lightfoot said. “That certainly didn’t happen over the course of the weekend.”

Lightfoot said such criticism is offensive to her as a black woman and added: “We did not stand by and let the South and West sides burn as some are propagating.”

Lightfoot made her comments after protests over the death of George Floyd, who died at the hands of Minneapolis police, led to nationwide civil unrest, including widespread looting and some arson. The city shut down most access to Chicago’s downtown on Sunday after people burned and looted businesses in the Loop, and looting migrated to neighborhoods on the South and West sides....

The Supreme Court found the best resolve to the issue of SARS-CoV-2.

Americans are allowed to have their bodies intact and free of disease. The decision by the Supreme Court reflects the idea that global pandemics are dangerous. The well being of the human body came first as it should.

The opposite of this decision places Americans in direct conflict with their churches, not their faith. The decision to open churches is made by people that do not have the best interest of their parishioners. Sorry, they simply don't. Such a church can imperil the entire community and not just parishioners, as if that is okay, too.

People of faith don't have a problem transitioning to an "at home" expression. They don't have to display it to a congregation and neither do their faith leaders. If a person has sincere faith it is simply a matter of turning on an online source and participate in any religious ceremony carried out by the leadership of the church.

To believe divine intervention is better than warnings by health professionals and the government is not even faithful. That is arrogance. Humility is much needed by faith leaders that think they can outwit a very deadly virus through prayers in a building.

Religious leaders have become very inventive to keep their parishioners at the center of their prayers online and otherwise. It is easy to tithe without being inside the church building. 

May 30, 2020
By Ian Milihiser

The Rev. Nicolas Sanchez (click here) Toledano poses among pews adorned with portraits of his parishioners at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in the North Hollywood section of Los Angeles.

Late Friday night, (click here) the Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision establishing that states still have some power to regulate how many people are allowed to gather in churches during a deadly pandemic

The case, South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom, began on May 11, when a California church sought a lower court order allowing it to hold in-person services, despite a state order requiring places of worship to hold services online to avoid spreading the coronavirus. While the case was pending before the Supreme Court, however, California relaxed its order to allow such in-person services, so long as the number of attendees did not exceed 25 percent of the building capacity or 100 worshipers.

That relaxation did not put an end to the case, however. The church still sought a broad order exempting it from much of the state’s power to regulate public health....