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Troops and Federal Agents Briefly Descend on LA's MacArthur Park

Federal officers and National Guard troops fanned out around a mostly empty Los Angeles park in a largely immigrant neighborhood ...

Posted by Corky at 10:31 PM | 15 COMMENTS | permalink

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I've obtained a trove of leaked documents about today's federal crackdown on Los Angeles' MacArthur Park. One revelation is its codename: "Operation Excalibur"

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-- Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein.bsky.social) Jul 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM

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"This morning looked like a staging for a TikTok video," said Marqueece Harris-Dawson, president of the Los Angeles City Council, adding if Border Patrol wants to film in LA, "you should apply for a film permit like everybody else.

And stop trying to scare the bejesus out of everybody who lives in this great city and disrupt our economy every day."

Chris Newman, legal director for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, said he received a credible tip about the operation Monday.

"It was a demonstration of escalation," Newman said. "This was a reality TV spectacle much more so than an actual enforcement operation."

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-07 07:57 PM

Reminds me of ...

Richard Harris - MacArthur Park (1967)
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Lyrics excerpt ...

...
[Verse 1]
Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

[Chorus]
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again, oh no

[Verse 2]
I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers
By the trees
...

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-07 08:02 PM

And....the park was empty.

Swing and a miss, Nazi -------.

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-07 08:07 PM

They were practicing the Nat Guard defending the Gestapo ICE agents as they kidnapped whomever they wish off of the streets.

"The operation in the large park about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of downtown LA included 17 Humvees, four tactical vehicles, two ambulances and the armed soldiers, defense officials said.

It came after President Donald Trump deployed thousands of Guard members and active duty Marines to the city last month following protests over previous immigration raids."

;;
I mean, they just passed the Big Bust Bill spending billions on faculties to hold the millions of people, not criminals, just people mostly not white, that they will be busting ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-07 08:15 PM

Governor Gavin Newsom may want to order the State Police to establish DUI and speeding checkpoints around the saloons and taverns the ICE and DHS goons gather to get sloshed after a long day of bullying defenseless people. A recent CHP dragnet caught several DUIs and unsafe drivers. Link: www.chp.ca.gov

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-07 08:32 PM

@#4 ... defending the Gestapo ICE agents ...

Supposedly, the ICE agents are Public Servants.

So why do they wear masks?

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-07 08:41 PM

It's getting to where you can't tell the Official Nazis from street level neo-Nazis any more:

Prolly because they are the same people.

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-07 08:47 PM

@#7 ... Prolly because they are the same people. ...

OK, allow me to ask the following question(s) ...

The new Trump tax bill allows for the hiring of more ICE agents. So many more that ICE could become the largest law enforcement arm of the United States. Larger than all the other law enforcement arms combined?

So, there will be, obviously, a hiring binge.

My question is: what criteria will be used in those new people being hired?

Given the current politicization of ICE and that ICE does not seem to abide by current law-enforcement norms, I have to ask, what type of folk will want to join up in ICE?

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-07 08:56 PM

Criteria? Bwahaha.

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-07 09:18 PM

@#9 ... Criteria? Bwahaha. ...

imo, there will be criteria.

But the criteria will be, as it apparently has been, loyalty to Pres Trump instead of loyalty to the Constitution.

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-07 09:22 PM

It'll be how many Sons of Odin show up.

#11 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-07 09:25 PM

#8

There is one criterion: loyalty to FDT.

That kind of money buys a privatized paramilitary organization like those contractors in Iraq. None of the "lesser" departments will be able to stop it. Dude's building a private army, and these are just the trials.

They already built concentration camps. They've ignored habeas corpus. It's all probing ... looks just like another movement in the 30's...

#12 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-07-09 03:14 AM

Nothing but a bunch of goons.

#13 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-09 05:54 AM

Why the face masks? I'll wager that sooner or later it will come out that a sizeable percentage of these ICE or other agents are nothing more than hired bullies and cosplayers, nothing more than stand-ins, wanna-be agents, Blackwater contractors, moonlighting cops from the outer burbs working on their day off or 1/6 criminals who got on with flexible employers. Nearly all will be on the Barney Fife protocol with no ammo in their guns and smaller 'sticks', just out to impress girls with their outfits...

#14 | Posted by catdog at 2025-07-09 02:38 PM

Donna Summer live

#15 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-07-09 03:21 PM

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