Running State Interference

The Governor has called out the National Guard in Minnesota, not to assist Federal authorities in rounding up criminal aliens but to serve as a blocking force to protect Minnesotans presumably from ICE. Has the failed Vice Presidential candidate ever heard of the American Civil War? The government in Washington, District of Columbia, established primacy by force of law and arms over the States in that bloody conflict. I would contend that States' rights were vanquished then for all time, essentially making it a settled issue, unless some fool wants to relitigate it with bullets and bombs at some point. I have this not necessarily novel notion that cities and states should work with, not against immigration agents to make communities safer. 

The Leaders Deserve

Those who enslave the people of Iran do not merit living in exile with the fortunes they have stolen. They have earned the most tortuous ends that could be inflicted on wrongdoers, hopefully publicly. 

In All Forms

Fanaticism from the right or left or of the religious variety is extremely dangerous. Certitude can be highly corrosive. 

A Free Iran

The removal of the Ayatollah and the mad mullahs would make the world safer from the terrorism they have sponsored for almost half a century and likely mean Iran would no longer pose a military (including nuclear) threat to the rest of the globe. A return of the Shah and/or another form of truly representative government should be welcomed by all decent people. The end of the Islamic Republic would deliver greater peace and stability for the region and beyond. 

Arm Iran's People

The Office of Strategic Services sent cheap, crudely-made single shot .45 caliber pistols into Occupied Europe, that ended up killing a few Nazis. The CIA armed resistance to Communists in several countries. Right now the mullah regime has ample guns, while the people of Iran have virtually none. I would rather have an obsolete gun facing a modern military weapon than a rock or bottle. The free world should provide a fighting chance to the freedom seekers in Iran by arming them. I don't care if that would be a casus belli for the Ayatollah against those who arm his opponents. The vast majority of Iranians would like to tear the reactionary clerics oppressing and now slaughtering them in the streets limb from limb. For the sake of the world and human liberty, we must help the Iranian people free themselves. 

Inflamed Iran's Intifada

Finally, there is a throwing off of the yoke I wholeheartedly support. The Iranian People will no longer tolerate the vicious theocratic oppression they have been forced to live under since the fall of the Shah. For the sake of the entire world, back their removal of the mad mullahs. 

One and All

Anybody who enters our country illegally is by definition a criminal. Folks that protest for aliens who have unlawfully entered America are voicing public support for crime. If you riot for any reason, you deserve condign retribution. Why would anyone want more wrongdoers in their community and publicly go out to disrupt law enforcement there to protect them?