Mostly Peaceful Trespassing

The Kootenai County Republican Central Committee in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho was having a town hall meeting, and that meeting was being interrupted and interfered with by Democrat protesters. Security for the even asked those who were being disruptive to leave, and they refused. Security attempted to walk them out, and the protesters became violent. At least two of those protesters were arrested. In particular, one woman had already interrupted the meeting at least seven times, had been warned three times, then refused to leave when asked to do so. When security tried to forcibly remove her, she bit one of the officers. She was then arrested for battery.

The town dropped all charges and then suspended the business licenses of the security company. The license wasn’t suspended because the guards had used inappropriate force. No, they were suspended because their uniforms hadn’t been inspected and approved by the police chief within the past three years. No surprise there, as the current Mayor is a fruitcake Democrat from Southern California.

The protesters and their supporters are claiming that they have a constitutional right to speech and to redress their elected representatives for their grievances. The howls from the lefty press are becoming louder:

In the past week, with Congress in recess, Republican lawmakers across the country have faced hostile town halls, where constituents dissatisfied with the Trump/Musk chaos in the federal government boo, chant, and interrupt. Some Democrats have been facing pressure from their own. “Tyranny is rising in the White House, and a man has declared himself our king,” one audience voter challenged his representative at a town hall in Georgia days before. “So, I would like to know rather, the people would like to know, what you, congressman, and your fellow congressmen are going to do to rein in the megalomaniac in the White House?” Like the rolling pickets outside Tesla showrooms in recent weeks, these actions have at times been intentionally disruptive, meant not merely as protest but to interrupt business as usual. What was done to Borrenpohl in Coeur d’Alene for speaking out at a town hall is a terrifying escalation. In Idaho, the lines between Republican politics and political violence are thinner than they are in some places, but there’s no reason to believe this escalation won’t be repeated.

Let’s start by pointing out that a meeting of the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee is not a government function. That committee is a private club and can set whatever rules that it wants for its meetings. So this is not a “redress of grievances,” but is instead an attempt to disrupt the lives of those with whom the left disagrees. Just like the picketing of a business in which Musk has an interest (Tesla dealerships), the left is attempting to annoy and disrupt people’s lives.

This isn’t an escalation, it’s a response to the weaponization of the FBI investigating and intimidating parents who dared show up at school board meetings to speak against trannies having access to their children.

The left hasn’t stopped their endless attack on our nation. This is just another battle. They are still coming for you. There is so much news coming out of this area of Idaho over the past three years, it is obvious that this is where the main battles between the communists and the rest of America are happening. There are stories of the FBI front group “Patriot Front,” as well as Proud Boys, Ammon Bundy, and plenty of arrests and violence.