{"id":5039,"date":"2010-04-30T13:32:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T17:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5039"},"modified":"2010-04-30T13:32:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T17:32:17","slug":"l-a-may-day-protests-cost-taxpayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5039\/l-a-may-day-protests-cost-taxpayers\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. May Day Protests Cost Taxpayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marxists.org\/subject\/mayday\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">red flag waving organizations<\/a> won\u2019t be trying to disrupt local economies by staging walk-outs and marches on a work day.\u00a0 This year, Communism\u2019s \u201cMay Day\u201d celebration falls on a Saturday, meaning that instead of counter-demonstrators shopping <em>en masse<\/em> to keep business profits high, the only reason to venture outside tomorrow will be to enjoy the virtual shutdown of urban life.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Police Department is planning for <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/04\/lapd-officials-expect-crowd-of-up-to-100000-at-may-day-rally-on-saturday-.html\" target=\"_blank\">up to 100,000 people<\/a> to turn the annual march for grievance solidarity into a traffic congesting protest of <em>Arizona\u2019s<\/em> new immigration law.\u00a0 One wonders what organizers hope to accomplish since the LAPD has an illegal immigrant policy called Special 40 \u201cwhich prohibits officers from initiating action against people solely to discover their legal status.\u201d\u00a0 Moreover, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sanctuary_city\" target=\"_blank\">L.A. was the first to proclaim itself a \u201csanctuary city,\u201d<\/a> further complicating the logic for protesting another state\u2019s law in a town that totally disagrees with it.<\/p>\n<p>Since the only discernable economic winner in tomorrow\u2019s L.A. area protests is the LAPD police union members who must be activated in order to monitor the participants, maybe this year\u2019s \u201cMay Day\u201d is serving a purpose after all: enriching a public employee union on the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: L.A. Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, red flag waving organizations won\u2019t be trying to disrupt local economies by staging walk-outs and marches on a work day.\u00a0 This year, Communism\u2019s \u201cMay Day\u201d celebration falls on a Saturday, meaning that instead of counter-demonstrators shopping en masse to keep business profits high, the only reason to venture outside tomorrow will be to enjoy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1197,1200,1199,1201,13,1198,1202,1051],"class_list":["post-5039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-communism","tag-los-angeles","tag-may-day","tag-police","tag-protests","tag-red-flag","tag-sanctuary-city","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5039"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5043,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039\/revisions\/5043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}