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To: Thomas M. who wrote (337958)	6/11/2025 4:57:25 PM
From: Thomas M.	1 Recommendation Recommended By longz Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 363325

Riot gear distributed by masked group sparks questions The mood in downtown Los Angeles shifted from tense to surreal Monday evening as FOX 11 cameras captured a masked group handing out riot shields and gas masks just steps from federal buildings—despite official claims that protests remained largely peaceful. Reporters on the ground described chaotic scenes: protesters doing burnouts, tagging sidewalks, and climbing light poles as riot gear was passed around in full view. No local police were visible at the time, even as National Guard troops stood guard outside nearby federal buildings. The masks being distributed were branded "bionic shield," and the boxes appeared to be left behind in the open. The woman distributing them wasn’t masked herself—but her intent, or affiliation, remains unknown. foxla.com Tom

To: Thomas M. who wrote (337958)	6/16/2025 10:23:45 AM
From: Thomas M.	1 Recommendation Recommended By longz Respond to of 363325

The key term in the Alien Enemies Act is “predatory incursion.” The textual meaning of “predatory incursion” gets scant reference in the media. Its focus is always on “invasion” and that term is used to conjure in the popular mind to the question — are we really being invaded by Venezuela like we invaded Nazi-occupied France in WWII? That’s a specious and stacked approach used to mislead the readers and viewers. The adverse legal opinions conflate the term “predatory incursion” with invasion. They also ignore that piratical activities across our history, like those perpetrated by the cartels in our current era, were resisted in prior centuries by States and federal government under the State Self Defense and Invasion Clauses. Don’t get me wrong. We face a foreign invasion through the southern border in my view. But even putting aside that hotly debated point, we clearly face predatory incursions and it is poor legal reasoning to give short shrift to a term Congress used to add Alien Enemies Act powers beyond the basic ability to repel invading aliens. That’s why the term “predatory incursion” was obviously used — to add to the President’s powers, not just to merely restate his constitutional Commander in Chief power to take all necessary steps to resist invasion. This is textual and logical analysis at its most basic level. And it’s backed by our history. x.com Tom