A bridge/wall across the Tijuana River is nearing completion, as recently reported in the “Border Report” website. Until now the place where the Tijuana River crosses the border has been completely open and large groups have often stormed the border on foot there. When finished this section of the border will no longer be easy for large crowds of pedestrians to cross. The bridge also makes it easy for the Border Patrol to cross the river and respond quickly to events.
This bridge may have been funded from the Trump appropriation for the Border Wall. A court decided that the remaining money could not be re-programmed and had to be used for Border Security. We can consider this a new section of the “Trump Wall”, whether funded with that money or not.
Floodgates will be added to the bottom of the bridge, which can be opened when it rains, but at other times kept closed to prevent illegal crossing.
Border Report Article
The Border Report has a leftist, open-borders bias but sometimes publishes useful and interesting information. The reporter interviewed a local NGO manager, Pedro Rios, who called the bridge a “boondoggle”. To see their full report, go to the link below.
Pedro Rios is an open-boarders activist, who manages an aid station for illegal crossers, about 1.5 miles to the west of the new bridge right on the border. He is the director of the U.S./Mexico Border Program for the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization. So, he is not exactly an unbiased, neutral observer.
The Tijuana River has been polluting the American side with toxic waste and raw sewage for well over half a century. However Rios is more worried that this bridge could cause some of this toxic, polluted water to go back to Mexico for a short time where it was produced. This is his concern if the Border Patrolmen do not open the flood gates quickly enough.
They complain that this bridge will cost $200 million, but San Diego just received a grant of $400 million to expand the plant to treat the millions of gallons of toxic waste flowing daily from Mexico into the US. Methinks it is not the wasted money that concerns them.
The Area Before The Bridge
This video was posted by a news website in Tijuana in October, 2023. A large crowd of people are running up the levee of the Tijuana river to cross illegally as it has been the practice. All they have had to do in the past is turn left on the top of the levee and the open border is just a couple of hundred yards away.
The two women watching are excited, saying things such as, “Great, they are going to cross.” and “They are trying to cross.”
This is a Google image that shows how the border looked before they started building the bridge. There were about 350 yards of wide open border just a short walk from downtown Tijuana, a very large city. If a large crowd of people storm the border here, as they often have done, there is no way they can stop them. Of course, in recent years they do not even try to avoid the Border Patrol, but seek out the nearest agent and surrender to claim asylum and be released into the US.
When this bridge is completed it will no longer be so easy to cross illegally here. However, it will not stop people from crossing illegally elsewhere to claim asylum. To stop that changes in policy are necessary, as Trump already showed could be done.
When Proposition 8 (gay marriage) passed in California, the then Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom declared that it was inevitable that California values would become American values. He was specifically talking about gay ideology, but he also means it in a broader sense, not just LGBTQ and gender ideology, but the more general, far-left progressive ideology. Of course, he also thinks San Francisco’s more radical values represent the values of all of California, which is not true either. There are some conservative parts of California, too. (Sorry about the poor video quality.)
In this shocking video, Kamala Harris vows to close the “immigration detention centers” “on Day One” of her presidency. This video was made in 2019 during her first utterly failed campaign for the 2020 presidency.
People are held in detention centers in the US because the law requires it to protect the American people from the mass migration of those who cross into the US and do harm to the American people, whether intentionally or not.
When she vows to close the immigration detention centers, she is vowing not to enforce the immigration law. Of course, this should not surprise anyone, since Biden / Harris have not been fully enforcing the immigration laws for four years.
Because she is prone to saying such things, the party bosses — Obama and cohorts — had to appoint her at the last minute to be their 2024 candidate without any popular vote in the primaries or by elected convention delegates. They have to try to sneak her into the presidency.
Closing the detention centers would be another huge signal that everyone in the world can come and be released immediately. The Biden / Harris administration has conspired with the Mexican government and the drug-smuggling cartels to assist millions of people in evading our immigration laws.
Some of the media claim that Harris only wants to close the detention centers managed by private contractors. The question was about all detention centers. However, it makes little difference. Even if only contractor-operated detention centers were closed, the Government would soon run out of space. They would then not be able to detain anyone.
For years, Congress has limited funding for detention centers, so that only the bare minimum can held deported. Harris publicly vowed to eliminate them altogether. It would build networks of support for terrorists, drug smuggling and general criminality in our country.
Now you can vote for someone for President, who has a positive message, RFK Jr. It’s not that I am very enthusiastic about Kennedy as a candidate, but that we need to make it easier for Third Parties to start up, compete and be successful. I want to see RFK Jr put a little healthy fear into the two-party duopoly.
This post provides an overview of the Antifa Pacific Beach riot and what happened in the trial of the two Antifa who went to trial in April, 2024, Jeremy White and Brian Lightfoot. There were eleven Antifa originally charged in the conspiracy to riot. Nine of them pled guilty before the trial began. There is also a 12th Antifa, Jonah Bigel, who participated in the riot and attempted to burn down a police storefront a couple of weeks after the riot. He was arrested and prosecuted separately.
Verdict:The verdict was read on 5/3/24. The two defendants who went to trial. Both were found to be guilty of conspiracy. Jeremy White was found not guilty of his one count of assault. Brian Lightfoot was found guilty on 6 counts of assault, not guilty on one count and the jury was hung on 9 counts. Nine other Antifa had already pled guilty.
Antifa has an anarcho-communist ideology that justifies violence against fascists, Nazis and racists. When there is a shortage of fascists, Nazis and white supremacists to attack they tend to brand everyone who opposes them as that. They are a revolutionary movement and believe that the American system is a fascist and racist system, which should be destroyed. It is not clear that any person they attacked during this riot could be legitimately labeled a fascist, Nazi, or white supremacist. In any case, it is still a crime to attack someone for what you perceive (or imagine) their beliefs to be.
NOTE: This post is a work in progress. I will be fleshing it out with more video and text for a couple of weeks to give you a concise view of how it went down.
Patriots and high school boys attacked
Four patriots and four high-school boys arrived at that event early to provide a place where those arriving could congregate. An estimated 40-50 persons in Black Bloc showed up. About 50 more persons were with Antifa mostly from the ideologically allied Black Lives Matter movement. The Antifa were armed with bear-spray, pepper-spray, tasers, full cans of Twisted Tea used as projectiles, knives, batons, clubs, and one baseball bat, carried by Jonah Bigel. Lightfoot sprayed all eight of them first with bear spray and a couple of other Antifa joined the spraying. Video of this incident is shown at the beginning of this news video by the “Daily Caller” website.
The four patriots were the main target, but the 17-year-old school boys were also sprayed and one was beaten down by a group of Antifa. Light testified that he analyzed the patriots and he knew they were about to become violent because the one in the blue checkered shirt had his hands in his pockets.
Prosecutor relates White’s and Lightfoot’s comments on the initial attack that started the riot.
As the four patriots retreated they continued to beat and kick them and throw projectiles at them. A helpless, unarmed woman was beaten was by several of them. Jesse Cannon threw a wooden folding chair that hit her in the back. She lunged at Lightfoot who had bear-sprayed her. Lightfoot pushed her to the ground while several Antifa continued to beat and kick her.
Lightfoot claimed self-defense in this incident, because she lunges at him out of desperation. The prosecutor pointed out that once you attack someone, you can not claim self-defense any longer if they try to fight back. The unarmed woman’s attempt to fight back was not even a a real threat to Lightfoot.
Some of them chased one of the high school boys, who had already been sprayed with bear-spray for some distance along the boardwalk. The 17-year old was very thin, probably weighed less that 150 pounds. Several of them started beating the boy mercilessly and spraying him. It seems it was Samuel Ogden who brought a heavy walking stick about 5-feet long similar to the photo to be used as a club. They also beat boy with the walking stick. They showed a photo in court of the boy’s back in court with about 6 huge welts on his back from the club. I have not seen that image on the Internet, probably because he’s a minor. However, the photographer, John Cocozza, was hit later with the same club and the boy’s wounds look the same as Cocozzas in the photo below, only the boy had about half a dozen on his back.
Man and dog bear-sprayed
One of the Antifa knocked a child off a bicycle. An man, walking his dog on the boardwalk, approached Jeremy White to complain about it. White bear-sprayed the man and his dog. The dog was lunging at White, but the man was tightening his grip on the dog and still had a strong grip on him when they were both sprayed.
Excerpted from Prosecutor Harvey’s Closing Statement. All court audio is credited to Ken Stone of Times of San Diego.
Phone stolen and smashed
Two Republican woman tried to cross the area occupied by Antifa / BLM to go to the patriot area as the anarcho-communists chant a threat of violence FUCK AROUND, FIND OUT!. They stole the phone from one of the women and took turns stomping on it. One Antifa member pounded it with a flagstaff. The phone was in live mode, so they recording themselves committing the crime. Then, they gave the destroyed phone back to its owner as evidence.
First photographer attacked
Here, John Cocozza describes what happened to him. He is a professional photographer, who was just there that day to take photographs. He is trained in the martial arts and has work as a bouncer in bars. He had no fear of Antifa and talked back to them. For probably that reason he was tagged as the “enemy”.
Second photographer attacked
A second photographer on a bike was attacked, referred to as RL in the court documents. RL carried a knife in a scabbard, which is legal.
RL was beaten down by several people. His bicycle and hat was stolen and thrown into a garbage dumpster.
Jeremy White is accused of pointing him out for attack for other. He is also accused of following him around the corner and bear-spraying him and tasing him.
John Cocozza helped free RL from the attackers. Brian Lightfoot grabbed from Samuel Ogden the same walking stick that the high-schools boy was beaten with and hit Cocozza on the back with it.
Man beaten while trying to rescue daughter
An older man, who according to defendant Lightfoot was attacking a younger woman. The man was slugged by Lightfoot the father in the head and knocked him to the ground by one of the Lightfoot, then three other Antifa jumped in and the four of them beat the man together. The DDA played the 911 call and the man told police he was her father trying to get her out of the danger of the Antifa riot. She was possibly a supporter of Antifa / BLM and did not want to leave. So, they were probably having an altercation with him trying to her to pull her out of the riot. Lightfoot was wiping away tears after they played that 911 call. However, when the prosecutor asked whether he regretted attacking that father trying to save he daughter, he said, “no”.
Man punched and bear-sprayed
A older man who had been drinking talked back to several Antifa members. He was bear-sprayed by Lightfoot without any justification. Have not seen video of that on the Internet, but the prosecutors showed it in court.
Unidentified men beaten down
There were, I believe, one or two unidentified men where were beaten down and bear-sprayed by a number of Antifa members.
This is one such attack on an unknow man by a group of Antifa, presumably for no good justification. I assume that, because the were attacking other people with no justification.
Notice a call goes out for a medic from multiple Antifa members. That the medic is not for the person that the mob beat viscously, but for one of the mob who carried out the beating. Jeremy White is standing there watching the beating, but there is no sign that he offer to help by stopping the beating or aiding the victim.
Antifa/BLM rioters attack police
The riot was declared an unlawful assembly by police, but only on the Antifa/BLM side. The Antifa/BLM mob refused to leave, which is itself a crime. Some on the Antifa/BLM side attacked the police line. Bottles, rocks and eggs were thrown at police. The police drove the mob back by firing volleys of pepper balls on the ground to create a cloud of irritant.
See an aerial view if this fighting at 10:49 this link.
The twelfth Antifa conspirator
Jonah Bigel, AntifaThis document below from from the court file describes the charges against Jonah Bigel. Bigel was charged with seven felonies and one misdemeanor. He tried to burn down a police storefront, possessed an illegal unregistered handgun, which would be useful for crimes. He was the one carrying a baseball bat at the J9 riot in PB. Bigel participated in the attacks on persons they perceived as pro-Trump and he also broke a store window with the baseball bat. To make it worse, he did these things while he was on probation for an earlier conviction. I don’t know the details of his conviction. Will try to obtain that and add it here later.
White testified at the trial that he had participated in a number of national protests. He received a congressional award from Bernie Sanders.
Listen here to the interview that White gave for the Antifa-friendly website, “It’s going down.” White has plenty of legal and ideological reasons to spin things. No one should assume he is being truthful.
Antifa ideology justifies violence
This is an except from the Antifa Handbook by Bray. Antifa supports violence upon those they deem to be fascist or white supremacist. They often define their opposition as “fascist”, whether they really are or not. It states that Antifa does not wait for violence from the other side to shut the event down. That is exactly what Antifa did at this Pacific Beach event. They didn’t wait for violence, but tried to shut down a free speech rally with rampant violence from their side without any justification.
