{"id":7899,"date":"2025-06-13T09:08:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T13:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=7899"},"modified":"2025-06-13T09:08:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T13:08:29","slug":"meddlesome-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2025\/06\/13\/meddlesome-senators\/","title":{"rendered":"Meddlesome Senators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"> <em>It\u2019s been a few days since I\u2019ve posted.\u00a0\u00a0With track and field season winding up, I\u2019ve been busy officiating and coaching.\u00a0\u00a0But that\u2019s all over, and I\u2019m back behind the keyboard,\u00a0\u00a0with lots to say!!!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bodyguards<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s good to have bodyguards. \u00a0They can alter the political situation.\u00a0\u00a0With a nod, a flick of the wrist, the guards can \u201cwhisk away\u201d any annoying situation.\u00a0\u00a0Henry the II of England grew tired of his Archbishop, Thomas\u00a0\u00e1 Becket.\u00a0\u00a0He simply had to mutter, \u201cWho will rid me of this meddlesome priest?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Henry\u2019s knights, his \u201cbodyguards\u201d, proceeded to murder the Archbishop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s especially good if those guards, like Henry\u2019s knights, operate under the \u201ccolor\u201d of authority.\u00a0\u00a0In other words, they have badges, Federal badges:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0FBI, DHS, ICE, CPB, US Marshal, Secret Service and the \u201cmysterious\u201d HSI.\u00a0\u00a0At least, that\u2019s what the \u201cbadges\u201d around Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Noem didn\u2019t get rid of a priest.\u00a0\u00a0Instead, her bodyguards \u201croughed up\u201d a United States Senator, one of the one-hundred elected by the American people to serve in the legislature for six years.\u00a0\u00a0He was manhandled, bum-rushed out of the room, then driven to the floor and handcuffed.\u00a0\u00a0The senior Senator from California, Alex Padilla, was quite literally thrown out of a Noem press conference, and temporarily placed \u201cin custody\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">What did the Senator do that was so wrong?&nbsp;&nbsp;He was \u201cmeddlesome\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;He asked a question.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Press Conference&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">So, let\u2019s set the scene.\u00a0\u00a0Secretary Noem held a press conference.\u00a0\u00a0That today is a \u201cterm of art\u201d, it really isn\u2019t the question\/response that we normally would think of when we hear \u201cpress conference\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Noem wanted to \u201cannounce\u201d to the press the number of \u201cheinous\u201d criminals that ICE arrested in their \u201cshock and awe\u201d immigrant roundups.\u00a0\u00a0She didn\u2019t want to answer questions, she wanted to make her point:\u00a0\u00a0the immigrants rounded up at Home Depot, and the garment factory were \u201cbad\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And she added, that the she wanted to \u201cfree\u201d Los Angeles from their duly elected government:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><em>\u201cWe are not going away. We are staying here to liberate this city from the socialist and burdensome leadership that this Governor Newsom and this mayor placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into this city,&#8221;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/kristi-noem-blames-democratic-officials-for-making-ice-raids-in-la-harder\/3722800\/\">NBC4<\/a>).<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Padilla was in the same building, awaiting a briefing on the Federal actions.\u00a0\u00a0Afterall, he is a United States Senator from California, and has an obligation to perform \u201coversight duties\u201d for Federal acts in his state.\u00a0\u00a0And, he heard about the press \u201cbriefing\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0So, he decided to go see what the Secretary had to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">After listening for a bit, the Senator asked a question.&nbsp;&nbsp;And that\u2019s when the bum-rush began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Terror Campaign<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">At first response, Noem claimed that they didn\u2019t realize it was the Senator.  She said he was trying to \u201clunge towards the stage\u201d in a room that didn\u2019t have a stage.\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m certainly not impressed with the intelligence of the current regime at Homeland Security. But, I find it highly doubtful that they weren\u2019t aware that the senior US Senator from California was in the room.\u00a0\u00a0In fact, I expect they were FULLY aware that Padilla was there.\u00a0\u00a0Even more, I am willing to bet that the decision to \u201cremove\u201d Padilla was made at a political level far above the Secretary.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Ultimately, I\u2019m sure someone was on the phone to the White House, asking what they should do with Padilla.\u00a0\u00a0And those political \u201canimals\u201d in the West Wing, like Stephen Miller, decided to make him an example.\u00a0\u00a0It didn\u2019t hurt that Padilla is not only a Democrat, but also a Hispanic man.\u00a0\u00a0He matched all of the qualifications for the Miller \u201cterror campaign\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">As the Senator himself said afterwards, if they can do this to him, what can they do to the waiter or the cook or the gardener they arrest at Home Depot, or at their kid\u2019s school, or when they come in for a Court hearing?\u00a0\u00a0If a United States Senator (heard clearly identifying himself) can be roughed up, what happens to an undocumented worker?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">No Kings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u00a0We already know the answer to that.\u00a0\u00a0Not only might they be roughed up, held incommunicado; they might find themselves on a plane to a foreign land, incarcerated in a foreign prison; stripped, shaved, and shelved away for life.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s not just a possibility, it\u2019s happening now.\u00a0\u00a0And, just like with the Senator, there is no \u201cdue process\u201d, no \u201crights\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0President Trump wants to be \u201c\u2026rid of the meddlesome migrants\u201d, regardless of the law or the Constitution.\u00a0\u00a0In fact, the quicker, the better, so that the Courts won\u2019t be able to intervene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Henry the II of England was a fighter.\u00a0\u00a0He consolidated rule over England and Wales and parts of France.\u00a0\u00a0He was unfettered by rules; he was the absolute sovereign over his domain.\u00a0\u00a0In fact, the first \u201ccrack\u201d in the absolute rule of English sovereigns didn\u2019t take place until the next generation, when Henry\u2019s son John was on the throne and signed the Magna Carta, giving some power to the other English \u201clords\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Donald Trump is not \u201cDonald the First\u201d of the United States.\u00a0\u00a0As the President, not the king, he is sworn to \u201cfaithfully execute the office of President, and preserve, protect and defend the Constitution\u2026\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s different than getting rid of \u201cmeddlesome\u201d critics.\u00a0\u00a0But it was what Trump wants:\u00a0\u00a0to liberate the United States from the \u2018burdensome leadership\u2019 that happens to disagree with him.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And what happens if you resist?&nbsp;&nbsp;Ask Alex Padilla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a few days since I\u2019ve posted.\u00a0\u00a0With track and field season winding up, I\u2019ve been busy officiating and coaching.\u00a0\u00a0But that\u2019s all over, and I\u2019m back behind the keyboard,\u00a0\u00a0with lots to say!!! Bodyguards It\u2019s good to have bodyguards. \u00a0They can alter the political situation.\u00a0\u00a0With a nod, a flick of the wrist, the guards can \u201cwhisk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2025\/06\/13\/meddlesome-senators\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meddlesome Senators&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Meddlesome Senators : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2025\/06\/13\/meddlesome-senators\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meddlesome Senators : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It\u2019s been a few days since I\u2019ve posted.\u00a0\u00a0With track and field season winding up, I\u2019ve been busy officiating and coaching.\u00a0\u00a0But that\u2019s all over, and I\u2019m back behind the keyboard,\u00a0\u00a0with lots to say!!! 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