Tom Bilyeu

Given that it hasn't been used since George H.W.

Bush in 1992 to stop the LA riots, I had no idea that it had already been used 30 times in US history by 17 different presidents.

The act is used to stop rebellions and uprisings, so-called, situations involving armed groups openly defying federal law,

state or local authorities unable or unwilling to enforce federal law, violence or organized resistance threatening federal authority, or instances where courts are blocked, taxes cannot be collected, or officials are openly being attacked.

Specific examples include President Abraham Lincoln invoking it in 1861 at the outset of the Civil War.

him basically trying to stop the Civil War from kicking off.

Ulysses S. Grant using it multiple times in the 1870s to suppress Ku Klux Klan terrorism.

President Eisenhower deployed it in 1957 to enforce school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Kennedy used it in 62 amid riots over desegregation.

And President Lyndon Baines Johnson used it in 1967 to quell the Detroit riot.

as well as what we've already mentioned, the most recent invocation being in 1992 when Bush, the first, deployed federal troops to stop the Los Angeles riots following the Rodney King verdict.

The question now is, does what's happening in Minnesota match the historical precedent and justify invoking the act now?

There certainly are elements of resistance to federal law enforcement, for sure, for sure.

For example, violent assaults on ICE agents and protests disrupting their operations, including ramming their cars, attacking them with shovels.

However, as someone who remembers the LA riots, while this is bad, I'm gonna tell you, it does not feel like we're in the kind of full blown rebellion or uprising that that felt like, where you had shop owners on their shops, like shooting at people down below.

It was crazy.

And if I remember right, something like 50 people died in the LA riots.

So a scale much more dramatic than what we're going through right now.

Now, thankfully, there's no widespread deaths right now.

Praise the Lord.