LA: Foreign Flags, American Chaos

Virgil Walker

The rule of law isn’t a suggestion; it’s the foundation that keeps civilization from burning down.

The videos don’t lie.

Foreign flags are waving in American streets, while rocks fly at law enforcement. Cars torched in broad daylight. Lawlessness erupts with cameras rolling.

And our so-called leaders? Silent. Complicit. Or worse, actively encouraging it.

This is what happens when you spend decades telling people that American law is optional, that borders are imaginary lines, and that anyone who demands order is a bigot. You get exactly what Los Angeles is serving up: chaos with a side of self-righteous entitlement.

This isn’t about immigration. America has always welcomed immigrants. This is about the difference between legal immigration and illegal invasion—and the lies our leaders tell to blur that line.

The Legal Path vs. The Lawless Path

Every day, millions of people around the world follow legal immigration processes. They wait in line. They fill out paperwork. They respect our laws because they respect our nation. Many wait years for the privilege of calling America home.

But in LA, we’re witnessing the fruit of policies that reward those who skip the line and break the law. When illegal entry is effectively decriminalized, when sanctuary policies shield lawbreakers from consequences, when politicians celebrate “resistance” to federal immigration enforcement—what did we think would happen?

You get exactly what we’re seeing: people who entered illegally, believing they have the right to dictate terms to the country that took them in.

Stop Calling It an Accident

LA isn’t an isolated incident. It’s the inevitable harvest of seeds planted by cowardly politicians who built their careers on lawlessness.

For years, Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass have declared war on immigration enforcement. As border czar Tom Homan noted, “All you’re hearing is rhetoric about ICE being racist, ICE being Nazis and terrorists, and Governor Newsom feeds that.” They’ve turned their cities into sanctuaries for lawbreakers. They’ve told federal authorities to pound sand while rolling out red carpets for people who crossed our border illegally.

Now they want to act shocked when the chaos comes home to roost?

Please. They built this. They own this. And every burning car in LA has their fingerprints on it.

The Bible doesn’t stutter: “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God” (Romans 13:1). When leaders encourage rebellion against legitimate law enforcement, they’re not just breaking civil order, they’re defying God’s design for government itself.

Who’s Really Getting Screwed?

Want to know who pays for this lawless circus? It’s not the virtue-signaling politicians in their gated communities tweeting about “compassion” from behind private security.

It’s the Black construction worker in South LA whose wages get undercut by illegal labor. It’s the Hispanic family who waited five years to come here legally, watching others skip the line with zero consequences. It’s the teacher in an overcrowded classroom trying to educate kids who don’t speak English while the school system burns through budgets it doesn’t have.

It’s every American who believes laws should actually mean something.

But our “leaders” don’t care about those people. They care about photo ops with activists and donations from corporate interests who love cheap, exploitable labor. They’ve sold out working Americans for political theater and have the audacity to call it justice.

What Law and Order Actually Means

Enforcing immigration law isn’t cruel—it’s compassion for everyone who plays by the rules. It’s saying American citizenship means something. It’s declaring that our laws apply to everyone, regardless of which country they came from or which flag they wave.

When we fail to enforce immigration law, we undermine border security and the entire concept of law. If federal immigration statutes can be ignored, why not tax law? Why not property law? Why not any law that someone finds inconvenient?

The Choice Is Ours

The chaos in LA is coming to your city next. Count on it. When you reward lawlessness, you get more lawlessness. When you coddle rebellion, it spreads like cancer.

So what are you going to do about it?

Are you going to continue to elect cowards who prioritize illegal immigrants over American citizens? Are you going to keep tolerating leaders who treat our laws like suggestions? Are you going to keep pretending this ends well if we just ignore it long enough?

Or will you demand leaders with the spine to enforce the law, secure the border, and put American citizens first?

America can welcome immigrants, legal immigrants who want to become Americans, not colonizers who want to plant foreign flags on our soil.

We need secure borders, enforced laws, and leaders who choose order over chaos. Most of all, we need citizens who remember that a nation without borders isn’t a nation at all.

The choice is yours: law or anarchy. Order or chaos. America or the mob.

Choose wisely. And choose now.

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Virgil Walker

Virgil L. Walker is the Vice President of Ministry Relations for G3 Ministries, an author and conference speaker. His books include Just Thinking About the State, Just Thinking About Ethnicity, and Why Are You Afraid? He co-hosts the Just Thinking Podcast with Darrell Harrison and is a weekly contributor to Fearless with Jason Whitlock on the Blaze Media platform. Virgil has a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Theological Studies from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Virgil and his wife, Tomeka, have three adult children.