Maxine Waters (D, of course, CA) is the geriatric woman representing a congressional district in California, the land of fruits and nuts and obscene numbers of liberals. Those who whine that Hillary Clinton got more of the popular vote in 2016 never mention that you could remove the votes from just five counties in California, both Democrat and Republican, and Donald Trump wins the popular vote in the USA as well has his already-large electoral majority.
That's how leftist California is, to give you an idea how someone like Maxine Waters can even get on the ballot, let alone elected.
Maxine has been out there chanting "Impeach 45" over and over to a handful of sycophants and toadies ever since Inauguration Day, not even waiting for President Trump actually to do something meriting impeachment. That tells you all you need to know about Maxine Waters.
At any rate, she got in the news in the wake of the bizarre incident last week when a restaurant owner in Lexington, Virginia, which is actually in the USA, asked Sarah Sanders, the White House press secretary, to get up and leave, along with her party of seven, because she actually works for the White House. Mrs. Sanders, as you'll recall, gracefully left, leaving the nation to see clips of the restaurant showing its birdcrap-laden awnings and poor paint on the outside.
The owner was not in the least apologetic, whereupon the leaders of the downtown merchant community excoriated her for making Lexington look like a laughingstock, and the owner of the national chain of the restaurant made it clear that she was speaking out of her own ignorance and did not reflect the Red Hen brand.
Maxine Waters, of course, had predictably stupid things to say, except she went a lot further. Now, leftists have no filter, apparently. They say and do anything they want, knowing that the lapdog press is equally leftist and will simply excuse them. Or, as in this case, they will ignore them as much as possible.
But this is hard to ignore, either for the press or the FBI. The press can try, but the FBI must not ignore it.
Waters was going on about President Trump and making up nonsense about the current border situation. But she went on to encourage people to make a scene anytime they see a Cabinet member or other leading Administration employee. She told people -- and this was in the middle of a circle of approving sycophants and toadies in Los Angeles -- to get in the faces of Administration officials and scream at them, harass them and make life miserable for them.
"They're not going to be able to eat at a restaurant ... they're not going to be able to go to a gas station, they're not going to be able to go to a department store ...", she went on, to a curiously approving circle of people from no known source.
In other words, she was telling other people to assault innocent members of our government (assault does not require contact under the law) and threaten their well-being until they ... well, she wasn't specific about when it would be OK for the target to be able to return to their homes and families in peace.
There has been no indication that the FBI or Secret Service is pursuing this, but both should be with even more vigor than was taken after Peter Fonda tweeted some particularly threatening words toward the First Family recently and got a visit from a uniform or two.
But Maxine Waters incited to riot, and that is quite illegal; and she asked in public to have others (not her, of course) assault members of the Administration. That is a Federal crime, it seems, and is thus equally illegal.
What she failed to include was when enough was enough, and that is a problem. It is a serious problem because the morons who would pay attention to anything Maxine Waters would say, are sufficiently intellect-challenged that they would not understand what the limits are, as defined by law.
That was an issue last summer, when a similarly amoral leftist type, inspired by leftist hate and rhetoric like this, came treacherously close to murdering a bunch of Congressmen at a softball field in Virginia.
Already, Florida's attorney general, Pam Bondi, was repeatedly accosted by screaming people at a movie theater over the weekend, with three very large men in the group getting nose to nose with her and her boyfriend, trying to start a fight with their "What are you going to do about it" false bravado that goes over well in the Bronx and other bastions of civility. Miss Bondi is a pretty tough lady, though, and smart enough to know they were trying to get a fight going that the press would undoubtedly spin to the view of the assailants rather than the victim.
Maxine must be so proud; they did to Miss Bondi exactly what she said to do.
So is it not precisely the time when the FBI and Secret Service need to charge her with incitement to riot, threatening the President and other officials, that sort of thing? Are they even talking to Waters? Is not anyone from DoJ or the FBI or Secret Service looking at this from a criminal perspective?
The loud left will keep doing more and more ridiculous things and saying more and more ridiculous things until someone speaks up or acts. Which is better -- the rhetoric stopping because the FBI charges Maxine Waters with some form of threat and incitement, or the rhetoric stopping because someone hears her and takes it too far ... as with a weapon?
It is time for law enforcement to act. Now.
Copyright 2018 by Robert Sutton