The upcoming generation of cultural Marxists has declared open war against the national anthem which it has deemed to be racist and therefore must be cleansed to make room for the new order.

Leftist student “leaders” at California’s San Ramon High School have run roughshod and imposed their will over feckless administrators and timid fellow students by declaring that the Star-Spangled Banner will no longer be played at rallies and will all but certainly be banned from sporting events as well.

Like many of the other imbeciles who have suddenly decided that after over two centuries, the national anthem of the United States of America is white supremacist code speak based on an obscure part of a verse that hardly anyone has ever heard of before.

National anthem removed from rallies at San Ramon high school https://t.co/nlxDCVBaeH pic.twitter.com/vsEpyvDM9W

— Mercury News (@mercnews) February 13, 2018

Via the San Jose Mercury News “National anthem removed from rallies at San Ramon high school”:

An old staple, the national anthem, was missing from the last California High School student rally and may not be coming back anytime soon.

Student leadership at the school pulled the Star-Spangled Banner from its Jan. 19 rally in protest of what it says are racist lyrics in unsung verses of the song. The story was first reported by The Californian, the student newspaper.

But not everyone is happy about the decision. Dennis Fiorentinos, a senior, told this newspaper Tuesday that he noticed at the January rally that they skipped the national anthem, and went right into the first activity.

“It clicked in my head that they didn’t do the national anthem. I thought they forgot about it,” he said.

So he went to speak with the teacher adviser to the leadership class, who informed him that they had made the decision to remove it. The leadership class consists of elected student body members, such as the class president.

“The message behind the national anthem is one of unity… to protect the freedoms that many of us take for granted every day,” Fiorentinos said.

He’s in support of the democratic process that this country was founded on, and said he would like to see a student vote, or poll, to at least gauge the community’s perception in removing the anthem.

“This could have been mitigated, had they gone to the people first,” he said.

He said he understands and respects that the student leaders were elected by the students themselves to represent them. But, they weren’t elected based on a platform, he said.

The school’s newspaper “The Californian” quotes one of those responsible for the ban:

Leadership adviser Erin McFerrin agrees that the song is problematic and that action should be taken moving forward to ensure that every student feels welcomed, especially after last year when racial graffiti was found on campus.

“In the leadership class, [we strive on] being really inclusive and mindful of all the decisions we make,” said McFerrin. “We didn’t really know why we were doing [the anthem during] the rally, so we just thought it was something maybe we could take out.”

Many students, such as senior Alexis Hooper, didn’t notice the song was removed until informed.

“I don’t really care,” Hooper said. “The National Anthem is a tradition from many years ago and the only people who really care about it are older generations.”

Last year the California chapter of the NAACP formally called for the country to do away with the anthem as a way to make things right with Colin Kaepernick.

As we reported right here at Downtrend, California NAACP President Alice Huffman announced her plans to petition the communist-infested State Legislature to remove the song as the nation’s anthem.

That radical idea has gained currency from black separatists including Congressional Black Caucus member Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL) who recently defended hatemonger Louis Farrakhan as an “outstanding human being” and with race relations at a low point, the song will continue to be exploited by black identity extremists to foment animosity toward whites and to erase the nation’s history.

Including the upcoming generation at San Ramon High School. What’s next? Replacing it with the national anthem of Wakanda?

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are reportedly in the process of a large-scale sweep in the Los Angeles area. Make no mistake that LA is the belly of the beast when it comes to illegal aliens and with the presence of untold numbers of street gangs, it is a potential motherlode for rounding up those with criminal records.

Latino activists are already complaining that any such operation could potentially include many who don’t have criminal records but since the local authorities are refusing to cooperate with ICE due to the state’s guerilla war against the Trump administration there is little way to avoid this inconvenience.

There is no official announcement from ICE as the sweep is ongoing and details will be provided upon completion.

ICE launches new immigration sweeps in L.A. area; at least 100 detained so far https://t.co/Mmf9kf1ubo pic.twitter.com/OqccB4kEtL

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) February 14, 2018

Via the Los Angeles Times “ICE launches new immigration sweep in L.A. area; at least 100 detained so far”:

Federal officials are in the midst of an immigration enforcement operation in the Los Angeles area and have so far detained more than 100 people suspected of being in violation of immigration laws.

The sweep, which began Sunday, is focusing on “individuals who pose a threat to national security, public safety and border security,” Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Sarah Rodriguez said.

“This means that, ideally, we are working with local police and county jails to identify public safety threats in their custody, who are also in the country illegally, for deportation,” Rodriguez said in a written statement.

But “uncooperative jurisdictions” such as Los Angeles, she said, have forced ICE agents to “conduct at-large arrests in the community, putting officers, the general public and the aliens at greater risk, and increasing the incidence of collateral arrests.”

“That is what ICE is now doing in Los Angeles, and what ICE will continue to do in uncooperative jurisdictions,” Rodriguez said.

The Los Angeles Police Department and many other California law enforcement agencies have said they will not cooperate with ICE on sweeps. The LAPD has long had a policy that prevents officers from asking people about their immigration status, a rule designed to encourage those here illegally to cooperate with law enforcement in criminal investigations.

Rodriguez said the agency would not release additional information about the ongoing sweep until it came to a close. She wouldn’t say when that would be.

The operation is taking place in the agency’s Los Angeles area of responsibility, which includes Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties.

The absence of local cooperation only makes ICE’s job more dangerous and is solely based on antipathy towards Trump and a lingering bitterness over the inconvenient truth for California liberals that the Electoral College worked. The Justice Department has floated the trial balloon about prosecuting politicians of sanctuary cities but that would surely result in the mayors and other anti-Trump officials in those locales to dig in even deeper.

Hey, it sucks if non-criminals get caught up in the net but California authorities have nobody to blame but themselves for their allowing politics to interfere with the very real issue of the safety of their citizens.

Massive layoffs, a cancerous fake news crisis, and the humiliating (and expensive) implosion of its digital platform, appear to be the least of CNN’s problems. Because on top of all that, when compared to last year, the far-left cable channel has lost -30 percent of its primetime viewers and -23 percent of its total day viewers.

The viewership problems for the anti-Trump outlet are breathtaking, especially when compared to its competition. Throughout the week of February 5, CNN could only scrape together an average 674,000 total day viewers. During the all-important primetime hours, CNN averaged only 888,000 viewers.

Those numbers not only put CNN in last place behind MSNBC and Fox News, it puts the 24/7 Trump-hating channel in last place by a country mile.

In total day, the openly left-wing MSNBC averaged 972,000 viewers (compared to CNN’s paltry 674,000). Fox News, however, nearly beat both CNN and MSNBC combined with 1.529 million average viewers.

During primetime, MSNBC smoked CNN by nearly a million viewers — 1.747 million (compared to CNN’s 888,000). Fox beat both MSNBC and CNN combined with a whopping 2.605 million.

While the pro-North Korea CNN lost nearly a third of its primetime viewers, MSNBC actually gained in total day (+26 percent) and primetime (+22 percent).

While retaining its King of the Hill status by a wide margin, Fox’s audience dip was only about half that of CNN’s.

No one can argue that the news cycle is not every bit as intense in February of 2018 as it was in February of 2017. No one can argue that the population has declined.

So why is CNN imploding while its competition continues to thrive?

It probably comes down to a combination of fake news and hate fatigue.

To begin with, MSNBC does not lie to its viewers. It advertises itself as an openly left-wing network, while CNN — which is even further to the left than MSNBC — continues its ridiculous pose as objective and unbiased.

Worse still, CNN cannot seem to stop lying to its viewers. CNN chief Jeff Zucker has created a veritable Fake News Factory over there, a wildly hypocritical one that has undermined all of its reporting and moral authority. If you are going to pose as a news outlet, your reporting must have credibility. Nobody believes anything CNN reports, nor should they.

Lastly, CNN’s 24/7 contribution to the Climate of Hate in this country is not only dangerous, it is simply exhausting. No matter what time of day you turn the failing channel on, it is TRUMP IS HITLER and REPULICANS ARE RACIST and WORSE THAN WATERGATE and I’M OUTRAGED and I’M STILL OUTRAGED and CHRISTIANITY IS BIGOTRY AND HATE and GIMME YOUR GUNS and MOCK US AND WE WILL DESTROY YOU and GIVE UP YOUR FREEDOM TO CENTRAL GOVERNMENT and TRUMP IS CRAZY and and LET’S WHIP UP SOME VIOLENCE and, finally, LET ME LECTURE YOU ON DECENCY EVEN THOUGH I MYSELF AM A SERIAL LIAR.

Even if you agree with CNN’s monstrous worldview and appalling politics, the hate machine’s shrill and sanctimonious  presentation is so hysterical, so neurotic, so smug and one-note, it is just not attractive to watch.

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Hours after the horrendous toll of the Florida school shooting on Wednesday became apparent, Hollywood veteran actor Adam Baldwin reacted to gun-grabbing celebrities by calling for school staff members to be armed with guns.

And this call is more than reasonable when one considers that Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School had two armed resource officers assigned to it, yet a killer was still able to infiltrate campus and harm innocents. Armed teachers and staff might have been able to take out the killer once he got on campus, thereby saving every life or at least saving some.

Baldwin tweeted:

Again, the shooter was stopped by people with firearms.

Schools need armed security and volunteer staff members with CCW.

— Adam Baldwin (@AdamBaldwin) February 14, 2018

Baldwin makes the point about men with guns stopping the attack because men with guns apprehended the attacker. But the critical point is that a school staff ought not be required to be sitting ducks.

Looked at another way, students ought not be required to be sitting ducks because of asinine policies that keep school staff members from being armed for self-defense.

Baldwin’s suggestion is very important for another reason, he understands that armed resource officers and armed staff are crucial to school safety.

Again, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High had resource officers but lacked the armed staff. Therefore, when the killer made it past the outside parameter there was no one on the inside who could stop him. Anyone who thinks of copy-catting the Florida attack should not only have to fear the presence of officers but should also have to frustrate themselves to near paralysis in worrying about which teachers and staff can (and will) shoot back.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets with AWR Hawkins, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.