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I made a move this week, from here on Blogger where I've been posting since March 2011, to Substack. I plan to maintain this location as the archive of past posts.

If you've found value in what you've read here, please find my future posts there: https://sphericalmodel.substack.com/.

To read the first post there, "The Spherical Model Moves to Substack," here's the link:  https://substack.com/home/post/p-166442237. 

Making Sure History Doesn’t Get Rewritten

I want to get this written before more of the world changes. Last night Israel did strategic strikes against Iran’s nuclear weapons locations and people. I’m nowhere near ready to write about that yet.

I’m just trying to record what’s going on regarding civil unrest here in the US. More will be happening on Saturday, so I’m writing ahead of that (although so late on Friday that you’re probably seeing it Saturday or later).

map of illegal aliens per state, found here;
note that California and Texas are the two states
dealing with over a million

ICE Riots

There have been riots in Los Angeles for several days. Legacy media (the propaganda) say it’s overblown; it’s exaggerated. It’s mostly peaceful protests. One example, I think it was ABC, said these are people who are just having some fun watching cars burn—just your average evening pastime. They fail to note that, when a car is on fire as part of a “peaceful” protest, it isn’t peaceful anymore. It’s a riot.

There have been incidents of throwing bricks at police cars (which could be deemed attempted murder). Oddly, the Democrat Party of California shows a purchase of some 200 pallets of bricks. The purchase is not tied to any building project. Their excuse is that they bought them for future building projects—because buying in bulk for the future is what political parties do? Or, you might be more likely to believe they bought them to supply protestor/rioters.

screenshot taken June 12 of tweet from Michelle Maxwell, 
concerning CDP's suspicious purchase of bricks 

 

This is ostensibly a reaction to ICE deporting illegal aliens. As they tell it, ICE agents are coming into their communities and scooping up Hispanic-looking people and disappearing them. In reality, ICE deports people for whom they already have deportation notices (they’ve had their due process). The priority cases have been the worst criminal offenders—murderers, rapists, drug traffickers, human traffickers.

Since protestors/rioters have been attacking officials—including doxing them—the officers are taking precautions, including wearing masks to hide their identities. This is to protect their own lives and the lives of their families, which should not be at risk because of doing their lawful duty.

Rioters are also wearing masks—gas masks. On one news report, trying to describe how “organic” the protests were, they were sort of at a loss for words when the video they were describing was a truckload of new gas masks, still in their identical boxes, being handed out to the crowd. The crowds were also provided professionally printed signs, which showed up on day one—before there was “organic” time to run to a printer and produce them. So that was evidence of the planning as well. So the question needs to be asked, who’s planning and funding them? (More below.)

You see a lot of Mexican flags, and Palestinian and other flags as well. The optics of that are bad; it looks like an invasion. There are stories about replacing them with American flags—fresh out of packages, still with fold lines. In other words, not flown by people who had their own American flags. There were additional stories of American flags being burned. It was hard to sort out whether those were the American flags handed out to the crowds or other people doing the flag burning. Regardless, these are anti-Americans.

The natural question is, why did they flee their home country to come to America and then protest against America in favor of the country they fled?

There are two additional claims that the rioters are making: Mexicans have a right to this land, and Trump is an authoritarian. We’ll take a look at both of these.

Reconquista

One of the latest claims is that, because there are so many Hispanics in California (and, presumably, other southern border states), that it’s actually Mexico, so they shouldn’t have to have documentation. And they’ve gone further, to say that they will take back their country from the United States, which stole that land.

Let’s deal with that lie before we go on. The land used to be under Spanish rule. What is now California was settled under Spanish rule. Mexicans gained independence and had a constitution and a president. But El Presidente Santa Ana didn’t honor the law, and wielded power as a dictator. Here in Texas we know this story.

Stephen F. Austin, one of Texas’s founders, had gone to the capital of Mexico to speak for the Texians—including a whole lot of Mexican people and a number of white settlers as well— to reclaim our rights. Instead of speaking with this diplomat, Santa Anna had him imprisoned, in a cramped cell he couldn’t stand in, in solitary confinement for nearly a year. When he got out and returned home, he announced that diplomacy was over; they had to declare war and gain their independence from Mexico. (Austin never fully regained his health after the ordeal and died a few years later.)

There was the Runaway Scrape, the Alamo, Goliad. Things were not looking good. But then there was the battle of San Jacinto. We pronounce it totally American here, because we won. In 18 minutes. Santa Anna was captured. General Sam Houston spared his life but required his retreat and respect for our independence. This was 1835. Texas boundaries were larger than they are today.

map of Texas in 1835, found here

 A decade later, Texas joined the United States. And then came border disputes on additional territories. The Mexican-American War was fought from 1846-48. America won. Soundly. They had taken all of what is now California, Arizona, New Mexico, and several states into Mexico, including the capital. But America relinquished land back to Mexico and set up strong boundaries that would make for good neighbors (until a few decades ago, when border enforcement became lax).

This week the president of the Mexican Senate said we should go back to the 1830 borders. I don’t think the many generations descended from Tejanos, who won their independence from that despotism, would want that.

Marco Rubio post, found here

By that logic, the 13 original colonies—that won the Revolutionary War, and thus their independence from Great Britain—“stole” the land from the British and ought to give it back and submit to the British monarchy.

Then, you might remember the “documentary film” The Legend of Zorro, which showed the people of California voting to become a free state, 1850, rather than a slave state.

Mexico wasn’t robbed by America; former oppressed Mexicans who lived in those territories—which had been settled by Spaniards—were able to win their freedom from the Mexicans who were trying to oppress them, and then choose freedom for all.

The first lines of the Declaration of Independence explain why we will not allow ourselves to suffer oppression.

No Kings

Another complaint coming out of California, by way of their governor, is that the protests are to stop Trump from spending millions on his own birthday celebration. There is, in fact, a parade and celebration planned in Washington, DC, this Saturday, June 14, to celebrate the 250^th anniversary of the US Military. It happens to also be President Trump’s birthday. Should he have moved that important anniversary celebration just so they couldn’t claim it was all about him? I don’t think so.

By the way, get ready, because in a year, on July 4, 2026, we’re going to have all kinds of celebrations for our nation’s 250^th birthday. I know several people with birthdays on that day; they manage to celebrate Independence Day along with their birthday every year. Both things can happen at once.

Because of this misconstruing of the upcoming military parade, there’s a series of “No Kings” protests being planned across the country. They are pro-Marxists being funded by Marxists, just as the BLM riots were.

There are several planned for the Houston area on Saturday: downtown, Sugar Land (south of Houston), Kingwood (north of Houston) League City, Katy (west), and in the northwest Houston suburb of Cypress. I don’t quite live in Cypress, but that’s the name of the school district and Tea Party that I’m in. There is no downtown. There’s a community college, a number of shopping centers, a freeway going through, and a whole lot of residential areas.

Governor Abbott has deployed over 5,000 Texas National Guard troops ahead of planned ‘No Kings’ protests (see also here).

To my friends, be cautious. Avoid any crowds that day. And report any odd pallets of bricks.

The No Kings website says this: 

They’ve defied our courts, deported Americans, disappeared people off the streets, attacked our civil rights, and slashed our services. The corruption has gone too. far. No thrones. No crowns. No kings.

Let me translate:

They haven’t given in to our lawfare attacks. They have deported criminal illegal aliens—but it sounds more heinous if we claim they’ve deported Americans. They have taken people for whom they had deportation orders. We think illegals should be granted all rights of citizenship, including the right to stay here and break our laws. And they’ve tried to defund nonprofits that are facilitating illegals in our country, so we’ll call that slashing our services. This backlash against our corruption has gone too far. Let’s call this authoritarianism, because people don’t like that. Only we get to be the authoritarians. So, until we regain power, let’s say Trump is trying to be a king. Yeah, that’ll work.

 

Funding

These riots are well funded—as were the BLM riots and the Occupy protests before them.

Data Republican (a tech researcher who got doxed a few months ago after helping with DOGE) has done some looking into it. If you go to her site, you can click on her research projects. “New Kings” is at the top.

When I clicked on that, I saw a long list of organizations that have ties to the No Kings movement, as well as tracking of the federal funding they’ve received. I was scrolling down and saw Indivisible Project. I recognized the name.

The Indivisible Project is active here, as it apparently is all over. At a school board meeting last year, a number of protesters in the audience had the book in hand. That was the first I became aware of it. I believe it’s essentially an updated version of the Cloward-Piven practice of overwhelming the system with protests and making demands—which, you might note, is not democracy; it’s mobocracy.

One of our school board members (the one we haven’t been able to replace with a conservative) has been associated with the group since at least 2017, according to screenshots from Facebook (here, here, and here). 

Data Republican shows more than $12 million flowing into the Indivisible Project.

Data Republican's money tracking flow chart for Indivisible Project,
one of the sponsors of the No Kings protests

On Data Republican’s chart you might note that Open Society means George Soros, who is about overthrowing countries and economies. Other usual suspects, like the Tides Foundation, are present. No taxpayer funds go directly to Indivisible Project, but sources of sources do show taxpayer funding.

Glenn Beck, on his Wednesday special this week, shows the connections between these manufactured protests and those of the past. Some of the same people keep showing up, and many of the same organizations. China could be implicated. And Marxist-Islamists as well. The stated “cause” is updated, but this is clearly another attempt to manipulate the masses. This is a movement against freedom (whether or not the protesters know it), as it always is from these sources.

One difference between now and 2020 is that we didn’t know what we were seeing then. It took a couple of years before the masses got clued into the fact that BLM was socialist, and that the leaders used donations to enrich themselves. (Some of us tried to tell them from the beginning, but it still took some years.) But now you could say, we’re onto them.

I think, because of more awareness now, these are not likely to spread very far. They have to be scheduled; they have to be funded. And the deep pockets funding them can handle these things. But they also have to be attended (beyond those paid to attend and protest), or they just don’t catch fire.

I could be wrong, but I don’t think so. And I don’t think I’m just being overly optimistic. I think the sea beast of Revelation can no longer be given life by the propaganda beast—which is in a doom loop. 

There’s plenty going wrong in the world today. But there’s also some bad that is being overcome. Good people, working with God, can make more of that happen.

 

A Few More Resources

·        “LA has a curfew in place and is arresting protesters. Here's what to know” CNN, June 11, 2025. It’s important to know what stories propaganda media is telling. 

·        “Trump Wins Bid To Halt Newsom’s ‘Dangerous’ Desire For Restraining Order Against Troops In LA Over ICE Raids; Rubber Bullets Fired Downtown – Update” by Dominic Patten and Ted Johnson, for Deadline, June 10, 2025.   

·        “Don’t Mistake Rioters for Protesters” June 1, 2020. This is a Spherical Model post that mentions the brick pallets used during those riots.