Obama's "day of unrest," a series of 70 state demonstrations was an absolute bust. Except for the LA demonstration, almost nothing else was reported.

Here is a rather bland appearing news story out of the L.A. Times relating to the May Day immigration demonstrations. Two things stand out in this report - first the crowd estimate was "50,000" instead of 150,000 as some predicted before the May Day demonstration. In fact, some estimate the crowd at 30,000. Secondly, the LA demonstration actually had nothing to do with Arizona. What happened in Arizona was a happy eventuality for the LA chaos crowd, but that demonstration, L. A., was in the planning stages for months before Arizona. Midknight Review imagines the same scenario for most of the other 70 city demonstration -- they had been planned for months. If you pay attention to national news, there is almost no mention of the other 69 demonstrations, nation wide.

The carefully planned "day of civil unrest" was an absolute bust. A total of 70 demonstrations were planned. Only one was large enough to garner national attention and it (the LA demonstration) was much smaller in size than its organizers had hoped. We hasten to note that the New York demonstrations gained some national note but the crowd, larger than last year, total no larger than 2,000 (link)

So much for the "changing tide" of national review. No such thing is happening. Arizona is what it is -- an honest attempt by state politicians to protect the citizens of their state. Killings and kidnappings are becoming the order of the day and Arizona has decided that this must stop. Most of the nation agrees. Most of the citizens of Arizona agree. Only the loafers and looters of Al Sharton's crowd, ACORN, and SEIU thugs disagree enough to travel to various locations and do what they can to mimick "national unrest." Obama has never taken to the podium to specifically denounce this sort of thing. Rather, he intends for this "unrest" to grow into a national protest so large as to put his Socialist Democrat Party back into office come this November. ---- jds

Here is that story. In a word, our commentary is "bla bla bla."

LAPD estimate crowd at immigrant rights rally is about half of what was expected [Updated]

May 1, 2010 | 12:19 pm

[Updated, 3 p.m.: Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck estimated that about 50,000 immigration rights activists participated in Saturday's May Day rally, about half of what police estimated earlier.

Police had anticipated a larger crowd because of the controversy surrounding the recent passage of a tough immigration law in Arizona that allows police to check the legal status of people they believe are in the state illegally.

“All this was an estimate," Beck said when asked about the department's earlier projection. "These are educated guesses. We were unable to tell what the event in Arizona would do, so we estimated 100,000 people.”]

Only one arrest has been reported for a minor vandalism incident.

“The event was peaceful," Beck said. "Everyone who came out here was peaceful,” Beck said.

“Everyone got to do what they came out here to do, which is express their issues.”

Beck attributed the peacefulness of Saturday’s march to months of coordination between police and the march organizers.

“We spent months with organizers making sure we were all on the same page,” Beck said.

-- Ruben Vives

Photo: Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony joins hands with others in leading the May Day rally in downtown Los Angeles. Credit: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times