In Springfield, Illinois, in 1838, a young Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful speech decrying the “ravages of mob law” throughout the land. Lincoln warned, in eerily prescient fashion, that the spread of a then-ascendant “mobocratic spirit” threatened to sever the “attachment of the People” to their fellow countrymen and their nation. Lincoln’s opposition to anarchy of any kind was absolute and clarion: “There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.”
“Following the money”
Journalists shows the ICE protest signs are not made by random grassroots Americans
No. After the protest is done, the organizers recollect all the signs and load them into vans ready for the next protest
The ICE protests are PAID and ORGANIZED pic.twitter.com/Mgv9i0X8c4
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) January 13, 2026
