Prosecutors in L.A. yesterday charged open-borders protesters for blocking streets and causing massive traffic jams earlier this year in objection to the Arizona immigration law. I don’t know who thinks these stunts up, but you’ve got to wonder about their sanity — does anyone really think trapping people in the cars for hours is likely to get them to sympathize with your cause? When the SEIU tried this in 1995 in Washington as part of its Justice for (illegal-alien) Janitors campaign, as many as 100,000 people had their commutes interrupted and the AAA called it “transportation terrorism.” A police spokesman at the time explained the speed of the arrests:

Bostrom said police also were concerned about the safety of the protesters in the street.

“At several locations people were honking their horns and getting out of their cars,” Bostrom said. “We were concerned that motorists were going to assault the protesters.”

That’s the ticket to amnesty (or whatever is the leftist goal du jour): provoke law-abiding suburbanites to emerge from their cars and beat you up!