When I think of hard revolutions, of a dictator taking over a country, I think of bloodshed in the streets, imprisonment of dissenters, and leftist militia doing the bidding of the dictator.

When I think of soft revolutions, I think of hundreds of destructive governmental policy changes taking place simultaneously, but no out-and-out killing in the streets.

Progressives systematically flout the laws in a country until the only rule of law is to "get over before you go under."  They show their contempt for laws by ignoring them, or worse, breaking them.

Barack Obama's sweeping policy changes along with legislative victories have ripened the country for the next step in his soft revolution: a quiet recruitment of a police force willing to accompany those who threaten, intimidate, and otherwise chill the conservative majority of Americans into submission.

Police Chiefs from cities across the U.S. are banding together with the president in opposition to Arizona's enforcement of laws against illegal aliens.

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck joined other law enforcement leaders in Washington on Wednesday to slam Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigration, saying it could cripple police work and drive a wedge between officers and the communities they are trying to protect.

Beck has emerged as a leading critic of a new law that will make it a state crime to be in Arizona illegally and will require police to check suspects for immigration paperwork.

Shaw's family alleged in their suit that because of an agreement allowing local agencies to enforce federal immigration law, the Sheriff's Department was liable for Shaw's death.

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In dismissing the suit Wednesday, Judge Charles F. Palmer found that the federal-local partnership did not mean the sheriff had a "mandatory duty" to transfer illegal immigrants after they completed their sentences.