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Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"23"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"5"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3778564347651845217"},"published":{"$t":"2021-07-07T03:18:00.003-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-07-07T03:18:33.124-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"California"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The New Social Justice War on Drugs is Bigger Than Ever"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"California legalized pot 5 years ago, but you couldn’t tell that from the scale of the drug war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery few months brings another massive bust. A 40-acre illegal pot farm in an obscure part of Death Valley, the \"most elaborate illegal marijuana\" setup in Mendota with\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/50000-marijuana-plants-found-at-illegal-grow-near-mendota\/10673498\/\"\u003E 50,000 pot plants\u003C\/a\u003E that was so big that police could smell it from 1,100 feet in the air, “vast groves” worth \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/2020\/08\/massive-illegal-pot-farms-discovered-in-california-wilderness\"\u003E$169 million\u003C\/a\u003E in the eastern Sierras, and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsnow.com\/content\/news\/Siskiyou-County-has-almost-tripled-illegal-cannabis-plant-seizures-in-2020-572329961.html\"\u003E$285 million\u003C\/a\u003E in the old Shasta region of the gold rush.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2019, California seized almost 1 million pot plants. One busted operation not far from San Francisco was processing\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/27\/us\/marijuana-california-legalization.html\"\u003E 500 pounds\u003C\/a\u003E of marijuana a day.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--3PW5NUK6RU\/YOVVLgQrb_I\/AAAAAAAATVo\/w5E8tDhMyyIItAbu1QV3vsyJBTWGAFy0gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s762\/image_2021-07-07_001804.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"492\" data-original-width=\"762\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--3PW5NUK6RU\/YOVVLgQrb_I\/AAAAAAAATVo\/w5E8tDhMyyIItAbu1QV3vsyJBTWGAFy0gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-07-07_001804.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EGovernor Newsom had kicked things off with an address announcing that he was pulling the California National Guard from fighting what he described as President Trump’s “manufactured crisis” on the border to “refocus on the real threats facing our state”, like “illegal cannabis farms”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENext year, 7 Laotians were brutally murdered at an illegal marijuana operation in Riverside by Mexican cartel members over Labor Day. With helicopters piloted by the Air National Guard and black SUVs full of DEA agents showing up in small towns, it’s like the drug war never ended.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESomehow the drug war in California is worse than ever.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPro-pot advocates promised that legalizing drugs would bring in the money. And it did. Billions of dollars have been spent on “legal drugs”, but far more is being spent on illegal drugs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe old drug war was fought by Republicans who believed that drugs were bad, but the new drug war is being fought by Democrats who love pot, but love drug money even more.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe issue isn’t morality: it’s money.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn ounce of pot is estimated to cost as much as $100 more bought legally than on the street. The profit margins are great and decriminalization expanded the illegal market even more than the legal one. Buyers no longer fear being busted, sellers have little to worry about, and even the growers who take much of the risk don’t have to worry about the stigma. Illegal growing has become an environmental and financial violation. The only real thing to fear are the cartels.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMexican cartels now control much of the wilderness that California’s militant environmentalists had insisted on protecting from development. But while developers might fear the Sierra Club and its government allies, the cartels and the immigrant growers under their control don’t. What they’re afraid of is having their throats cut in the middle of the night. And as massive marijuana growing operations take off in wilderness areas, it turns out that the environmentalists were saving all that land so that drug lords from south of the border could grow millions in pot.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile California’s legal agriculture industries are dying: its illegal pot industries are prospering. If you want to grow avocados, good luck getting the water. Instead, Californians are buying Mexican avocados, from which the cartels take their cut, while the water goes to illegal operations that aren’t worried about permits or environmentalist pressure groups in Sacramento.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia's rice production will fall by 20% and its avocado production fell by nearly half in 2019 from 338 million pounds to 175 million pounds, while its illegal pot production vastly increased.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe old drug warriors wore suits and ties. The new drug warriors are the “entrepreneurs” who spent fortunes lobbying politicians in the hopes of cornering the market only to be stuck with a small slice of it aimed at upscale buyers willing to pay premium prices at boutique pot shops.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe environmentalists who once got high to commune with nature are among the most vocal special interests urging an aggressive war against this new form of agriculture which can’t be regulated. Behind them are identity politics groups and unions which want their cut of the cash.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA glance at the members of the Cannabis Advisory Committee shows some of the special interests involved from the pot workers branch of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union to the head of the California NAACP to environmentalists. Legal drugs means money for unions and community groups, which really means money for Democrats.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMexican drug cartels don’t pay consulting fees or offer donations to environmentalists, they don’t provide a cut to the black caucus, or hire unionized workers. It’s not the beheadings or rapes that bother California Democrats who shrug at such things from their gated communities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the illegal drug business is cutting into the profits from their legal progressive drug cartel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why Governor Newsom claimed that massive invasions of the country by illegal aliens are a “manufactured crisis”, but illegal pot farms that don’t pay his party are a serious threat. Illegal aliens build the power and wealth of the Democrats, but illegal pot farms steal from it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKarl Marx observed that history repeats itself as farce. California’s Marxists are doing everything possible to live up to their leader’s teachings. After spending two generations fighting against the old drug war in the name of civil rights, they’re fighting a new drug war for civil rights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECivil rights being anything that increases the power and wealth of California Democrats.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why California’s Democrat majority passed a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/06\/california-spend-100-million-helping-pot-growers-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E$100 million bailout\u003C\/a\u003E for the “legal” pot industry. The widely reported bailout is really for the Democrats because it pays cities to hire experts to work with the industry on environmental compliance. What’s really going on is that the Democrat machine is paying its own environmental consultant class nine figures to navigate the roadblocks that same consultant class created in order to profit from the pot business.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s part of why an ounce of pot is $100 cheaper from the street than from a store.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESocial justice is just a bunch of Marxist rhetoric behind which the same political mafia is moving money into its own pockets while laundering them through whatever ‘ism’ it’s fighting this week.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhether it’s the environment or systemic racism, it’s another way for Democrats to get paid.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe old drug war was justified as a battle against a serious social ill, while the new drug war is just corrupt rent-seeking. The new drug warriors ridiculed the idea that locking up people for the harm caused by drugs was morally justified, but insist that locking up people because they haven’t paid the Sacramento mafia its share of the vigorish is completely morally justified.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia Democrats legalized drugs, further wrecking working class families, trashing what’s left of local agriculture and water supplies while feeding organized crime, to score $1.8 billion in tax revenues. But the illegal market is estimated at $8.7 billion. The new drug war is about the Democrats getting their hands on those extra billions by going back to the old drug war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy did California Democrats legalize drugs? It wasn’t to end the war on drugs, nor to make marijuana accessible to users with medical problems, or any of the other lies and excuses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was to make billions of dollars.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia’s new drug war pits socialists against drug lords over control of the drug market. It’s a familiar dynamic in South America that, like so much else, has crossed over the border.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats cloak their new social justice drug war in racial justice, offering “reparations” from their drug money to black people, in environmentalism, decrying the impact of illegal grows, in unionization, and in the whole colorful spectrum of leftist virtue signaling. But virtue signaling is no match for the ruthless determination of the cartels and their state sponsors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the battle between the legal drug cartels of the Democrats and the illegal drug cartels of South America, the illegals are winning as they have won everything else in California.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/3778564347651845217\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/07\/the-new-social-justice-war-on-drugs-is.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3778564347651845217"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3778564347651845217"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/07\/the-new-social-justice-war-on-drugs-is.html","title":"The New Social Justice War on Drugs is Bigger Than Ever"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--3PW5NUK6RU\/YOVVLgQrb_I\/AAAAAAAATVo\/w5E8tDhMyyIItAbu1QV3vsyJBTWGAFy0gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-07-07_001804.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-828505754247253172"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-02T16:18:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-02T16:18:00.442-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"California"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homeless"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Los Angeles"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Richest Homeless in the World"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Last year, Davon Brown, a former fashion model turned homeless activist, conned his way into an LA Ritz-Carlton luxury suite alongside Jed Parriot, the son of a producer on Grey's Anatomy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-aFhGtrUJBdM\/YLaXw7bLAHI\/AAAAAAAATR4\/uyK_PWTlN3wXJSKOKu2l2AqMh2-CLJ8SgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s690\/image_2021-06-01_132538.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"426\" data-original-width=\"690\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-aFhGtrUJBdM\/YLaXw7bLAHI\/AAAAAAAATR4\/uyK_PWTlN3wXJSKOKu2l2AqMh2-CLJ8SgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-06-01_132538.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIt was May Day, Brown was wearing a blazer and sunglasses. The former fashion model and son of a wealthy producer \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/why-lady-gagas-ex-model-seized-a-luxury-hotel-suite-in-los-angeles+\u0026amp;cd=6\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;ct=clnk\u0026amp;gl=us\"\u003Ewere there\u003C\/a\u003E to ‘occupy’ a luxury suite for the homeless. And demand that the city take over hotel rooms and hand them out to the population of junkie vagrants.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELos Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti held a press conference and assured Brown that he would get him a room. When the son of the Grey's Anatomy producer was asked how to spell his name, he sneered, \"“Parriott, like Marriott—which has 900 empty rooms.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJed, a Democratic Socialists of America activist, appears to live in a $1.3 million home in Silver Lake owned by a trust controlled by his parents: a prolific TV producer and a TV actress.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe trust also appears to own at least one other home, with 4 bedrooms, in the city.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELater that year, Davon Brown, still handsome, neatly groomed, and with the sleek physique of a gym rat,\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lamag.com\/mag-features\/echo-park-lake-encampment\/\"\u003E was at the center \u003C\/a\u003Eof the Echo Park homeless encampment. LA had just renovated the park in a hip neighborhood when it was taken over by the homeless and hopelessly befouled.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBrianna Moore, a talented 18-year-old concert violinist with offers from MIT, decided to get involved in the summer of protests. After a series of Black Lives Matter marches, she joined the homeless cause, and died in an Echo Park tent after taking cocaine laced with fentanyl.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe death of the sweet-faced white teenage honor student accomplished what months of complaints by local residents did not. But as LA authorities prepared to remove the encampment, Davon and Jed were once again at the center of things.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDavon’s publicist was hyping him in Hype Magazine as a champion for the homeless while promoting his new single. Jed showed up in a BMW X5 and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lamag.com\/mag-features\/echo-park-lake-encampment\/\"\u003Esneered at \u003C\/a\u003Elocal homeowners, “We need to be really telling these property owners, ‘Sorry, you’re going to have to tough this out.’”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEcho Park was finally evacuated this year, but Davon’s Instagram is filled with shirtless photos and glamor shots, many of which appear to come from Echo Park. And DSA-LA is touting Davon as “our unhoused comrade”. Meanwhile LA keeps trying to solve its “homeless crisis”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe latest solution is a tent encampment filled with $2,600 tents.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the homeless crisis first took off, LA voters had approved a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/homeless-hole-ate-los-angeles-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E$4.6 billion\u003C\/a\u003E package of homeless tax hikes. The taxes were not on the homeless, but on the people who still had homes. The people who were taxed out didn’t become homeless, they just left California.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the Homeless-Industrial Complex quickly got to work finding homes for junkie vagrants in the way that only Los Angeles and its corrupt social justice welfare state can manage to do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe first apartments cost \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/homeless-hole-ate-los-angeles-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ean average\u003C\/a\u003E of $479,000 a unit. Some went as high as $650,000 a unit. But that wasn't good enough. Two years later, the cost of an average unit \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2020\/09\/la-apartments-homeless-cost-746000-each-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ehit $531,000\u003C\/a\u003E, with some apartments going up to $746,000. Building an apartment in Los Angeles for a crackhead was costing more than the price of a mansion in some parts of the country.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite all those high prices, only 228 apartments were actually built in four years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECity Controller Ron Galperin performed \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2020\/09\/la-apartments-homeless-cost-746000-each-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ean audit\u003C\/a\u003E on the $1.2 billion allocated for the homeless in 2016, and blamed the lack of progress on \"red tape\" and \"a lot of consultants\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnable to build apartments for less than the cost of a mansion, Los Angeles launched a pilot program to build \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2020\/12\/la-spending-130000-each-8x8-homeless-shed-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E8x8 aluminum sheds\u003C\/a\u003E for the homeless for only $130,000 each. The average cost of a home in LA is $500 per square foot. The aluminum sheds with 64 square feet of space managed to completely blow that away. But the no-bid contract probably helped.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince apartments were too expensive and even tiny homes cost too much, LA turned to tents.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe homeless had been setting up their own tent encampments for free. So the city launched a pilot program to have the government set up tents for the homeless for only \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/05\/25\/999969718\/high-cost-of-los-angeles-homeless-camp-raises-eyebrows-and-questions\"\u003E$2,600 per tent\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s $2,600 a month.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEach tent in a parking lot near the 101 freeway in East Hollywood costs twice as much as the rent on a local apartment. It actually costs more than the average month’s rent in LA. You can find two-bedroom apartments in Beverly Hills that cost less than a government homeless tent.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESay what you will about self-constructed homeless shacks, they don’t cost $2,600 a month.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot only is the government setting up homeless tent cities across Los Angeles, but taxpayers are now also on the hook for $2,600 for every tent.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EController Galperin explained that, \"doing nothing also costs a lot of money.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGovernment employees know that’s very true.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe government tent city was outsourced to Urban Alchemy, a social welfare non-profit that has raised eyebrows by scoring million dollar contracts in San Francisco and Los Angeles to offer cleaning services, showers for the homeless, and tent cities. Urban Alchemy gets these contracts under the name of its financial sponsor: Hunters Point Family.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUrban Alchemy CEO Lena Miller \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/news\/shows\/greater-la\/homelessness-armenia-edu\/east-hollywood-homeless-camp-urban-alchemy\"\u003Eexplained\u003C\/a\u003E that it all costs so much money because her organization employs \"long-term offenders\" and pays them $19 an hour.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnly California Democrats could pay criminals to service junkies in tent cities that cost more than most apartments. But only California Democrats could set up shacks that cost more per square foot than most houses and apartments for the homeless that cost more than luxury suites. Nothing is too good for the homeless and their publicists and consultants in California.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile a lot of money gets spent, nothing really gets done.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELA keeps trying to scale down its solutions, but ends up spending more the smaller the solution.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe city tried to set up portable toilets \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-homeless-bathroom-restroom-feces-skid-row-pit-stop-20190610-story.html\"\u003Ewhich cost\u003C\/a\u003E $339,000. Over a hundred thousand of that money goes to bathroom attendants. But over in Sacramento, the state’s capital, a homeless bathroom cost\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/04\/money-toilet-billion-dollar-cost-public-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E $1 million\u003C\/a\u003E. When the Guggenheim Museum unveiled a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/solid-gold-toilet-worth-1m-titled-america-stolen-palace-where-n1054476\"\u003Esolid gold toilet \u003C\/a\u003Eas one of its art exhibits, it was estimated to cost over $1 million. The homeless could have had a gold toilet for the cost of the free government toilets that they’re getting from the welfare state.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut they could have also had luxury condos with gyms and swimming pools for the cost of the apartments that are being built, but never actually get built, to house them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia’s homeless are the richest homeless in the world. And while they may never see any of the money that gets spent on them by the Democrat Homeless-Industrial Complex, the cash bleeds into the pockets of the professional bleeding hearts who are getting rich off the poor. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe homeless tent cities aren’t going anywhere. They’re making too much money.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere will still be junkies lying in their own filth in tents under the freeway, but where they once did so for free, taxpayers will now be paying $2,600 a month for them to lie in their own filth.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why no one except the homeless can afford to live in Los Angeles.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/828505754247253172\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/the-richest-homeless-in-world.html#comment-form","title":"9 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/828505754247253172"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/828505754247253172"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/the-richest-homeless-in-world.html","title":"The Richest Homeless in the World"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-aFhGtrUJBdM\/YLaXw7bLAHI\/AAAAAAAATR4\/uyK_PWTlN3wXJSKOKu2l2AqMh2-CLJ8SgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-06-01_132538.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"9"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6160036519756693464"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-19T00:15:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-19T00:15:43.220-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"California"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"California Leaving"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"For the first time in its history, California lost a House seat. California Democrats are resorting to conspiracy theories about President Trump and the census, but these are the numbers they got after spending $187 million on outreach and after rigging the census to make sure illegal aliens would continue to participate. And those are far better numbers than California deserves.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-d4fvLZMw5xI\/YKSQ5CBzvZI\/AAAAAAAATLc\/Q6Q2DdH2pgM8oLiGO-8fUTWRnLdHc-PDgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s616\/newsom%2Bad.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"453\" data-original-width=\"616\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-d4fvLZMw5xI\/YKSQ5CBzvZI\/AAAAAAAATLc\/Q6Q2DdH2pgM8oLiGO-8fUTWRnLdHc-PDgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/newsom%2Bad.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe decline and fall is not a surprising development out here where moving trucks are a frequent sight and everyone knows a family that is moving.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI know three of them in under two years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe population numbers only tell part of the story of a big state that is rapidly losing its future.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia’s fastest growing population is senior citizens. By 2030, every \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ppic.org\/press-release\/new-analysis-californias-aging-population\/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CIn%20total%20numbers%2C%20the%20population,surge%20in%20the%20older%20population.%E2%80%9D\"\u003E1 in 3 Californians\u003C\/a\u003E will be over the age of 50. The over 60 population will increase by 166 percent by 2060 going from 5.5 million to 13.5 million. Hotel California is rapidly becoming a retirement community.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy 2030, California will have a higher percentage elderly population than Florida.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1970, the median age of Californians was 27 years old. Jerry Brown became the state's youngest governor of the century. When he next ran for office, he became its oldest governor at the age of 72. California’s median age is now 38. And it’s only headed north from there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy 2050, a third of LA will be over 65 and by 2060, the median age in LA will be 48.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia’s elderly population is increasing faster than any other age group. While the young population will remain flat, the middle aged population will only increase by a fifth, even as the elderly population more than doubles. These numbers paint a portrait of a state with no growth.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe state’s birth rate fell 10% just last year. A one month comparison actually\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/fox40.com\/news\/california-connection\/pandemic-baby-bust-california-sees-23-decline-in-births\/\"\u003E showed a\u003C\/a\u003E drop of 23%. While the pandemic suppressed birth rates, the numbers had been dropping in California long before anyone had ever heard of Wuhan. Two years ago it hit the lowest level in a century down to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/California-birthrate-plunges-to-lowest-level-in-a-12923521.php\"\u003Ehalf of the state’s\u003C\/a\u003E 1990 birth rate. In the last decade, California’s birth rate dropped twice as much as the national average defying its own demographic destiny.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe news is much worse than these numbers make it look.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStates with a large older population are often more conservative, but that’s less likely to happen to California. The fastest growth among its older population isn’t among white people, but the large Hispanic population that fundamentally altered the state’s demographics and politics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA generation of cheap labor is coming of age. Its members are a lot less likely to leave the state than white seniors. As a Calmatters fellow \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2019\/05\/27\/californias-growing-senior-population-by-the-numbers\/\"\u003Enoted\u003C\/a\u003E, “older Californians are actually more likely to be immigrants than younger Californians”. They’re also more likely to be lower income.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese estimates are just projections of the future. They show trend lines rather than the escalating consequences of a state that is becoming increasingly unlivable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia’s golden years were fueled by new industries and cheap land. The land isn’t cheap and the industries are pricing themselves out of the youth population they used to attract. Millennials have been moving out of New York and California in large numbers, and heading to Texas, Nevada, and Arizona. Industries will be forced to follow their potential workforce.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBig Tech monopolies will still maintain their Bay Area enclaves for now, but older and more traditional tech firms are heading to Texas. Sleeping six to a room in a decrepit building converted into a dorm may be part of the price of admission in start-up culture, but even much of the tech industry is opting out of the hellscape of the talent rat race.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis exodus probably won’t have good political consequences for either California or Texas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe middle class provides political and economic stability and it’s vanishing from the state at rapid rates. What’s replacing it is an itinerant hipster class drawn to Big Tech and the entertainment industry, driven by radical politics, but with no commitment to the state.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis same hipster class wrecked New York City, before abandoning it in droves, and is busy wrecking its hubs in Portland and Seattle. Not to mention any other cities where it got a foothold.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s why California’s birth rate has declined twice as fast as the rest of the country.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia swapped a settled and more conservative population for a more itinerant population of millennial hipsters and immigrant laborers. The state lost its future even as the gross population numbers still looked good because there were still people even if they were becoming less likely to have children, buy homes, or do any of the things that a settled population actually does.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe short term fix looked good on the census, it looked good economically, but it had no future, and the state is slowly coming off the high and coming face to face with a bleak future.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia’s doom loop of radicals wrecking its cities and the state, enabled by the cheap labor imported to cater to their whims, is just getting started. As conservatives and the middle class flee the state, it becomes even more of a playground for urban elites, trashing rural counties, enabling crime, social dysfunction, and economic ruin that they expect to be immune from either because they’re walled off, expect to move on, or not to be alive when the social bill comes due.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJerry Brown’s old California could outgrow and survive its worst follies, but the new California isn’t actually growing and is running out of the future it’s burning through at a rapid rate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia Democrats are complaining that population growth has slowed because of President Trump’s immigration enforcement. But that hasn’t stopped immigrants from heading to other states. Their real problem is that younger immigrants and migrants are less interested in California because its economic potential and opportunities are running out like everything else.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe cost of living relative to the economic rewards are unappealing even to many illegal aliens. Those who do come are more likely to have plans for more profitable work in organized crime.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile, poll numbers show that California Latinos have been turning on Governor Newsom over the lockdowns. The state’s new working class is on a collision course with the Democrats, and the Democrats are getting nervous because without constant migrant churn, new immigrants supplementing and displacing the old, their political hegemony might come apart.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe coalition between cheap labor and radical Democrats worked as long as there was work to go around. As California’s social stability collapses, its economic growth will go with it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA reckoning is coming and a lost House seat is the least of it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA scam works as long as everyone involved thinks they have something to gain. It falls apart when they wake up and realize that the Nigerian prince will never write them that check.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia Democrats have been writing checks post dated to the future. But there’s no future and the demographic checks are starting to bounce.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"My own belief is that California has a unique place on the planet. It's been a place of dreams,” a younger Jerry Brown would rhapsodize. But it turns out that California is not such a unique place after all. It’s a land of dreams, and dreams are not a good basis for policy. When leftists turn their dreams into reality, they wake up to discover they’re living a nightmare.\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6160036519756693464\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/california-leaving.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6160036519756693464"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6160036519756693464"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/california-leaving.html","title":"California Leaving"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-d4fvLZMw5xI\/YKSQ5CBzvZI\/AAAAAAAATLc\/Q6Q2DdH2pgM8oLiGO-8fUTWRnLdHc-PDgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/newsom%2Bad.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7737086264624603202"},"published":{"$t":"2021-03-10T15:38:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-03-10T15:38:00.858-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"California"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Coronavirus"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cuomo"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Michigan"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Murphy"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"New York"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Newsom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pennsylvania"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Whitmer"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"If Cuomo Goes Down, So Should Whitmer, Newsom, Murphy, and Wolf"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Governor Cuomo of New York is having a bad month, but it’s not because the Democrats and the media finally noticed that his order \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/04\/1-5-coronavirus-deaths-could-have-been-prevented-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eforcing nursing homes\u003C\/a\u003E to accept infected coronavirus patients may have killed thousands of senior citizens: it’s because he’s up for reelection in 2022.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWith Biden in the White House, the Democrats no longer need a model pandemic governor, and the AOC wing of the party in New York is preparing to primary him with an unfiltered socialist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-GHWdZMj-gw8\/YEaLtuztfHI\/AAAAAAAAS6k\/0sxE3XNiFVEjlPHQZdiW5y2PcTaMGeYJwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s616\/newsom%2Bad.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"453\" data-original-width=\"616\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-GHWdZMj-gw8\/YEaLtuztfHI\/AAAAAAAAS6k\/0sxE3XNiFVEjlPHQZdiW5y2PcTaMGeYJwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/newsom%2Bad.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThat’s why the Cuomo scandal has shifted from the trivial matter of 8,000 to 13,000 dead nursing home residents to the much more serious contention that the Cuomosexual-in-Chief may have once kissed a former aide: a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LindseyBoylan\/status\/1219614883592929280\"\u003EBernie Sanders\u003C\/a\u003E supporter named Lindsey Boylan.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats don’t know what to do with thousands of dead nursing home residents, but they’re pretty experienced at monetizing #MeToo scandals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome might question whether the purity of Ms. Boylan’s lips, important as they are, should matter more than thousands of dead human beings. But to paraphrase Stalin, an unwanted kiss is a tragedy, but thousands of dead grandmas and grandpas are just another statistic.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it’s a statistic that has the potential to not only \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/04\/1-5-coronavirus-deaths-could-have-been-prevented-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Etake down Cuomo\u003C\/a\u003E, but Governor Whitmer in Michigan, Governor Murphy in New Jersey, Governor Newsom in California, and Governor Wolf in Pennsylvania. That’s why, after briefly allowing the public to vent a little outrage at the decision to turn nursing homes into death camps, Dems and the media pivoted to Lindsey’s lips.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Cuomo, Whitmer, Murphy, Newsom, and Wolf all ordered nursing homes to take infected patients, only Cuomo, presumably, had made unwanted advances on Lindsey Boylan. And, much more importantly, the Sanders and AOC crowd is only targeting Cuomo, not the others.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s every reason to believe that Cuomo is a bully and a creep. But the sudden parade of Cuomo victims is being led by the same radical wing that wants to primary him. Lindsey Boylan\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/welovetrump.com\/2020\/02\/25\/impeachment-backlash-nadler-faces-two-energized-primary-challengers-for-his-seat\/\"\u003Etried to\u003C\/a\u003E primary Rep. Nadler by claiming he didn’t want to impeach Trump hard enough and is running to be the borough president of Manhattan. It’s a little hypocritical for the wife of an investment banker to be going after the 1 percent, but hypocrisy is the name of the game.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAssemblyman Ron Kim, who claims that Cuomo bullied him so hard that it made his wife cry, is a major supporter of Bernie Sanders and of radicals like the antisemitic Moumita Ahmed. Kim at least has some credibility because he had raised the issue of Cuomo’s infected admission order, but, like most lefties, he focused far more on enabling lawsuits against nursing homes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s more than can be said for Attorney General Letitia James who focused on her plan to run for higher office by waging war on the NRA, only to belatedly pivot to nursing homes in 2021 with a report that raised far more questions than it answered. President Trump’s DOJ had launched an investigation that resulted in Cuomo’s coverup back in the summer of 2020.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhere was James back then? Investigating President Trump.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow James, whom the media is touting as Cuomo’s likeliest rival, is insisting that only she has the authority to investigate his sexual harassment scandal. James is right that Cuomo shouldn’t be investigating himself, but having his opponent investigate him is just as disgustingly corrupt.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJames already showed off \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/07\/27\/letitia-james-went-back-on-promise-in-failed-weinstein-deal-lawyer\/\"\u003Eher skills\u003C\/a\u003E when she approved the Weinstein class-action settlement that would have given his victims a $10,000 check and covered Harvey's legal fees.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECuomo’s abusive behavior was as much of an open secret as Harvey Weinstein’s antics. Both men were protected by the industries of entertainment and politics because they were convenient. It’s hard to believe that anyone in Albany didn’t know about Cuomo’s habits. New York’s political and media class are just using them to distract us from what really matters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn California, Governor Newsom is facing a recall election, and the state’s skilled nursing facilities have racked up at least 9,000 coronavirus deaths. Newsom’s administration had told skilled nursing facilities that they \"shall not refuse to admit or readmit a resident based on their status as a suspected or confirmed COVID-19 case.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPatricia McGinnis, executive director of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/05\/bring-grandma-killing-governors-justice-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ewarned\u003C\/a\u003E, “California’s directive is nothing less than a death sentence for countless residents.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats want to save Newsom’s job and they don’t want Cuomo’s scandal taking him out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Michigan, Governor Whitmer is facing multiple recall efforts and also has an election coming up in 2022. Her administration had\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/05\/bring-grandma-killing-governors-justice-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E cruelly ordered\u003C\/a\u003E that a “long-term care facility must not prohibit admission or readmission of a resident based on COVID-19 testing requirements or results.\" There were some 5,600 coronavirus deaths in nursing homes. Michigan Republicans have called for an investigation, but Democrats and their media have loudly opposed it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats and their media are not about to undermine Whitmer’s chances in 2022.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd then there’s New Jersey and Pennsylvania. New Jersey copied New York’s order and there have been around 8,000 nursing home coronavirus deaths. Pennsylvania’s Department of Health ordered nursing homes to accept \"patients who have had the COVID-19 virus.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOver 12,000 residents of nursing homes died of the virus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Biden chose Dr. Rick (Rachel) Levine, who\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2020\/05\/pa-gov-wolf-backs-health-sec-who-took-mother-out-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E took his own mother\u003C\/a\u003E out of a nursing home, while forcing homes to accept infected patients, as his very own Assistant Health Secretary.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s another reason why the Democrats want to pivot away from nursing home deaths.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats and their media want to swap out Cuomo, in what they think is a safe seat, with someone more radical who can go all the way with their agenda. While they were willing to allow a little venting over nursing home deaths, they want to change the conversation to #MeToo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd since Dr. Rick probably didn’t smooch Lindsey, it is a safer scandal for the Democrats.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut thousands of dead nursing home residents deserve better than to be pumped and dumped in a lefty scheme to replace Cuomo with a Bernie Sanders crony. Governor Cuomo deserves to go down for a whole lot more than an unwanted kiss. And he shouldn’t go down alone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECuomo’s decision to force nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients was not the isolated action of one politician, but a pattern of behavior by Democrat governors in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and California, who focused on clearing hospitals at all costs, while showing no regard for the most vulnerable people in their states. The governors who issued these orders tended to have ties to the hospital lobby which also led to slower vaccine rollouts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E35,000 to 40,000 nursing home deaths in these four states is not a “scandal”: it’s a crime.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd not just any crime, but the single worst crime by any American elected official.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen 9 people died in Flint, not only did we spend years hearing about the water crisis, but former Governor Rick Snyder, and the former head of Health and Human Services were recently indicted on charges of involuntary manslaughter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIs there any conceivable reason why Cuomo, Whitmer, Newsom, Murphy, and Wolf shouldn’t be facing involuntary manslaughter charges? Apart from Snyder’s party identification and theirs?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow can thousands of entirely foreseeable deaths not result in manslaughter charges?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn their eagerness to replace Cuomo, Democrats have opened a political pandora’s box. It’s time for the conservative movement to start listening to the local Republicans in California, Michigan, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania who have pursued investigations of their respective governors, and stop repeating lefty media narratives that won’t put Cuomo behind bars.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECuomo, Whitmer, Murphy, Newsom, and Wolf should have been charged by the DOJ last year. Since Biden and Garland will never let that happen, that can be the next stage of the fight.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETens of thousands of grandfathers and grandmothers are dead. The Democrats killed them. The Biden administration is covering it up and protecting the perpetrators from facing justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIncluding its own Assistant Health Secretary.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003ED\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/7737086264624603202\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/03\/if-cuomo-goes-down-so-should-whitmer.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7737086264624603202"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7737086264624603202"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/03\/if-cuomo-goes-down-so-should-whitmer.html","title":"If Cuomo Goes Down, So Should Whitmer, Newsom, Murphy, and Wolf"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-GHWdZMj-gw8\/YEaLtuztfHI\/AAAAAAAAS6k\/0sxE3XNiFVEjlPHQZdiW5y2PcTaMGeYJwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/newsom%2Bad.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6153771644928029183"},"published":{"$t":"2021-01-10T12:18:00.002-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-01-10T12:18:28.633-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"big government"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Big Tech"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"California"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"censorship"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"California’s Internet Censorship Office is Watching What You Say"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\"Report misinformation,\" a flier from California's Office of Election Cybersecurity blares. Social media users are urged to report \"misleading\" materials to the Secretary of State's office.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA government office created by California Democrats is monitoring hashtags, classifying political speech it opposes by “threat level”, taking screenshots of posts, and then storing the information indefinitely, before reporting the offending speech to social media companies for censorship.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-UjE6pdMVZRU\/X_s2vxoHVjI\/AAAAAAAASss\/7XpJnMkgkks-UxKW-1A380f3eLJBB-U9gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s683\/caoffice.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"593\" data-original-width=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-UjE6pdMVZRU\/X_s2vxoHVjI\/AAAAAAAASss\/7XpJnMkgkks-UxKW-1A380f3eLJBB-U9gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/caoffice.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E“Election Security is our number one priority,” the Office claims. But its focus isn’t securing elections by fighting hackers or voter fraud. Instead it’s fighting “the spread of mis- and disinformation”. That’s an Orwellian way of saying that it’s fighting and censoring online speech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We created the CA Office of Election Cybersecurity to keep your vote safe - so you don’t have to worry! The Office is a non-partisan government arm dedicated to ensuring your vote is safe,” Secretary of State's office unconvincingly tweeted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat sort of speech is a government office run by Democrats trying to censor? One example of political speech successfully censored by the Office of Election Cybersecurity is a tweet that “alleged thousands of 2020 ballots were tossed out\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere's nothing that reassures voters that their elections are safe like a government office spying on anyone who says that they're not, and taking immediate steps to silence them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Office of Election Cybersecurity isn’t securing the technology of elections, instead it’s monitoring online speech and flagging views that the government office disagrees with to be taken down by its political allies in California’s Big Tech monopolies that dominate social media.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJenna Dresner, the senior public information officer for the Office of Election Cybersecurity, boasted that the government office\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thereporter.com\/2020\/12\/30\/california-worked-with-social-companies-to-remove-election-misinformation\/+\u0026amp;cd=9\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;ct=clnk\u0026amp;gl=us\"\u003E maintains an internal\u003C\/a\u003E database of online speech coded by threat level, and that its censorship calls had resulted in removals 77% of the time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDesner is a member of the Los Angeles County Young Democrats, who had formerly worked for Rep. Karen Bass, Attorney General Xavier Becerra, and other Democrat figures. The Office of Election Cybersecurity operates under Secretary of State Alex Padilla, who was chosen by Governor Newsom to replace Senator Kamala Harris. And the bill creating California’s own office of internet censorship was sponsored by two Democrats.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe internet censorship office was promoted in Padilla’s Vote Safe California campaign \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2020\/12\/06\/the-rise-of-questionably-nonpartisan-spending\/\"\u003Erun by a consulting firm\u003C\/a\u003E featuring the “mastermind” of Biden’s campaign, which developed Biden's vote-by-mail programs in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Office of Election Cybersecurity isn’t non-partisan and it isn’t keeping anyone’s votes safe. It’s in a position to use government power to censor questions about election fraud by its party, while working with a consulting firm involved in one of the most contentious elements of the election, whose results the office’s boss expects will put him in the United States Senate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECorruption is one thing. Government censorship of complaints about corruption is another.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E70 years after George Orwell wrote 1984, California Democrats had created their own Ministry of Information inside the government in a blatant violation of the First Amendment. The Democrat operatives running the government censorship office claim that they aren’t engaging in censorship because they’re not the ones directly censoring online speech. Yet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We don’t take down posts, that is not our role to play,” Dresner insisted. “We alert potential sources of misinformation to the social media companies.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s the difference between the government sending in jackbooted thugs to smash up a printing press and putting in a call to the editor warning him not to print a particular article.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFreedom of Speech doesn’t just refer to the former, but also to the chilling effect of the latter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"The Bill of Rights was designed to keep agents of government and official eavesdroppers away from assemblies of people. The aim was to allow men to be free and independent and to assert their rights against government,\" Justice Douglas once wrote. \"When an intelligence officer looks over every nonconformist's shoulder in the library... the America once extolled as the voice of liberty heard around the world no longer is cast in the image which Jefferson and Madison designed, but more in the Russian image.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s exactly what California Democrats have in mind by creating databases of political enemies, ranking them by “threat level”, and pressuring their allied monopolies to silence them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats had previously claimed that they were not engaging in censorship because they were pressuring Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and others to remove general categories of speech in hearings and statements. That was enough of a chilling effect and an assault on the First Amendment. But in California, an actual government office is monitoring speech, treating it as a threat, and directing social media companies to remove specific speech by individuals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese days the former liberals who once upheld the “chilling effect” in Gibson v. Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, and who denounced McCarthyism, are assembling lists, and censoring their political opponents to fight the dreaded scourge of “misinformation”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"It is a fine line between opinion and misinformation,\" Dresner admitted. It’s a fine line because misinformation is a political category invented by the Left to justify its censorship campaign. One of the two employees of California’s internet censorship office can’t actually explain the difference between an opinion and misinformation. That means her office is censoring opinions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We aren’t worried about what people are saying in the privacy of their own homes, we are worried about what they are putting out there for the world to see,” Dresner insists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor now. How long until the same Democrat operatives who claimed that public speech poses a threat to “election security” start making the same claims about private speech? As public speech is censored and goes underground, the push will be on to monitor private speech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Aunt Mary saying on Facebook that thousands of ballots were thrown out is a threat to “election integrity”, won’t it still be a threat when she whispers it to Grandma Sue?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA government office telling the citizenry that it only monitors what they say in public, not what they say \u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-sS96IGAjSjU\/X_s20f6Ka8I\/AAAAAAAASsw\/vNYghsoNuIsY8DqOoqCRv9fUhcy71vT-wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s404\/image_2021-01-10_091809.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"395\" data-original-width=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-sS96IGAjSjU\/X_s20f6Ka8I\/AAAAAAAASsw\/vNYghsoNuIsY8DqOoqCRv9fUhcy71vT-wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-01-10_091809.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003Ein private, is not reassuring. The First Amendment was meant to protect public speech, not merely private speech. American political freedom was built on people putting their speech “out there for the world to see”. Democrats used to embrace that. Now they view it as a threat.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia's Office of Election Cybersecurity is the latest attempt by Democrats to use a fake crisis of disinformation that they invented as a pretext for political censorship. And the use of a government office to monitor, record, and track speech for censorship makes it impossible to classify internet censorship as anything but an unconstitutional assault on the Bill of Rights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe’re no longer just dealing with legislators pressuring Facebook indirectly. A government office is now specifically tracking political speech and boasting of a 77% censorship rate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrat administrations refuse to implement basic election security protocols such as voter ID, claiming it’s too onerous, and deny that election fraud is a problem, but insist that political speech is an urgent threat and must be met with relentless censorship and surveillance.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo paraphrase Yakov Smirnoff, \"In America, people secure elections. In California, elections secure people.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat is how totalitarian regimes behave and it’s a threat to elections and to the Bill of Rights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia's Office of Election Cybersecurity is one of the best possible test cases for fighting political censorship. It’s not an issue of private companies controlling their own platforms, but of a government office monitoring speech and classifying the views it wants to see eliminated.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe First Amendment threat of internet censorship is no longer something that might happen.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s here. Now. Republicans just have to decide if it’s a battle they’re willing to fight. But if they don’t act soon, their own speech might find its way into a government political threat database.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6153771644928029183\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/01\/californias-internet-censorship-office.html#comment-form","title":"13 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6153771644928029183"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6153771644928029183"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/01\/californias-internet-censorship-office.html","title":"California’s Internet Censorship Office is Watching What You Say"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-UjE6pdMVZRU\/X_s2vxoHVjI\/AAAAAAAASss\/7XpJnMkgkks-UxKW-1A380f3eLJBB-U9gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/caoffice.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"13"}}]}});