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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":"13"},"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-4139209464903752851"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-09T15:45:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-09T15:45:56.237-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pro-Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"How Democrats Created a Carjacking Outbreak"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Carjacking is booming like no form of crime in Biden’s America. Homicides are up, especially in those cities that defunded their police, pharmacies are going out of business in San Francisco and other cities where shoplifting was legalized, but stealing cars is where it’s really at now.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JlsmNxh-0q0\/YMEaZTEl9OI\/AAAAAAAATTE\/IXT0MReuX38WhqNbvH2bB8qpBQYShu2EgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s719\/image_2021-06-09_124541.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"464\" data-original-width=\"719\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JlsmNxh-0q0\/YMEaZTEl9OI\/AAAAAAAATTE\/IXT0MReuX38WhqNbvH2bB8qpBQYShu2EgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-06-09_124541.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ECarjackings more than doubled in Chicago, and increased 537% in Minneapolis, the capital of police defunding, and\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wusa9.com\/article\/news\/crime\/dc-kids-arrested-for-carjackings-as-vehicle-crimes-surge\/65-76d89fca-b770-4c58-a5bc-a33d6a8d4791\"\u003E around\u003C\/a\u003E 500% in Washington D.C.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Atlanta, mayoral candidate Antonio Brown, who had advocated defunding the police, was leaving a ribbon-cutting ceremony when he was carjacked and dragged for a block.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“These kids were in my opinion somewhere between 7- and 11-years-old,\" Councilman Brown said, after calling the police.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey probably weren’t 7, but 11 is all too plausible because the carjackers are getting younger.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe nation was briefly shocked when four children, including an 11-year-old and a 12-year-old, were busted for armed robberies and carjackings in California. A 12-year-old was arrested for \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/boy-12-arrested-series-armed-carjackings-hour-police\/story?id=76305918\"\u003Efour armed carjackings\u003C\/a\u003E in an hour in Washington D.C. In Pittsburgh, a carjacking crash ended in the deaths of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/pittsburgh.cbslocal.com\/2021\/05\/14\/riverside-ohio-deadly-carjacking\/\"\u003Ethree teen carjackers\u003C\/a\u003E: the youngest of whom was a 14-year-old.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn one of the worst teen carjackings, two teenage girls, a 13-year-old and a 15-year-old, carjacked and killed a Pakistani Uber driver.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(One reason Ubers have become harder to find is that drivers are afraid of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/chicago.cbslocal.com\/2021\/05\/04\/we-want-to-go-out-chicago-rideshare-drivers-are-in-demand-as-customers-pay-more-for-dwindling-supply\/\"\u003Ebeing carjacked.\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Philly, a Lyft driver avoided a similar fate by pulling out his gun and shooting a 14-year-old carjacker.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media, which assured the country that defunding the police, freeing all the criminals, and ending bail would reform public safety, claims to be baffled by the rise in carjackings.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome are blaming the increase in teen carjackings on the teachers’ union shutdown of schools.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s certainly a factor, but the teens turning to carjacking would otherwise be moving drugs. The pandemic lockdowns however made stealing cars more profitable than running drugs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe lockdown’s destruction of the economy has made new homes unaffordable, and also increased the price of cars. Fewer people and businesses could afford to make big new purchases during the shutdown, and instead held on to their existing cars.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe price of new cars is sharply up, but used car prices have shot up by as much as a quarter and inventory is low. That’s where the carjackers come in. Supply is meeting demand.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s not just the consumer market. There are severe rental car shortages and Uber shortages.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven after the economic devastation of the Democrat lockdowns, Biden’s signature program is pushing subsidized electric cars. Car manufacturers are waiting to see what sort of mandates and rewards they’ll be dealing with under Biden’s infrastructure program. And with the supply of chips low and prices rising, they’re in no hurry to roll out cars they may not be allowed to sell.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnder Obama’s disastrous Cash for Clunkers environmentalist program, used car prices shot up 10% and used SUVs \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/madison.com\/ct\/business\/biz_beat\/biz-beat-used-car-prices-soar-some-blame-cash-for-clunkers\/article_f6a6a472-bb7c-11df-b4e9-001cc4c03286.html\"\u003Erose 30%\u003C\/a\u003E. Inventory dropped and people were no longer able to afford used cars. Biden is helping bring back Obama’s economic woes in a bigger way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the luxury housing and car markets are thriving, the lower end has locked millions of Americans out of buying a home or a car. Car manufacturers are happy to push luxury electric SUVs to buyers who can afford to pay whatever the asking price may be. Working class and middle class car buyers and businesses that depend on fleets of vehicles are out of luck.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUrban organized crime is meeting the demand for used cars with underage carjackers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrat municipalities dismantled law enforcement, destroyed police morale, and shut down much of the justice system in response to the Black Lives Matter riots over the overdose death of George Floyd. The arrest and prosecution of teens, already unpopular, went by the wayside.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe same drug rings exploiting children to run drugs began using them to steal cars.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOrganized gangs employed young recruits to shoplift from stores when it became clear that even the most brazen daylight robberies would not be prosecuted in major urban areas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEspecially if the perpetrators were teens. And the younger the teens, the better.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGangs that had used children to run drugs because they were unlikely to face serious charges moved them into robbery and then, as cars became a hot commodity, into carjacking.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe criminal justice reform movement has fought against prosecuting teenagers, even those who commit murder, as adults. And, indeed, the two teen girls who killed an Uber driver in D.C. reportedly reached a plea deal. Teen carjackers know that even if they kill their victim, the worst thing that will happen is they’ll be in the custody of the state until they become legal adults.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETeen carjackers assault drivers while fearlessly brandishing guns like it’s hunting season because they know the police won’t shoot them and district attorneys won’t lock them up.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile criminal justice reformers claimed that trying teens as adults ‘criminalized’ children, it dissuaded teens and, more importantly, the organized gangs using them as pawns. The decriminalization of teenage crimes led to a boom in teens being recruited by organized crime.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe more Democrats refuse to prosecute teens, the more teens become criminals. And their crimes escalate until they destroy someone else’s lives or just their own.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese kinds of unintended consequences are typical of criminal justice reform.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe carjacking boom is the outgrowth of the two worst Democrat policies from 2020. The lockdowns wrecked the economy and created a booming black market for criminals. The BLM movement and its race riots helped spur a decriminalization that led to a massive crime wave.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Biden’s electric car push implodes, the auto market may begin to stabilize and recover. But the carjackings will just give way to other lucrative criminal enterprises. Decriminalizing drugs and prostitution won’t decrease crime or make society safer. The most basic level of crime is still theft. Legalizing immoral social ills will just shift criminal resources over to various forms of theft.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats have become socialists and their obsession with controlling markets is leading to artificial shortages that criminals are happy to meet by redistributing some wealth. Like cars.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESocialism, whether in the USA or the USSR, feeds a black market as consumers try to get hold of whatever is no longer available in the controlled legal marketplace. And since those socialists criminalized legal sales of many products, while decriminalizing crime, the criminals are filling niches by stealing from those who have a product in order to sell it to someone who doesn’t.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen capitalism becomes a crime, then criminals become capitalists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe nightmare of 11-year-olds stealing cars at gunpoint in Washington D.C., Chicago, Philly, and other major cities, was born from the pandemic lockdowns and the Black Lives Matter riots.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEverything that Biden and the Democrats are doing will only make the new crime wave worse.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Biden’s America, carjacking is how used car sales work. And 11-year-olds hijacking cars at gunpoint are the new used car procurers of a broken economy that prints worthless money.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats are happy to write everyone a check. But pieces of paper with Biden’s signature on them are only worth what they can buy. Biden’s checks can’t buy you a car or a home. But they’ll buy a car stolen by an 11-year-old boy being run by Biden’s base of urban criminals. If he gets caught, he’ll be out the next day. And you’ll still be out of a car. You may not be able to find a new or used car you can afford to replace it with on the lot, but the carjackers will find one.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s the Biden economy.\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\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\/4139209464903752851\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/how-democrats-created-carjacking.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4139209464903752851"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4139209464903752851"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/how-democrats-created-carjacking.html","title":"How Democrats Created a Carjacking Outbreak"}],"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\/-JlsmNxh-0q0\/YMEaZTEl9OI\/AAAAAAAATTE\/IXT0MReuX38WhqNbvH2bB8qpBQYShu2EgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-06-09_124541.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3219826019514417774"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-27T06:40:00.000-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-27T06:40:00.308-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Portland"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Portland Fights 1000% Increase in Murders With Unarmed Park Rangers"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Shootings have more than doubled in Portland from 111 last year to 275 so far this year. Murders are\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/news\/local\/amid-historic-spike-in-gun-violence-portland-mayor-commissioners-at-odds-over-whether-more-police-will-help\/283-efbe6c30-f22e-431d-ba4a-57ff8ed01c01\"\u003E also up\u003C\/a\u003E from 2 to 25. That’s an increase of over 1000% for the prog utopia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPortland hit a quarter-century high last year with 55 murders. It’s \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/news\/2021\/04\/every-portland-city-commissioner-opposes-mayors-2-million-police-focused-plan-to-address-gun-violence.html\"\u003Eon track\u003C\/a\u003E for 100 in 2021.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Si4G7gT8DLY\/YHdv5bK2ePI\/AAAAAAAATAY\/RuxQZY0S43E6CQj4DGtWrcVF7DLP3C0CwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s804\/image_2021-04-14_154244.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"490\" data-original-width=\"804\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Si4G7gT8DLY\/YHdv5bK2ePI\/AAAAAAAATAY\/RuxQZY0S43E6CQj4DGtWrcVF7DLP3C0CwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-04-14_154244.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThings are so bad that Mayor Wheeler, who narrowly won reelection over the Antifa candidate after having his apartment building firebombed, pleaded with the City Council to pay for more cops. But the City Council had a better idea: unarmed park rangers with pepper spray.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWheeler had asked the Council for $2 million to put cops on the streets to stop the gunmen, but instead he’s getting $1.4 million to put unarmed park rangers to run from the gunmen.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr try to take them on with the awesome power of their pepper spray.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnother $3.5 million will be tossed to the Council’s leftist “community group” allies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“This proposal is the kind of collaborative problem solving I expected from our historically diverse council where the majority are grounded in community,” Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty boasted. The Portland City Council isn’t grounded: it’s high on its own insane leftist politics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHardesty is famous for three things: her calls for defunding the police, her calls to be made police commissioner, and her call to the police when she got into an argument \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.iwf.org\/2020\/11\/12\/portland-city-commissioners-hypocrisy-defund-police-for-everyone-else-but-me\/\"\u003Ewith her Lyft driver\u003C\/a\u003E because he wanted to keep the window open. Commissioner Hardesty didn’t call a park ranger when the Lyft driver asked her to leave his car, but everyone else is supposed to.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Historically, one of the ways we’ve dealt with gun violence is to flood, frankly, Black neighborhoods with cops, often violating civil rights. This is not a strategy Portlanders are willing to carry into the 21st century,” Commissioner Mingus Mapps declared.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile, bullets\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kptv.com\/news\/gunfire-damages-children-s-center-in-sw-portland-one-was-at-child-level\/article_028283a8-8cda-11eb-b24f-d3f783e4c9d4.html\"\u003E slammed into\u003C\/a\u003E a children’s center at child level.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMapps however \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/portland-commissioner-mapps-new-proposal-to-prevent-shootings-not-beef-up-police\"\u003Eexplained\u003C\/a\u003E that the Portland City Council was trying to reimagine public safety and criticised the failure to put all the stories of the shootings, “into the context of the broad and deep reforms that this council is trying to do around the issues of equity, race, and public safety.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPortland’s reimagining of public safety is eliminating the safety part and replacing it with equity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe City Council had eliminated the Portland Police’s Gun Violence Reduction Team leading to an even worse outbreak of mass shootings and refused Wheeler’s call to bring them back.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey also turned down a direct appeal from black residents and officials, including Pastor J.W. Matt Hennessee, the senior pastor of the Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church, who reported being on a Zoom call when \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fox43.com\/article\/news\/crime\/pastor-reacts-to-shots-fired-near-his-north-portland-church\/283-42068277-a72c-429c-871f-eebca05a097e\"\u003Ebullets began flying \u003C\/a\u003Enear his church.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"You could still smell the gunfire in the air and I talked with the police officers when they showed up,\" Pastor Hennessee recalled.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“If investments are not made, that just means more people are killed,” he warned.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Portland NAACP \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/portland-naacp-icap-at-odds-over-proposal-to-address-gun-violence\"\u003Ehowever\u003C\/a\u003E ranted that the police are racists who \"maintain the blight of our communities, reinforces the racists stereotypes and tropes against Black people, and does nothing to repair the harm of generations of racism and white supremacy.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s hard to tell what’s worse, the NAACP’s spelling or its blatant disregard for human life.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Instead of maintaining weapons of war,\" the NAACP statement said of the Portland police, \"it can shift those funds into community-led solutions\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the 24 new unarmed park rangers won’t have any “weapons of war”, like guns or any ability to defend themselves beyond calling the police to ask for help, they do have “de-escalation” and “anti-bias” training which should terrify any gang member.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA longtime park ranger however \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/portland\/2021\/04\/longtime-portland-park-ranger-we-are-not-the-police-of-the-parks-period-and-were-not-going-to-be-period.html\"\u003Etold a reporter \u003C\/a\u003Ethat someone needed to tell the City Council that the rangers are not the police and “have less authority than a parking patrol attendant”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA spokesman for one of the Council members proposed that the rangers would “be a calming influence”. Meanwhile a ranger explained that the only thing they can do is call the police or try to ban people from the park, but only if they provide their names and phone numbers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA Portland Police Bureau \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.portlandoregon.gov\/police\/news\/read.cfm?id=301619\"\u003Ebulletin\u003C\/a\u003E shows how well the plan to replace cops with park rangers is working. The park rangers \"approached a group about 9:00a.m., intending to distribute fliers informing the group that the park was going to be closed for restoration work. Graves threatened to kill them, and although they did not report being threatened with a weapon, Graves followed them yelling threats to kill them as they tried to disengage.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat was the de-escalation training, a favorite of pro-crime criminal justice reformers, in action.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"About 45 minutes later, another team of Park Rangers responded to a fire burning in the park, which is a violation of park rules. Park Rangers reported requesting assistance from Portland Police as they went to address the fire. Graves pulled out an axe and threatened the Rangers If they did not leave.\"  And then the police finally had to step in to stop the aspiring axe murderer.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s how well replacing armed cops with unarmed park rangers works in the real world.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile the bodies keeps piling up as Portland’s gang members and drug dealers rush to be the city’s hundredth murder victim or murderer, while their stray bullets take out random people walking down the street and hoping not to die because their city council puts criminals first.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince the Portland City Council doesn’t want to fund the police, the FBI is stepping in to do it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Oregon FBI \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/news\/local\/man-shot-and-killed-in-portlands-20th-homicide-of-the-year\/283-a066f04a-c876-4adb-adc2-198a5ebfb114\"\u003Edescribed\u003C\/a\u003E Portland's situation as a \"public safety crisis\" and is offering to provide money and personnel. But why should the country’s taxpayers be on the hook for a calculated decision by the Portland City Council to turn their own city into a war zone?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery single Portland commissioner is on record as opposing even Wheeler's modest plan to use police to fight the shootings. The voters elected to have leftist radicals run their city.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile it might be cruel, they should pay the price.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPortland Democrats decided to make their city into a laboratory for criminal justice reform. They’re keeping the dream of the 70s alive in Portland while reimagining public safety. The bodies of the murder victims are just experimental subjects in their pursuit of utopia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“If this is not interrupted, this will be the deadliest year in Portland history,” Pastor Hennessee said at a press conference. “I don’t believe the City Council wants to have that kind of blood on its hands.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EClearly\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/crime\/2021\/04\/portland-commissioners-want-community-groups-and-park-rangers-not-police-to-combat-surge-of-gun-violence.html\"\u003E it does\u003C\/a\u003E. Portland’s City Council has seen the consequences and isn’t stopping.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere will be horrid lessons to learn from that, as there were from Soviet collective farms, Venezuelan economics, and the Khmer Rouge's resettlement programs. And those lessons need to be learned by other lefty cities trying the same experiment. And by Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPortland voters can stop this insanity, just as they did when they ended up backing Wheeler over the Antifa candidate. If they choose not to, they have blood on their hands.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERadicals and extremists don’t change on their own. Their followers, supporters, and enablers have to see for themselves the horror that has been unleashed. It’s unknown how many dead bodies it will take for Portland voters to wake up and realize what they’ve done.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHorrifying shooting numbers in Chicago, Baltimore, or Detroit are ignored because most people have become inured to the violence in minority urban areas, but Portland, like Seattle, was reimagined as a hipster paradise for upwardly mobile artistes and lefty activists. Seeing it descend into hell while the hipsters who moved there for the culture and the vibe flee, abandoning underwater mortgages and vegan dog bakeries, may be a wake-up call.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot just for Portland, but for New York, Los Angeles, and the rest of lefty urban America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile the unarmed park rangers will be on the front lines of fighting crime. Or running from axe-wielding maniacs as fast as they can manage.\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\/3219826019514417774\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/04\/portland-fights-1000-increase-in.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3219826019514417774"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3219826019514417774"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/04\/portland-fights-1000-increase-in.html","title":"Portland Fights 1000% Increase in Murders With Unarmed Park Rangers"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Si4G7gT8DLY\/YHdv5bK2ePI\/AAAAAAAATAY\/RuxQZY0S43E6CQj4DGtWrcVF7DLP3C0CwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-04-14_154244.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-9186927492254218164"},"published":{"$t":"2020-12-15T12:47:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-12-15T12:47:44.931-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Alexandria Ocasio Cortez"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Omar"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pro-Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Tlaib"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"AOC, Omar, and Squad Want to Free 500,000 Fat Criminals"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Obese rapists, insane serial killers, and child molesters over 55 years old could be on the loose in your neighbrohood if the Squad’s latest social justice bill becomes law.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe bill to free all the fat criminals, sponsored by Rep. Tlaib, Rep. Lee, and Rep. Pressley, and co-sponsored by Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Omar, and eight other Democrats, and endorsed by Black Lives Matter, calls for a mass jailbreak to protect criminals from the coronavirus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-QshNSin2B-4\/X9QJV39XRhI\/AAAAAAAASow\/zK04BApQXqQDxcMIicATIR-Bpi0DsIF9ACNcBGAsYHQ\/s634\/fat%2Bmugshot.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"581\" data-original-width=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-QshNSin2B-4\/X9QJV39XRhI\/AAAAAAAASow\/zK04BApQXqQDxcMIicATIR-Bpi0DsIF9ACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/fat%2Bmugshot.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe existing wave of coronavirus criminal releases already helped boost crime rates in major cities with double digit increases in homicides. Robberies have shot up like a rocket with criminals stealing cars and looting businesses while knowing they won’t be jailed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut that’s not enough for the Squad. They want to free all the criminals. Especially the fat ones.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Dismantle Mass Incarceration for Public Health Act, introduced by Rep Tlaib, would “require States and units of local government to certify a commitment to release certain individuals from jails and prisons” and their list includes anyone who’s over 55 years old, unhealthy, or obese.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr as the bill puts it, has been “diagnosed with obesity”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to the Department of Health and Human Services, anyone with a body mass index (BMI) of 30.0 qualifies as obese. That means a 5'6 rapist who weighs 187 pounds, a 5'8  mugger who clocks in at 200 pounds, or one of those fabled 6'0 and 225 pound gentle giants specializing in home invasions would all be considered obese and in need of immediate release.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe official obese ranking doesn’t actually mean fat. The criminals that Tlaib, AOC, Omar, Lee, and Pressley want to unleash on communities already swimming in a wave of horrifying crimes are above a recommended healthy height to weight ratio. But maybe a good exercise regimen of muggings, carjackings, and sexual assaults will get them back to their fighting weight.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow many criminals would this actually set loose?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDOJ statistics \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bjs.gov\/content\/pub\/pdf\/mpsfpji1112.pdf\"\u003Eshow that \u003C\/a\u003Eabout half of federal and state inmates have some sort of chronic condition: 15% have asthma, 10% have heart problems, and 9% have diabetes. All of these conditions are on the Squad’s jailbreak bill’s release list. With over 2 million prison inmates, if these statistics hold up, between 200,000 to 680,000 criminals could be set loose.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut wait.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe majority of prisoners, 74%, were overweight, obese, or morbidly obese. Over a quarter hit the obese BMI numbers. That would mean freeing at least half a million fat criminals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn addition to freeing fat criminals, Squad members also want to free “seniors”. And by “seniors” they mean any criminal who has at least reached the tender age of 55 years old.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe unabomber, the BTK killer, and the Son of Sam, all of whom are still in prison today, and over the age of 55, would qualify. Sadly Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, and Jeffrey Dahmer are no longer alive to take advantage of Tlaib, AOC, and Pressley’s generous offer to free them all.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven those serial killers who aren’t over 55 could take advantage of the mentally ill clause.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFat rapists and pedophiles in their fifties are supposedly more at risk from the virus, but why are depressed muggers, anxious con artists, and schizophrenic serial killers more at risk?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis isn’t about saving criminals from an imaginary threat. Socialists like freeing criminals. Stealing private property and terrorizing the public is just socialism by another name.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn addition to freeing all fat criminals, any criminal over the age of 55, and crazy criminals, the Tlaib, Pressley, and Lee bill would also free any criminals who have moderate asthma or diabetes, or can be considered diabled. Since the disabled category covers everything from back injuries to depression to irritable bowel syndrome to dermatitis, that’s a free pass.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome 30% of criminals in federal and state prisons reported hypertension. That alone would release 600,000 criminals from prison. At this rate a criminal would have to work not to be freed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Squad bill also provides for freeing any criminal whom a review board determines is \"unlikely to pose a substantial risk of causing bodily injury or using violent force against another individual\". That would cover any inmates who weren’t convicted of physical assault.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that would free all the thieves, robbers, drug dealers, and looters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECountless criminals have already been freed under this category to protect them from the virus leading to plenty of violent assaults even though the criminals were said to be low risk. Not to mention massive amounts of robberies, car thefts, and the wave of Black Lives Matter looting.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven the most modest estimates of the criminal population released would be a million.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Dismantle Mass Incarceration for Public Health Act would also free all illegal aliens being held on an ICE detainer because not all criminals can be considered free until the violent illegal aliens being held for deportation are also released to rob, beat, and kill Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow long would AOC, Omar, and Tlaib like the country's criminals to be roaming the street? The bill would apply until the President declares the \"end of the COVID-19 national emergency\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmericans get two national emergencies for the price of one. If the coronavirus doesn’t get you, the criminals freed by AOC, Omar, Tlaib, Lee, Pressley, and other House Democrats will.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats and their media have spent the duration of the pandemic shouting that prison inmates were most at risk of catching the virus and had to be freed immediately. If they had dedicated a fraction of the same effort to protecting another vulnerable institutionalized population, nursing home residents, the pandemic death toll would be a fraction of what it is.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead, New York, California, and other states freed massive numbers of criminals to protect them from the virus, while forcing nursing homes to take in infected patients resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of nursing home residents. The Democrats who claimed that keeping inmates locked up would be a death sentence, delivered an actual death sentence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the Democrats are still shouting we have to save the criminals before they all die.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“This pandemic should not be a death sentence for anyone,” Rep. Tlaib clamored.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"This virus should not be, and doesn’t have to be, a death sentence for incarcerated individuals,\" Rep. Lee whined.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo far \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bop.gov\/coronavirus\/\"\u003E149 federal inmates\u003C\/a\u003E, out of 124,538 total, have died from the virus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr as CBS News called the 100th federal prison death back in July, a \"grim milestone\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Los Angeles Times breathlessly reported last month that the 79th prison inmate had died of the virus in California. As of now, the number appears to be up to 88. Another “grim milestone”.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-371V-t7KrZM\/X9QJqHUBgtI\/AAAAAAAASo4\/PhrijVn6XZkfgFBJK8VCQb0fuH5wtF0FQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s553\/wobbles.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"553\" data-original-width=\"415\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-371V-t7KrZM\/X9QJqHUBgtI\/AAAAAAAASo4\/PhrijVn6XZkfgFBJK8VCQb0fuH5wtF0FQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/wobbles.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe Chicago Sun Times agonized last month that an 8th inmate had died in the Cook County jail from the virus. That’s a weekend’s worth of shootings in Chiraq by the same cast of criminals that Illinois and Cook County had dumped back on the streets to rob, rape, and kill.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMore people get shot in Chicago by criminals in one weekend than the total number of criminals who have died of the virus in custody. Since many of the victims are also criminals, if the Democrats were really concerned about keeping them safe, they would keep them locked up.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECriminals are much less likely to die of coronavirus than of a bullet. Keep them safe behind bars.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe entire prison coronavirus hoax has led to countless people being killed, raped, and robbed by a rampaging population of criminals who were set loose to keep them safe from the virus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAOC, Tlaib, Omar, and the rest of the gang want to multiply that by ten thousand times.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMurder rates are already doubling in some places. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Rep. Omar, Rep. Tlaib, and other Democrats want to see them increase a thousandfold. Even as some Democrats claim that they want to back away from pro-crime policies like police defunding, plenty of Democrats, not just the Squad, are happy to propose freeing a million criminals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that’s not going to change until Republicans actually tell the public what’s at stake.\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\u003Cbr \/\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\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/9186927492254218164\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/12\/aoc-omar-and-squad-want-to-free-500000.html#comment-form","title":"12 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/9186927492254218164"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/9186927492254218164"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/12\/aoc-omar-and-squad-want-to-free-500000.html","title":"AOC, Omar, and Squad Want to Free 500,000 Fat Criminals"}],"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\/-QshNSin2B-4\/X9QJV39XRhI\/AAAAAAAASow\/zK04BApQXqQDxcMIicATIR-Bpi0DsIF9ACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/fat%2Bmugshot.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"12"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8679021838341964062"},"published":{"$t":"2020-09-24T23:57:00.004-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-09-29T20:23:26.913-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Black Lives Matter"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pro-Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Black Mayors and Police Chiefs are Being Accused of White Supremacy"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-RwRDQcMXRyE\/X3PP9jRX4wI\/AAAAAAAAScM\/zlB51As3d_8b-qrIDxbS5wtmflpwgiY8wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1280\/outlaw2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"720\" data-original-width=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-RwRDQcMXRyE\/X3PP9jRX4wI\/AAAAAAAAScM\/zlB51As3d_8b-qrIDxbS5wtmflpwgiY8wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/outlaw2.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E“I would have so much more respect for the Bail Fund if they had bailed him out and then let him stay in one of their homes,” Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins blasted the Massachusetts Bail Fund.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA statement from a DA blasting the MBF for freeing a rapist wouldn't usually be extraordinary, except that Rollins, whose campaign was backed by George Soros, was supposed to be different. Not only had Rollins run on a pro-crime platform promising not to prosecute shoplifting, breaking and entering, and resisting arrest, but she had reacted to the Black Lives Matter riots with a hysterical rant about her rage and the white community.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERollins had dismissed the damage from Black Lives Matter riots because it \"could be fixed\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd then the Massachusetts Bail Fund freed Shawn McClinton, a convicted sex offender, who had been accused of raping a woman a few weeks after he was let go, leading Rollins to snap.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe Massachusetts Bail Fund, whose motto is “Free them all”, really meant it.\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe problem that Rachael Rollins, the first black DA of Suffolk County, a pro-crime black nationalist activist, ran into is a familiar one for a new generation of leftist politicians, many from an identity politics slate, who learned the hard way that they will always be out-radicaled.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s no longer enough to just support riots and property crimes, you have to support rapists too.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Black Lives Matter wave destroyed the credibility and leadership of a new wave of identity politics Democrats who had seemed exciting until they were actually tested and failed miserably.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA few years ago, Jenny Durkan was being hailed as the first lesbian mayor of Seattle. Then she was besieged by a Black Lives Matter mob, and, after hailing CHOP as a new Summer of Love, had no choice but to shut it down. Carmen Best, Seattle’s first black police chief, was forced to resign after facing police defunding budget cuts that decimated her department.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChief Danielle Outlaw, formerly Portland's first black police commissioner, who got away from the city's perpetual riots to become Philadelphia's first black female commissioner, discovered that there's no escaping the violence. Many of the cities at the center of the violence have tried appointing black police leaders and electing black DAs only to realize that doesn’t appease.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The fact that I, as a very obvious African American female police chief, have been accused by those within that group or those who support that group, as being a supporter and protector of those who are believed to be white supremacists—if that's even the case—is ridiculous. Right?” Chief Outlaw had wondered back in Portland.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChief Outlaw may have thought that she would leave that kind of craziness behind when she left Portland, but she was soon being accused of white supremacy in Philly when the police didn’t crack down on white business owners protecting their businesses from BLM rioters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We do not condone any acts of violence, and as an agency we don't take sides,\" she argued.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELori Lightfoot’s victory was supposed to calm the radicals in Chicago who had bedeviled Rahm Emanual. The city, for the first time in its history, had a number of firsts, a black female lesbian leader, who represented everything that the identity politics slate wanted or could possibly want.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the pandemic and the riots left her hopefully outmatched and outclassed. Like many other leftist city leaders, Mayor Lightfoot was forced to ban BLM rioters from rallying on her block.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlack Lives Matter activists were soon accusing Lightfoot of \"creating problems in black and brown communities to protect white people\" and having \"bloodied people for their disobedience to white supremacy\", by which they meant taking the minimum possible steps to stop the riots.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd so the black lesbian mayor of Chicago had officially become a white supremacist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe speed with which the ‘firsts’ who break glass ceilings become the enemy is breathtaking.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELos Angeles DA Jackey Lacey went from being hailed as \"the first woman and first African-American to serve as Los Angeles County District Attorney\" to having her house besieged by Black Lives Matter racists and when her husband waved a gun to get them to leave, he, like the McCloskeys, was charged by the connivance of the Democrat machine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERep. Schiff, Mayor Eric Garcetti, and other Democrats quickly pulled their endorsements from Lacey. The first black female DA was now officially a racist oppressor of black people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“A lot of the cases that people shout the loudest at me about are those cases where the man who was killed had a gun or was shooting someone or harming someone,” Lacey pointed out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut, like the right to rape in Suffolk County, harming and shooting someone is a right in LA.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can be the first black DA of Los Angeles, the first gay mayor of South Bend, the first lesbian mayor of Seattle, the first black female police chief of Portland, Philadelphia, or Seattle, you can even be the first black lesbian mayor of Chicago, and you still won’t be radical enough.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can even run on a pro-crime platform backed by George Soros and it’s still not enough.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s because the problem isn’t racism: it’s radicalism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the problem really were racism, it would be solvable. But radicalism has no stopping point. As soon as a mayor, a DA, or police chief seems to fit the bill, they’re not radical enough.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMayors, DAs, and police chiefs who try to actually do their jobs are the first to fall.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust ask Danielle Outlaw, who was hounded out of Portland, or Carmen Best, who was forced to resign in Seattle. Checking the right identity politics boxes doesn’t matter if you’re not a radical.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut no amount of radicalism is ever enough. Just ask Rachael Rollins.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHistory is full of examples of revolutions where the radicals ate each other. The story of CHOP and of Portland’s over 100 days of rioting, the guillotines and people’s committees, is the familiar one of the French and Russian revolutions, of the radicals killing anyone less radical until there’s no one left except either a tyrant or a populace who is tired of the endless violence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat the revolutionaries want is a society so unlivable that it even horrified a Soros DA.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen they say that they want to free all the criminals, they really mean it. And when they say that they want to defund the police, they mean that too. These aren’t bold slogans for anything more moderate as their defenders among the Democrats and the media have falsely insisted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe most obvious symptom of a political movement’s descent into extremism is its inability to describe the problem. Extremism has no language for criticizing its own extremism except by warning that it’s undermining the larger cause. And that’s been the Democrat response. The riots and the crime, they keep warning, are eating into Biden’s lead in some swing states.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s a compelling argument for those making it and a contemptible one to those it’s made to.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot only the Democrats, but even the Left, and even the radicals are losing control of a movement that is turning on them for not being radical enough. And no amount of identity politics can stop the crackup of a movement that has lost its mind and its brakes. \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\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\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/8679021838341964062\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/09\/black-mayors-and-police-chiefs-are.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8679021838341964062"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8679021838341964062"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/09\/black-mayors-and-police-chiefs-are.html","title":"Black Mayors and Police Chiefs are Being Accused of White Supremacy"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-RwRDQcMXRyE\/X3PP9jRX4wI\/AAAAAAAAScM\/zlB51As3d_8b-qrIDxbS5wtmflpwgiY8wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/outlaw2.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}}]}});