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"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E“How many more times are we going to watch this on the news? How many times are we going to read about it and say, ‘Oh we can’t do nothing to stop it?’” House Minority Leader Todd Rutherford demanded three years ago while pushing for gun control. \"It’s time that we do all that we can to protect our children, to protect the lives of other people’s children, to protect the lives of people that simply want to go to Wal-Mart and go back-to-school shopping.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhgCbTgLYDYkHhy-D6-1hQlD-qZ9vA0PPmkLB-tri96SSLgVzUURWnHRVFUkzO-lirVo8PGc90iEO5UnyjTLk2X8koSBoa2m145ryD07S4SfRMGJ1JTzIN44RVgaKBcUoLqU_kZ4T8W8eXp9iZmkHRXCr_4RL2YHnQ_K-H0hAJox6U9jn1dnp0\/s649\/image_2022-04-24_131557312.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"468\" data-original-width=\"649\" height=\"231\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhgCbTgLYDYkHhy-D6-1hQlD-qZ9vA0PPmkLB-tri96SSLgVzUURWnHRVFUkzO-lirVo8PGc90iEO5UnyjTLk2X8koSBoa2m145ryD07S4SfRMGJ1JTzIN44RVgaKBcUoLqU_kZ4T8W8eXp9iZmkHRXCr_4RL2YHnQ_K-H0hAJox6U9jn1dnp0\/s320\/image_2022-04-24_131557312.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ENow, acting as the lawyer for Jewayne Price, the suspect in the Columbiana Centre mall shooting in which 14 people, as young as 15 and as old as 73, were injured, the South Carolina Democrat watched as his client was released with an ankle monitor so he can go back to work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll that we can do to protect our children involves banning guns while freeing criminals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We’ve got to take common-sense approaches towards controlling gun ownership to make sure bad people don’t get guns,” Rutherford has insisted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EExcept when those bad people are his clients.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I need the students of South Carolina to know that we are paying attention and that ‘never again’ actually means something in South Carolina,” Rutherford had argued during a previous gun control proposal. I’m sure that the 15-year-old injured in this attack is happy to hear that.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs are the children he wanted to condemn to death when he led a walkout to protest the fetal heartbeat bill, putting the abortion lobby ahead of the lives of babies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENever again, to Rutherford, means banning AR-15s and freeing criminals from prison.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERutherford’s involvement hammers home the paradox of Democrat politicians who believe that guns need to be controlled and criminals don’t. Their efforts have unleashed an unprecedented wave of shootings in major cities even while they clamor for more gun bans that don’t work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead of criminalizing guns, we need to criminalize criminals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMurder are up 51% in South Carolina in the last 5 years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy might that be? The disastrous Omnibus Crime Reduction and Sentencing Reform Act of 2010, backed by Democrats and far too many Republicans, led to the closure of six prisons and cut the prison population by thousands of criminals. The prison population has declined from 24,000 a decade ago to less than 19,000. The projected population, accounting for demographics, should have been close to 30,000. That’s a difference of around 10,000.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat happens when a third of the prison population is roaming around South Carolina?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMurder rates are the highest they've been since 1993. In the 90s, growing crime rates were rolled back by locking up criminals with a clear turnaround kicking in by the end of the decade so that despite significant population growth in the new century, murders fell sharply and so did most other crimes. The same prison system that Rutherford decries and that pro-crime South Carolina politicians helped dismantle had done its job. Now that job has been undone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Rutherford really cares about protecting children, he would fight to lock up criminals. Instead, not just as a lawyer, but as a legislator, he has battled to keep criminals out of prison. And he has blamed anything and everything for shootings except the criminals carrying them out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERutherford, who had previously \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/state-reps-have-heated-debate-over-libraries-drag-queens-first-amendment\/26479380\"\u003Eopposed\u003C\/a\u003E attempts to keep Drag Queen Story Hour out of children's libraries, also \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2015\/06\/18\/sc_state_rep_todd_rutherford_charleston_shooter_did_this_because_he_watches_things_like_fox_news.html\"\u003Eblamed\u003C\/a\u003E FOX News for shootings, claiming, \"these networks that broadcast what they call news, but it's not. It's really hate speech and coded language.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFOX News doesn’t kill people. Neither do inanimate objects. Criminals kill people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERutherford previously \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/amp.thestate.com\/article224972585.html\"\u003Eblamed the NRA\u003C\/a\u003E and gun owners for making it too difficult to pass gun control legislation, but the latest mass shooting isn’t a call for gun control, but criminal control.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EControlling criminals is a much more just solution than gun control which means controlling everyone. And yet given a choice between controlling criminals and everyone, Democrats like Rutherford invariably choose to restrict everyone’s rights instead of restricting criminals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut if they can’t even control criminals, how do they hope to control everyone?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe politician and lawyer has addressed anti-police rallies and represented the family of a teen shot by police while advocating for \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KdTMd_zssEw\"\u003Epolice defunding\u003C\/a\u003E.He pushed a bill to ban law enforcement from using automatic \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/scnow.com\/observer\/news\/columbia-representative-s-bill-would-ban-johnsonville-s-use-of-license-plate-readers\/article_3eee84c8-5aa1-11e2-888f-0019bb30f31a.html\"\u003Elicense plate readers\u003C\/a\u003E, but proposes “controlling gun ownership”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERep. Rutherford's House Bill 3322 would, in its original form, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wmbfnews.com\/2019\/04\/11\/wmbf-news-investigates-sc-bill-that-could-let-criminals-out-prison-sooner\/\"\u003Ehave released \u003C\/a\u003Ekidnappers, robbers, and killers while wiping out mandatory minimums. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENone of this is a “common sense” approach to crime.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERutherford has fought for mask mandates in schools, denouncing Gov. McMaster for proposing to protect people \"without forcing them to do things that they do not want to do.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe House Dem leader supports governments forcing people to do things when it comes to COVID or gun ownership, but not when it comes to murder, robbery, and drugs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPeople not wearing masks are not a threat. A firearm is not a threat. A criminal however is.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Columbiana Centre mall shooting shows how crime has begun to affect the state’s capital.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPolice Chief Skip Holbrook has been \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wistv.com\/2021\/11\/10\/sled-report-shows-alarming-statewide-increase-violent-crime-murders-2020\/\"\u003Ereported \u003C\/a\u003Eas saying that around four percent of the population are committing 80 percent of the violent crimes in the city. That’s as true of Columbia, as it is of most major cities. A small population of career criminals and gang members is committing most of the crimes. When that population is locked up and closely monitored, public safety dramatically improves, and when they’re set free, they rob, stab, shoot, and kill at will.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“When you have a country in which you have more firearms on our streets than you actually have people, we got a problem,” Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin whined. \"We need more help from the State Legislature, we need more help from the national government, the federal government, and we need more help from each and every one of our citizens doing our share.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBenjamin, like Rutherford, is wrong. The number of guns isn’t the problem, the number of criminals is. When Democrats free criminals and lock up guns, everyone lives in terror.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Columbiana Centre mall shooting is just the latest reminder of that simple reality.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe way back begins with reversing South Carolina’s disastrous pro-crime measures which were enacted with “guidance” from left-wing and libertarian pro-crime groups that cut prison populations while growing the size of the criminal population roaming the streets.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPoliticians boasted of saving hundreds of millions of dollars by closing prisons. Now as crime rates soar, the money gained has been lost ten times over.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd we can't even begin to put a price on the loss of human life.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHouse Minority Leader Todd Rutherford is right. \"It’s time that we do all that we can to protect our children, to protect the lives of other people’s children, to protect the lives of people that simply want to go to Wal-Mart and go back-to-school shopping.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMall shooters shouldn’t be roaming the streets. We can protect our children from them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll we have to do is lock them up.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\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\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\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\/263272944800474577\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/how-many-more-times-are-we-going-to.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/263272944800474577"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/263272944800474577"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/how-many-more-times-are-we-going-to.html","title":"“How Many More Times Are We Going to Watch This on the News? 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Gov Who Backed Police Defunding Busted for Bribery"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003ESen. Brian Benjamin wanted to defund the NYPD, but he should have fought to defund the FBI because it was the feds that busted the “progressive politician” on bribery charges.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Last year we made historic strides towards ending mass incarceration with major reforms,\" Sen. Benjamin had boasted when he was in the legislature. “But there is still more work to do.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjruZupiP4VeN0qusSdwak1fw86b2GU84HaY0Cz21tkDD-3hSgDv5KK2k9O7FUwmi6KyKKn1u9SrMyIK6vPVWlMA9rvyl68h9OkGT1w5_NQfzNQpi_xDl5qDpUy50qcNTXM1xyeSPzfaPeKfNWLxzIKM8fzOxGldpPSoJUNJre5q6OVIMkix1k\/s624\/image_2022-04-19_204258048.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"496\" data-original-width=\"624\" height=\"254\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjruZupiP4VeN0qusSdwak1fw86b2GU84HaY0Cz21tkDD-3hSgDv5KK2k9O7FUwmi6KyKKn1u9SrMyIK6vPVWlMA9rvyl68h9OkGT1w5_NQfzNQpi_xDl5qDpUy50qcNTXM1xyeSPzfaPeKfNWLxzIKM8fzOxGldpPSoJUNJre5q6OVIMkix1k\/s320\/image_2022-04-19_204258048.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EBenjamin’s current work will be avoiding incarceration on five bribery charges.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe busted radical had fought to end bail, turning arrests into a revolving door, close down the Rikers Island prison, limit police enforcement options, and protect parole violators.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the leftist crook has claimed that there is a school-to-prison pipeline, the real pipeline is the politics-to-prison pipeline in Albany. Governor Spitzer was forced out in a prostitution scandal, his Lt. Governor, David Paterson, was pushed to the door in a sex scandal, and his successor, Andrew Cuomo, well you may have heard that story.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo sooner did Cuomo’s Lt. Gov, Kathy Hochul step into his shoes, then she decided to pick Benjamin, a prog with impeccable police-hating credentials to stay on the right side of the Left.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow, Hochul, who courted the pro-crime vote, is stuck with a criminal on her ticket.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I'm going to name someone that I believe the state will be familiar with and very proud of,\" Hochul had said, announcing Benjamin as her pick for her old job after Cuomo stepped down.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s a lot to be proud of. Benjamin has set a new state record of being on the job for only 8 months before having to resign to, in his own words, \"focus his energies on explaining in court why his actions were laudable-- not criminal.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso, like Cuomo, Spitzer and Weiner, Benjamin \"looks forward to when this case is finished so he can rededicate himself to public service.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt the rate New York Dems are going, his replacement will have also been indicted by then freeing up a spot for Benjamin to just go right back to his old job of helping criminals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAsked by reporters now about Benjamin's arrest, Hochul piously scolded, “Let’s focus on the fact that there are people in a hospital right now fighting for their lives.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd some of those people were even shot because of her opposition to bringing back bail.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can understand why Hochul and the Dem Albany establishment oppose bringing back bail for criminals or enforcing the law. The only people who support criminals… are criminals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe New York Dem campaign slogan might as well be, \"Vote for Us, Until We're Indicted.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECuomo began his career as Attorney General of New York. His predecessor was Eliot Spitzer, his successor, Eric Schneiderman was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/03\/last-3-dem-governors-new-york-sexually-harassed-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eforced to resign\u003C\/a\u003E after multiple women accused him of choking and assaulting them. And that’s without delving into the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/dirty-attorney-general-going-after-trump-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Econflicts of interest\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd now Hochul will be forced to run for the top spot with Benjamin’s name right after hers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I have utmost confidence in my lieutenant governor,” Gov. Hochul told reporters on Thursday.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn Tuesday, her confidence may have waned after Benjamin turned himself in to face justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy did Hochul pick Benjamin? Let’s look at his credentials. In his failed bid for State Comptroller, the Harlem politician ran on a platform of defunding the police.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I support the movement to defund the police,\" he had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianbenjaminny\/status\/1351313996071235587?lang=en\"\u003Edeclared\u003C\/a\u003E. After a wave of shootings, the indicted pol falsely claimed that, “more police don’t lead to more community safety”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBenjamin's anti-police crusade was backed by former Women's March leader Tamika Mallory who claimed \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/amsterdamnews.com\/news\/2021\/03\/04\/brian-benjamin-unveils-plans-fight-crime-reform-po\/\"\u003Ethat\u003C\/a\u003E, “Brian has already been an important leader in the Black Lives Matter movement.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe politician in turn presented an \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianBenjaminNY\/status\/943656078214094848\"\u003Eofficial state proclamation\u003C\/a\u003E honoring the Farrakhan supporter while hailing Mallory as a “freedom fighter like the ones we read about in the history books”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Benjamin helped to bring a Black Lives Matter mural to Harlem, Al Sharpton was there. He was endorsed by Calvin Butts and the rest of the race-baiting royalty at the heart of city politics. By embracing him, Hochul hoped to get the support of Sharpton and the gang.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut it’s not as if the charges could have possibly come as a surprise to anyone with a pulse.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere have been lawsuits, ethics charges, and allegations around him ever since Benjamin won a 4% turnout election that took him to the State Senate and then an appointment as Lt. Gov, a position he was as qualified to hold as Hochul, his former boss, or a small ball of earwax.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMany of those scandals involved Benjamin's relationship with Harlem real estate developers and finance people whom he berated in press releases, but cozied up to and profited from.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I want to thank the entire village of Harlem who helped create this young man who’s going to help us lead the state into better days and prosperity,” Hochul said when picking Benjamin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHarlem hasn’t been a village since the 17th century.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the last Harlem politician to become Lt. Governor was David Paterson who had boasted, \"The only way I'm not going to be governor next year is at the ballot box and the only way I'll be leaving office before is in a box\" before he had to leave office anyway. Unboxed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow Benjamin has made everyone proud by, among other things, accepting a $250 campaign donation from a 2-year-old. It may take a village to raise a child, but it takes a child to write a $250 check to the progressive enabler of criminals who is now allegedly a criminal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the pro-crime movement once again loses one of its own to crime on the perpetrating end.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s nothing new for New York politicians who couldn’t be left alone in a room with a locked safe or a baby with a lollipop without making off with the safe’s contents and the lollipop.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut as New Yorkers wrestle with an unprecedented crime wave brought on by the dismantling of the criminal justice system by police defunders like Benjamin who worked to eliminate bail, shut down prisons, and set criminals loose, this case is a reminder of why they love criminals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Black Lives Matter movement and the Left are thick as thieves because they are thieves.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFighting for the rights of criminals was never really about race, it was about the entitlement of the sorts of people who lie, steal, and kill their way to the top and then want to help their own.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the wake of escalating violent attacks due to Democrat pro-crime policies, like eliminating bail, Hochul and Benjamin co-wrote an op-ed titled, \"Don’t Blame Bail Reform; Do Improve It\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince Benjamin’s arrest, there has been no word on bail for the police defunder.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Governor Hochul’s turn comes, maybe she’ll be luckier.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\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\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\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\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/3063726538848300513\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/nys-blm-lt-gov-who-backed-police.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3063726538848300513"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3063726538848300513"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/nys-blm-lt-gov-who-backed-police.html","title":"NY’s BLM Lt. 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We could look into the data. The rest are okay with racists in their coalition,” Sam Wang \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamWangPhD\/status\/1037161188285665281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"\u003Eranted\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiOveyAGKMvxFVWj3h2Py-R-7slYeD-uBbjm4g3CyNh0kv8yuuPFZeZL7e9EtxEyJCYc7bwLXA7PRc9sgFeNt2rTxPLbelJ1A6llhyLfvEkTUGAFaF6mbAf4Ypt1z1gqGW43NTPbedC9KjL_fWxJ8LeSP6XTo-CCY0qs9bLU5MFpqiFxParr28=s716\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"528\" data-original-width=\"716\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiOveyAGKMvxFVWj3h2Py-R-7slYeD-uBbjm4g3CyNh0kv8yuuPFZeZL7e9EtxEyJCYc7bwLXA7PRc9sgFeNt2rTxPLbelJ1A6llhyLfvEkTUGAFaF6mbAf4Ypt1z1gqGW43NTPbedC9KjL_fWxJ8LeSP6XTo-CCY0qs9bLU5MFpqiFxParr28=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ETwitter has no shortage of unhinged idiots who are happy to explain why everyone they disagree with are evil, but Wang heads the Princeton Gerrymandering Project.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Princeton Gerrymandering Project is a \"nonpartisan\" organization that fights \"partisan gerrymandering\". \"We translate math into law, and law into math,” it humbly boasts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile a lot of groups claim to be non-partisan, the Princeton Gerrymandering Project calls itself \"nonpartisan\" more often than supermodels describe themselves as gorgeous.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Princeton Gerrymandering Project touts its \"nonpartisan analysis\", seeks to \"eliminate partisan gerrymandering at a state-by-state level\" and claims that its \"work\" is based on \"rigorous\" mathematical standards to make it a kind of mathematical oracle.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn New Jersey, the Oracle of Wang consulted the chicken entrails of math, rolled the dice of law, and decided that, in the words of the Republican redistricting commission, that \"despite Republicans consistently earning over 40% of the statewide vote… a 'fair' map meant 3 Republican seats, or 25% of the delegation, and 9 Democrat seats, or 75% of the delegation.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Princeton Gerrymandering Project was brought on board and its data was allegedly used by the state \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/newjerseyglobe.com\/redistricing\/claiming-partisan-fairness-models-are-proprietary-princeton-gerrymandering-project-wont-show-their-work\/\"\u003Eto select the Democrat map\u003C\/a\u003E which massively disenfranchises Republicans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E40% of the vote and 25% of the seats. That’s what happens when you run your math-to-law translator through partisan bias that believes all Republicans are either racist or enablers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut numbers are objective. Surely a review of the Princeton Gerrymandering Project’s formulas ought to clarify exactly which form of New Math turns 40% into 25%.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEspecially since Jack Ciattarelli came within a hair of winning the gubernatorial race and would be governor now if a whole bunch of votes hadn't suddenly turned up after the race was in a dead heat so that the widely disliked Phil Murphy, who was involved in a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/feminist-governor-covered-muslim-outreach-aide-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Esex scanda\u003C\/a\u003El and the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/03\/patients-will-die-nj-dems-warned-over-forcing-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Emass deaths of nursing home patients\u003C\/a\u003E, retained power by by 1,339,471 votes to 1,255,185.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow do you take a 51% to 48% election and conclude that the 48% should be limited to 25%?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf this were happening to black people in the South, there would already be two protest marches, a hunger strike, a few dozen riots, and a Supreme Court case. But since it’s happening to Irish and Italian-Americans who, according to the head of the Princeton Gerrymandering Project, are between 50% and 33% racist, their votes are being suppressed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat sort of horrid fusion of law and math justifies this level of disenfranchisement of people whose only crime is being smeared as racists because they want safe streets and low taxes?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnfortunately \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/newjerseyglobe.com\/redistricing\/claiming-partisan-fairness-models-are-proprietary-princeton-gerrymandering-project-wont-show-their-work\/\"\u003Ethe magic potion\u003C\/a\u003E that turns math into law and suppresses the minority is secret.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs David Wildstein noted in the New Jersey Globe, \"Democrats and Republicans who participated in four days of meetings at a Cherry Hill hotel last month confirmed that the Princeton Gerrymandering Project would not show their work, claiming that the formulas they were using were proprietary to them.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt ought to go without saying that secret formulas should never be allowed to determine public policy. Otherwise the masters of the secret formulas are the ones calling the shots.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust to make things more secret, Republicans weren't even told that the Princeton Gerrymandering Project’s map would be utilized.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWildstein and the Globe also noted that \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/newjerseyglobe.com\/fr\/advisors-to-independent-redistricting-tiebreakers-funded-by-major-democratic-donors\/\"\u003Eall three major donors\u003C\/a\u003E to the Princeton Gerrymandering Project were top Democrat donors, two of them had contributed six figures to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen asked for a full list of donors, Princeton said that was\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/newjerseyglobe.com\/redistricing\/claiming-partisan-fairness-models-are-proprietary-princeton-gerrymandering-project-wont-show-their-work\/\"\u003E a secret\u003C\/a\u003E too.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen secret algorithms funded by secret donors are secretly used to create maps that disenfranchise a state’s voters if they are members of the group that its leader deems to be between “one-third and one-half” racist, that’s a true assault on democracy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs Republicans \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidernj.com\/press-release\/republican-redistricting-commission-gop-never-given-real-chance-win-chairman-wallaces-support\/\"\u003Enote\u003C\/a\u003E, \"The Princeton Gerrymandering Project’s partisan gerrymander gives the people of New Jersey 11 of 12 districts with pre-determined general election outcomes and no competition.\" This isn’t using math to stop gerrymandering, but to impose it on New Jersey.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to a Democrat who was dealing with Princeton Gerrymandering Project people, “I got the sense that they really wanted us to win.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESenate Republican Leader Steven Oroho and Assembly Republican Leader John DiMaio have dispatched a letter warning that, \"It has been alleged that Princeton Gerrymandering Project staff provided inside information to the Democratic congressional redistricting team about the strength of the proposed Republican map and provided guidance regarding specific deficiencies in the Democrat map.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeyond Sam Wang, and the staffers involved in the alleged bias, PGP's senior legal strategy, Adam Podowitz-Thomas, has a history of equally biased tweets. Other project vets have worked for Democrat operatives and appointees, and even for the hyper-lefty Salon Magazine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Princeton Gerrymandering Project claims that they \"develop and use mathematical tests that rigorously diagnose unequal opportunity and unfair outcomes in district maps\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat exactly qualifies them to develop their mathematical tests and secret formulas?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESam Wang has a PhD in neuroscience. His laboratory is involved in the \"optical imaging of the learning cerebellum in awake mice\". I know that elites may think of ordinary people as rats in their maze, but going from experimenting on mice to experimenting on elections is too much.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe team includes a field director for Rep. Lucy McBath, a radical leftist Democrat who was backed by the 'Squad', a legal activist who worked on gay rights issues, two PhDs in political science, and a few associates with law degrees. The sparse science team consists of a 24-year-old with a math B.A., a fresh grad with a Master's in GIS, and another recent grad with a degree in \"Applied Mathematics and Music\". The only member of the science team who has been employed for more than 5 years has a B.S. from Rutgers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s not much of a secret why their “secret formulas” have to be a secret.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese are not the bios of a dream team of science experts. Nor does it remotely resemble a non-partisan operation concerned only with the public good. It’s very much the makeup of a typical lefty political startup drawing on the cheap labor of recent grads for its heavy lifting.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s understandable that after Murphy’s near defeat and a truck driver bringing down the president of the New Jersey Senate, Democrats panicked and dug deeper into their dirty tricks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA non-profit lefty group would have every right to propose its redistricting schemes from the perspective of advancing its partisan political agenda, but the Princeton Gerrymandering Project operates under the umbrella of a university, and vocally contends that it is non-partisan and that its secret formulas should be innately trusted as totally objective.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats have insisted that partisan gerrymandering should be remedied with judges picking maps based on expert advice. New Jersey shows what that looks like and the result is not only gerrymandering, but a gerrymandering accompanied by secrecy under the guise of expertise.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGerrymandering is dirty but if we are going to have it, let’s have it take place in the broad light of day, instead of being imposed in darkness by partisan activist “experts” with secret formulas.\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\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\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\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\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\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/5405331033431253562\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/03\/princeton-gerrymandering-project-uses.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5405331033431253562"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5405331033431253562"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/03\/princeton-gerrymandering-project-uses.html","title":"Princeton Gerrymandering Project Uses 'Secret Formula' to Limit GOP to 25% of New Jersey’s Seats"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiOveyAGKMvxFVWj3h2Py-R-7slYeD-uBbjm4g3CyNh0kv8yuuPFZeZL7e9EtxEyJCYc7bwLXA7PRc9sgFeNt2rTxPLbelJ1A6llhyLfvEkTUGAFaF6mbAf4Ypt1z1gqGW43NTPbedC9KjL_fWxJ8LeSP6XTo-CCY0qs9bLU5MFpqiFxParr28=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6707312478226701416"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-27T19:42:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-27T19:42:00.331-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Democrats"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Philadelphia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Democrats Legalized Crime, Thousands Died"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"4,901 more people were murdered last year than in 2019. The 30% increase in murders during the year of Black Lives Matter and criminal justice reform was catastrophic. And it’s not over.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWith the early numbers coming in, over a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10289355\/Americas-deadly-year-Philadelphia-murders-NYC-LA.html\"\u003Edozen cities \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/katv.com\/news\/nation-world\/authorities-seeing-record-breaking-homicides-nationwide\"\u003Ebroke their \u003C\/a\u003Emurder records in 2021. Cities across California are continuing to show \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/capitolweekly.net\/amid-pandemic-california-murder-rate-shows-shocking-rise\/\"\u003Edouble digit \u003C\/a\u003Eincreases. Philly broke past 500 murders and in response Soros DA Larry Krasner, whom many blame for the crime wave, assured tourists that \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/pennsylvania\/philadelphia\/da-larry-krasner-says-tourists-shouldnt-fear-coming-philadelphia-holidays\"\u003Eeverything \u003C\/a\u003Ewas fine and they should feel safe coming to the City of Brotherly Love.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We don't have a crisis of lawlessness. We don't have a crisis of crime. We don't have a crisis of violence,” Krasner, newly reelected with a mandate to keep giving criminals a pass, insisted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiK2Z4pmbxKb2m2-V1BOvtqlI5cGSOobBdTjk_ow6WHDAFNQGUsFzTMeWNmC3QdiNb_bE5QT93VzASeBPeqJFz4JW_YEn_WNsxPGcWgMkRQ0ymMq8jWCxMUmaYPXEa7GSWpOxVF-bRv27Yz2fExzvT73NUuudLFp0ZbhfkG65greYmudJT-vDc=s853\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"476\" data-original-width=\"853\" height=\"179\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiK2Z4pmbxKb2m2-V1BOvtqlI5cGSOobBdTjk_ow6WHDAFNQGUsFzTMeWNmC3QdiNb_bE5QT93VzASeBPeqJFz4JW_YEn_WNsxPGcWgMkRQ0ymMq8jWCxMUmaYPXEa7GSWpOxVF-bRv27Yz2fExzvT73NUuudLFp0ZbhfkG65greYmudJT-vDc=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThat was too much for even Philly’s Democrat establishment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"It takes a certain audacity of ignorance and white privilege to say that right now,\" former Mayor Michael Nutter \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/opinion\/commentary\/larry-krasner-michael-nutter-philadelphia-violence-20211207.html\"\u003Eblasted\u003C\/a\u003E Krasner, \"I have to wonder what kind of messed up world of white wokeness Krasner is living in to have so little regard for human lives lost, many of them Black and brown, while he advances his own national profile as a progressive district attorney.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I’d like to ask Krasner: How many more Black and brown people, and others, would have to be gunned down in our streets daily to meet your definition of a 'crisis?'\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKrasner belatedly apologized, after critics, many of them, like Nutter, black, attacked him for gaslighting them, insisting that he had just said “some inarticulate things”. Why did Krasner think he could offer up a crazy lie like that? He had just won his reelection race \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/11\/under-soros-da-philly-hits-500-murders-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eby\u003C\/a\u003E 69% to 31%.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe proponents of the leftist pro-crime policies that led to this nightmare keep telling crazy lies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed that, “A lot of these allegations of organized retail theft are not actually panning out.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite House spokeswoman Jen Psaki falsely argued that the pandemic was the \"a root cause\" of the crime wave.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe legalization of theft, the elimination of bail, the revolving door arrests and releases of criminals, the mass jailbreak of violent felons and gang members to “protect them” from the pandemic, reduction in sentences, diversion programs, refusals to prosecute certain offenses, police defunding, and the rest of the catalog of criminal justice reform are the real root causes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn typical leftist fashion, a radical transformation was enacted through a set of policies disguised as reforms based on an even more radical understanding of how society should work. And, much as with critical race theory or wealth redistribution, we’ve been bombarded with pop propaganda, but virtually no discussion of what the underlying ideology behind it believes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECriminal justice reform was based on the conviction that crime was due to social inequity, that criminals were innocent victims of an uncaring society, that the police were the latest incarnation of slave catchers, that prisons were the new slavery, and that crime prevention was racist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPro-crime ideologues argued for legalizing property crimes since property was theft, and for substituting restorative justice therapy sessions for prison sentences for rapists and killers. They called for abolishing police and prisons because once society is transformed, there will be no more crime because the root cause of crime isn’t individual choice, but systemic racism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis isn’t some fringe idea by a few nuts. It’s what the Squad believes. That’s why Rep. Tlaib introduced a bill that called for \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/axios-hbo-swan-rashida-tlaib-federal-prisons-928179f0-d093-40ff-898f-67f62c4d97a3.html\"\u003Efreeing\u003C\/a\u003E all federal prisoners. It’s what key elected officials in cities like New York City, Minneapolis, and Chicago used as their guiding light when advancing the disastrous policies that wrecked their respective cities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet the media has offered virtually no exploration of these beliefs to mainstream audiences.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead the media lied about the most basic things like the meaning of “defund the police”, denying that it meant the elimination of police departments, and justifying assorted “abolitionist” measures like opening up prisons as one-time responses to the pandemic. Even now the media continues echoing the false claims of the Democrats that the crime wave is a pandemic crisis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that’s a lie.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe crime wave has followed political patterns. That’s why commercial burglaries and gang murders are up while rape is down. Those crimes that Democrats still take seriously, like rape, are not in crisis mode. It’s those crimes that they either don’t take seriously, like property crimes, or those that they enable, like murders by the career criminals they freed, that are booming.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECriminal justice reform is not the first time that radical leftists imposed a dramatic policy program with virtually no public explanation of what it was or how it would work. The few times that media talking heads actually asked Democrat officials, like those in Minneapolis, who would deal with crime if the police were no longer around to respond to calls, the responses were nonsensical.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet no media outlet was willing to bottom line the agenda of criminal justice reform by admitting that its proponents did not believe that crime needed to be “fought” to begin with.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"If you are a comfortable white person asking to dismantle the police I invite you to reflect: are you willing to stick with it? Will you be calling in three months to ask about garage break-ins? Are you willing to dismantle white supremacy in all systems, including a new system?\" Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender tweeted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat was this new system? No one was willing to discuss what exactly it entailed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the system is plain to see. Watch a video of a thug hauling away trash bags full of stolen merchandise from a CVS. Or more videos of porch pirates brazenly walking away with packages. At the local supermarket, staff have been told not to interfere with shoplifters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe new system abolishes private property by legalizing theft.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s a simple proposition that the media refuses to speak out loud because the vast majority of the public would never go along with it. That’s why statements by criminal justice reform politicians and police defunding slogans can never be followed to their logical conclusion.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe new system abolishes private property and treats gang violence as a social problem to be met with wealth redistribution, community intervention, and other means of bribing the thugs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe crime wave is not a baffling phenomenon, but exactly what the defunders wanted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThousands of people have died as a result of a leftist social experiment. And thousands more will go on dying because it’s a lot easier to destroy public safety than it is to restore it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that won’t change until we start telling the truth about what’s really happening.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs horrible as the Soros DAs, AOC, and the tip of the spear for criminal justice reform may be, they couldn’t have done their work without the complicity of mainstream Democrats and Republicans. Under the Obama administration, countless Republicans, local and national, jumped on the bandwagon of criminal justice reform contending that our prisons were too full.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven now Republicans are arguing that they could do a better job of freeing criminals than the Dems. Just like they could do a better job of carrying out all the other leftist political agendas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECriminal justice reform was never anything other than a stalking horse for the radical transformation of American society by enabling and legalizing crime. The entire gruesome theater of Black Lives Matter was the front for a radical Marxist project that must be stopped.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr the killing will continue.\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\u003Cdiv\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\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\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\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6707312478226701416\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/democrats-legalized-crime-thousands-died.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6707312478226701416"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6707312478226701416"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/democrats-legalized-crime-thousands-died.html","title":"Democrats Legalized Crime, Thousands Died"}],"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:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiK2Z4pmbxKb2m2-V1BOvtqlI5cGSOobBdTjk_ow6WHDAFNQGUsFzTMeWNmC3QdiNb_bE5QT93VzASeBPeqJFz4JW_YEn_WNsxPGcWgMkRQ0ymMq8jWCxMUmaYPXEa7GSWpOxVF-bRv27Yz2fExzvT73NUuudLFp0ZbhfkG65greYmudJT-vDc=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2478610917760138881"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-22T22:19:00.003-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-22T22:19:35.708-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Democrats"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Democrats Must Refuse to Use the Jim Crow Filibuster"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\"Dr. King knew the Jim Crow filibuster was a barrier to progress \u0026amp; justice, and that remains true today,\" Rep. Ayanna Pressley tweeted. \"To honor his legacy and claim our place on the right side of history, we must abolish the filibuster.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf this is true, and we must assume that Pressley believes it to be so, she and all Democrats should immediately commit to refusing to make use of the filibuster under any circumstances.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOtherwise they might be kicked out of the \u003Ci\u003ERight Side of History Bar \u0026amp; Grill\u003C\/i\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEh1qAAVkWEFcVUO3-Pwql9nufBg-UmxkrKQuTw7CzRPY7OurSElXetQzwIMkauadWPWvv9hYH6GIMQT4m9D1gsMrccdm7ls8Qk0tggWBMBa7_WvPavA8roaHgi-T38DLLiku7nOSyePGpp3_CKexLcad5KK_xUMFugmO_wFms95sHZNgRvf-CM=s655\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"474\" data-original-width=\"655\" height=\"232\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEh1qAAVkWEFcVUO3-Pwql9nufBg-UmxkrKQuTw7CzRPY7OurSElXetQzwIMkauadWPWvv9hYH6GIMQT4m9D1gsMrccdm7ls8Qk0tggWBMBa7_WvPavA8roaHgi-T38DLLiku7nOSyePGpp3_CKexLcad5KK_xUMFugmO_wFms95sHZNgRvf-CM=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIt is shameful that over 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a supporter of Alabama Democrat Governor George Wallace some Democrats still continue to utilize the filibuster. Now that the Democrats have officially denounced the filibuster as the work of Jim Crow (even though it actually originated with anti-slavery Whigs like Henry Clay attacking pro-slavery Jacksonians), it’s time for them to live up to their standards and reject the filibuster.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The Jim Crow Filibuster Must Go,” the Center for American Progress hectored. \"End the Jim Crow Filibuster Now,\" MoveOn clamored.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMartin Luther King III demanded that Senator Sinema see to it that \"the Jim Crow filibuster does not stand in the way\" of Democrat plans for permanent majority rule. Because if there's anything his father stood for, it was the unambiguous right of the majority to rule over the minority.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama, as usual, got all of this started when he insisted that, \"if all this takes eliminating the filibuster, another Jim Crow relic\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EConfusingly, Democrats keep relying on this Jim Crow relic, most recently when they blocked Senator Ted Cruz’s sanctions on Putin’s European pipeline possibly because, to play by their rules, Vladimir has tapes of them with micturating prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s unfathomable that at a time when we are courageously toppling the statues of anyone who lived in the 19th century (never mind the 18th century) that Democrats cling to this vestige of Jim Crow in order to protect Russian pipelines, illegal aliens and abortion, and also to stop Senator Tim Scott’s police reform legislation. Truly the Dem filibuster is a relic of Jim Crow.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats, who have called this dreadful issue to our attention, must lead the way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen they are in the minority (which is likely to happen quite soon) they should make it clear that they will refuse on principle to make use of the filibuster to oppose Republican legislation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo do otherwise would make them complicit in Jim Crow, systemic racism, and other social justice buzzwords that I am sure they were wholly and entirely sincere about invoking.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats must make it clear that they will have no part in the Jim Crow filibuster starting today. Even if they can’t abolish it, they must show their moral superiority by refusing to trifle with it. If there’s anything that the civil rights movement teaches us, it’s that the minority must never object to the rule of the majority. And by refusing to employ the Jim Crow filibuster, they will live up to the true legacy of the civil rights movement by abandoning minority rights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s what Martin Luther King Jr. would have wanted. According to them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnly the most ridiculous racists would believe that there is any value whatsoever in allowing minorities to obstruct the will of the majority and as we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday, we should be mindful of his words in his Letter From a Birmingham Jail, “A just law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EActually, King wrote that, “An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself.” But, much like his “content of character” quote and the filibuster, that’s inconvenient. So we’ll just get rid of it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats, as the momentary majority, would like to bind Republicans by the filibuster, without being bound by it. And then once out of power, they would like to revive the filibuster. And then opposition to the filibuster will be the new Jim Crow after the filibuster was the old Jim Crow. That fits King’s definition of an unjust law that a tyranny “does not make binding on itself”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd if the Democrats want to disprove it, all they have to do is reject the Jim Crow Filibuster.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the filibuster really is, as Common Dreams, the Sierra Club, the Associated Press, the For the People Project, Robert Reich, the Democracy Initiative, Common Cause, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, and Senator Brian Schatz falsely claim, the \"Jim Crow Filibuster\", how can Democrats possibly justify continuing to make use of it?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWould Democrats make use of Jim Crow water fountains or buses? How can they use the Jim Crow Filibuster then?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Senate Democrats won't listen to these idiots and front groups for radical billionaires, won't they listen to Rob Reiner who pleaded with senators to, \"get rid of the Jim Crow filibuster, and save Democracy. We’re watching it slip away before our eyes.\" As an oppressed white California millionaire famous for playing a television buffoon, he knows what he’s talking about.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats must live up to their principles and turn their backs on the Jim Crow Filibuster.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOtherwise people will begin to suspect that they’re pathological liars exploiting the traumas of one of the most difficult eras in our history in order to seize power and make some money.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that would not be very nice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFrom this day forward, if a Democrat makes use of the Jim Crow filibuster, he or she must be forever known as a Jim Crow Democrat. After having given themselves ample warning of its racism, their determination to continue making use of the filibuster can be seen as nothing less than complicity in the systemic racism that has characterized their party since its origins.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is no laughing matter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats have shamelessly weaponized racism on both sides of the table. They have shown absolutely no hesitation in hurling the worst possible accusations of racism if there’s something in it for them. And they’ve done it in the most nakedly hypocritical ways possible. The only thing to do is to hold them accountable for their talking points even after they’re no longer convenient.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr especially if they’re no longer convenient.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince they’ve decided that it’s the Jim Crow Filibuster, let it be so every time they use it even when they suddenly change their minds and decide that the Jim Crow Filibuster should really be known as the Martin Luther King Filibuster and that employing it is a true tribute to his legacy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Words matter,” as Obama said a long time ago before he decided that they didn’t after all.\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\u003Cdiv\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\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\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\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/2478610917760138881\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/democrats-must-refuse-to-use-jim-crow.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2478610917760138881"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2478610917760138881"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/01\/democrats-must-refuse-to-use-jim-crow.html","title":"Democrats Must Refuse to Use the Jim Crow Filibuster"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEh1qAAVkWEFcVUO3-Pwql9nufBg-UmxkrKQuTw7CzRPY7OurSElXetQzwIMkauadWPWvv9hYH6GIMQT4m9D1gsMrccdm7ls8Qk0tggWBMBa7_WvPavA8roaHgi-T38DLLiku7nOSyePGpp3_CKexLcad5KK_xUMFugmO_wFms95sHZNgRvf-CM=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}}]}});