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Victims"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EAt 6:11 PM, Ernest Lee Johnson, a monster who murdered three people, two of them poor single mothers, with a claw hammer was pronounced dead.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-DMHDS1wp_AI\/YWOJWZR9KsI\/AAAAAAAATgE\/3ZEK6yp8tOwnhudGavTiwYGXGkuFBwQpACNcBGAsYHQ\/s290\/jones.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"174\" data-original-width=\"290\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-DMHDS1wp_AI\/YWOJWZR9KsI\/AAAAAAAATgE\/3ZEK6yp8tOwnhudGavTiwYGXGkuFBwQpACNcBGAsYHQ\/s0\/jones.jpg\" width=\"290\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EDespite the pro-crime lawfare that went all the way to the Supreme Court insisting that lethal injection would cause painful violent seizures, he died quietly.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThat was more so than could be said for his victims.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EOn a cold day in a Missouri winter, Mary Bratcher never came home to the trailer park where the single mother lived with her three children. She was working that night as a manager at a Casey’s General Store in Columbia helping out Mable Scruggs, another single mother, making ends meet by picking up a night shift. Neither of the two women would make it home again.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E An hour before midnight, Ernest Lee Johnson came in after a binge in which he bought three rocks of crack cocaine, traded one of them for a gun, put on a mask and came to rob Casey’s.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe plan had been to lock the employees in the back and have one of them open the safe. But then Johnson beat all three of the Casey's employees to death.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe stabbed Mary Bratcher repeatedly through her hand with a screwdriver, likely defensive wounds as she fought the monster for her life. Then he smashed her over the head with a claw hammer again and again. Johnson appeared to be aiming for her face, striking her mouth and nose, to disfigure her while killing her. He beat Mabel to death in the same vicious way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat was 1994. Like every monster, Johnson never had any shortage of defenders.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe was convicted and sentenced to death in 1995, but the Missouri Supreme Court intervened claiming that the jury should have heard testimony that the crackhead was actually suffering from \"cocaine intoxication delirium\". The case went to a jury yet again which refrained from excusing the crackhead on the grounds that he had been high while murdering three people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd then the liberal justices on the United States Supreme Court gave murderers on death row a gift with a decision falsely contending that executing murderers with intellectual limitations was cruel and unusual punishment. Any killer who could claim an IQ under 100 was home free.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstantly every killer, no matter how cunning and clever, became retroactively retarded.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJohnson had plotted to rob the Casey's safe, he had carried out the crime, and then tried to conceal the evidence. He was evil and high, but not stupid. But the Missouri Supreme Court threw out the decision again and a third jury found the crackhead guilty all over again. But by then over a decade had passed since the original murders while the families waited for justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo decades later, Johnson was finally scheduled to die when the United States Supreme Court intervened, complaining that the monster who beat two women to death with a claw hammer might suffer “painful seizures” when he’s executed by lethal injection because he has a tumor.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince then he found exciting new legal stratagems to delay justice, including requesting death by laughing gas and firing squad.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJustice Sonia Sotomayor, Breyer, and Kagan wanted to hear his plea for a firing squad.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“In addition to being near instant, death by shooting may also be comparatively painless. And historically, the firing squad has yielded significantly fewer botched executions,” Sotomayor ranted in her dissent.\u0026nbsp;\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;\"\u003EDid the court’s wise Latina develop a sudden fondness for firing squads? No more than the rest of the delaying tactics that kept the bludgeoner alive this long.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELeftist lawyers and judges wage lawfare against the law and the victims to protect killers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut now that Johnson is out of tricks, the Democrats have come to his defense.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERep. Cori Bush, a former organzier for the racist hate group, Black Lives Matter, co-signed a petition demanding a commutation of Johnson's sentence because it's just like \"slavery and lynching\". It’s understandable that Bush would take that position considering that Mary and Mabel were white women and their worthless lives don’t matter to Black Lives Matter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Johnson’s first victim was the store’s third worker: Fred Jones.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJones, an African-American man, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.columbiamissourian.com\/news\/local\/victims-family-prepares-for-execution-of-their-mothers-killer-ernest-lee-johnson\/article_f4c9f4ec-7f3a-11e5-9f69-e754a006f459.html\"\u003Ehad been the\u003C\/a\u003E only caregiver for his mother and a disabled brother. When Johnson murdered him, he also took away the only helper left in their lives.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJohnson started out by shooting Fred Jones. But when the bullet didn't kill him, the crackhead beat the store employee to death with a hammer instead.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThen he began the rest of his killing spree.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFred Jones had been in the cooler, perhaps because as the only male in the store he was seen as more of a threat. And he may have resisted or tried to fight Johnson, leading the crackhead to decide to kill him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd everyone else.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe killer had shot Jones in the head. Then he beat him with the claw on the hammer fracturing his skull.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut his black life, like the lives of the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/09\/black-lives-matter-killed-2000-black-people-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eover 5,800 black people \u003C\/a\u003Ewho were killed in 2020, don’t matter to Rep. Bush and to Black Lives Matter. Only the lives of crackhead killers do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPro-crime lawfare had already put the families of Johnson’s victims through hell. When the Supreme Court decided to illegitimately intervene in his previous execution, the family members had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/deathwatch.medium.com\/ernest-johnsons-execution-will-be-a-nothing-burger-d6f3a06c1cc7\"\u003Ealready been there\u003C\/a\u003E and waiting. Instead justice was denied to them for another six years.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERep. Cori Bush claims that executing the killer of a black man is racist, the NAACP is rallying on behalf of the killer, not the victim, and Pope Francis has appealed to the “sacredness of human life.” Except the lives of Mary Bratcher, Mable Scruggs, and Fred Jones which are not sacred.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“This would be a crime against humanity,\" Rep. Bush falsely claimed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe crime against humanity was that Mary Bratcher never came home to her three children, that Mable Scruggs also never came home to her children, and Fred Jones never returned to his mother. But that is not the only crime here. The feverish efforts to prolong the pain of their family members in order to keep the monster who killed them alive is a crime against humanity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd a crime against justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery dirty trick, every fashionable legal trend, from mental disability to the supposed risk of side effects from death penalty drugs, had been enlisted in the crackhead killer’s defense.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"These death sentences are not about justice,” Bush and Rep. Emanuel Cleaver whined in their pro-killer petition. \"They are about who has institutional power and who doesn’t.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey’re right.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhich House members have spoken out on behalf of Mary Bratcher, Mable Scruggs, and Fred Jones? Do Bush and Cleaver even know their names? Does Pope Francis? I doubt it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe institutional power that allowed the killer to escape justice for 27 years is on his side.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is not about justice, it’s about who has institutional power. And it’s the killers who have all the power and their victims who have none. After Johnson got through beating three people, poor people, to death with hammers, lawyers and judges took up what he had left undone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven Rep. Cori Bush and Rep. Emanuel Cleaver took a turn swinging the claw hammer.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHollywood, the media, and politicians keep pushing the big lie that criminals are helpless victims of the system. And yet they provide the best evidence of the vast institutional power that even the lowest and vilest killer can summon against justice and the families of his victims.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\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\/4876762431027184018\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/10\/the-power-is-on-side-of-killers-not.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4876762431027184018"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4876762431027184018"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/10\/the-power-is-on-side-of-killers-not.html","title":"The Power is on the Side of the Killers, Not Their Victims"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-DMHDS1wp_AI\/YWOJWZR9KsI\/AAAAAAAATgE\/3ZEK6yp8tOwnhudGavTiwYGXGkuFBwQpACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/jones.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2151237929217476000"},"published":{"$t":"2021-10-04T17:35:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-10-04T17:35:12.700-04:00"},"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":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Black Lives Matter Led to a 62% Increase in Black Murders"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The Black Lives Matter movement and the allied criminal justice reform movement which opened jails and decriminalized crimes led to a nearly 30% surge in murders in 2020.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 29.4% increase is historically unprecedented.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vE4h92iEOk8\/YVtzXugPe_I\/AAAAAAAATfU\/Wor1VCe6EhQbDXkbzZ4I3mWBUojUsMd0gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1280\/6310924_071020-wls-white-house-chicago-kids-530aVO-vid.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"720\" data-original-width=\"1280\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vE4h92iEOk8\/YVtzXugPe_I\/AAAAAAAATfU\/Wor1VCe6EhQbDXkbzZ4I3mWBUojUsMd0gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/6310924_071020-wls-white-house-chicago-kids-530aVO-vid.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe worst one-year percentage jump in murders was a 12.7% increase in 1968 during a crime wave that led Democrats and Republicans to embrace tough on crime policies. 1968 was the year that LBJ signed the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act into law. But the opposite happened in 2020 as Democrats and some libertarian Republicans colluded to dismantle the criminal justice system, open up the jails, and endorse Black Lives Matter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe pro-crimers have the blood of thousands on their hands.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe FBI’s numbers are in and they show that Black Lives Matter and its corporate backers killed more black people in one year than anything short of an African civil war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E3,595 black people were murdered in 2019. But in 2020, 5,839 black people were murdered.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat's an additional 2,244 black people killed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E56% of the murder victims of 2020 were black.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile people of all races were more likely to be murdered in the year of Black Lives Matter, black people were disproportionately likely to be killed as a result of police defunding and the George Floyd Effect, as well as the pressure on the justice system to open up prisons, free criminals, and stop arresting new criminals in the name of fighting for the big lie of racial justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E3,060 white and Latino people were killed in 2019, which rose to 4,167 in 2020. The 36% increase is devastating, but the number of black people murdered in 2020 shot up 62%.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 62% increase in the murders of black people should be the headline in every single media outlet which currently treats the lack of black classical musicians or chefs as a major crisis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile statistics like 135 \"unarmed\" black people being shot by police in 5 years becomes a cause for massive riots, violent assaults on innocent people, and the defunding of the police, a 62% increase in the murders of black people won’t even get a mention from the same media which regales us with claims that car accidents are racist because of disproportionate impact.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 62% increase in the murders of black people is the biggest disproportionate impact statistic.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the 2,244 black people had been shot by white people, Asian people, or Republicans, we could talk about it. Indeed, the odds are that we would never talk about anything else. Ever.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut unfortunately it’s the devastating result of black-on-black crime.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlack perpetrators were responsible for 5,832 murders or approximately 50% of the murders despite making up only around 13% of the population.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite people and Latinos who make up 76% of the country accounted for 3,981 homicides or 34%. American Indians were responsible for 116 murders and Asians for only 65 murders.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlack people both commit murders and are the victims of murders at disproportionate rates.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is no escaping these facts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECoddling criminals and defunding police hurts people of all races, but black people are the ones suffering the worst from the gang members and criminals in their communities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe number of black murderers rose 38% from 4,208 to 5,832. That’s a sharp increase in black murderers, but it’s dwarfed by the 62% increase in black murders. The number of black crime victims is rising much faster than the number of black criminals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlack people are becoming victims at higher rates than they are becoming criminals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat is exactly why it was black communities who originally championed a crackdown on crime, why the NAACP had originally demanded the death penalty for drug dealers, and why black people are still far more likely to oppose police defunding and other pro-crime measures.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven in the one category of violent crime, rape, that decreased overall in 2020, that was true of every group except one where the number of black rape victims defied the trend.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut black rape victims, like black lives, don’t matter to Black Lives Matter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Israel, the hashtag Arab Lives Matter took off after the rise in arab-on-arab crime to demand that Israeli police stop the criminals. In the United States, Black Lives Matter is a demand that the police allow gang members to shoot up black neighborhoods with no interference.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe additional 2,244 dead black people are a tribute to Black Lives Matter’s efforts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Robin DiAngelo cashes in preaching the cult of anti-racism, and suburban white liberals search their souls for systemic racism, what’s really destroying black people is in the numbers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E5,839 black people were murdered in one year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHomicide doesn't even make the CDC's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/healthequity\/lcod\/men\/2017\/nonhispanic-black\/index.htm\"\u003Etop 10 causes \u003C\/a\u003Eof death for men in America, but it's number four for black men. In 2017, it caused 5% of the deaths of black men, more than strokes, diabetes, or most diseases. The only things more likely to kill black men than black-on-black crime are heart disease, cancer, and accidents.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmong black men under the age of 20, homicide is the leading cause of death at 35.3%.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(Those were 2017 numbers, the 2020 numbers, if they’re released, will be much worse.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt's also the leading cause of death for black men from 20-44 years old at 27.6%.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnly at the age of 65 does homicide drop out of the top 10 causes of death for black men.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere are no such numbers among any other group, including black women. They reflect a high rate of gang violence, drug dealing, and violent crime among a subset of black men. This crisis is not news. There has been ample research on the subject going back generations that the new wokeness decided to shut down, suppress, and penalize anyone who mentioned it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2020, the Left used George Floyd’s overdose death to initiate a massive cultural revolution, supposedly on behalf of black people, but in reality to spread terror and seize power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust as the proletariat paid the price for the leftist revolutions conducted on behalf of the working class, black men are paying the price for the latest revolution being waged on their behalf. The people paying the price may be ordinary, or they may be gang members themselves. The dismantling of the criminal justice system also led to an unprecedented expansion in crime that recruited a generation of black teens into drug dealing, robbery, and carjacking. The police now routinely arrest armed carjackers as young as twelve years old as part of the new crime wave.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven if a new anti-crime consensus is forged between conservative Republicans and moderate Democrats who shed the madness of criminal justice reform, the damage will be hard to fix.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECracking down on crime increased property values in black areas, led to a growth in black small businesses, and made it more possible for black teens to go to college, and earn higher incomes. Black Lives Matter calculatedly undermined many of those achievements. The teens whom teachers’ unions kept out of school, joined gangs, and began to deal and steal will find it much harder to build stable lives. The women they might have married and the families they might have built are more casualties. It is hard to build things, but all too easy to break them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 5,839 dead black people are just the most obvious sign of the social wreckage.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile black people are the biggest victims of black crime, they are not alone. As these statistics show, we all pay a price. Some pay it directly in the forms of murders, muggings, and assaults. But we all pay for the social cost indirectly through our taxes, the price of goods and services, the cost of insurance, the broken social compact and lack of trust, and the diminished future of our cities and our country. The criminal justice reform movement, like all leftist propositions, was based on ignoring everything we had learned from the past about crime and how to fight it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Black Lives Matter movement terrorized cities and became the official dogma of Corporate America. Every major institution began accusing itself of systemic racism and purging itself.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile thousands of black men died in the streets of major cities. The CEOs and university presidents heard the death toll reported on the evening news and paid no attention because it was taking place in neighborhoods and housing projects that they would never set foot into.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow the sum total of the carnage is in. 5,839 black people killed. 2021 is on track to see more elevated murder rates. The question is how many black people have to die until the big lie of systemic racism, the scam of anti-racism, and the criminal justice reform killing fields end.\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\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\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/2151237929217476000\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/10\/black-lives-matter-led-to-62-increase.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2151237929217476000"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2151237929217476000"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/10\/black-lives-matter-led-to-62-increase.html","title":"Black Lives Matter Led to a 62% Increase in Black Murders"}],"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\/-vE4h92iEOk8\/YVtzXugPe_I\/AAAAAAAATfU\/Wor1VCe6EhQbDXkbzZ4I3mWBUojUsMd0gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/6310924_071020-wls-white-house-chicago-kids-530aVO-vid.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6792526436219412598"},"published":{"$t":"2021-08-02T14:17:00.005-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-08-02T14:17:53.422-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pro-Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden Picks a Prosecutor Who Won't Prosecute"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E(A Note to Subscribers: Feedburner is shutting down so I've moved emails over to a new service \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/Follow.it\"\u003EFollow.it\u003C\/a\u003E. If you're having any trouble receiving emails or don't like the emails, please let me know. The emails are there for you, so your thoughts on how they come in are important to me.)\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMurders are up 54% in Boston, fatal shootings shot \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2021\/01\/05\/shootings-up-overall-crime-down-as-boston-exits-2020\/\"\u003Eup 60%\u003C\/a\u003E, and commercial burglaries rose 62%. Now Biden wants to make the Soros DA responsible for this mess a U.S. Attorney.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NqWWUVEuNwA\/YQg2t-uCtLI\/AAAAAAAATYo\/-I_29NAzCowB3af-3lhaa9gDmIyzm12MgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s584\/rachael%2Brollins.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"452\" data-original-width=\"584\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NqWWUVEuNwA\/YQg2t-uCtLI\/AAAAAAAATYo\/-I_29NAzCowB3af-3lhaa9gDmIyzm12MgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/rachael%2Brollins.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EOn her website, Suffolk County DA Rachael Rollins has a list of crimes that she will not prosecute, ranging from shoplifting, to stealing anything under $250, breaking and entering a vacant property, driving with a revoked license, malicious destruction of property, threats, and drug possession with intent to distribute. Effectively these crimes have been legalized.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden claims that Democrats oppose police defunding and the pro-crime policies that have plunged the nation’s major cities into a vortex of violence. Choosing Rollins shows that’s a lie.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERollins, like other DAs backed by radical mega-donor George Soros, has worked to dismantle the criminal justice system leaving people to be terrorized by a crime wave unleashed by BLM.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut no Soros DA was as vehemently and openly racist as Biden’s new nominee.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the Black Lives Matter race riots devastated cities,  Rollins ranted,“This burning rage that you are seeing when you turn your TV on or you hear in my voice is real. People are fed up, and to the white community that is now waking up to see this rage, we have been telling you this forever.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Buildings can be fixed,\" Rollins argued while falsely accusing police officers of having \"lynched and murdered\" black people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe pro-crime DA then defended the rioters claiming that “It is completely ironic to have to say to you, ‘please don’t be violent. Please keep your voice down. Please be silent and comply with all of the police’s requirements’, when in fact it’s those very people that murder us with impunity.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERollins had stirred up the violence by falsely claiming that \"we are being murdered at will by the police \u0026amp; their proxy\" and ranted, \"No more apologies. No more words. Demand action. Radical change now.\" When Boston cops protested against Rollins \"slandering our officers as murderers\", she retorted with a racist taunt to the heroic officers, \"white fragility is real.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERacist rhetoric and\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/crime-and-justice\/commentary\/meet-rachael-rollins-the-rogue-prosecutor-whose-policies-are-wreaking\"\u003E Rachael Rollins\u003C\/a\u003E have always gone together.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen criticised by another prosecutor, Rollins shot back by claiming to be one of the \"people with actual melanin\" and raving, “I really don’t have much time for more white men telling me what communities of color need.\" Unless one of those white men is named Joe Biden.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite the violence eating up Boston and her history of racist rhetoric, Biden nominated Rollins to serve as the U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts. Beyond being a racist whose pro-crime policies have devastated Suffolk County, Rollins is notorious for her rages and abuse of power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere was the road rage incident in which the racist DA threatened to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boston25news.com\/news\/local\/boston-25-investigates-allegation-involving-suffolk-county-da-rachael-rollins\/ZD2BA2HXERH3RE6DFSZSWCCJM4\/\"\u003Ewrite a woman a ticket \u003C\/a\u003Eand then threatened a local news team, “I’ll call the police on you and make an allegation, and we’ll see how that works with you.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERollins later justified her behavior because the cameraman was a “white man”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFaced with a state with few conservatives, Rollins has made up for it by picking nasty fights, often racially charged, with Democrat officials and even with public defenders, making her one of the most loathed public figures in Massachusetts politics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Rachael Rollins has made it abundantly clear that she’s unqualified to serve in any position except as MSNBC commentator, her nomination is not an outlier.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden's nominees include Erek Barron as U.S. Attorney for Maryland. Barron, a former Biden advisor, has been an advocate for a revolving door criminal justice system that puts criminals back on the street by eliminating bail. Even with violent criminals being diverted to drug rehab, where some have escaped, Barron went on \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.corrections1.com\/arrests-and-sentencing\/articles\/md-law-lets-violent-convicts-leave-prison-early-for-drug-treatment-oEzLeHHqb4RHuHEF\/\"\u003Edefending \u003C\/a\u003Ethe disastrous program. The pro-crime policies of criminal justice reform have been an even bigger disaster in Baltimore than in Boston where shootings and killings continue to set new records while filling hospitals and cemeteries.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFormer Survivor contestant and Seattle activist Nick Brown was nominated for the Western District of Washington. He's associated with the Alliance for Equal Justice, which uses racist rhetoric about “white privilege”, and he served as general counsel to Governor Inslee. He was there when Inslee signed an order making Washington a sanctuary state for illegal aliens.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden claimed that he’s taking crime seriously, but his nominations show that he’s feeding it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESenate Republicans will have the opportunity to confront Biden over his destructive hypocrisy on crime… if they choose to do so. A majority of Americans have told pollsters that crime has become a bigger concern than the pandemic. Rollins, Barron, and Brown represent the opposite. Boston, Seattle, and Baltimore have seen massive increases in violent crime.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFatal shootings may be up 60% in Boston, but drive-by shootings are up\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kiro7.com\/news\/local\/drive-by-shootings-up-100-seattle-shootings-5-year-high-king-county\/Z4ZFCK2RZND4FEUTL7BH2TWHBM\/\"\u003E 100% in Seattle\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E350 people have been shot in Baltimore this year so far putting the failed city on track to topping 2020's numbers. Police have become not only law enforcement officers but paramedics, tasked with providing \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/foxbaltimore.com\/news\/local\/baltimore-sees-more-than-10-increase-in-non-fatal-shootings-from-2020\"\u003Eemergency treatment\u003C\/a\u003E for shooting victims as soon as they arrive on the scene.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEarlier in July, a Baltimore police officer saved the life of a 12-year-old boy who had been shot.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese are the nightmarish scenes out of Baltimore, Seattle, Boston, and many great cities that have turned the public against Black Lives Matter and pro-crime criminal justice reforms.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden, despite pretending to have gotten the message, is still playing for the pro-crime team.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERepublicans have a duty to confront the Biden administration over the Rachael Rollins nominations and others that will secure advocates for criminals a foothold at the federal level.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat George Soros was able to do to taint prosecutors at the local level, Biden is now doing at the federal level, and the consequences to crime in this country will be unalterably devastating.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Senate Republicans don’t confront Biden over a nominee as unfit as Rachael Rollins is in every way, over an issue that is now a top priority for the public, when will they speak up?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration has injected radicals at every level of government more rapidly than its predecessor Obama administration, and its nominees are becoming even more extreme.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Rachael Rollins took over in Suffolk County, she made it very clear that her prosecutions would be wholly political. From refusing to prosecute thieves and thugs, and the Straight Pride Parade protesters, Rollins has treated the law as an instrument of her radical and racial agenda.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Senate Republicans do nothing and Rollins becomes the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, which criminals will she refuse to charge, and which political opponents will she prosecute?\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\/6792526436219412598\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/08\/biden-picks-prosecutor-who-wont.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6792526436219412598"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6792526436219412598"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/08\/biden-picks-prosecutor-who-wont.html","title":"Biden Picks a Prosecutor Who Won't Prosecute"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NqWWUVEuNwA\/YQg2t-uCtLI\/AAAAAAAATYo\/-I_29NAzCowB3af-3lhaa9gDmIyzm12MgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/rachael%2Brollins.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$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":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8365738132596049899"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-26T04:19:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-26T04:19:00.399-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Big Tech"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pro-Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Facebook Has a Private Army: Its Founders Want to Free Criminals"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"It was a love story made in the start-ups of San Francisco when Mike Krieger, the co-founder of Instagram, proposed to Kaitlyn Trigger, a former product manager at TaskRabbit.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstagram is where celebrities go to post their vacation photos and TaskRabbit is the gig economy app where random people labor to perform menial tasks for a few bucks. While both of these apps are a blight on the world, it’s different for the wizards behind the curtain.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NTxmpdtvLe0\/YH-Z0PbgTNI\/AAAAAAAATBo\/Y7ObazVclMYwWkPNok61gZWGopj_tdZUQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s805\/image_2021-04-20_201944.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"491\" data-original-width=\"805\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NTxmpdtvLe0\/YH-Z0PbgTNI\/AAAAAAAATBo\/Y7ObazVclMYwWkPNok61gZWGopj_tdZUQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-04-20_201944.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhen Krieger, a Brazilian immigrant, married his TaskRabbit sweetheart, they went back to, what W Magazine described \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wmagazine.com\/story\/kaitlyn-trigger-mike-krieger-wedding\"\u003Eas an\u003C\/a\u003E, “Art Deco house... in the Dolores Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, where Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, is a neighbor.” Zuckerberg’s Facebook had paid $1 billion for Instagram of which Krieger reportedly got $100 million.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat do you do when you have lots of money, but no purpose or meaning?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Kriegers began to collect art of the sort that people with no taste and no concept of  aesthetics, but ridiculous amounts of money, buy up to show off in magazine photo spreads.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike matching wall safes in their wall that can’t be opened.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“There’s a clause in the contract that says if we open it, it’s no longer art,” Kaitlyn, photographed smirking at the camera, explained to the New York Times.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso if you open up all the prisons, then no one is safe anymore except Big Tech executives because the other thing that the Kriegers decided to do with their free time was free criminals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe happy tech couple founded the Future Justice Fund which funneled money into a variety of pro-crime groups and Democrat organizations. “Many ‘tough-on-crime’ policies actually erode public safety,” the organization falsely claims. Beneficiaries include Californians For Safety And Justice which is pushing to eliminate bail and legalize muggings by treating them \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/sacramento.cbslocal.com\/2021\/03\/17\/crime-bill-sb-82-robberies-petty-theft\/\"\u003Eas petty theft\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShoplifting had already been legalized, but SB 82 would go further so that “taking the property from the person of another or from a commercial establishment by means of force or fear without the use of a deadly weapon or great bodily injury” would constitute petty theft.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnother beneficiary of the Big Tech couple’s Facebook cash is Reform LA Jails.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReform LA Jails, formed by Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of the racist hate group Black Lives Matter, worked to defund police through Measure J, and elect George Gascon, who has refused to prosecute criminals, ridiculed victims of violent crime, and unleashed a wave of terror.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile it was working to help criminals, Reform LA Jails \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/13\/patrisse-cullors-reform-la-jails\/\"\u003Ealso paid\u003C\/a\u003E $191,000 to Cullors in 2019. That money probably enabled Cullors to afford her new $1.4 million house in Topanga Canyon.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s not enough money to move into an art deco mansion near Zuckerberg, but it’s a start.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReform LA Jails was listed as being sponsored by the “Justice Team Network, A Project of Tides Advocacy”. The Justice Teams included Cullors, as well as Melina Abdullah, a BLM LA leader allied with Farrakhan whose hate rally had resulted in \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/06\/farrakhan-supporter-led-la-black-lives-matter-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eattacks on synagogues\u003C\/a\u003E and Jewish businesses. Tides Advocacy appears to have poured \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/projects.propublica.org\/nonprofits\/organizations\/943153687\/201912829349300916\/IRS990ScheduleI\"\u003Eat least\u003C\/a\u003E $320,000 into Reform LA Jails.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E$390,000 came \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/12\/woke-housewives-silicon-valley-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Efrom Patty Quillin\u003C\/a\u003E, the wife of Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. Quillin was a major backer of Gascon, and funded campaigns for pro-crime measures. The Netflix power couple live in Santa Cruz, but they’re happy to finance the destruction of Los Angeles.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJane Fonda threw in $5,000, but compared to tech money that was chump change.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOpen Philanthropy pushed a $750,000 grant for Reform LA Jails' pro-crime measure. The organization is a project of Dustin Moskovitz, a Facebook co-founder, and his wife Cari Tuna, who live in Palo Alto, and the Kriegers, flush with Facebook's cash, were also involved.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, has plowed a ton of cash into various pro-crime bids through the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative with $350 million going to the Justice Accelerator Fund.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccelerating justice and freeing criminals is a process that starts far from the Zuckerberg manor.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Zuckerberg estate in Dolores Park is protected by a 15-man security team who helped turn the area into what neighbors described as \"nothing short of a fortress.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo one liked Casa Zuckerberg and its guards who park on the street in their silver SUVs, but matters escalated when William \"Gordon\" Kinzer, an accountant who used to live in the Dolores Heights area, before being priced out by tech titans, lost his home and became mentally ill.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKinzer began sleeping at a friend’s house. Zuckerberg’s private army didn’t like Kinzer. Team Zuckerberg took out a restraining order against the homeless accountant, accusing him of being a racist. The restraining order left Kinzer actually homeless, forcing him to sleep in his car.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I was concerned for my safety,\" one of Zuck's guards claimed about the disabled accountant.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Kinzer violated the restraining order, he was arrested.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnly a Big Tech billionaire’s lawyers could make a disabled man homeless and then arrest him while making it look like a win for social justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“You’re just a slave. How does it feel to work for a thug?” Kinzer was alleged to have asked.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s a valid question.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I’ve been trying to present them with a message: No one is above the law,” Kinzer \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/cappstreetcrap.tumblr.com\/post\/123407939272\"\u003Eargued\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut that’s the whole point. Some people are above the law because they make the laws.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Facebook CEO's security operation isn't a private matter. The guards are part of the company's massive security force with 6,000 personnel, some of whose thugs come from Pinkerton, while its intelligence unit \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/02\/14\/facebooks-security-team-tracks-posts-location-for-bolo-threat-list.html\"\u003Espies on its employees\u003C\/a\u003E, its users, and everyone else.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFacebook’s Chief Security Officer is a former CIA agent. Its Global Security Operations Center has three operational hubs, and monitors Zuckerberg’s home and top employees, while Its BOLO watchlist appears to track even those who speak badly about the CEO.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince Facebook’s apps are on most phones, sometimes voluntarily and sometimes embedded forcibly by companies as part of a deal with the social media monopoly, the company’s security force is able to track much of the population of the country by using its own apps.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne former employee \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/02\/14\/facebooks-security-team-tracks-posts-location-for-bolo-threat-list.html\"\u003Ecalled\u003C\/a\u003E Facebook's security machine “very Big Brother-esque.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why Facebook employees who spoke to reporters off the record would make a point of turning off their phones.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBig Tech security teams are one of the industry’s best-kept secrets. Staffed by former military, intel and cops, they’re armed, relentless, and ruthless. Behind the dot com playgrounds for young Ivy League engineers supplied with toys and snacks are the men in black who are there to make sure that they don’t leak any secrets or defect with them to Silicon Valley rivals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Facebook’s bigwigs talk about reimagining public safety for the rest of us, they like the current system just fine when it comes to protecting their wealth, their power, and their persons.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EZuckerberg has a team of 70 armed guards led by one of Biden's former Secret Service agents. When he goes anywhere, his security team \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/inside-facebook-physical-security-protect-mark-zuckerberg-employees-2019-2?R=pl2\"\u003Eshows up beforehand\u003C\/a\u003E to check it out before letting him go inside. Undercover armed guards disguised to look like Facebook workers even surround him to keep him safe from a possible attack by his own employees at the office.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere's a secret route to get him out during an attack and bulletproof glass to keep him safe.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFacebook has 1,000 security officers in the Bay Area alone. The San Francisco Police Department has\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/san-francisco-police-staffing-sf-officers-recruitment\/5389997\/\"\u003E less than 2,000 \u003C\/a\u003Epolice officers. Facebook’s force is half the size of the SFPD.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMenlo Park, where Facebook’s headquarters is located, has only 48 police officers, but the social media giant funded the creation of a ‘Facebook Unit’ police substation and provided over $11 million to assign a team of specific police officers to protect its headquarters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFacebook’s “public-private partnership” had paid for its own police force with arrest powers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is public safety reimagined for the elites. Everyone else gets George Gascon and police defunding. We get riots in the streets, smashed windows, and looted stores while Facebook and its top executives get a private police force half the size of the real one. We get junkies, crazies, and thugs roaming the streets, beating, raping, and killing, while anyone who even annoys a Zuckerberg guard will be hit with restraining orders and then arrested in a flash.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe cries of the victims of pro-crime policies can’t be heard in the mansions of Palo Alto, in the tech fortresses of San Francisco, and through the screen of private guards and drones.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBig Tech execs want us to reimagine public safety. Armed guards for them, crime for us.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead, let’s imagine we all had the same safety they do. All we have to do is turn back the clock a decade before Big Tech megadonors trashed the justice system and the police.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd then we can all be as safe from crime and criminals as Mark Zuckerberg.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/8365738132596049899\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/04\/facebook-has-private-army-its-founders.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8365738132596049899"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8365738132596049899"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/04\/facebook-has-private-army-its-founders.html","title":"Facebook Has a Private Army: Its Founders Want to Free 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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NTxmpdtvLe0\/YH-Z0PbgTNI\/AAAAAAAATBo\/Y7ObazVclMYwWkPNok61gZWGopj_tdZUQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-04-20_201944.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}}]}});