Who is Democratic Senator Kamala Harris?
22 January 2019
On Monday morning, Democratic Senator Kamala Harris announced on “Good Morning America” that she would be running for president in the 2020 elections. The announcement was timed to coincide with Martin Luther King Jr. Day in order to emphasize Harris’s identity as an African-American woman.
Her website and the news media repeatedly emphasize this part of her campaign, introducing her as “the second African American woman in history to be elected to the US Senate, and the first African American and first woman to serve as Attorney General of the state of California.”
The host of “Good Morning America,” George Stephanopoulos, set the tone for her announcement with his first question, “What qualifies you to be commander-in-chief?”
One can imagine the reaction of Dr. King, who declared the US government “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today,” had he been present to hear this member of the Senate Intelligence Committee talk about the country’s “moral authority” and her promise to always include national security as “one of the highest priorities.”
Harris returned to this point repeatedly, emphasizing what the “American people” do and do not want in a commander-in-chief. In addition to national security, Harris emphasized her background as a district attorney, defending law enforcement and being “smart on crime.”
Harris is widely regarded as a top contender for the Democratic nomination and has been boosted over the years by political endorsements from top Democrats, like former President Obama and current senator from New Jersey, Cory Booker, mentioned in the media as a likely rival for the presidential nomination.
In her political career as a prosecutor, Harris worked closely with law enforcement, as an assistant district attorney in Alameda County (Oakland), then as district attorney of San Francisco (2003-2010), and finally as California state attorney general from 2010 until her election to the Senate in 2016. At every stage she carried out her work as expected, sending ordinary people to jail, blocking exculpatory evidence, defending unconstitutional practices and preventing prosecution of the wealthy.
Harris was born in Oakland, California in 1964 to a Jamaican father and a Tamil mother. Her father was a Stanford University economics professor and her mother a medical researcher. Harris completed her bachelor’s degree at Howard University in Washington DC and then her law degree at UC Hastings in 1989, and went to work almost immediately as the deputy district attorney in Alameda County. In a 2016 interview with the New York Times, Harris said she wanted to work in the DA’s office in order to be “at the table where the decisions are made.”
She began to gain public prominence in 2003 when she won the election for district attorney of San Francisco. As DA she campaigned for criminal penalties for parents with truant elementary school children, up to a $2,000 fine and a year in jail. Although presenting herself as a reformer looking to clean up injustice, Harris’s record holds all the usual dirty tricks used by law enforcement. In 2010, a Superior Court judge issued a scathing ruling that Harris’s office had failed in their constitutional duty to give defendants relevant information about the credibility of prosecution witnesses. Internal memos showed that the DA’s office did not convey their suspicion that an employee in the drug analysis section of the police lab was intentionally falsifying information. Only after the scandal became public, did Harris’s office drop prosecution in over 600 drug cases that relied on that technician.
Harris assumed office as attorney general of California in 2011, but her record remained deeply conservative. Her campaign site brags about her record of criminal justice reform and defense of homeowners from foreclosures, but that is far from the case.
In 2014 she appealed the ruling of a federal judge in Orange County that the death penalty was unconstitutional, stating the decision “undermines important protections that our courts provide defendants.”
On the issue of police violence she has consistently sided with police, notably arguing “the left has to get over its bias against law enforcement.” In 2015 she opposed a bill that would require her office to investigate police shootings. She further opposed calls for statewide standards on the use of body cameras by police.
She has defended the state’s intrusive, familial DNA investigation policies, where the police compare DNA at a crime scene to a broad database and begin investigating any potential relatives of the suspect. Significantly, the database is not limited to those who have committed crimes but can include those simply detained by police.
She further sought to expand California’s civil forfeiture laws, which allow the police to seize assets they claim are related to crimes, and opposed a ballot measure that would limit the state’s “three strikes” law which allows life sentences for non-violent crimes.
Harris claims she “achieved landmark results” by “fighting the Wall Street banks” and winning a large settlement following the Great Recession. In fact, her office refused to prosecute blatant foreclosure fraud being carried out by OneWest Bank, run by then CEO Stephen Mnuchin, now Trump’s secretary of the treasury.
The Intercept obtained a 2013 internal memo by state investigators cataloguing the systematic falsification of foreclosure documents, including the backdating of signatures to before OneWest was founded in 2009. Out of an initial examination of 913 documents, investigators found that 909 were falsified. They estimated that a full investigation of OneWest would yield 5,600 violations of foreclosure sales, auctions, and backdating in nearly every one of the 35,000 foreclosures the bank had carried out by 2012. Harris’s office never pursued the matter.
In her 2016 senate bid, Harris was the only Democratic candidate for Senate to whom Mnuchin donated money. He was joined by at least one other OneWest investor, billionaire George Soros.
As a senator, Harris has mostly been associated with criticizing the Trump administration and defending the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration’s counter-reform which has been an immense windfall to insurance agencies. She participated in the demands with other leading senators that Senator Al Franken resign over allegations of sexual misconduct. After his resignation, she took over his seat on the Senate Judiciary Committee—a high profile position that she put to good use during the hearings on the confirmation of right-wing Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee—whose longtime ranking Democrat was her colleague from California, Dianne Feinstein—Harris oversees the vast criminal activity of the FBI and CIA, including the FBI’s political investigation into the Trump administration. She stands as a traditional Democratic Party defender of US imperialist interests, and workers can expect nothing else from her in her campaign for president.
Nolte:
Democrat Mayors Must Be Held Accountable for Their Police Departments
AP Photo/Jim
Mone
Democrats announce toothless police reform bill
Lies
and Sacraments: The story of the Democratic Party
Nolte:
Democrat Mayors Must Be Held Accountable for Their Police Departments
17 Jun 2020106
8:08
Ever
wonder why Democrat mayors are never held accountable for the police
departments they are in charge of…? Probably not, because the conversation
about police reform has been so effectively hijacked by media propagandists,
the idea of holding the person who actually is accountable accountable gets
lost in the mess.
The
thing to keep in mind about the establishment media is that when it comes to
policing, the goal is not reform or change, the goal is to manufacture chaos in
predominantly black neighborhoods. The goal is to keep things simmering, to
keep the pressure on, because — as I laid out here — this is how you keep a population from
rising into the bourgeois middle class.
The left despise the middle
class. We’re complacent and prefer to be left alone, prefer to govern
ourselves… That attitude is a direct threat to the left’s worship of
centralized authority, conformity, and its unceasing desire to organize every
aspect of everyone’s life.
Regardless, as I have mentioned
ad nauseum, even before the tragic death of George Floyd while in police
custody, I am not a worship-the-blue guy. I was in favor of criminal justice reform
when the feckless Barack Obama was unable to get it passed, I am in favor of it
now that President Trump has.
At
the same time, I do recognize that police shootings of unarmed people
(including blacks) have dropped dramatically over the past few
years, as has the black incarceration rate, I also
recognize there are a lot of poorly trained police out there and am grateful
for the cameras that have made this clear.
I
mean, if the State is going to give a man a gun and the legal authority to use
it, a few bad apples are
not acceptable. We should push for the same perfection in police officers that
we do from those who route, pilot, co-pilot, navigate, maintain, and repair
passenger planes.
So how is it that these
persistent problems persist?
A big problem is the media’s
ongoing protection racket of Democrats and their cancerous public unions.
Earlier
this week, I went back and listed every controversial death of a black
man at the hands of the police over the past few years.
Without judging in any way,
without inserting my opinion of whether or not deadly force was justified, I
made a list of incidents that raised eyebrows. Below is that list, where you
will find the name of the victim, the city and state where the death occurred,
and the political party in charge of the police department at the time…
- Bayshard
Brooks – Atlanta, GA – Democrat
- George
Floyd – Minneapolis, MN – Democrat
- Breonna
Taylor – Louisville, KY – Democrat
- Manuel
Ellis – Tacoma, WA – Democrat
- Atatiana
Jefferson – Fort Worth, TX – Republican
- Javier
Ambler – Austin, TX – Democrat
- Tony
McDade – Tallahassee, FL – Democrat
- Dion
Johnson – Phoenix, AZ – Democrat
- Jemel
Roberson – Chicago, IL – Democrat
- Botham
Jean – Dallas, TX – Democrat
- Stephon
Clark – Sacramento, CA – Democrat
- Jordan
Edwards – Dallas, TX – Democrat
- Eric
Garner – NY, NY – Democrat
- Laquan
McDonald – Chicago, IL – Democrat
- John
Crawford, Beavercreek, OH – Republican
- Freddie
Gray – Baltimore, MD – Democrat
- Tamir
Rice – Cleveland, Ohio – Democrat
As you can see, out of 17
incidents, 15 happened in cities or town where a Democrat mayor was in charge
of the police department.
Let me back up just a bit…
You see, there are two very good
reasons our country believes in civilian oversight of institutions like the
military, national guard, and police… We don’t want unelected people in charge
of institutions given legal authority to use violence. That would be a disaster.
But it is also about accountability… By putting the president in charge of the
military, an elected sheriff in charge of sheriffs’ departments, and mayors in
charge of police departments, by way of the ballot box, voters are able to have
a say in how they are policed.
That is how this is supposed to
work, and it makes perfect sense, no?
But it doesn’t, and this is
deliberate.
Let me put it this way…
Have you ever noticed that when a
scandal hits the military, the media either attack or circle the wagons to
protect the president? If the president is a Republican and an Abu Ghraib
happens, the president is vilified. If the president is a Democrat and a
Benghazi happens, the president is protected. Either way, responsibility for
the military is laid at the feet of the president because the president is in
charge of the military, is the commander-in-chief. As a population, we
understand the buck stops with the president when it comes to the
military.
This is a good thing. This is a
healthy thing.
But have you also noticed that
when a scandal involves the police department, the media always-always-always
blame an entity that does not exist known as “The Police.”
According to our fake media, the
non-existent “Police” are the problem, this phantom organization called “The
Police” is to blame. Some unicorn called “The Police” must be reformed.
There
is no “Police” in this country. We do have some 18,000 separate police
departments — 18,000! And each of those
departments is its own separate organism and each of those departments is
controlled by an elected official — and it is this elected official who is
supposed to be held accountable for the police department he or she is in
charge of.
But
that never happens in this country… When a Minneapolis police officer felt
comfortable jamming his knee into George Floyd’s throat for over eight
minutes while he was being
filmed, no one held the person in charge of the Minneapolis Police
Department accountable — Democrat Mayor Jacob Frey (pictured).
Democrats have run the
Minneapolis police department for nearly 50 years — but who was blamed for the
George Floyd incident? This entity that does not exist called “The Police.”
Further, riots and protests broke
out all over the country against “The Police,” even though the other 17,999
police departments have nothing to do with Minneapolis.
Meanwhile,
the guy who’s actually in charge of the police, who is supposed to be
accountable for a police department comfortable with jamming a knee into a
helpless man’s throat for more than eight minutes while he’s being filmed, is
not held accountable at all.
Over the weekend a police officer
shot a fleeing man twice in the back, a black man. This happened in Atlanta.
Who was blamed? This straw man called “The Police,” but not the person who is
actually in charge of the police, Democrat Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.
Democrats
have run Atlanta — this is not a typo — since 1879… Not 1979
— 1879… That’s 141 years.
And I could go on, and you know I
could go on, and this is why reforms that must happen, don’t… We’re all
screaming about “The Police” when we should be screaming about “The Mayor.” But
the left and the media have deliberately distracted us from that in order to
protect Democrats.
Another problem are police
unions. Thanks to collective bargaining, public unions are obscenely powerful,
which makes it as obscenely difficult to fire a lousy police officer as it is
to fire a lousy teacher. But again, because the media adore the public unions
that flood Democrat politicians with campaign cash, we don’t talk about this,
we just scream at the unicorn.
This is all by design…
This is all deliberate…
You blame “The Police” and the
Democrats who run these cities stay in power while policing suffers, the cities
they police suffer, crime goes up, opportunity flees, poverty, anger, and
bitterness simmer among a population whose road the middle class has been
closed.
Democrats announce toothless police reform bill
9 June 2020
With a great deal of rhetoric accompanied by a political stunt,
the Democratic congressional leadership on Monday released its “Justice in
Policing 2020” bill.
Prior to the press conference to present the measure, more than
20 Democratic lawmakers, all wearing African kente cloths, knelt in the
Capitol’s Emancipation Hall for eight minutes and 46 seconds, the amount of
time fired Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kept his knee on the neck
of George Floyd, killing the 46-year-old African American worker.
The group of Democrats included House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate
Minority Leader Charles Schumer, Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Karen
Bass and senators Cory Booker and Kamala Harris.
At the press conference, Bass, Pelosi, Schumer and other
sponsors of the bill repeatedly cited the nationwide mass demonstrations
against the murder of Floyd and touted their bill as a “transformational” and
“bold” attack on police violence and systemic racism.
But their statements and the token character
of the reforms included in the bill make clear
that the measure is nothing of the kind.
Rather, it is a political maneuver designed to
provide cover for Democratic governors and
mayors who have overseen brutal police
attacks on protesters, not to mention the pro-
police record of the Obama administration.
It is also aimed at containing and dissipating social
protests by workers and youth against not only racism and the fascistic Trump
administration, but also the social inequality, repression and poverty that are
embedded in the capitalist system and magnified by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Democrats are well aware that even their collection of mild
reforms has no chance of being passed by the Republican-controlled Senate or
signed into law by President Trump. Just minutes after the Democrats’ press
conference, Trump, who later met behind closed doors with law enforcement
officials, tweeted: “This year has seen the lowest crime numbers in our
Country’s recorded history, and now the Radical Left Democrats want to Defund
and Abandon our Police. Sorry, I want LAW & ORDER!”
The major provisions of the bill include:
* Changes in the wording of statutes dealing with police abuse
that somewhat lower the legal threshold for obtaining a conviction. The bill
alters the federal standard for criminal police behavior from “willfully”
violating the constitutional rights of a victim to doing so “knowingly or with
reckless disregard.”
It also changes the standard for determining whether the use of
force is justified from whether it is “reasonable” to whether it is
“necessary.”
* It somewhat limits, but does not eliminate, the application of
“qualified immunity” to police offenders. For the past 15 years, the Supreme
Court has interpreted the “qualified immunity” doctrine, which applies to
public officials pursuing their official duties, to vacate civil suits and
throw out criminal cases against police who break the law or use unwarranted
force.
Legal researchers Amir H. Ali and Emily Clark argued in 2019
that “qualified immunity permits law enforcement and other government officials
to violate people’s constitutional rights with virtual impunity.” The Obama
administration repeatedly intervened in Supreme Court cases to uphold the
blanket use of “qualified immunity” to shield cops from civil suits or criminal
prosecution.
* The bill limits, but does not eliminate, the transfer of
military equipment to the police. Obama continued the practice of militarizing
police departments with billions of dollars worth of military-grade weapons,
armored vehicles, attack helicopters, drones and other tactical weapons.
* The bill creates a national register of police misconduct.
* It bans chokeholds.
* It establishes a grant program allowing—but not
requiring—state attorneys general to create an independent process to
investigate misconduct or excessive force.
* It requires body cameras for federal uniformed police officers
and dashboard cameras for marked federal police vehicles. These federal forces
comprise only a small fraction of the 687,000 full-time law enforcement
officers in the US. The bill also mandates that state and local agencies use
federal funds to “ensure” the use of body and dashboard cameras.
* The bill bans racial profiling.
* It grants subpoena powers to the civil rights division of the
Justice Department for “pattern and practice” investigations of police
departments.
* It makes lynching a federal hate crime.
At the press conference, Bass, who represents parts of South Los
Angeles, went out of her way to profess her support for the police. “I am
certain that police officers, professionals who risk their lives every day, are
deeply concerned about their profession and do not want to work in an
environment that requires their silence when they know a fellow officer is
abusing the public,” she said.
She went on to present police officers as the unwitting victims
of poor training and policing practices and a lack of “transparency.”
Pelosi called the bill a “transformational” and “structural
change,” ran through its main provisions, and concluded by saying, “Police
brutality is a heartbreaking reflection of an entrenched system of racial
injustice in America.” She called the bill a “first step,” promising “more to
come.”
New York Senator Schumer, known as the senator from Wall Street,
referred nervously to the massive demonstrations that have continued in New
York City and in cities and towns across the US for nearly two weeks, noting in
particular their multi-racial and multi-ethnic diversity.
He then proceeded to define the issue of police violence
exclusively in racial terms, saying, “The poison of racism affects more than
just our criminal justice system. It runs much deeper than that. There are
racial disparities in housing and health care, education, the economy, jobs,
income and wealth and COVID has only placed a magnifying glass on them.”
This is a continuation of the narrative that has been employed
by the ruling class, and particularly that faction represented by the
Democratic Party, for more than 50 years, ever since the massive urban
rebellions of the 1960s. Beginning with the Kerner Commission Report of 1968,
there has been a concerted effort to portray the essential social category in
America as race, rather than class.
BLOG EDITOR: THE DEMOCRAT PARTY RELIED ON THE BLACK SLAVE CLASS
UNTIL IT BECAME APPARENT THAT THE INVADING ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS WOULD MAKE A
BETTER CLASS OF SLAVES.
ASK YOURSELF WHAT BARACK OBAMA EVER DID FOR BLACK AMERICA AS HE
SABOTAGED HOMELAND SECURITY TO FLOOD AMERICAN WITH DEM VOTING 'CHEAP' LABOR
MEXICANS.
This was designed from the outset to divert attention from the
class exploitation upon which capitalism is based and within which racism
serves as a weapon to divide the working class. All of the African-American
lawmakers at the Democrats’ press conference are wealthy beneficiaries of
policies that have elevated a thin layer of blacks into the upper-middle class
and the bourgeoisie, while leaving black workers, and the working class as a
whole, in far worse circumstances than in the 1960s.
A reporter asked if the sponsors of the “Justice in Policing Act”
supported calls for “defunding” the police that have been embraced by some
local Democratic officials, who have generally defined it as diverting a small
portion of the police budget to social services. Bass had previously made clear
she did not support such calls and the campaign of Joe Biden released a
statement Monday disavowing the demand.
Responding to the question, Pelosi said, “We want to work with
our police departments. There are many who take pride in their work, and we
want to be able to make sure the focus is on them.” She went on to warn against
getting “into these questions that may come by the small minds of some.”
June 8, 2020
Lies
and Sacraments: The story of the Democratic Party
We
are being fed an unending stream of lies by the media/academia/Democrat
complex. The party of segregation and Jim Crow now claims to be the
one true friend of African-Americans and people of color. In fact,
according to its current presidential nominee, "you ain't black" if you vote for
the other guy. Does that not mean that "you ain't white"
if you vote for Biden? Maybe by Biden's "logic." But
conservatives don't think that way.
The
ugly truth is that slavery and abortion have been the two sacraments of the
Democratic Party. The first, since its inception, the latter in more
modern times. Slavery was a monstrous evil as practiced then and is
a monstrous evil as practiced now. Stray too far from the Democratic
plantation, and they try to strip you of your dignity. Erase your
identity. Call you names. Say you aren't actually black. They
actively foment race and class warfare to further their own cause, their own
power. Screw the country. This is the mother of all
evils.
Speaking
of mothers, while those aborted don't have to be provided for, they aren't
worth mentioning to Democrats since they can't vote. Because they're
dead. That's the difference. Abortions are effectively
partly subsidized by our tax dollars. What does one say about a
party that advocates confiscating people's money to fund Planned Parenthood (or pay for union
dues, for that matter) without their consent, or even in direct opposition to
their beliefs? Is that not another form of slavery? It
certainly is taxation without representation at a minimum. The
Founders rebelled against a three-pence tax on tea. Isn't this
worse?
We
are being lied to continually. Very few people in the media, such as
Tucker Carlson, are brave enough to speak truth to power, whoever that
power may be, wherever it may lie. Democrats are gifted liars,
preternatural prevaricators. (See also the Clintons.) They
will tell you Republicans are racist. They will
tell you that President Trump colluded with the Russians, might even be a
Russian asset. They tell us that global warming is an existential
crisis and that the Earth will be toast in ten years. Of course,
they also told us that ten years ago. They told us
that COVID-19 would likely kill countless millions, maybe 2.2 million in this country
alone, so we should stay inside. We couldn't have graduation
ceremonies, get married, attend funerals, or get a haircut. For
our own good. Those few of us who eventually dared to leave our
homes and peacefully protest this usurpation of our constitutional rights were
labeled as selfish, hateful, bigots — terrorists, in fact — who were
going to be responsible for a surge in coronavirus infections and resultant
deaths.
And
now they tell us that certain protests, even violent ones, are a public health good, even a necessity. That isn't
"their truth." It's a lie. There's no such
thing as my truth, your truth, his truth,
or her truth. There is only the truth.
The
truth is: the truth is.
It
is up to us to recognize it. Embrace it. Cherish
it. Protect it. And tell it.
Democrats - Like the Mensheviks - Will
Go Into the Dustbin of History
How history is repeating itself.
June 8, 2020
Phil Orenstein
All it took was a spark, the tragic police killing of George Floyd
in Minneapolis, to trigger the explosion of anger and frustration that the
radical left exploited to orchestrate the violent insurrection across America
they had been planning for months.
The radicals strike when then see weakness, and that is what they
saw in the largely Democrat run cities where the major riots broke out. These
professional agitators have a well-planned strategy for the violent takeover of
America which they can never accomplish peacefully through elections.
Hours after the video of Floyd began circulating the internet, militant Antifa,
Black Lives Matters cells and other radical socialist groups began deploying to
Minnesota to riot, according to Andy Ngo, an American conservative journalist
who studies the revolutionary tactics of the radical left. The
anarchist-communist group, Antifa has perfected the art of rioting and chaos,
first breaking store windows, calling in the looters, and then burning the
place down. It is encouraging news that Antifa, whose stated goals are to
abolish capitalism and law enforcement in America, will be designated as a
terrorist organization as President Trump announced on Sunday May 31st.
Antifa and an amalgam of radical leftist movements in America
including Black Lives Matter (BLM), Democratic Socialists of America
(DSA), Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), and the Bernie Bros, have
taken a page from Lenin’s playbook of the Bolshevik Revolution. They follow in
the footsteps of murderous dictators such as Lenin, Castro, Mao, Pol Pot, and
Maduro, who exploited the poverty, chaos and turmoil of their societies to take
over through violent insurrections, since they could never achieve power
through a peaceful election process.
History is repeating itself now as we are witnessing the battle of
the moderates versus the radical left within the Democrat Party. Lenin’s
totalitarian Bolsheviks split from the more moderate democratic Mensheviks, who
were the popular establishment party, violently seized power, overthrew the
Tsarist regime, and ultimately established the Soviet Union. Lenin hated the Mensheviks more
than the Tsar, whom he had executed along with his entire family. Along with
capitalism and democracy, Lenin annihilated the Mensheviks and sent them, as
Trotsky chided “… into the dustbin of history!”
These radical socialist movements, all enthusiastic supporters of
socialist Bernie Sanders during the Presidential Primaries, will not be
supporting Joe Biden, as DSA and others stated. Similar to Lenin and the
Mensheviks, the radical socialists hate the establishment Democrats more than
the president. The political war the establishment Democrat-media complex waged
against the Sanders presidential campaign and the system rigged against him to
defeat him the second time, pushed them over the boiling point to set off “the
powder keg that is growing all over this country,” in the words of Nina Turner,
former top aide for Sander’s presidential campaign, inciting the flames of riot
and revolt across the nation.
It’s ironic that the rioters attacked CNN Headquarters in Atlanta,
since CNN promoted the righteousness of the riots. But CNN, the media arm of
the Democrat establishment, played a major role in the defeat of Sanders. After
his Nevada victory, Sanders was poised to sweep the nation and win the
Democratic nomination. Biden was dead in the water. This frightened the
Democrat-media establishment, and CNN conspired with them to undermine the Sanders
campaign, blasting his age, his health after a heart attack, his way too
expensive Medicare and tuition reforms, his far leftist leanings, and alleging
“sexism” at the CNN debate. It was a full court press to defeat Sanders as
Super Tuesday was approaching. So former rivals united around Biden who all
exited the race giving their endorsement, as the fear and trembling of a
Sanders victory took hold. The leftists vowed that if the nomination was
stolen, wait for the riots to start.
Most of the rioting is happening now in Democratic strongholds, as
payback for their offences against the left. Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore,
Minneapolis, St Louis, Washington DC, Cleveland, some of the most dangerous
cites in America, now hotbeds of rioting and unrest have been totally
controlled by the Democrat Party for 50 years or more. The radical socialists
doing the looting, burning, and causing chaos, do not care about the poverty,
unemployment, the failing schools, the crumbling infrastructure, over-regulated
businesses, or the black, the poor or minority populations living there. Their
aim is to create chaos and take over when the people are sufficiently cowed and
afraid. Democrat mayors and governors are giving them carte blanche to create
havoc and destroy property and human life, as did leftwing Minneapolis Mayor
Jacob Frey who surrendered the Third Police Precinct to the rioters. On top of
that, the son of Minnesota AG Keith Ellison, and City Council member,
officially declared his support for Antifa. Voters throughout America need to
rise up and kick out these soft-on-crime political has-beens.
Democratic governors and mayors have been weak and spineless as
the riots have consumed their cities and the people were left terrified and
hopeless. The riot at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn was a well-organized
attack orchestrated by radical socialist groups throwing bottles, bricks,
Molotov cocktails and other debris at police. Police were injured, some almost
killed, but that didn’t prevent Governor Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio as well as
other elected officials from taking the side of the rioters and calling for an
investigation into police responses, and Senator Gounares (D-Brooklyn) blaming
the police when they were trying to defend themselves. Senator Michael Gianaris
(D-Astoria) and many other New York City Democrat elected officials, said they
will no longer accept campaign contributions from police unions and declared,
“we deserve a police force that is held accountable for racist behavior.”
Setting the stage for lawlessness and mayhem, New York City with its bail
reform laws releasing criminals to the streets and emptying city jails,
welcomes the professional agitators expediting their plunder.
In contrast, the mayors and governors of Republican cities and
Trump strongholds, who refuse to placate the rioters, who are not afraid to
stand up to the criminals and thugs looting and rioting in the streets of their
cities, have set curfews and declared state of emergency orders early on and
rioting has been curtailed. While Democrats have failed to protect American
lives or property, Republicans have protected this country from foreign
adversaries and domestic foes since 1861, when Abraham Lincoln, the first
Republican president emancipated the slaves and won the Civil War. In 1864 he defeated
the Democratic nominee, former General George McClellan who wanted to make
peace with the South and discard the victory that Lincoln and the Union was
about to achieve. Teddy Roosevelt saved this country with “big
stick” diplomacy, built up our military, and made America a superpower.
Eisenhower defeated the Nazis and stood up to the Soviet Union. Ronald Reagan
defeated communism and the Soviet Union and won the Cold War.
The Republican Party is historically the Party of law and order
and strong defense. They have always championed the protection of the people
and always will. In 1968, the chaos and storming of the Democrat National
Convention and the riots that shook the nation, paved the way for the victory
of Richard Nixon who ran for president on a law and order platform. History is
now repeating itself. On Monday June 1st, President Trump called himself “the
president of law and order” and promised to restore security and safety and
mobilize the United States military to American cities to stop the rioting and
looting and protect the rights of Americans. When chaos happens, people seek
law and order, and will vote for Republicans. Rudy Giuliani recently said:
“Don’t elect progressive Democrats if you want to be safe.” Just like the
Mensheviks, the Democrat Party is headed for the dustbin of history.
Phil Orenstein is the president of the Queens Village Republican
Club. Established in 1875, it is America’s oldest Republican Club. Historian,
Jerry Matacotta was the advisor for this article.
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