I think that if Biden and Harris win, the entire country will devolve to a kingdom of state and regional duchies composed of often semi-hereditary rulers in the pay of the rich, donor class, the clerisy (media scribblers, complaisant judicial appointees and academic rent seekers who promote favored policies and shut out the dissenters), an impoverished, smaller, and powerless middle class and a vast layer of muzzled, docile poor serfs. They will rule by fiat (often inconsistently and illogically) as they have been in dealing with COVID-19. Because they can, the Constitution to the contrary notwithstanding.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who in 2019 reprieved 737 convicted murderers, including cop-killer Luis Bracamontes, did not speak publicly about the Pacheco family. Attorney general Xavier Becerra, once on Hillary Clinton’s short list as a running mate, failed to mention the case. Under California’s sanctuary law, the protection of violent criminals always takes priority over justice for their victims and the safety of the people.
California is a preview of the Democrats'
dystopian vision for America
In 2016, Michael
Anton, a former national security official in the Trump administration, wrote a
now famous essay, "The Flight 93 Election." In it,
he argued that voting for Trump was the last chance Americans had to preserve a
constitutional America. Anton's back with an entire book
discussing what will happen if the Democrats gain control of the White House
and Congress in the upcoming election. Real Clear
Politics has an excerpt from the book, and it sounds like another warning
bell for people who cherish an America run on liberty-centered values rather
than socialism.
It turns out that
Anton and I have something in common: we're both California natives who
remember a time when the state was a beautiful, affordable tribute to the best
that America could be. Indeed, because I'm slightly older than
he is, my memories are both better (I still have a vague memory of ladies
wearing gloves and hats to go downtown) and worse (because I saw the damage
that the hippies, the forebears of today's leftists, could do to a community).
Recently, Regnery
published Anton's book, The
Stakes: America at the Point of No Return. In it,
he spells out exactly what to expect if the Democrats gain complete control
over America. It will truly be the election to end all
elections should they win.
In previous
elections, Americans have always revolved around different interpretations of
shared constitutional principles and cultural values. Even
with the Civil War, while Americans fought to the death over state's rights and
slavery, they still shared cultural values. In many ways, our
nation is already more divided than during the lead-up to the Civil War.
In this election,
the Democrats propose the most radical departure ever from America's
past. They are not sliding gently to the left or the
right. Theirs is a socialist revolution — and, like all
socialist revolutions, the first thing the Democrats plan to do is lock in
their power.
To that end,
Democrats have been open about ending the filibuster. With
that accomplished, they can add two leftist states (Puerto Rico and D.C.) and pack
the courts. This will be their version of Erdoğan's Islamist
takeover in Turkey and Putin's dictatorship in Russia: use the election to gain
power, then jettison the system so no one else can do the same.
Real Clear
Politics has excerpted Chapter One from
Anton's book. In it, he looks to California to describe
what we can expect once the Democrats achieve their dream of one-party rule
over the nation. After all, they already have one-party rule
over the state. The quoted material resonated strongly with me
because he describes the golden state I remember from my younger years and the
decaying state I finally left behind. Here is a passage from
the quoted material:
My parents' and grandparents' California —
the California of my own youth — is long gone. That California was the greatest
middle-class paradise in the history of mankind. Its promise — which it mostly
delivered —was nothing less than the American dream writ large, but better:
freer, wealthier, sunnier, happier, more advanced, more future-oriented.
In barely one generation, that California
was swept away and transformed into a left-liberal one-party state, the most
economically unequal and socially divided in the country, ostensibly run by a
cadre of would-be Solons in Sacramento and in the courts, but really by
oligarchic power concentrated in a handful of industries, above all Big Tech
and Big Hollywood. The middle class — what's left of them —
continue to flee high taxes, higher costs, cratering standards of living,
declining services, deteriorating infrastructure, worsening quality of life,
and an elite that openly despises them and pushes policies to despoil and
dispossess them.
[snip]
According to the public presentation of
this vision — the marketing brochure copy — the New California formula provides
everything, with no downsides: economic growth and job security; equitable
distribution of inherently scarce goods and environmental protection; fantastic
innovation alongside regulation that protects against every contingency;
endless energy without drilling or carbon emissions; social reengineering with
no erosion of the habits necessary for a strong economy or stable society — all
gain, no pain, all the time.
There's an underside to this vision,
though: rising inequality and neo-feudalism, a yawning and widening gap between
the wealth and political power of the haves and have-nots, demonization and
persecution not merely of overt dissent but of passive refusal to celebrate the
new order. These aspects the elites don't talk about but quietly also push.
"California is booming" — but only for them. When they say they want
the rest of the nation to look more like California, the state's dystopian,
oppressive features are a big part — perhaps the biggest — of what they mean.
Anton's book
sounds well worth reading. If you're one of those voters still
struggling with the fact that Trump can be a boor, please read this book before
you cast your vote. I'd much rather have a pro-American,
pro-liberty boor in the White House, with a Congress willing to work with him,
than a political party bent on turning the United States into another
California.
“With increasing homelessness, a soft approach to
criminal prosecution, and the ongoing embracing of illegal immigration, violent
crimes are increasing after having seen a reduction the past few years.”
P.F. WHALEN
Undeterred,
on September 2, state lawmakers sent a budget to
Governor Newsom calling for $600 million in spending increases and
a reduction in state revenue with the extension of earned
income tax credits for immigrants and illegal aliens. Balance sheet
be damned, California must cater to illegal aliens. P.F. WHALEN
California: The Golden State
in Utter Decay
By P.F. Whalen
California
is a mess; no secret there. But the degree of decline that befalls
it, and the quickness with which that decline is moving, seems to be largely
ignored, particularly by Californians themselves. The nation's most
populous state, and arguably its most naturally beautiful, is falling apart
virtually everywhere we look. Yet state and local governments not
only insist on moving forward with leftist policies, but continually double
down by moving even farther left, and the state's voters return them to office
with ever-increasing electoral margins. California's current
approach to virtually all aspects of society — the economy, environment, legal
system and culture — is unsustainable, and the time for reckoning is
rapidly approaching.
The
current crisis in California that is getting the most national attention is the
plague of wildfires throughout much of the northern part of the
state. Such fires have ravaged the area for
millennia, long before the presence of any European settlers, but that has not
stopped California leftists and their media from pointing fingers at climate
change and President Trump. Avoiding responsibility for a crisis by
blaming anyone and anything with even a remote chance of culpability is the
California way — which leads to a failure to develop real
solutions. None of California's leaders, least of all Democratic
governor Gavin Newsom, have accepted any responsibility for the government's
role in the fires. Evidence clearly shows that the decision by the state to
revive "fire suppression" efforts, a practice that essentially delays
the inevitable and results in even larger wildfires (and was mostly
discontinued in the 1960s), has been a major contributor to the magnitude of
this year's fires. But has the government of California even paused
to reconsider the strategy? Sadly, no.
Wildfires,
unfortunately, are among the least of California's
woes. Homelessness in the state has become a major problem, and one
that is having a significant impact on the quality of life for
taxpayers. According to a San Francisco Chronicle article published last
December, "[w]hile the latest counts compiled by the federal government
show that America's homeless population is growing again after more than a
decade of declines, the entire national increase and more can be attributed to
California alone." In other words, homelessness continues to be
on the decline in the U.S. if we exclude California. So how does
California plan on addressing the problem? A bill passed by the
state's Legislature earlier this month will empower Governor Newsom to appoint
a "Homelessness Czar." Government actions, including
regulations which aggressively target landlords and programs that provide
handouts enticing the homeless to settle in the state, have perpetuated the
homeless situation, but more taxpayer dollars and government interference is
always the solution for California. Got a problem? Throw
money at it, and let the government make it worse.
With
increasing homelessness, a soft approach to criminal prosecution, and the
ongoing embracing of illegal immigration, violent crimes are increasing after
having seen a reduction the past few years. According to The Trace,
"homicides are sharply up this year" in California as a whole, and
cities such as Oakland, with a 26% increase, have seen a significant
increase in the number of murders. With the jump in violent crimes,
what steps has California's government taken to reduce certain
crimes? They recently passed the controversial bill S.B. 145, which will ultimately
end up reducing accountability and sentences for adults who sexually assault
children as young as 14. What a brilliant idea. Apparently,
California's leadership believes that the pedophile community had been treated
unfairly.
In
spite of an abundance of bad news items hitting California on a regular basis,
the most ominous challenge is undoubtedly the fiscal time bomb that looms, and
whose ticking grows louder by the day. Already one of the highest taxed states in the
U.S., California had a reported government debt of
over $1.5 trillion as of 2017 — long before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and an
amount that has surely increased dramatically since. Undeterred, on
September 2, state lawmakers sent a budget to
Governor Newsom calling for $600 million in spending increases and
a reduction in state revenue with the extension of earned
income tax credits for immigrants and illegal aliens. Balance sheet
be damned, California must cater to illegal aliens.
Increasing
spending and decreasing revenue is a lousy recipe for getting one's fiscal
house in order — particularly one that is already a disaster. The
state government appears to be counting on an eventual federal bailout from its
financial predicament, but that help is not going to happen, nor should it.
California
industries have recognized the signals and are taking action. High-profile
companies and leaders have announced their plans to leave the state or have
openly proclaimed their considerations for the idea. Media outlet
The Daily Wire, with co-owner Ben Shapiro, recently announced its plan to move to
Nashville; podcast giant Joe Rogan is taking his ball and moving to Texas; and Elon
Musk is moving Tesla's
headquarters out-of-state, and possibly manufacturing operations as
well. Other businesses will surely follow, as the hostility
toward industry through taxes and oppressive regulations continues
unimpeded. State lawmakers are not intimidated by the idea of losing
millions of dollars in revenue and have recently taken the bold step of
adding a layer of government regulations to existing and would-be
businesses. Another bill recently passed by the state legislature
will "mandate ethnic, racial or LGBT diversity on corporate boards" —
more government intervention in the private sector in the name of virtue and
another assault on the philosophy of meritocracy.
California
has some of the most appealing weather in the world, but pleasant weather goes
only so far. Residents enjoy the state's natural wonders such as the
lovely Napa Valley, Yosemite National Park, and the glorious pacific coast
highway, but they have been choosing to leave anyway at
an increasing rate in a phenomenon that is being called "The California
Exodus." The state population decreased by almost 200,000 in
2018, and over 28,000 left the San Francisco Bay area alone in a single quarter
last year. Inevitably, the question that Californians have to
consider is this: while it may be bad now, is there a chance it is going to get
better?
California,
the bluest of blue states, has rising crime and
homelessness. California has fearsome wildfires and rolling
electrical blackouts due to government mismanagement of its forests and energy
systems. California has an ever-increasing budget deficit with no
end in sight. Yet California's tone-deaf politicians continue to
enjoy immense support from their oblivious electorate. Many
residents cherish the song lyric that laments, "Going to California with
an aching in my heart." Unfortunately, the time has come for
many to recognize reality, and to leave California with a similar
aching. California is decaying before our eyes, and it is not going
to get better.
P.F. Whalen is a conservative blogger at TheBlueStateConservative.com. His
work has appeared in multiple publications, including American Thinker, the
Western Journal, and Human Events. Follow him on Twitter at @pf_whalen.
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Adios,
Sanctuary La Raza Welfare State of California
A fifth-generation Californian
laments his state’s ongoing economic collapse.
By Steve Baldwin
American Spectator
What’s clear is that the producers are leaving
the state and the takers are coming in. Many of the takers are illegal aliens,
now estimated to number over 2.6 million (BLOG: THE NUMBER IS CLOSER TO 15
MILLION ILLEAGLS). The Federation for American
Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion (DATED: NOW
ABOUT $35 BILLION YEARLY AND THAT IS ON THE STATE LEVEL ONLY. COUNTIES PAY OUT
MORE) on government services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education,
Medicaid, and criminal justice system costs.
Liberals
claim they more than make that up with taxes paid, but that’s simply not true.
It’s not even close. FAIR estimates illegal aliens in California contribute
only $1.21 billion in tax revenue, which means they cost California $20.6 billion,
or at least $1,800 per household.
Nonetheless, open border advocates, such as Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg,
claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to
support such an assertion. As the Center for Immigration Studies has
documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few
skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting
them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If
illegal aliens were contributing to the economy in any meaningful way,
California, with its 2.6 million illegal aliens, would be booming.
Furthermore, the complexion of illegal aliens
has changed with far more on welfare and committing crimes than those who
entered the country in the 1980s. Heather Mac Donald of
the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in
2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for
illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were
illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the
18th Street gang, were illegal aliens. Granted, those
statistics are old, but if you talk to any California law enforcement officer,
they will tell you it’s much worse today. The problem is that the Brown
administration will not release any statewide data on illegal alien crimes.
That would be insensitive. And now that California has declared itself a
“sanctuary state,” there is little doubt this sends a message south of the
border that will further escalate illegal immigration into the state.
"If the racist "Sensenbrenner Legislation" passes the US
Senate, there is no doubt that a massive civil disobedience movement will
emerge. Eventually labor union power can merge with the immigrant civil rights
and "Immigrant Sanctuary" movements to enable us to either
form a new political party or to do heavy duty reforming of the existing
Democratic Party. The next and final steps would follow and that is to elect our
own governors of all the states within Aztlan."
Indeed, California goes out of its way to
attract illegal aliens. The state has even created government programs that
cater exclusively to illegal aliens. For example, the State Department of Motor
Vehicles has offices that only process driver licenses for illegal aliens. With
over a million illegal aliens now driving in California, the state felt
compelled to help them avoid the long lines the rest of us must endure at the
DMV. And just recently, the state-funded University
of California system announced it will spend $27 million on financial aid for
illegal aliens. They’ve even taken out radio spots on stations
all along the border, just to make sure other potential illegal border crossers
hear about this program. I can’t afford college
education for all my four sons, but my taxes will pay for illegals to get a
college education.
Victor
David Hanson has written extensively on what has brought his home state so rich
in natural resources to its knees. Here’s but one of his latest reports. It begins (and then
extensively documents): “Power outages, fires, water shortages,
rising taxes, crumbling and congested highways, dismal schools, lawlessness…”
While California chases climate change chimeras, danger looms
By Andrea Widburg
California
has been in the headlines a lot lately. In the first half of the year, it
hogged headlines because Governor Newsom imposed some of America’s most
draconian lockdown rules on Californians (although they naturally didn’t apply
to protests). While these headlines applied equally to other Democrat-run
states, California blazed a new trail in August, when a heatwave caused the
state to have rolling blackouts, followed by raging fires.
What
was significant about both the blackouts and the fires was that they could have
been prevented. Both resulted from California’s obsession with climate change
and mindless environmentalism. Now, though, it appears that California is
also due for an imminent apocalyptic flood. California can work to save itself,
but it’s spending money in all the wrong places.
Although
the media were excited about an allegedly record-breaking heatwave this August,
the reality is that California has meltingly-hot heatwaves at least twice a
year. To the extent some years are hotter than others, the temperatures differ
by the single digits.
What
made this year different was that the power grid failed over large parts of
California. The grid didn’t fail, though, because the heat was too great. It
failed because Pacific Gas & Electric company, a California public utility,
has bowed to the climate change fanatics and put all of its energies into
renewables. Even Governor Newsom had to concede that, when people needed
A/C, solar energy failed.
The
focus on climate change also meant that PG&E, instead of updating its aging
power lines, some of which are almost 100 years old, poured its money into
renewables. As always, it was these power
lines that accounted for most of the fires that have turned California into an
inferno. (The massive lightning storm didn’t help, but it was the power lines
that set the state on fire.)
The
other thing that set California ablaze was the environmentalist pressure not to
do preemptive trimming and controlled burns. As he did in 2018, with the deadly
Camp Fire in Butte County, President Trump criticized California’s
forestry practices:
“I see again, the forest fires are starting.
They’re starting again in California,” Trump said at a campaign event
in Old Forge, Pa. “And I said, you’ve got to clean your floors. You’ve got to
clean your forests.”
It’s
not just Trump saying this. One of the worst fire areas this August was in Big
Basin, California’s oldest state park, home to the spectacular coast
redwoods. These trees are hundreds of feet tall and can be almost 2,000 years
old. This year’s fire killed several of those trees –
and it could have been avoided. Nine months ago, Portia
Halbert, a Big Basin environmental scientist, was expressing concern about the
fact that there hadn’t been a prescribed burn there in three years:
“Given the right conditions, we’re poised to have
catastrophic wildfires all over California,” says Halbert, who works for the
Santa Cruz District of the California State Park System. “So what’s my anxiety
level like? I think we’ve been really lucky to avoid something very extreme
here in the Santa Cruz Mountains.”
The
third world power outages and devastating infernos in California are what the
Obama administration might have called “man-caused disasters” if had hadn’t already
used that term on terrorist attacks. They all could have been avoided.
However,
it appears that there’s another imminent disaster that California
should be preparing for rather than obsessing about the fact that the earth’s
climate changes. A flood of Biblical proportions is waiting in the wings.
A massive flood hit in the winter of 1861-1862, submerging the Central Valley
in up to 15 feet of water:
When it was thought of at all, the flood was once
considered a thousand-year anomaly, a freak occurrence. But emerging science
demonstrates that floods of even greater magnitude occurred every 100 to 200
years in California’s precolonial history.
This
matters beyond California because the Central Valley provides significant
amounts of America’s food supply:
The state produces nearly all of the almonds,
walnuts, and pistachios consumed domestically; 90 percent or more of the
broccoli, carrots, garlic, celery, grapes, tangerines, plums, and artichokes;
at least 75 percent of the cauliflower, apricots, lemons, strawberries, and
raspberries; and more than 40 percent of the lettuce, cabbage, oranges,
peaches, and peppers.
The
state also produces a fifth of the nation’s milk. If California drowns, America
starves. And yet the state, fussing about the ocean rising an inch in a hundred
years, is doing nothing to harden its infrastructure against heavy rain. We
already know from El Nino years, with their unusually heavy rainfall, that the
state’s infrastructure has inadequate drainage.
California
is what happens when politicians worship at the Altar of Climate Change. As
they try desperately to appease a capricious God that’s responsible for it
being too hot, too cold, too wet, or too dry, depending on how the auguries
read, they’re utterly failing to protect California, and even the rest of
America, against entirely predictable weather occurrences.
Image: El Nino flooding in California; public domain.
A GLIMPSE
INTO THE GLOBALIST AGENDA OF A NATION RULE BY AND FOR THE RICH AND WALL STREET.
THIS REQUIRES OPEN BORDERS FOR ENDLESS HORDES OF ‘CHEAP’ LABOR TO KEEP WAGES
DEPRESSED AND FINISH OFF THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS.
Rep. Mo
Brooks (R-AL) says the “Masters of the Universe” (HIGH TECH BILLIONAIRES) want more legal
immigration to the United States to further diminish the incomes of American
working and middle-class families.
So
why do the citizens of blue hells not rebel? That is the question -- Anton and
Hanson and Jenkins, like so many of us, know they must.
Maybe that’s part of it. I do
think that the movement in the direction of feudal, tyrannical governance is
being aided by the influx of millions of illegal immigrants from places where
this kind of government is the norm.
Is
Feudalism Our Future?
It’s
increasingly clear that one-party polities are corrupt, badly managed and serve
the interests only of those at the top and their courtiers. I think that if Biden
and Harris win, the entire country will devolve to a kingdom
of state and regional duchies composed
of often semi-hereditary rulers in the pay of the rich, donor
class, the clerisy (media scribblers, complaisant judicial appointees and
academic rent seekers who promote favored policies and shut out the
dissenters), an impoverished, smaller, and powerless middle class and a vast
layer of muzzled, docile poor serfs. They will rule by fiat (often
inconsistently and illogically) as they have been in dealing with COVID-19. Because they can, the
Constitution to the contrary notwithstanding.
In
a lengthy essay, Michael Anton details why he thinks the leftist
dream (which, in essence is a feudal form of tyranny) is within reach if Trump
loses. I urge you all to read in its entirety this thoughtful
article at your leisure. At best, I can only highlight some of the many salient
points he makes.
1. Since the 1960s policies and
practices have enriched the ruling class and “erode our natural and
constitutionally guaranteed rights and liberties” as they degraded our culture
and dishonored our heritage.
2. At present the office of the
presidency is seriously weaker than the unitary executive described in the
Constitution intended as an entrenched bureaucracy undermines, flouts and
disobeys the president at every turn if he dares to advance policies “unpopular
with the deep state.”
3. The benign phrase
“public-private partnership” is no less than “the use of state power to serve
private interests” and the relationship is one in which the senior partner is
always big business.
4. Congress, he argues “is a
joke.” Our government is run by “The cogs and lickspittles in the bureaucracy, led
by a small elite in corporations, above all in Big Tech and finance, will
determine all important policies, foreign and domestic.”
5. The COVID lockdowns and mandates
engineered by governors and mayors without laws to permit them based on
“expert” lies continue even as we know the virus is definitely not the plague
we were told it would be.
He
argues that should Trump lose we can expect increasingly anti-democratic
governance “committed to social engineering and grievance politics” and a
continued undermining of virtue and promotion of vice.
Anton
talks about the undermining of the right to self-defense and the outrageous
prosecution of Kyle Rittenhouse, who in Kenosha did just that against three
attackers whose marauding had been encouraged by the Wisconsin governor’s
and local mayor’s refusal to enforce the laws to maintain order.
Attorney
Lin Wood, who successfully sued on behalf of Robert Jewell and Nick
Sandmann and who this week volunteered to
represent Kyle Rittenhouse (the hero of Kenosha) for
defamation says we are facing a revolution and need to prepare ourselves for
the fight.
Lin Wood @LLinWood
(1) Republicans are talking “policy differences” while focusing on upcoming
election. They are not taking the current situation serious or they are just
plain stupid. They need to face truth that our country is under attack.
(2) The
former President, Barack Obama, is calling for sustained protests. The leader
of the resistance movement, Hillary Clinton, is saying that we should not
accept the results of the next election.
(3) The Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, is describing our President,
@realDonaldTrump, as an enemy of the state. Many radical members of Congress
are openly calling for the overthrow of our government.
(4) 1 + 1 + 1 = Revolution.
#FightBack
5:55 AM · Aug 29, 2020
The Duchy of Newsom as the Template of the New Order
No
better example of what Anton describes as our future can I find than the
sad state of California under the governorship of Gavin Newsom. I’ve written
elsewhere of the Green New Deal disaster he helped birth and which now plunges
much of his state into darkness and misery.
Victor David Hanson has written extensively on
what has brought his home state so rich in natural resources to its knees.
Here’s but one of his latest reports.
It begins (and then extensively documents): “Power outages, fires,
water shortages, rising taxes, crumbling and congested highways, dismal
schools, lawlessness…”
At
the Wall Street Journal, Holman Jenkins, Jr. notes that
California politicians obsess about things like “climate change” they are
powerless to do anything about while ignoring serious problems they could do
something about if only they had the skills and will to govern. In that
one-party state there is simply no accountability for failure of vision and
execution:
Unfortunately, the people running the state,
including Joe Biden’s prospective veep, have been mostly meme-chasing,
pose-striking calculators. Their only career plan: nurse their standing with Hollywood
green activists, trial lawyers and public-sector unions. In a one-party state,
there is no serious clash of policy prescriptions. That’s how Kamala Harris
could reach middle age with a giant vacancy in her résumé where one would
normally find some connection to policy ideas.
If the state is to dig out of its deepening hole,
it will need something else. It will need, you know, ideas. In fact, only a
revolution of ideas can save it from the path it’s on. And the first idea is
easy to see. The state will have to wake up from the sheer ludicrousness of
devoting so much of its politics to a problem its politics can’t fix at the
expense to those it can.
So
why do the citizens of blue hells not rebel? That is the question -- Anton and
Hanson and Jenkins, like so many of us, know they must.
My
online friend “The Infamous Ignatz” sees it in psychological terms:
I don't think the people living in urban blue
hells want to live in hell, but irrationality on a mass scale is made up of
millions of little individual irrationalities collectivized.
An irrational person has a very, very difficult
time choosing the rational option because it involves so many self-negating
decisions, not least of which is stopping the magical thinking and the blaming
of others for the problem.
That's why I equate irrational society with
personality disorders. It's not that people in urban hellscapes aren't
miserable, they just don't see any way out. For those outside looking in,
American cities' electoral habits fit Einstein's apocryphal definition of
insanity better than anything I can think of.
What makes it even more incurable and persistent
is the very people the voters think they are hiring as their therapists not
only come themselves from the ranks of the disordered but they have very
powerful incentives making sure the patient never gets well.
Maybe
that’s part of it. I do think that the movement in the direction of feudal,
tyrannical governance is being aided by the influx of millions of illegal
immigrants from places where this kind of government is the norm. It gained force when
civics education was dropped in schools in favor of less significant subjects,
and the hollowing out of our higher education institutions, including law
schools, which since the 1960s have increasingly become there-oughta-be-a-law
schools which encourage future judges and law clerks to imagine themselves as
legislators and executives. Nor can we forget the role being played by the
tech giants, who are using IT as a weapon for social control and the
destruction of privacy. In any event, November will have us in the fight of
our lives. Be prepared.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who in 2019 reprieved 737 convicted
murderers, including cop-killer Luis Bracamontes, did not speak publicly
about the Pacheco family. Attorney general Xavier Becerra, once on Hillary
Clinton’s short list as a running mate, failed to mention the case. Under
California’s sanctuary law, the protection of violent criminals always takes
priority over justice for their victims and the safety of the people.
Feds Send Criminal Illegal to
Prison on Gun Charges
While California
courts delay his trial on triple manslaughter and felony DUI charges.
Wed Sep 30,
2020
Last week, U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England sentenced
Ismael Huazo-Jardinez to 15 months in prison for “possessing a firearm while
being an alien unlawfully in the United States.” As U.S. Attorney McGregor
Scott explained, “Huazo-Jardinez is a citizen and national of Mexico who has
twice been removed from the United States and has not been granted
permission to return. As an alien unlawfully in the United States,
Huazo-Jardinez is prohibited by federal statute from possessing a firearm.” The
prison-bound Mexican, as it happens, has yet to face trial on the original
criminal charges that led to discovery of that firearm.
On May 4, 2019 in Knight’s Landing, California, north of
Sacramento, Huazo-Jardinez crashed his Chevrolet Avalanche into a mobile home,
killing Jose Pacheco, 38, Anna Pacheco, 34, their 10-year-old son Angel
Pacheco, and critically injuring daughter Mariana Pacheco, 11. The driver’s
blood-alcohol level was .122, far above the legal limit.
The drunk tried to flee but neighbors tackled him and held him for
police. They sought triple manslaughter and felony DUI charges, but the illegal
caught a break when Sutter County judge David Ashby, a 2016 appointee of Gov.
Jerry Brown, allowed Huazo-Jardinez to post bail. The Mexican national promptly
fled but Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) apprehended him on May 7.
In the cab of the Mexican’s Chevrolet Avalanche police found a
handgun that had been reported stolen in Boise, Idaho. At the illegal’s Yuba
City residence police found a second stolen firearm registered to a resident of
Colusa County. A search of the residence also turned up 9mm ammunition, $12,000
in cash and more than two dozen cell phones. Police also found a Mexican
passport and a bag packed with clothes, signs that the triple manslaughter
suspect was preparing to flee the country.
According to ICE spokesman Paul
Prince,
“Ismael Huazo-Jardinez is an illegally present Mexican national. The U.S.
Border Patrol apprehended him in Arizona and granted him voluntary return to
Mexico in February 2011. . . He illegally re-entered at some point thereafter.”
On May 28, Sutter County officials charged the illegal alien with
three counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and two counts
of driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury, with four
enhancements for great bodily injury or death. The U.S. Attorney’s Office filed
the gun charges, and those resulted in a conviction and sentence before Sutter
County launched proceedings on action on the manslaughter charges. From the
start, Sutter County authorities were not exactly eager to pursue justice for
slain victims Jose, Anna, and Angel Pacheco, and the injured Mariana.
It is highly unusual for a triple manslaughter suspect to be
granted bail, particularly when he has already attempted to flee the scene of
the crime. Judge Ashby granted bail to Huazo-Jardinez and it remains unclear
who ponied up the $30,000 that allowed the Mexican to flee. On the other hand,
if he had been kept in custody, the state’s sanctuary law would have barred
Sutter County officials from handing the illegal to ICE. Fortunately, a
federal Fugitive Operations
Team captured
the illegal before he could flee to Mexico.
In May, 2020, Huazo-Jardinz pleaded guilty to the gun charges
and has now been sentenced to 15 months in prison. That all took place during a
pandemic so locals wonder about the lethargy of state officials on the triple
manslaughter charges. The case recalls Gustavo Perez Arriaga, also known as
Paulo Virgen Mendoza, a Mexican gang member illegally present in the United
States.
This criminal gunned down Newman, California, police officer Ronil
Singh on
December 26, 2018. Three illegals who helped Arriaga flee were tried and
convicted in federal court before September 1, 2020, when his murder trial was
slated to begin but didn’t. Judge Ricardo Cordova, a 2003 appointee of Democrat
governor Gray Davis, delayed the trial until well after the November 3
election. If Californians thought that was the real reason for delay it would
be hard to blame them. President Trump mentioned the Singh case, and the deaths
of the Pachecos shows the need for border enforcement.
Violent criminals abound in California and the state has no need
to import them. Ismael Huazo-Jardinez, or whatever his real name is, was not
supposed to be in the United States in the first place. He violated U.S.
immigration law, gun laws, and his felony DUI claimed three innocent lives. As
landlord Frankie Gonsalves told
reporters, the
Pachecos were a “model family. Two very hardworking parents, farmworkers,
well-behaved kids. Really good people, pay their rent on time.” Now only
Mariana remains.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who in 2019 reprieved 737 convicted
murderers, including cop-killer Luis Bracamontes, did not speak publicly
about the Pacheco family. Attorney general Xavier Becerra, once on Hillary
Clinton’s short list as a running mate, failed to mention the case. Under
California’s sanctuary law, the protection of violent criminals always takes
priority over justice for their victims and the safety of the people.
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