Many NeverTrumps assert that they're voting against Trump, not for Biden. But the reality is that a vote against Trump is a vote for Biden/Harris and their progressive policies. Biden promised that if he is elected, "I'm gonna be good to go down as one of the most progressive presidents in American history." Bernie Sanders asserted, "Joe Biden will become the most progressive president since [FDR]."
Kamala Harris, who stands a good chance of replacing Biden, has the most progressive record in the Senate, farther left than even Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, who will likely serve significant roles in a Biden/Harris administration, critically influencing policy. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other admitted socialists are advising the campaign and will be a powerful influence in a Biden/Harris administration.
Based on the premise that America is systemically racist, Phil Gramm, former Senate Banking Committee chairman, noted that Biden proposes "a massive transformation of American life, using a reparations commission, wealth transfers, subsidies, employment and promotion preferences, quotas, and even a new mandate to the Federal Reserve[.]"
The Biden-Sanders "manifesto," which the WSJ labeled "the most radical policy document of either major party in our lifetimes," co-written by AOC promoting her socialist dreams, is a must-read. The multi-trillion-dollar Green New Deal; $1.4 billion in slavery reparations; open borders; taxpayer-funded college, health care, and housing for illegal aliens; Medicare for All (Squad member Jayapal co-chaired Biden's health care task force); ending Israeli military aid; court-packing; expansive regulations overseeing every aspect of our lives including regulating the destruction of suburbs; federally funded abortion on demand; expanding unions by repealing right-to-work laws; defunding the police; restricting gun ownership; ending fossil fuels and rejoining the Paris Accords; skyrocketing taxes; and empowering Iran and China — these are but a few of the Democrats' plans.
Our Democracy and Freedoms
Democrats have promised to pack all federal courts with extra lifetime seats for progressives to legislate from the bench, notwithstanding the Constitution's separation of powers explicitly providing for the Legislative Branch to make the laws. This would be accomplished after abandoning the filibuster, an important mechanism that provides the minority party a voice and enables our two-party system to function.
They have promised to pack the Senate by making Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. states, thus providing four more liberal senators and ensuring the Democrats a permanent majority in that chamber. And they have proposed gutting the Electoral College, another important mechanism included by the Founders in order to ensure that all states have a voice in selecting the president.
Democrats prefer one-party rule. The cancel culture has already resulted in many losing jobs and other positions. When the far left, which does not support free speech, freedom of religion, or gun rights, gains control, our constitutional freedoms will slowly disappear without a check on the abuse of power.
Foreign Policy
Biden has promised to return to the Obama days, including rejoining the JCPOA (leading to a nuclear Iran) and lifting the crippling sanctions that would eventually lead to regime change. He will push for the moribund two-state solution while empowering the Palestinians and criticizing Israel. Going back to the days of bullying Israel, passing anti-Israel resolutions at the U.N., and threatening to withhold military aid are just some reasons why Israelis overwhelmingly support "Super-Trump" over Biden. Don't expect a Democrat-controlled Congress to stop anti-Israel efforts from a Biden/Harris administration. Schumer and Pelosi, fearful of losing their positions if they don't bend to the will of the progressive left, will move away from pro-Israel policy and continue to embrace these anti-Semites.
We now know that the entire Biden family — including Joe — has been trading on the family name to squeeze millions out of foreign entities including Russia, Ukraine, and China. The corruption will likely continue into a Biden presidency, but Americans should be concerned about what secrets these foreign leaders have on Biden leading to foreign policy decisions dangerous to our national security.
Obama defense secretary Robert Gates has repeated many times that Biden has "been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades." A man whose day ends anywhere between 9 A.M. and 12 P.M., who cannot remember what office he's running for, and who can't speak without a teleprompter is not a man who should be sitting across from Putin, Xi, Erdoğan, Rouhani, or any other world leader.
The Economy/Environmental Policy
While the country lived through the slowest recovery in decades under Obama/Biden, Trump, in a few short years, produced the strongest economy and jobs market we've ever seen benefiting all Americans including blacks, Latinos, and women. That will change dramatically if Biden wins.
Biden's promises of reversing Trump's tax cuts and increasing taxes (including individual and corporate income, payroll, capital gains, estate, and foreign earnings among others) that will impact every American, onerous regulations in the form of green initiatives and the like, welfare programs including "free" stuff for many, and other progressive policies will inevitably lead to weak growth and financial strains on families.
Biden will kill the energy industry, rejoin the Paris Accords, outlaw gas-powered automobiles, apply new appliance and building efficiency standards, and impose energy taxes and mandates to eliminate carbon, all of which will destroy jobs and make the U.S. non-competitive in the global arena. He intends to create a DOJ "Environmental and Climate Justice Division" that would jail corporate officials whose businesses "pollute."
He also intends to politicize the Federal Reserve by requiring the chairman to collect data and report on "the extent of racial employment and wage gaps," resulting in racial justice impairing the Fed's ability to address inflation risks. A WSJ editorial recognized that similar policies in the housing market contributed to the 2007–2008 mortgage collapse.
Social Justice/Law and Order
Trump has done more for minority communities than any other president in modern times. Biden has had 47 years in public office; he's remembered for pushing a strict crime bill calling blacks "predators" whom we must "take out of society" because they're "beyond the pale." Biden encourages BLM and Antifa, groups tearing inner cities and minority businesses apart.
The Biden/Sanders manifesto includes abolishing law enforcement as we know it; ending cash bail; abolishing the death penalty; appointing social justice prosecutors in order to free violent criminals; and ending mandatory minimum sentences, prison closures, and free federal housing for former inmates. Our cities have already been destroyed with Democrats decriminalizing public urination and defecation, nudity, marijuana, and other quality-of-life offenses. Federalizing these plans will put the final nail in the coffin for sustainable city life.
The Suburbs
Trump ended the Obama/Biden Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule designed to require suburbs to build high-density low-income housing, as it did in Westchester County. Biden promises to reinstitute the rule, ending single-family zoning and requiring "transit-oriented development," forcing residents to use public transportation — in effect, as Stanley Kurtz stated, "Manhattanizing the suburbs." AFFH also urges local municipalities to "equalize the distribution of 'community assets,' like good schools, parks, proximity to transportation hubs and business districts, among various demographic and economic groups."
Education
Biden and Harris are in the pocket of the teachers' unions and thus oppose school choice, which provides minorities and poor students a quality education. They will abolish tax credit scholarships, all charter schools including in poor neighborhoods, and educational standards while adopting liberal K–12 curricula that focus on teaching Islam, requiring equity and diversity training, and the New York Times' 1619 Project that rewrites American history.
Higher education will be destroyed by bringing back affirmative action, giving "free" college to all, and forcing taxpayers to pay for others' student loans. The Obama era during which students were guilty until proven innocent and anti-Semitism was ignored, policies reversed by Trump, will ruin students' lives once again.
Immigration
Biden's plans include abolishing detentions, deportations (including MS-13 gangsters), and travel bans (including from jihadist regions); supporting sanctuary cities; abolishing enforcement of immigration laws; taxpayer-funded lawyers, welfare, health care, student aid and community college, and work permits for illegal aliens; canceling cooperation agreements among the Western Hemisphere countries; and mass amnesty.
Voters will decide whether they choose the transformation of the country under an unprecedentedly progressive, regulated, and invasive Biden/Harris administration or whether they wish to preserve our democracy as the Founders intended and under which we have flourished for 244 years. To paraphrase Golda Meir, I'm praying that Americans love their country more than they hate Trump.
WHEN KAMALA HARRIS WAS THE CORRUPT BRIBES-SUCKING ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CALIFORNIA SHE ANNOUNCED THAT NEARLY HALF THE MURDERS IN CA ARE BY MEX GANGS!
THIS HAD NO IMPACT ON HER AMNESTY AND OPEN BORDERS PLATFORM.
THE LAWLESS LIFE OF A SHADY LAWYER: THE CASE AGAINST KAMALA HARRIS, SOCIOPATH LAWYER
https://kamala-harris-sociopath.blogspot.com/2020/10/kamala-harris-laws-of-lawless-bribes.html
A known MS-13 Gang member, living illegally in the United States, was arrested but went unprosecuted by then-San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris’ office months before he murdered a California family.
“However, I would like to encourage my fellow Democrats to approach Senator Harris with a healthy dose of skepticism. As a prosecutor and California State Attorney General, Harris has engaged in blatantly unethical behavior for her profession and embraced positions that actively hurt her constituents.”
JESSER HOROWITZ
DOJ Releases MS-13 Report
74 percent of gang defendants charged were unlawfully present in the United States
By Andrew R. Arthur on October 23, 2020
On Wednesday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released "Full-Scale Response: A Report on the Department of Justice's Efforts to Combat MS-13 from 2016-2020". It is well worth the read, detailing the department's efforts to eradicate Mara Salvatrucha-13 (MS-13), which was designated as a significant transnational criminal organization (TCO) during the Obama administration in 2012, worldwide. The most interesting — but not shocking — takeaway is that some 74 percent of the MS-13 defendants prosecuted by DOJ during the past four years are in the United States illegally.
MS-13 is not a new topic on these pages, but it is, oddly enough, one that does not draw much attention — even in communities in which the organization operates. For example, on September 4, I wrote "Five MS-13 'Affiliates' Held in Rural Baltimore County Killing of 16-Year-Old Girl". The victim, Gabriela Alejandra Gonzalez Ardon, was slaughtered in the woods beside a walking trail near an upscale Maryland neighborhood.
It turns out that three of those indicted in that case were unlawfully present in the United States, having entered as minors, as my colleague Marguerite Telford reported. The five were easy for the police to apprehend, as they were already in custody for assault and attempted murder on a 17-year-old male who had reportedly been targeted by the gang for recruitment (he was abducted from the local public library, no less). That assault allegedly occurred eight days after Ardon's murder.
It was briefly a local story in Baltimore, and then — nothing. So, I wrote a second article, "If a Girl Dies in the Forest, Does Anyone Other than Me Care? Gabriela Alejandra Gonzalez Ardon, MS-13, and the odd lack of coverage — and outrage". I received one radio interview in response, but I cannot find anything in the local paper of record (the Baltimore Sun) about MS-13 since they reported on the charges in her case on August 31.
Worse, you can watch the pusillanimous response of Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski when asked about the gang in September 2019. Why was the county executive asked about the gang more than a year ago? Because a few days before, ICE identified six of the seven individuals involved in the stabbing death of a 21-year-old man in Towson as illegal aliens and MS-13 gang members. Note that Towson is the county seat — that is, where Olszewski works, and runs the government.
In any event, back to the DOJ report. It explains:
MS-13 operates in the United States, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, and other countries. Each year, MS-13 is responsible for violent crimes in the United States, including murders, extortion, arms and drug trafficking, assaults, rapes, human trafficking, robberies, and kidnappings. For decades, MS-13 has exploited weaknesses in U.S. immigration enforcement policies to move its members in and out of the United States and to recruit new members who have arrived in the United States illegally.
Astoundingly, that report estimates that there are 10,000 MS-13 members in this country, and tens of thousands more abroad.
The genesis of that report was a February 9, 2017, Executive Order (EO 13773), "Enforcing Federal Law with Respect to Transnational Criminal Organizations and Preventing International Trafficking". In that EO, President Trump called on the executive branch to strengthen and prioritize the federal response to TCOs and other criminal organizations, including MS-13.
As I reported in April 2017, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions thereafter announced "zero tolerance" for criminal gangs, with a special emphasis on MS-13. Subsequently, in October 2018, Sessions announced the formation of a Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) Task Force made up of experienced federal prosecutors to coordinate the government's efforts against the identified groups, including not just MS-13, but also narcotraffickers like the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG), the Sinaloa Cartel, and the Gulf Cartel, as well as Lebanese Hezbollah.
As the DOJ report explains, in August 2019, Attorney General William Barr created Joint Task Force Vulcan ("JTFV"). JTFV was charged with coordinating and leading the efforts of DOJ and other U.S. law enforcement agencies to eradicate MS-13. DOJ explains that JTFV has increased coordination and collaboration between law-enforcement in the United States and international law enforcement partners, including El Salvador, Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala.
This international cooperation is crucial, because MS-13 is essentially a large foreign criminal pyramid scheme with illicit franchisees, as the 2012 designation of the group as a TCO made clear:
Local MS-13 cliques take direction from the group's foreign leadership for strategic decisions involving moves into new territories and efforts to recruit new members. Money generated by local MS-13 cliques in the U.S. is consolidated and funneled to the group's leadership in El Salvador.
The money that is funneled back to Central America funds the group's criminal activities in the region (as I will discuss below), fueling violence that is a major push factor driving migrants to enter the United States illegally.
As an immigration judge, I heard dozens, if not hundreds, of asylum claims based on MS-13 extortion, coercion, and recruitment efforts. Eradicating MS-13 in the United States and abroad thus improves security in the countries from which the majority of migrants entering the United States illegally hail — reducing that push factor.
JTFV has also "designated priority targeting of prosecutions against MS-13 cliques and leaders who have the most impact on the U.S." and "coordinated significant MS-13 indictments in United States Attorneys' Offices across the country."
DOJ reports that, since FY 2016, it has charged 749 MS-13 defendants, and obtained (to date) at least 504 convictions. Some 37 of those defendants have been sentenced to life. In addition, the department is seeking the death penalty in two MS-13 cases, one out of the Eastern District of New York, and one out of the Eastern District of Virginia.
The indictment in the New York case charges the defendant, Alexi Saenz, with seven murders. Four of the victims were high school students, and six were killed with a machete and/or baseball bat.
The indictment in the Virginia case names one Elmer Zelaya Martinez, who is alleged to be "a high-ranking member of the Park View Locos Salvatrucha clique". Martinez is charged with coordinating the "stabbing and hacking deaths" of a 14-year-old and a 17-year-old.
DOJ has gone after MS-13 members on a laundry list of charges, ranging from RICO, murder, robbery and extortion, kidnapping, and human trafficking to "Conspiracy to Provide and Conceal Material Support to Terrorists" and "Conspiracy to Commit Acts of Terrorism Transcending National Boundaries".
The latter two charges (among others) have been lodged against Armando Eliu Melgar Diaz, a twice-deported Salvadoran national currently living in that country. Since his second deportation, according to DOJ, he has become the leader of the "MS-13 East Coast Program", overseeing the activities of 20 of the gang's cliques in this country (including in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, California, Ohio, Rhode Island, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and the District of Columbia), as well as MS-13 undertakings in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
DOJ notes: "The money Melgar Diaz received from members in the United States was used to support MS-13's violent activities in El Salvador, including by purchasing weapons." Proving my point, above.
Also detailed in that report is a case that I discussed in August, in a post captioned "Honduran Minor Brutally Exploited by MS-13 Gang: Fairfax County's sanctuary policies turns a blind eye (at a minimum) to such offenses". The facts are so heinous, I will not repeat them again, but suffice it to say that it involved the serial beating and sex trafficking (in both Virginia and Maryland) of a 13-year-old girl.
How has MS-13 managed to wreak such carnage? The report explains that MS-13 was able to exploit "weak immigration enforcement policies" in this country for decades, recruiting and using aliens here to carry out its criminal activities.
Specifically, of the MS-13 related individuals charged by DOJ in the past five years, 74 percent were in the United States illegally, 3 percent are aliens legally present in the United States, and 8 percent are U.S. citizens (the status of an additional 15 percent are "unknown", for reasons that are unclear).
There are three key points in that report: (1) MS-13 is an exceptionally brutal, but well-organized, criminal organization operating both in the United States and abroad. (2) DOJ and a slew of other federal agencies are focusing significant resources on bringing MS-13 members, including key organizers and leaders, to justice. (3) Lax enforcement of U.S. immigration law has allowed that gang to flourish, to the detriment of not only communities across this country, but also to the citizens of and civil society in countries across the region.
Sanctuary communities nationwide should pay heed to this report. As should clueless local politicos and the media.
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