Almost everything in this world can be divided into two spheres: the image the public sees, and the underlying reality. Sometimes they’re the same. Mother Teresa was a great humanitarian, a Godly woman free of any scandal.
Sometimes they’re not the same at all.
Bernie Madoff, contrary to his early reputation which he shamelessly exploited, was not an honorable, highly successful investment manager worthy of respect. In actual fact he was a fraudster and a scoundrel who was sentenced to ten years in prison for embezzlement.
When the Democratic Party is examined from this perspective, especially in relation to the Black community, it comes out much closer to the inky slime of Bernie Madoff than it does the sanctity of Mother Teresa.
The Democratic Party was associated with the Ku Klux Klan and segregation for most of the 20th Century. But in the 1960s it made a hard turn to the left. It currently claims to act in the best interests of the Black community in a noble battle against racism and White Supremacy. But in example after example the Democratic party instead causes great damage and permanent harm to these same people that it claims to represent. The case against the Democratic Party is overwhelming.
Defund the Police may have been the most counterproductive campaign in American political history. Its stated purpose was to save and protect Black lives from violent suppression in the United States. Yet Defund the Police is soaked in the blood of Black Americans. Murder rates have shot up over 30 percent since 2020 when Defund took hold in our cities. Many experts believe the movement has directly and undeniably caused the unnecessary deaths of thousands of young people of color.
New York Mayor Eric Adams has said it best : “If Black lives matter, then the thousands of people I saw on the street when [George] Floyd was murdered should be on the streets right now stating that the lives of these Black children that are dying every night matter,” Adams said. “We can’t be hypocrites.”
The increase in the murder rate has been especially alarming in large metropolitan areas. Los Angeles provides a stinging example. In that politically liberal city, the murder rate increased 44.9 percent between 2019 and 2021. Chicago has seen a 37 percent increase in the murder rate over the same period of time.
The Wall Street Journal editorial board concluded , “No one factor explains this criminal surge. But it’s no coincidence that the bloodshed increased as cities slashed police budgets, progressive prosecutors demanded leniency and eliminated bail for criminals, and jails and prisons released thousands of lawbreakers amid the Covid-19 outbreak.”
Education provides another example of woke, liberal programs causing great harm to those they claim to want to help.
Many public schools, especially in Democratic Party-controlled cities are badly failing their students. One prime example out of many is Patterson High School in Baltimore where 77 percent of the students read at an elementary school level.
The voucher program proposed by Republicans offers one possible solution. It would allow students to pick any school within a city area that they wished to attend. It would allow all students to choose the very best schools in the city rather than being forced to attend failing schools, which is so often the case.
Teachers unions oppose school choice because many students would then leave failing institutions and enroll in far better schools. This would cause many teachers in the forsaken schools to lose their jobs. The Democratic Party has long since sold out to the teachers unions. The welfare of Black students’ education and the ability of those students to compete for jobs and careers is therefore sacrificed for teacher’s job security. Democrats have made a devil’s bargain with the unions, with student welfare sacrificed for the sake of campaign donations.
Another example of a covenant with the Devil can be found on our southern border. A record of 100,306 people died from drug overdoses in the twelve months ending in April 2021. The majority of these deaths came from opioids, primarily fentanyl. This deadly drug is produced in China then shipped to Mexico, where cartels bring it across our wide-open border. It is cheap, extremely powerful, and easily available. It is making the drug cartels even richer and more powerful than they already were. Guess which community is being disproportionately killed .
All of this has led to a crime surge beyond the ones plaguing our unprotected cities, with Mexican drug gang members entering America unchecked and killing citizens who get in their way. The Democratic Party is in favor of the massively open border so that undocumented workers can be put on a fast-track program to citizenship and then be persuaded -- so they think -- to vote for Democrats. Never mind the people dying of drug overdoses, murdered by drug gangs, or having their lives ruined from opioid addiction. The murder rate in Houston, Texas -- the largest city in border-state Texas – is up 51% this year alone.
In the state of Texas, 68% of those booked from June 1, 2011, and November 30, 2021, were criminal aliens. Their offenses included 742 murders, 47,737 assaults, 7,524 burglaries and over 11,000 sexual assaults and other sex crimes and numerous kidnappings and robberies. Not only are they killing Americans, we then pay for their incarceration.
This crime wave is harmful to all U.S. citizens regardless of race. Once again the welfare of our citizens is being sacrificed for the Democratic Party’s political gain.
Eighty-eight to 90 percent of Black voters vote for Democrats in both national and local elections. Simply put, the Democratic Party has betrayed Black voters over and over again. What should you do when someone betrays you? Should you ever put your trust in them again? Today’s Democrats are in favor of everything that is killing the Black community, and oppose everything that would help us. They want us trapped in violent cities with exploding crime, demoralized police, and failing schools. Their policies create a vortex of death for Black America. The only solution is to leave the Democrats behind, for good .
Jared Knott , author of Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever . Knott was a decorated combat infantry officer in Vietnam in the First Air Cavalry Division.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott (D) blamed the media for perpetuating violence during the “Summer of Peace” event on Monday and lauded “personal responsibility” as one of the keys to lowering violent crime.
During the event, a member of the media asked: “Do you think your administration can have a summer of peace given what we’ve seen this year?” an ABC News affiliate reported .
Scott “fired back,” defensively answering the question and accusing the community at large of “spreading this hate.”
“I think that’s a ridiculous question. I think that your station, in particular, has to understand this is not hashtag. We are going to work every day to make sure that does not happen wherever we can prevent it,” he said. “We ultimately have to understand personal responsibility. Where’s the personal responsibility? When are we also going to call on people to check on what’s going on with their young people, to make sure they know what their young people are into?”
He continued:
When are we going to have a conversation how everybody, including your station, can play apart in reducing violence, instead of spreading this hate, spreading this violence, spreading the hashtags, spreading this nonsense.
The “Summer of Peace” was organized as a way to speak up against crime and violence in the city.
We know what the mission is. The mission is to save lives in Baltimore, and particularly to save the lives of our young people.
The Baltimore Police were investigating 137 murders as of Monday, less than halfway into 2022, according to the station, which cited a Forbes report showing that Baltimore was the fifth most dangerous city in the country. Baltimore had 337 murders in 2021, which was the seventh consecutive year the city had more than 300 homicides. Analysts have predicted that 2022 could prove to be the deadliest in Baltimore’s history.
“After studying a decade of crime patterns, Sean Kennedy, with the Maryland Public Policy Institute, says the city is on-track to see more than 375 homicides this year,” a Fox Baltimore report said in April. “That would be the most homicides that Baltimore has seen since 1993 when the death toll hit 353.”
Democrats, including Mayor Scott, have run the city since the 1960s. Scott notably led efforts to defund the Baltimore Police by $22 million when he was a city councilman. As mayor, he backtracked by proposing a $27 million increase the following year. This April, Scott announced the city would be hiring civilians as investigators for its detective force as it faces staffing shortages and rising violent crime.
Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said the hiring of civilian investigators is “directly tied” to the department’s struggle to hire and retain officers and noted that the agency had a shortage of 350 positions, CNN reported. The far-left news outlet blamed the pandemic, the “great resignation,” low pay, “the climate for law enforcement” stemming from the demonization of police after the death of George Floyd, and “local reform efforts” for complicating recruitment and retention.
Baltimore also has a Soros-backed Democrat State Attorney, Marilyn Mosby, who during the pandemic and afterward, ordered the city to stop prosecuting certain low-level crimes, including prostitution, drug possession, and minor traffic offenses. Mosby has defended her policies, at one point saying , “we cannot arrest our way out of the problems or prosecute our way out of gun violence.”
$10 Million Lottery Winner Sentenced to Life in Prison for Murder Shallotte Police Department via AP 2:18
Michael Todd Hill, who won $10 million with a scratch-off lottery ticket in 2017, will spend the rest of his life behind bars after being convicted of first-degree murder.
Hill, 54, a former nuclear plant worker of Brunswick County, North Carolina, was convicted of shooting and killing his girlfriend, Keonna Graham, 23, in July 2020, the News & Observer reported .
Hill was found guilty by a jury following deliberations that took an hour and was sentenced by a judge “to life in prison without possibility for parole” on the first-degree murder charge, the outlet noted. He was additionally sentenced to “22 to 36 months for Possession of Firearm by Felon,” which will run concurrently with the life sentence.
Graham was found dead by hotel staff in Shallotte at midday on July 20, 2020. An autopsy report said that she was fatally shot in the head while she was sleeping, WECT reported . Hill was indicted in November 2020.
“Surveillance footage from the hotel showed Hill as the only individual in the hotel room with Graham,” prosecutors wrote in their news release, the News & Observer noted. “Hill was later arrested by law enforcement in Southport, North Carolina, and confessed to shooting Graham after she had been texting other men while at the hotel.”
Hill told authorities that he had been involved in a relationship with the 23-year-old for a year and a half following his big win, WECT noted . It was also reported “ that there were domestic issues in the past between the two.”
In 2017 Hill hit it big, winning $10 million with an Ultimate Millions scratch-off ticket, the North Carolina Education Lottery said in a press release.
“ He had the choice of taking a $10 million annuity that has 20 payments of $500,000 a year or a lump sum of $6 million,” according to the press release. “Hill chose the lump sum and, after required state and federal tax withholdings, took home $4,159,101.”
The release noted that at the time, Hill intended to “pay off bills” and invest “in his wife’s instructional design business.”
You can follow Ethan Letkeman on Twitter at @Ethan Letkeman .
46 Shot During Memorial Weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast 2:14
Forty-six people were shot, ten of them fatally, during Memorial Day weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.
Breitbart News noted at least 21 people were shot Friday into Sunday morning alone on Memorial Weekend, and four of those shooting victims succumbed to their wounds.
ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reports the number of shooting victims rose to 46 by Monday evening, with six of those victims dying from their injuries.
Among the shooting deaths Sunday and Monday was 33-year-old Jeremy Benson, who was fatally shot while driving. He was driving “in the 4400-block of West Madison Street” and he crashed after being shot.
A 24-year-old man was also shot and killed early Sunday while attending a birthday party “in the 5700-block of South Carpenter Street.”
Colton Jeralds, an off-duty police officer, stands outside Club Lucky restaurant as he works for P4 Security Solutions in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, on May 11 2022. Several groups of city residents have banded together to hire security companies, saying that the police are too under-funded and under-staffed to provide adequate coverage. (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
At 2:50 p.m. Monday a 31-year-old man was shot multiple times while sitting inside a residence “in the 6900-block of South Green Street.” The 31-year-old died at the scene.
Hours later, at 5 p.m., a 27-year-old man was shot “in the 8600-block of South Aberdeen Street.” He was rushed to a hospital, where he died.
The 46 Memorial Day weekend shooting victims in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago represent a increase over the number of shooting victims during the same weekend in 2021.
Breitbart News noted at least 33 people were shot, three of them fatally, in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago during Memorial Weekend 2021.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendmen t columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins , a weekly newsletter focused o n al l things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins . Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com . You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange .
AMERICA = A CRIPPLED, WEAK NATION!
Funerals for victims of Robb Elementary School shooting begin today
AMERICA HAS, AND ALWAYS WILL BE, RUN BY THE SPECIAL INTERESTS. YOU PROBABLY WOULD NOT FIND A MEMBER OF CONGRESS WHO HAS NOT SUCKED BRIBES FROM THE GUN MANUFACTURERS AND THE NRA!
Canadian PM Trudeau Introduces Bill To Prevent Buying And Selling Handguns
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced a bill to block the purchase, sale and import of handguns in Canada. MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell speaks to David Hogg, gun safety activist and survivor of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, about the move by Trudeau and how it compares to the lack of legislative action on gun violence in America.
Hawkins: Uvalde School Shooter Passed Background Check — So Why Does the Left Think More Background Checks Would Have Stopped Him? Joe Raedle/Getty Images 6:31
The Uvalde shooter passed a background check to acquire his guns, so why does the left think more background checks would make a difference?
The shooter’s “legal” purchase of firearms is something the left has avoided mentioning since the Uvalde shooting occurred, but it must be discussed because it is pertinent to the current gun control push. In truth, it undercuts the current gun control push, which is probably why the left avoids it.
On May 30 the Associated Press listed 22 mass shootings, dating back to July 20, 2012, and sourced the guns in each shooting to find they were acquired via a background check in every instance but one.
Breitbart News has long kept a running tally of the high-profile mass shootings of the last 15 years, and every attacker but three got his guns via a background check. Two of the three who avoided background checks–the Clackamus Town Center attacker (December 11, 2012) and the Sandy Hook attacker (December 14, 2012)–stole their guns, so no amount of point-of-sale gun checks would have stopped them. Only one individual, the Midland, Texas, attacker (August 31, 2019), acquired his gun via a private sale.
The truth is inescapable: High-profile mass shooters are usually people with criminal intent but no criminal record, therefore they can (and do) pass background checks to get their guns.
Here is a short list of some of the high-profile attackers who passed background checks to acquire their guns:
Uvalde School attacker (May 24, 2022) Buffalo grocery attacker (May 14, 2022) Indianapolis FedEx attacker (April 15, 2021) Atlanta-area attacker (March 16, 2021) Parkland high school attacker (February 14, 2018) Texas church attacker (November 5, 2017) Las Vegas attacker (October 1, 2017) Alexandria attacker (June 14, 2017) Orlando attacker (June 12, 2016) UCLA gunman (June 1, 2016) San Bernardino attackers (December 2, 2015) Colorado Springs attacker (October 31, 2015) Umpqua Community College attacker (October 1, 2015) Alison Parker’s attacker (August 26, 2015) Lafayette movie theater attacker (July 23, 2015) Chattanooga attacker (July 16, 2015) Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal attacker (Jun 17, 2015) Muhammad Cartoon Contest attackers (May 3, 2014) Las Vegas cop killers (June 9, 2015) Santa Barbara attacker (May 23, 2014) Fort Hood attacker (April 2, 2014) Arapahoe High School attacker (December 13, 2013) D.C. Navy Yard attacker (September 16, 2013) Aurora movie theater attacker (July 20, 2012) Gabby Giffords’ attacker (January 8, 2011) Fort Hood attacker (November 5, 2009) Northern Illinois University attacker (February 14, 2008) Virginia Tech attacker (April 16, 2007) Yet the left continues to push background checks, despite the fact that checks did not stop the above-listed high-profile attacks.
Moreover, the left actually points to many of the above-listed attacks in demanding more background checks.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) responded to the October 1, 2017, Las Vegas attack by calling for more background checks, and went so far as to describe universal background checks as the Democrats’ gun control “North Star.” But the Las Vegas attacker passed background checks to acquire his guns, so Murphy’s expansion of checks would have done nothing to stop the attack. (Just as an expansion of checks would have done nothing to stop the attacks in Uvalde, Buffalo, Indianapolis, the Atlanta area, Parkland, Orlando, San Bernardino, Fort Hood, the Aurora movie theater, etc.)
Only one explanation for the left’s feverish push for universal background checks makes sense, and that reason is that such checks literally give government the power to stop law-abiding citizens from acquiring guns. Once every gun sale–retail or private–is forced to be conducted via a government background check, then all guns sales can be halted–or sales of certain types of guns can by halted–by the same government conducting the checks.
Canada has a strict background check requirements tied to licenses for gun purchases and gun ownership. GunPolicy.org notes that those licenses have to be renewed every five years, requiring another in-depth background check for renewal.
With such control over who can buy guns and when, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau was able to announce Monday the enactment of a freeze on handgun sales.
CNN quoted Trudeau saying, “What this means is that it will no longer be possible to buy, sell, transfer or import handguns anywhere in Canada.”
That seems to be the only viable reason why an expansion of background checks is the “North Star” for Democrats, as far as gun control is concerned. It literally gives government the ability to mandate when guns can be sold, if guns can be sold, etc.
Of course, the Second Amendment would bar such infringement, but since when have the Democrats or other leftists allowed the Second Amendment to get in their way?
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendmen t columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins , a weekly newsletter focused o n al l things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins . Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com . You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange .
Biden on Uvalde school shooting: ‘Why are we willing to live with this carnage?'
And what struck me on that 17-hour flight--
At least 10 people were wounded in a mass shooting in South Carolina on Monday night — one of numerous mass shootings that unfolded across the U.S. over Memorial Day weekend.
Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg said on Tuesday that nearly a dozen people were shot during the gunfire late Monday, with four in critical condition.
A police officer had responded to a loud party after receiving a noise complaint. Charleston Police Chief Luther Reynolds told reporters , “Immediately the officer took gunfire.”
“Two shots went into his cruiser, and let me tell you something: As we stand here right now, we’re lucky we don’t have a dead cop or dead citizens or dead community members.”
Women embrace at a memorial at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers on May 24. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)
The mass shooting was one of at least 14 such incidents throughout the country over the holiday weekend, according to the Gun Violence Archive , which tracks such incidents. The group defines mass shootings as “four or more people” shot or killed in one incident, excluding the shooter.
From Saturday until Monday, at least 60 people were reported to have been injured in mass shootings, while nine others were killed, Gun Violence Archive reported. Holiday weekends, especially during the summer, are often associated with spikes in gun violence; some of the shootings from the past weekend occurred at parties.
The grim numbers came less than a week after 21 people — 19 young students and two of their teachers — were slaughtered at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas , by a gunman who locked himself in their classroom. Authorities said the gunman legally purchased two AR-style rifles when he turned 18 a week before the attack.
Just days before that shooting, 10 Black people were killed in a racist attack at a grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y. Federal authorities are investigating the mass shooting as a hate crime.
On Saturday, Vice President Kamala Harris visited Buffalo, where she spoke at the funeral of an 86-year-old who was killed in the attack.
Harris told mourners she wanted a ban on assault weapons, asking them: "Do you know what an assault weapon is? It was designed for a specific purpose: to kill a lot of human beings quickly. An assault weapon is a weapon of war, with no place, no place in a civil society."
On Sunday, President Biden visited Uvalde, where he mourned with the families of those killed. As he left a church service, someone shouted “Do something” at him, to which he replied: “We will.”
During a Memorial Day service at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, the president added: “I think things have gotten so bad that everybody’s getting more rational; at least that’s my hope.”
No comments:
Post a Comment