Jerry Harris, former Biden campaign surrogate and star of the Netflix documentary Cheer , was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for sex crimes involving minors. The disgraced cheerleader pleaded guilty in February to sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy in a bathroom at a cheer competition and paying another underaged child to send him sexually explicit photos and videos on Snapchat.
Prior to his arrest in September 2020, Harris was one of several celebrity influencers the Biden campaign embraced in an effort to "win back the internet." In June 2020, Biden appeared with Harris on Instagram Live to discuss "some really important issues facing our country right now, in particular young adults and the black community." The video, which received more than 300,000 views on the social media platform, was deleted shortly after federal agents raided the influencer's Illinois home in September. Harris was arrested days later.
The sentence is a blow to the Democratic Party, which has a long history of associating with sexual deviants. Last month, for example, Democratic donor Ghislaine Maxwell received a 20-year sentence for abusing and trafficking underage girls at the behest of Jeffrey Epstein, the scofflaw pedophile who "committed suicide " in 2019. Maxwell was a longtime friend of former president Bill Clinton, who gifted her a signed copy of his post-White House memoir and made numerous trips aboard Epstein's private jet, nicknamed the "Lolita Express." In 2010, Maxwell attended Chelsea Clinton's wedding to failed hedge-fund manager Marc Mezvinsky.
In 2020, the Democratic Party lost one of its most prolific benefactors when Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein received a 23-year sentence after his conviction on charges of rape and sexual assault. Prior to his arrest in 2018, Weinstein consulted Anita Dunn for "damage control" advice. The longtime Biden adviser is viewed as a likely contender to replace White House chief of staff Ron Klain after the midterm elections.
Less than a year before Weinstein's arrest, another prominent Democrat was sent to prison for child sex crimes. Former congressman Anthony Weiner (D., N.Y.) received a 21-month sentence after pleading guilty to transferring obscene material to a minor. Weiner, the disgraced husband of longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, was accused of "[asking] a girl who he knew to be 15 years old to display her naked body and engage in sexually explicit behavior for him online." His shockingly degenerate behavior, first reported by the Washington Free Beacon ‘s Alana Goodman, prompted the FBI to reopen its investigation into Clinton's private email server, a development that likely contributed to her humiliating defeat in the 2016 election.
Recently, a Connecticut teen, reportedly a gang member with an extensive rap sheet, was arrested in connection with 18 shootings. For years this young man has been out on the streets, committing crimes, getting arrested, and repeatedly being released. It's time to crack down on crime, but in many leftist districts, politicians and prosecutors are having none of it.
There is an abnormal amount of crime in the U.S., though progressives continue to deny it. The most convincing proof is the murder rate: there are 2.6 as many homicides in the U.S. as in Canada (2019 figures), five times as many as in Germany, more than sixteen times more than in Japan. Violent crime in the U.S. is very real, and it is out of control.
Politicians like Biden and Harris talk about bail reform, over-representation of minorities in prison, and "root causes" of everything. But the plain truth is that there are violent criminals out there who are entirely lacking in conscience and feeling. The only solution is to apprehend these criminals and send them to prison for a long time — and to make prison a place where they will not want to return after they are released.
Prison conditions should be harsh, not the country club of decent meals, clean cells, elective health care, and cable TV enjoyed by most prisoners today. There is nothing "cruel and unusual" about providing spartan, unappealing conditions for those who prey on society and make life intolerable for many innocent persons.
This is the approach of the Japanese prison system, in which inmates are assigned simple cells with tatami mats for sleeping and sitting during the day and in which simple meals consist of rice, barley, fish, and vegetables — healthy fare, but no picnic. Prisoners are responsible for cleaning, cooking, and maintaining the premises.
According to one authority , Japanese prisons "are known to be very strict , in order to rehabilitate inmates and ensure they never commit a crime again." These conditions include being allowed to speak only during "free time," which is limited, and only in quiet voices. "Entertainment" consists of an hour or so of simple radio or TV, but work takes up most of the day.
Apparently, this strict prison system works. The 2019 figures show only 48,400 prisoners in a country with a population of 120 million, and the recidivism rate is estimated at approximately 50%. U.S. prisons contain a total of 2.4 million , with recidivism running as high as 85%, depending on the state. Given the reputation of prisons in Japan as places of true punishment, few Japanese commit crimes to begin with, and those who do spend time in a Japanese prison do not want to return.
The upshot of the Japanese justice system is that innocent citizens are spared the harm of violent crime. In 2018, there were only 334 murders in all of Japan, a country with 128 million people. In the U.S., there were 16,214.
Japan enjoys a low crime rate in part because of its vigilant policing, strict prosecutors (with a 99% conviction rate ), and spartan prison conditions. Crimes are truly punished, and as a result, there are low crime rates. Something is terribly wrong with the American justice system, and progressives' support of even greater leniency is making matters worse.
One shouldn't have to say it, but prison should be a place of punishment. Yet, according to one source , prison meals aren't that bad. "Typical lunch for prison may include pasta, vegetable salad, ham or sausage and loaf of bread. Half a cup of vegetables, or a serving of fruit such as apple or banana, is served with it." Better than what many on the outside are eating.
Another inmate who blogs describes her New York prison as containing "a library, beauty shop ... a medical wing, a rec yard and a gym." While most inmates work, "[n]ot all inmates worked full time jobs. Some would go to G.E.D class, or take a break for classes like thinking errors, parenting and anger management." Thinking errors?! I imagine so, but I don't think a class on "thinking errors" will deter a hardened criminal from future crimes.
I am not suggesting cruelty or neglect or lack of medical attention, but there is nothing wrong with depriving criminals of the comforts that most of us on the outside take for granted.
At present, a misguided incarceration policy attempts to rehabilitate repeat offenders by giving them a pleasant stay in comfortable surroundings, complete with counseling, job training, and even university courses. That effort is failing, with 83% of prisoners arrested within nine years of their release, and that's only counting those who do get arrested. Since there is a high likelihood that prisoners will continue to commit crimes after their release, the obvious solution, especially for violent criminals, is to keep them off the streets for a long time.
The first obligation of government is to protect its citizens, whether from foreign attack or internal violence. At present, the Biden administration is doing neither, and leftists at the state and local levels are doing just as badly. It's time for some new thinking on crime.
First is to affirm that anyone who commits a serious crime must serve time without the likelihood of early release.
Second is that criminals must actually be punished. Sitting in a comfortable cell with three meals a day and unlimited recreation is not punishment.
And when they have completed their full sentence and are released, criminals should know that the commission of another crime will lead to a much longer sentence.
New thinking on crime will result in less crime, and crime reduction should be the first purpose of domestic policy. Every crime involves at least one victim, and today's criminals are running wild. Gangs enter exclusive stores and haul off bag-loads of goods. California has decriminalized theft of less than $900, so stores are closing down to avoid being wiped out. And this kind of burglary often involves assault of store personnel.
Worse yet are carjackings, home invasions, and senseless murders of innocent bystanders. Police are spread thin, especially in large districts such as Los Angeles County, and the national "clearance rate" of murders has fallen below 50% (2020 figures). So even if one commits a serious crime, there is little chance of a long prison sentence. Only 18% of property crimes are solved, with low conviction rates and light sentences, if any. Half of Americans will see their homes burglarized at some point.
This is not the "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness" promised by our Founders. Citizens have an absolute right to live free of crime, but progressive government is not delivering on this promise.
Crime of all sorts is mounting, and weak liberal policies are the cause of it. We need more funding for police, prosecutors who actually prosecute, and prisons that actually punish. And though it should not be necessary to say it, those who are convicted of serious crimes should serve long sentences in prisons to which they do not wish to return.
Jeffrey Folks is the author of many books and articles on American culture including Heartland of the Imagination (2011).
Image via Pxhere .
VIDEO OF TYPICAL BLACK ASSAULT IN A CONVENIENCE STORE
BLACK ASSAULT
Tucker Carlson: You can no longer fight back
Tomi Lahren: Left created 'culture of lawlessness' that won't go away quickly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viAzai5DGmU
HOW MUCH DOES BLACK MOB LOOTING COST AMERICA? HOW PAYS? NOT BLACK AMERICA!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/11/mob-looting-new-black-sport-what-is.html
Over a dozen vehicles pulled up to the Broadway Plaza shopping mall. Some eighty vandals, some wielding crowbars, ran inside Nordstrom and stole merchandise. Five Nordstrom employees were physically assaulted.
The action was said to be over in less than a minute. With their bounty in hand, estimated at $200,000, the thieves drove off in different directions. Only three were apprehended. Of those, one was illegally carrying a firearm.
B IVES MATTER CO-FOUNDER PURCHASES $1.4 MILLION HOME IN 0.4% BLACK COMMUNITY
https://www.theepochtimes.com/blm-co-founder-purchases-1-4-million-home-in-a-0-4-percent-black-population-community-larry-elder_3786037.html?utm_source=ai_recommender&utm_medium=a_bottom_above_etv
BLACK RACISM, ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-ASIAN, HOMOPHOBIC, VIOLENCE AND IGNORANCE AS DISPLAYED BY THIS CLOWN CHAPPELLE
Comedian Dave Chappelle’s The Closer : A racist tirade disguised as stand-up comedy
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/10/dave-chappelle-one-more-racist-black.html
Thieves crash UHaul into auto parts store
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-fAr-bP3Ds
Woman who livestreamed her looting spree in Chicago released from prison the same day she arrived to serve her 17-month sentence
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/11/blacks-and-looting-case-against-taeshia.html
By Thomas Lifson
I’d like to be able to say “only in Chicago,” which seems to have become the world capital of street crime, but alas, “criminal justice reform” runs rampant – as do criminals, even those convicted of felonies.
Surveillance video shows man stealing coveted puppy from pet store
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsqXrzqFD5o
EXCLUSIVE: Two San Francisco Prosecutors Quit, Join Effort to Recall City's DA'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqTfK2pRXs0
BIG SPIKE IN SHOPLIFTING, THIEVES GET MORE BRAZEN, POVERTY DANGER AHEAD WARNING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4BMXf2G6h8
Walgreens Closes Five Bay Area Stores amid Shoplifting Surge
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/10/13/walgreens-closes-five-bay-area-stores-amid-shoplifting-surge/
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/10/black-lives-loot-walgreens-closes-five.html
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WATCH: Ulta Beauty Ransacked During Store Hours in Chicago
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2021/09/28/ulta-beauty-ransacked-during-store-hours-chicago/
11 Suspects Sought In $100K Handbag Heist At Palo Alto Louis Vuitton Store
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzIkiCOuQNE
Video shows suspected thieves sprinting out of California Neiman Marcus with designer handbags
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ctqHXAcXM
Brazen shoplifting video in San Francisco becomes issue in California recall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAIcsHh8vso
Brazen, Serial Shoplifter Appears In Court As DA Vows To Crack Down On Retail Thefts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvvnsvVJrdE
Busting an Organized Shoplifting Ring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYFvtPM2su4
Vicky Nguyen Gets Inside Look At Retail Theft Rings | TODAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97x6bLB5RhM
San Francisco locals react to rampant shoplifting, break-ins | Fox News Digital Original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU6o2MIuMQc
Target Cuts Store Hours in San Francisco Due to Shoplifting Surge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NNjdF0cCuQ
Group steals $30K from store in seconds | FOX6 News Milwaukee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S2pX-VRZXc
Major Arrest In $1 Million Apple Store Thefts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0SCIkKgu7A
Apple Store Robbery Suspects Arrested
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT9Jc7lB_Zo
Pricey Heist Lasts 34 Seconds, Ends With $200K Jewelry Stolen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09aI0HAqtBM
Jewelry heist captured on video at Avenues Mall store
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6goU5Fj_b8
Credit Card Thieves Caught on Tape Using Skimmers | Nightline | ABC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAP7sVh4smc
Man Trapped Inside of Store After Serial Thieving Spree | I Survived a Crime | A&E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmLUEQUd6pQ
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/10/13/walgreens-closes-five-bay-area-stores-amid-shoplifting-surge/
Walgreens Closes Five Bay Area Stores amid Shoplifting Surge Michael M. Santiago/Getty
PAUL BOIS
The ongoing shoplifting surge has forced Walgreens to close five more San Francisco stores as local law enforcement continues to do next to nothing to curtail the problem.
NYPD Releases Images of Suspects Who Robbed New York City Mayor Eric Adams Aide at Gunpoint NYPD Crimestoppers 3:00
The New York Police Department (NYPD) released images of two suspects wanted in connection with the robbery of an aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
Chris Baugh, 33, who also worked under former Mayor Bill de Blasio (D), was mugged at gunpoint in Brooklyn on Tuesday at around 10:30 a.m., Breitbart News reported . The robbery occurred at York Street and Hudson Avenue.
According to the NYPD, the suspects pushed the aide to the ground, took his belongings, and brandished a firearm at him. The robbers stole Baugh’s wallet and two cellphones and fled into a nearby housing development, PIX11 reported , citing authorities.
One suspect fled on a Citi bike, while the other escaped on foot, CBS New York reported .
During the robbery, Baugh apparently told the muggers, “You don’t want to do this. I work for the mayor,” the New York Post reported . The 33-year-old did not want medical attention at the scene, PIX11 noted.
The mayor’s office released a statement to the press the next day, citing the need for more gun control, per CBS New York:
Chris works hard for the city every day, and he deserves to be safe while conducting his job, just like every other New Yorker. Public safety has been Mayor Adams’ top priority since day one and that is why the NYPD is working diligently every day to reduce crime. As the mayor said today, he wants results as quickly as possible, and while we have seen progress over the last few months — taking more than 3,000 guns off the streets and reducing shootings and homicides by double digits — there is no overnight fix. Today’s incident only further highlights the urgency to get dangerous guns and dangerous people off our streets as quickly as possible. New York City employees are city residents, and we will do everything in our power to keep all New Yorkers safe.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during the New York State Democratic Convention in New York, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
Hank Sheinkopf, a Democrat political consultant, was not optimistic about what this mugging could mean for all New York City residents, according to the Post .
“New Yorkers would feel a lot better if the muggers were afraid of committing a crime against a mayor’s staffer. They were not,” Sheinkopf said. “That’s all you need to know. New Yorkers are going to feel less safe.”
The gunpoint robbery comes as more than 50 people were shot in New York City over the Fourth of July weekend.
Violent crime is also on the rise in the Big Apple, as “statistics show the seven major felony categories – including the four violent crimes in conjunction with burglary, grand larceny auto, and grand larceny – have risen an astounding 38 percent through June 19,” compared to last year, Breitbart News noted .
You can follow Ethan Letkeman on Twitter at @EthanLetkeman .
More than 50 People Shot over July 4th Weekend in Eric Adams’ New York City AP Photo/Andrew Harnik 2:03
More than 50 people were shot over the Fourth of July weekend in Mayor Eric Adam’s (D) New York City.
PIX 11 reports that July 4 alone saw 62-year-old John Edwards shot and killed at 10:30 p.m. “along Prospect Avenue near East 187th Street” and two men, ages 19 and 23, shot and killed in a bodega at 11:40 p.m.
Numerous people were shot and wounded July 4 too, including four who were shot while at a barbeque in Jamaica, Queens.
NBC 4 noted there were 14 shootings on July 4 alone, leaving 21 wounded in addition to the three killed.
Monday morning, before the day’s shooting fatalities had occurred, PIX 11 noted the number of July 4th weekend shootings in NYC had already “spiked 60 percent” compared to the same time frame in 2021.
Mike Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety lists New York as No. 3 in the nation for stringent gun laws.
New York has a red flag law, universal background checks, an “assault weapons” ban, a “high capacity” magazine ban, and numerous other gun controls, including limitations on where law-abiding concealed carry permit holders can be armed for self-defense.
Democrat-run Chicago witnessed at least 71 shooting victims over the Fourth of July weekend; eight of those shooting victims succumbed to their wounds.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment 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 .
At Least 71 Shot Over July 4th Weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty 1:49
Seventy-one people were shot, eight of them fatally, during the July 4th weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.
Breitbart News noted at least 54 people were shot Friday into Monday morning alone, as the holiday weekend progressed. Seven of those 54 shooting victims succumbed to their wounds.
When the July 4th holiday weekend was complete ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reported the total number of shooting victims had risen to 71, with one additional fatal shooting, bringing the total number of shooting fatalities to eight.
The Chicago gun crime was slightly lower than what was witnessed over July 4th during 2021, when over 100 people were shot, 19 of them fatally.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (L) and Chicago’s First Lady Amy Eshleman (R) attend the 51st LGBTQ Pride Parade in Chicago, Illinois, on June 26, 2022. (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
Data from the Sun-Times shows 321 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2022, through July 4, 2022.
The at least 71 shooting victims from the holiday weekend do not include the six fatalities and numerous wounded individuals who were struck by gunfire during a July 4th parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, as Breitbart News reported .
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment 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 .
Multiple people have been killed after shots were fired along the Fourth of July parade route in Chicago’s Highland Park neighborhood.
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ABC 7 notes that “the parade was stopped about 10 minutes after it kicked off at 10 a.m.,” when the sound of gunfire rang out.
Police told parade attendees, “Everybody disperse, please. It is not safe to be here.”
Chairs, blankets, and baby strollers were left behind as people scrambled for cover.
FOX 32 reports that a Chicago Sun-Times “saw blankets covering three bloodied bodies and five other people wounded and bloodied near the parade’s reviewing stand.”
The Sun-Times notes that 5 people were killed and 16 wounded in the incident.
Newsmax correspondent Alex Salvi tweeted, “There are reportedly multiple fatalities following a shooting at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois.” He went on to write, “Warning: Gunshots heard in below video”:
Breitbart News pointed out that at least 54 people were shot Friday into Monday morning in Chicago. Seven of the shooting victims succumbed to their wounds.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment 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 .
This Democrat’s Car Keeps Getting Attacked 'Defund the police' advocate Cori Bush says her vehicle has been shot at three times since 2014
Andrew Stiles • July 2, 2022 11:40 am
Rep. Cori Bush (D., Mo.) needs a new car.
The controversial congresswoman, a proud member of "The Squad," has shelled out tens of thousands of dollars on private security while continuing to advocate for "defunding the police." Bush's critics, she said, need to "suck it up."
In any event, she is clearly not doing enough to protect the security of her vehicle, according to an analysis by Twitter user @JusticeDemWatch. Based on news reports and Bush's posts on social media, her car has been attacked on at least five occasions since 2014, when she claimed a bullet was fired through the trunk of her car during a protest in Ferguson, Mo.
In June 2019, the congresswoman posted a series of bizarre tweets in response to what she described as a suspicious encounter with a black vehicle.
"The black car with tinted windows sent to crash into me the other day was yet again, an unsuccessful attempt to stop me," wrote Bush, who was a candidate for Congress at the time. "So tell ya boss & ya buddies I only get more fired up each time."
The congresswoman had a message for the "cowards" who tried to get her: "I'M NOT AFRAID OF YOU & I'M NOT GOING TO STOP!" Bush proceeded to announce that she was not suicidal and asked her followers to demand an investigation should anything happen to her.
"If I choke, fall down stairs, die in my sleep, car accident, ‘accidental' shooting, suicide etc. INVESTIGATE," she said . "I don't need sympathy, I need people to know this stuff is real and it has never stopped. Not a conspiracy theory."
Bush's car was allegedly shot a second time in June 2020. "My car took the bullets. I am safe," she wrote in a Twitter post that included photos of a white Hyundai SUV with a flat tire and a damaged door handle.
"A bullet went through my door handle on one side of the car, another went through my tire on the other side," she wrote. "I'm committed to taking us from ‘surviving St. Louis' to ‘living it.'"
Two months later, Bush's SUV was allegedly broken into and ransacked. The only item missing was the bullhorn she often used at anti-police protests. The Washington Post reported Bush's account of the incident, describing it as "the kind of not-so-subtle message of intimidation that the activist turned congresswoman-elect has gotten used to over six years of being a leading Black Lives Matter organizer."
Bush's car was shot again in January 2022 in St. Louis. Her spokesman told CNN the congresswoman was not in the car at the time and there was no evidence that she was targeted. "Any act of gun violence shakes your soul," Bush wrote in a Twitter post thanking supporters for their concern. "That's why our movement is working to invest in our communities, eradicate the root causes of gun violence, and keep everyone safe."
It is not clear how defunding the police would accomplish any of her stated goals.
Over 60 people shot, 15 fatally, in violent holiday weekend in Chicago
31 Shot Friday into Sunday Morning in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago Charles Rex Arbogast/AP Photo 1:48
Thirty-one people were shot, four of them fatally, Friday into Sunday morning in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.
ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reports the weekend’s first shooting fatality occurred at 10:50 p.m. Friday, when a 24-year-old woman was shot and killed “in the 2200 block of South Wentworth Avenue.”
The victim was caught in the crossfire as two gunmen shot at each other.
Hours later, at 12:20 a.m. Saturday, a 30-year-old man was shot in the head and killed “in the 9000 block of South Escanaba Avenue.”
The third fatal shooting occurred at 3 a.m. Sunday, when a 35-year-old man was shot while riding inside a vehicle “in the 3800 block of South Kedzie Avenue.” The man was shot in the neck by someone outside the vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Breitbart News noted at least 11 people were shot, two stabbed, Monday alone in Chicago.
The Sun-Times reports that 317 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2022, through July 2, 2o22.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment 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 .
BLACKS ARE THE MOST RACIST, IGNORANT, ANTI-SEMITIC, ANTI-ASIAN, HOMOPHOEBIC, VIOLENT AND ABORTED SUBCULTURE IN THE WORLD!
Ice Cube, whose real name is O'Shea Jackson, has in his songs referred to a Jewish music producer as a "white Jew" and "cracker" and Asian shopkeepers as "little Chinese motherfucker[s]." He is also an admirer of Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader who has called Jews wicked and compared them to "termites."
Flag on the Play: NFL Taps Anti-Semitic Rapper To Lead Social Justice Initiative Ice Cube and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan / Twitter Chuck Ross • July 1, 2022 2:00 pm
The face of the NFL's newest social justice initiative is an anti-Semitic rapper who in his songs has called for violence against Jews and Asians.
Ice Cube, whose real name is O'Shea Jackson, has in his songs referred to a Jewish music producer as a "white Jew" and "cracker" and Asian shopkeepers as "little Chinese motherfucker[s]." He is also an admirer of Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader who has called Jews wicked and compared them to "termites."
Now, Ice Cube will lead the NFL's "economic equity" program to spur partnerships with black–owned businesses. The partnership is through the rapper's Contract With Black America Institute, which supports reparations and affirmative action for secondary schools and colleges.
The move comes as the NFL faces intense criticism over its handling of race issues. Former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores earlier this year sued the league and three of its teams for alleged racial discrimination. Social justice activists have criticized the NFL for failing to hire more black head coaches.
Ice Cube has an extensive history of anti-Semitic, anti-white, and anti-Asian rhetoric. He came under fire in 2020 for a series of social media posts with anti-Semitic tropes and for praising Farrakhan.
"The Honorable Louis Farrakhan continues to warn America to this very second and he's labeled one of your ‘evil names' and you turn your ears off," Ice Cube tweeted in June 2020.
The rapper, who has posted photos with Farrakhan, later that month chided CNN anchor Jake Tapper for calling the preacher a "vile, anti-LGBTQ, anti-Semitic misogynist."
"Watch your mouth, Jake," Ice Cube warned Tapper, who is Jewish.
Ice Cube at the time denied allegations of anti-Semitism, but the scandal renewed scrutiny of songs from earlier in his career that urge violence against Asians and Jewish music executive Jerry Heller.
In the track "No Vaseline" from the 1991 album Death Certificate , Ice Cube called Heller a "white Jew" and "cracker."
"Get rid of that devil real simple. Put a bullet in his temple," he rapped.
In "Black Korea," the rapper threatened to "burn" Asian-owned stores "to a crisp" over perceived racial profiling. He referred to the store owners as "little Chinese motherfucker[s]" and "Oriental one penny countin' motherfuckers."
Rioters in Ice Cube's South Central Los Angeles neighborhood looted and burned thousands of Asian-owned convenience stores the year after the Rodney King verdict.
The associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center called for a boycott of the album at the time, saying that Ice Cube's lyrics "threaten and promote violence" against Asians and "call for the murder" of Heller.
The NFL and Ice Cube's group did not respond to requests for comment.
AMERICA'S BLACKS: RACIST, VIOLENT, ANTI-SEMITIC, ANTI-ASIAN, HOMOPHOEBIC, IGNORANT AND ABORTED. HOW MUCH MORE FUKED CAN THEY GET??? Boston City Councilor Goes On Anti-Semitic Rant After BDS Loses in Court Boston city councilwoman Kendra Lara (D.) / boston.gov Adam Kredo and Joseph Simonson • June 23, 2022 4:50 pmA Democratic Boston city councilor is under fire for informing her constituents that they are "letting the Zionists SHAKE YOU DOWN," rhetoric that a watchdog group says is grossly anti-Semitic.
"Ya'll are letting the Zionists SHAKE YOU DOWN," Boston city councilor Kendra Lara tweeted on Thursday, referencing a court decision this week that upheld a law targeting the anti-Semitic campaign to boycott Israel. She later deleted the tweet.
Lara—a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and an ally of "Squad" member Ayanna Pressley (D., Mass.) who took the far-left congresswoman's "policy pledge"—quickly came under fire for the tweet, with one user of the social media site saying her language is identical to that used by "neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers."
"Oh I get it! The use of the phrasing was lost on me but I have been told now, thank you!" she tweeted in response.
Later that day, she clarified that she was talking about a federal court's ruling this week to uphold an Arkansas law that bars the state government from contracting with an entity that supports the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which wages economic warfare on Israel. Then she issued copious apologies, saying that reinforcing "anti-Semitic tropes about the Jewish people" was not her intent and that she "should have known better." She then deleted her original tweet.
Lara is one of many far-left activists to condemn the anti-BDS court decision. The decision is seen as a bellwether for other anti-BDS laws that are being challenged by anti-Israel forces across America.
Lara's comments are a thinly veiled shot at American Jews, according to Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a watchdog group that combats anti-Semitism.
"Will the city councilor be held accountable for her slur by her peers, by the media, by the voters, for this screed?" Cooper said in comments to the Washington Free Beacon . "Why would a local politician in Boston get worked up over an Arkansas court upholding anti-BDS laws—an important tool to fight back against anti-Semitic BDS? Maybe because she hates ‘Zionists'—read Jews."
Lara has repeatedly used this type of rhetoric in the past.
When Ben & Jerry's pulled out of Israel as part of its support for the BDS movement, Lara mocked pro-Israel advocates who launched their own boycott of the company.
"Zionists: *Googles how to ethnically cleanse ice cream company*," she tweeted in July 2021. The tweet is a reference to unfounded accusations by anti-Israel activists that Israel is engaged in the genocide of Palestinians. These types of remarks are widely considered anti-Semitic.
"Oh, the blue check mark Zionists have found me. *Mutes tweet*," Lara tweeted after her initial missive drew pushback.
Cooper said that Lara's rhetoric embodies "two of the most distressing aspects of anti-Semitism today in America"—"violent Jew-hatred" and the "increasing of open, blatant Jew-hatred in the mainstream of our society."
There is "little or no accountability or consequences" for targeting Jewish people in this way, Cooper said, adding that "anti-Semitic hate crimes"—which are rising at steep rates—"don't happen in a vacuum."
Neither Lara nor Pressley responded by press time to a Free Beacon request for comment.
Alice Walker Disinvited From Book Festival Can you guess what the organizers discovered?
Thu Apr 7, 2022
Hugh Fitzgerald
Alice Walker, the author of The Color Purple , has been disinvited from a book festival when the organizers discovered her long history of antisemitic remarks about Jews and Israel, the Jewish state that she often compares to Nazi Germany. A report on the reasons for her being uninvited is here: “California Book Festival Rescinds Invitation to Author Alice Walker Over Past Antisemitic Comments,” by Shiryn Ghermezian, Algemeiner , March 29, 2022:
A book festival in California has disinvited Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and poet Alice Walker from its event due to the author’s history of making antisemitic remarks about Jews and Israel, The Jewish News of Northern California reported on Friday.
Walker, 78, was scheduled to interview writer Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, at the latter’s request, at the headlining event of the annual Bay Area Book Festival, which will take place May 7-8 in downtown Berkeley and is set to feature over 250 authors. The festival is the main project of the Foundation for the Future of Literature and Literacy, a California non-profit organization.
Organizers cancelled Walker’s participation in the festival on Thursday after being informed about her past hateful comments, according to The Jewish News of Northern California. Jeffers subsequently pulled out of the festival in response, the festival’s publicist Julia Drake told the outlet.…
Walker, who was the first Black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction for “The Color Purple” in 1983, has repeatedly compared Israel to Nazi Germany and is an avid supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. In 2011, she claimed, “I think Israel is the greatest terrorist in that part of the world. And I think in general, the United States and Israel are great terrorist organizations themselves.” That same year she said Israel is “as frightening to many of us as Germany used to be.” Walker has also made antisemitic claims about Jews and Israel in her poetry.
Walker has been obsessed with Jews and Israel for years. She frequently compares Israel to Nazi Germany, and attacks the Talmud as an evil and racist document. In 2018, she promoted a book by British antisemite and conspiracy theorist David Icke, And the Truth Shall Set You Free , during an interview with The New York Times . In the book, Icke claims that Jews control the world and quotes frequently from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion . Icke, whose work Alice Walker so admires, describes the Talmud as “among the most appallingly racist documents on the planet,” and claimed that Jewish organizations are secretly behind various racist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan.
Walker’s interview of the writer Honorée Fannone Jeffers was to have been the headline event at the Bay Area Book Festival. Jeffers, as the writer being honored in this fashion, had insisted that Walker be her interviewer. Jeffers must have known, when she chose her, Walker’s history of antisemitism, her repeated denunciations of Jews, Judaism, and Israel. She would have known Walker’s work, including the very long 2017 poem Walker wrote in which she called Israeli rule “demonic to the core,” and suggested that to understand “the inspiration for so much evil,” one must “study The Talmud” and “its poison.” Jeffers apparently was not bothered by any of this; she wanted Walker and no one else to interview her. And when Walker was disinvited because of her history of antisemitism Jeffers, in a sign of solidarity with Walker, refused to appear at the Book Festival.
Walker’s hatred of Israel is extraordinary. She told an Israeli publisher in 2012 that she does not allow The Color Purple to be translated into Hebrew because “Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.”
The organizers of the Bay Area Book Festival had apparently not known the extent of her demented antisemitism, when they chose her to interview Honorée Fannone Jeffers at the headline event, did not know the full extent of her hatred of Israel – “demonic to the core” — the Jewish state that she compares to Nazi Germany, nor her deep hatred of Judaism, and that Talmud whose “poison” she denounces. But when it was brought to their attention, the organizers of the Bay Area Book Festival did the right thing, and at once disinvited the disgraceful Alice Walker. It is heartening that there was no wobbling on the issue, once the evidence of her malignant obsession was presented, no attempt to explain away or hide her spittle-flecked hatred. She won’t be an honored guest; she won’t be anything at all, at the Bay Area Book Festival. That’s as it should be.
JOE BIDEN’S ASSAULT ON AMERICA’S HOMELAND SECURITY
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/06/joe-bidens-assault-on-homeland-security.html
REMEMBER THE MUSLIM INVASION SEPT 11 AND THE WORLD TRADE TOWERS
What could possibly go wrong? Border Report reported Monday that “a shelter for Muslim migrants opened over the weekend in Tijuana, the first of its kind in all of Mexico.” This is no small-time effort: “The Latino Muslim Foundation, based in San Diego and Tijuana, raised half a million dollars to make the facility a reality.” Meanwhile, fifty people on the terror watch list have been apprehended at the Southern border so far this year, and there is no telling how many got across without being caught. Welcome to Old Joe Biden’s America.
THE ANTISEMITIC DEMOCRAT PARTY AND THEIR MUSLIMS
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-muslim-assault-on-christians-this.html
“Mexican drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the United States. Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually e very community across this country.” JUDICIAL WATCH
Dershowitz: Biden ‘Should Come Out as Strongly as Possible Against the Squad’s Bigotry, Anti-Semitism and Racism’ https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/05/dershowitz-biden-should-come-out-as.html
“Of course, one of the main reasons the nation is now “divided, resentful and angry” is because race-baiting, Islamist, class warrior Barack Hussein Obama was president for eight long years." MATTHEW VADUM
Yet the same Democrats who obsess over “multiculturalism” and “diversity” and actively encourage foreign nationals to cross our borders illegally were also making the spectacular claim that free speech somehow belonged to American citizens alone during election season.
To protect our security I suspended the entry of foreign refugees from terror afflicted nations. Biden has pledged a staggering 700 percent increase in refugees from the most violent terrorist hotspots anywhere on earth. If you don’t mind I’ll end that. And that was the deal, the manifesto, that he agreed to with Bernie Sanders and AOC+3 [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and three other female “progressive” reps, including Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan]..... The Biden plan would overwhelm your communities … and open the floodgates to radical Islamic terrorism. Raymond Ibrahim
When it comes to the Taliban, Nancy Pelosi is delusional
By Andrea Widburg
Showing a bizarre disassociation from facts, senility, or a feminist obsession that overrides all other things, Nancy Pelosi issued an utterly ludicrous statement on Afghanistan. Its entire focus is on women and girls. There’s no mention of the thousands or tens of thousands of men who have been and will be slaughtered in cold blood. There’s also no recognition that the Taliban is a medieval Islamic sect that believes women and girls (including little girls) belong in the home cooking for and satisfying the sexual needs of their Taliban husbands – and that’s it.
THE DIVISIONIST DEMOCRAT PARTY AND BLACK ANTI-SEMITICISM…. BUT BLACKS HATE EVERYONE PERIOD.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/05/black-lives-murder-most-violent_8.html
Only a minority of black people are anti-Semites, but those that are, are not lone wolves. They are not inventing the wheel. Rather, they are steeped in a significant cultural trend, a trend that persons of conscience will name, confront, analyze, and denounce.
Danusha Goska is the author of God through Binoculars: A Hitchhiker at a Monastery
Whose future, indeed? If we are to repel Black Lives Matter’s full-on assault on our values, institutions, and character, it will only be if all American patriots summon the kind of courageous, truth-telling resistance David Horowitz displays in his indispensable book I Can’t Breathe to expose and condemn the corrosive racial hoaxes perpetrated by BLM and the Democrat Party .
Black Lives Matter: Not Just Communist, But Viciously Anti-Semitic Too
Biden's EPIC Fail That Media Hid..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqgTGG3W60o
Biden's new press secretary has a problem with Jews By Edward Davis
Karine Jean-Pierre makes history this week as the first woman "of color" and the first open lesbian to become the official spokesperson for the leader of the free world.
Unfortunately, another characteristic that sets her apart from previous White House press secretaries is her malicious radical activism, which reached its low point when she made fictitious allegations against a moderate, bipartisan pro-Israel organization.
OBAMA’S WAR ON THE JEWS
The Democrats are now officially the party of Jew-hatred. This is largely due to the disastrous presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. PAMELA GELLER
https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-disaster-of-barack-obama-democrats.html
Abunimah’s piece -- and Obama’s numerous anti-Semitic associations -- got little attention. Throughout his life Barack Obama has been close friends with numerous virulent anti-Semites: Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Khalid al-Mansour, Rashid Khalidi and others. PAMELA GELLER
Virulent Anti-Semite Maher Abdel Qader Campaigns with Multiple Democrats Birds of a feather.
Thu Jun 30, 2022
Maher Abdel Qader of the Palestinian American Congress is the Leonard Zelig of the modern Democrat Party; he seems to know everyone, has appeared in photos with most of them, and is connected to everything. He has hosted numerous fundraisers for New York City Mayor Eric Adams; he was part of a committee putting together a fundraiser for Jesse Jackson’s son Jonathan Jackson, who is running for the House in Illinois; and he is close to Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah) and Cori Bush (D-Race Hate), as well as a prominent former congressman, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. Abdel Qader is also a virulent anti-Semite, which should surprise no one, given the bent of today’s Democrat Party.
It is odd, however, that Adams, who has courted New York’s Jewish community and appointed two Orthodox Jews to his administration, would have close ties to Abdel Qader. Early in 2021, Abdel Qader was one of only six community leaders to speak with Adams on a Zoom call and talk over the then-candidate’s “campaign vision [and] issues,” as well as to “engage in his campaign.” Abdel Qader noted in an Instagram post that has apparently been removed that Adams was “on board with our community and will stand to support us.” Then in September 2021, Abdel Qader posted on Instagram in another post that was later removed or concealed: “Arab and Muslim community leaders met at Marriott hotel - LaGuardia and held a Fundraising for Eric Adams the democratic nominee for New York City mayor….Event was organized by the Muslim Agenda 2021 Coalition.”
Thus it is clear that Adams was publicly friendly with Abdel Qader years after Abdel Qader posted an article on Facebook in 2016 that charged Jews with being “satanic” and claimed that they “practice subversion and treason.” In 2017, Abdel Qader posted a list of the Jewish members of Congress, headed “U.S. Senators and Congressmen with Duel [sic] Citizenship with Israel,” strongly implying that those listed have dual loyalty to Israel and the U.S., as Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) alleged back in 2019. In November 2019, he shared a video that repeated the claim that Jews are “satanic” and added the paranoid anti-Semitic trope that they control the media, while minimizing the Holocaust.
Was Adams’ campaign so careless that it didn’t pick up this material about Abdel Qader? Or was Adams’ election such a sure thing, since New York is essentially a one-party state with a moribund Republican Party, that the campaign figured that Abdel Qader’s anti-Semitism simply didn’t matter? The worst possibility is that Adams’ campaign calculated that Abdel Qader’s anti-Semitism would resonate with the Democrats’ hateful, far-Left, pro-BDS base, and counterbalance the street cred the candidate lost for being a former police officer?
Whatever the case may be with Adams, other Democrats haven’t hesitated to associate themselves with Abdel Qader, either. In May, Abdel Qader posted on Instagram: “May 18, 2022, Fundraiser for Keith Ellison the 30th attorney general of the State of Minnesota in Manhattan- New York. Also attended by Michael J. Garner, Chief Diversity Officer, MTA Department of Diversity and Civil Rights.” Of course it was.
Of Jonathan Jackson, Abdel Qader wrote: “Jonathan Jackson son of Jesse Jackson/ Chicago is running for congress and needs our support. He is a staunch supporter of Palestine, Palestinians and our Arab American community.”
As for Bush, Fox News reported that “in early November, Abdel Qader posted a Bush fundraising flier for a reception hosted by the St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee and the Muslim Community of St. Louis, which solicited donations between $100 and $2,500 for Bush’s campaign, according to the flier. It appears he donated $250 to her campaign for the fundraiser.” Generous guy.
Abdel Qader appears to be closest, however to Tlaib, who has, according to Fox, “participated in several events with Abdel Qader over the years, with the most recent fundraiser posted to his Instagram account on September 25, 2021. One day after the fundraiser, Abdel Qader posted a picture of himself alongside Tlaib on a Manhattan, New York, rooftop.” In contrast to his parsimoniousness with Bush, “Abdel Qader has not only been a key fundraiser for Tlaib, donating $6,500 to her campaign since 2018, but he was also the chairman of her finance committee during her successful 2018 Congressional campaign. Tlaib introduced Abdel Qader by the title at a campaign event. And in 2018, Tlaib presented Abdel Qader with a meda l as a sign of gratitude for his help with her inaugural campaign.”
Tlaib, a vociferous critic of Israel, was likely untroubled by Abdel Qader’s anti-Semitism. Apparently the other Democrat candidates Abdel Qader supported weren’t bothered by it, either. Is anti-Semitism now so mainstream on the Left that an open Jew-hater such as Maher Abdel Qader can become an influential mover and shaker for Democrat candidates? The answer is obviously yes.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 23 books including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) , The Truth About Muhammad and The History of Jihad . His latest book is The Critical Qur’an . Follow him on Twitter here . Like him on Facebook here .
The Biden Admin Just Made It Easier for Terrorists To Enter the United States Lawmakers, former officials say change will let Iranian terrorists come to US
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps / Getty Images Adam Kredo • June 29, 2022 5:00 am
The Biden administration altered federal law to make it easier for individuals who have worked with designated terrorist groups to legally enter the United States.
The State and Homeland Security Departments last week amended federal immigration laws to allow foreigners who provided "insignificant material support" to designated terror groups to receive "immigration benefits or other status," according to the policy published in the Federal Register. Examples of individuals who would fall into the new category, according to the announcement, include individuals who provided "humanitarian assistance" or "routine commercial transactions" to terror groups.
The policy shift is fueling concerns that the Biden administration wants to make it easier for individuals who work with or for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the country's paramilitary fighting force that has killed hundreds of Americans, to enter the country. Notice of the change came several days before the Biden administration and hardline Iranian government resumed talks aimed at securing a revamped version of the 2015 nuclear deal.
A State Department spokesman said the law was amended to help vulnerable Afghans, who might have inadvertently worked with terror groups, gain refuge in the United States following the Biden administration's bungled withdrawal that left the Taliban in power. Lawmakers and former U.S. officials, however, say the new regulations are so broadly written that they would apply to organizations like al Qaeda and the IRGC. The policy change is also raising red flags as U.S. officials, including former secretary of state Mike Pompeo, face credible death threats from Iran.
The rule does not specifically mention Afghanistan but is written to cover all U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations, such as the IRGC and al Qaeda, experts told the Free Beacon . The Taliban is not designated as a foreign terrorist organization, leaving lawmakers and former U.S. officials concerned the changes extend far beyond vulnerable Afghans and cover those tied to some of the globe's most violent terror groups.
Gabriel Noronha, a State Department special adviser for Iran during the Trump administration, said that "the Biden administration is claiming this regulation is all about Afghanistan, but they didn't even mention Afghanistan once in their action, and have made no serious attempt to limit the scope to the situation there."
"Instead," said Noronha, who is a fellow with the Jewish Institute for National Security of America think tank, "this looks like a massive watering down of our immigration restrictions against members of terrorist organizations."
The State Department says the changes are limited to Afghanistan, but would not say why the country is not mentioned once in the new order.
The changes "are an effort to address issues related to Afghanistan," a State Department spokesman, speaking only on background, told the Free Beacon . "The circumstances between Afghanistan and Iran are very different." The new rules "are not applicable to people who have received military-type training from [foreign terrorist organizations], including IRGC conscripts." Rather, the administration is trying to make it easier for those tangentially tied to terrorism to legally enter the country, the official maintained.
When the Free Beacon requested additional information and an explanation as to why the IRGC or similar groups would not be covered by the changes, the State Department declined to answer, saying, "We have no further information or comments to share." This lack of clarity is fueling concerns about the policy change.
Noronha and others who spoke to the Free Beacon say the broad reference to "foreign terrorist organizations" leaves open the possibility that groups like the IRGC and al Qaeda would benefit from the relaxed immigration guidelines. The revamped guidelines do not specifically include restrictions on either of these groups. "At best this is a horribly written regulation. At worst, it's an attempt to pull the wool over the eyes of Congress and the American people and make it easier for terrorists to come to America," Noronha said.
Richard Goldberg, who under Trump served on the White House National Security Council as the director for countering Iranian weapons of mass destruction, said that any effort to loosen restrictions on terror-tied individuals is worrying amid Iran's threats to kill U.S. leaders.
"Given Iran is actively plotting to kill former American officials, the administration should carefully explain if and how this [rule] might apply to a potential affiliate of the IRGC, and provide a high-level commitment to take all necessary steps to bar any potential IRGC associate from admission to the United States," Goldberg, a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank, told the Free Beacon .
Republican lawmakers agree with this assessment. Five Republican foreign policy leaders who spoke to the Free Beacon expressed concerns the administration is trying to quietly grant concessions to Iran as it reenters nuclear talks.
"It's outrageous that the Biden administration is lifting the blanket ban on individuals who have provided support to terrorists from entering the United States," Rep. Joe Wilson (R., S.C.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told the Free Beacon . "The timing raises concerns coming just a few days before the latest round of Iran talks. President Biden should end these failed negotiations once and for all and return to a policy of maximum pressure, rather than continuing to make concessions to the terrorist regime in Iran."
Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said he and his colleagues worry the Biden administration is attempting to grant concessions to Iran via backdoor changes to American laws.
"What do Americans gain by letting members of Iran's terrorist army cross our borders?" Banks asked.
Rep. Mike Waltz (R., Fla.), a combat veteran and also a member of the Armed Services Committee, said the change is purely about "appeasing terrorist groups—whether it's the IRGC, Houthis, or Taliban."
Reps. Lisa McClain (R., Mich.) and Pat Fallon (R., Texas), both Armed Services Committee members, expressed shock at how broadly written the new regulations are.
"In what world is it an acceptable decision to allow terrorists into our country?" Fallon asked the Free Beacon . "Instead of ending the nuclear talks with Iran all together, Joe Biden has decided to bend over backwards to the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism. Before it is too late, I urge them to immediately reconsider this foolish decision."
Update June 29, 3:31 p.m. : A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that the Biden administration made no formal announcement of the policy change.
Soros Prosecutor Freed Violent Offender Now Charged With Killing Homeless Woman George Soros (L) and Chante Antonio Jones (R) / Getty Images and Fairfax County Police Department Josh Christenson • June 30, 2022 5:00 amA George Soros-backed prosecutor in Virginia released on probation a violent repeat offender who went on to kill an elderly homeless woman—the third case of its kind in the jurisdiction this year.
Fairfax County commonwealth's attorney Steve Descano (D.) in October charged Chante Antonio Jones with assault and battery before releasing him on recognizance, slapping him with just a $212 fine and one-year period of supervised probation. Police on Monday arrested Jones for beating 63-year-old Michelle Huntley to death at a bus stop where she had taken shelter.
The brutal killing last week is just the latest instance in which bail reform and lightened sentencing by so-called criminal justice reform prosecutors have brought deadly consequences. The Washington Free Beacon reported that Descano's office dropped felony charges against a man who was later charged with killing two homeless men in Washington, D.C., and New York City in March. Two months before, another gunman, whom Descano had pleaded out on misdemeanors in 2020, killed an 18-year-old at a bus stop.
"An innocent Virginian lost their life because of the criminal-first, victim-last mentality pushed by far-left prosecutors," Virginia attorney general Jason Miyares (R.) told the Free Beacon . "Continually giving repeat offenders light sentences and allowing them to quickly get back onto the street only encourages more crime and creates more victims."
Jones, who is also known as Siddiq Khashi Salam, is a repeat offender with more than a dozen charges in Fairfax County in the past three years, including larceny, public intoxication, and indecent exposure. Huntley, who was affectionately called "Mama" by residents, according to ABC 7, was found around midnight on June 17 with evidence of trauma to her upper body. First responders rushed her to the hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries days later. Police records show Jones's assault-and-battery charges stemmed from punching someone in the face months before on a block close to the Huntley killing.
Descano's office did not respond to a request for comment. Jones has been charged with aggravated malicious wounding for Huntley's death (a class-two felony carrying a minimum 20-year sentence), pending a medical examiner's report.
Through his Justice and Public Safety PAC, Soros dropped more than half-a-million dollars in 2019 to help elect Descano, along with other left-wing Virginia commonwealth's attorneys like Loudoun County's Buta Biberaj and Arlington County's Parisa Dehghani-Tafti . Each pushed out veteran prosecutors who had served decades in their counties, promising in their campaigns to reduce incarceration and oppose many felony convictions.
Homicides in Fairfax County are set to outpace their 2021 levels, with 12 so far compared with 10 by this point the year before. The rate last year jumped 40 percent from 2020. A full annual police report, however, has not been released by the county in 2022.
Descano's approach to criminal justice, which has enabled repeat offenders , is now fueling recall efforts in Northern Virginia.
"This abhorrent crime was totally preventable," Sean Kennedy, who is running one of the recall efforts, told the Free Beacon . "Virginians for Safe Communities is dedicated to seeing justice done and removing Steve Descano from office for violating his oath to uphold justice and protect the public. … Like Chesa Boudin in San Francisco, Steve Descano poses a clear and present danger to public safety in Fairfax County."
The recall effort has amassed more than half of the roughly required 30,000 signatures to trigger a special election to remove Descano from office, according to Kennedy.
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