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Democrat party and what it stands for... The Serious You: How Current Events Affect You
Started 7/9/22 by WALTER784; 25755 views.
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From: WALTER784
Jan-16
Santa Monica becomes unliveable
December 29, 2022
By Monica Showalter
Santa Monica is one of my old stomping grounds from my years in Los Angeles.
So when I heard the place was becoming unliveable, same as all the other blue cities, I wanted to learn what had changed:
According to Jim Thompson, writing at RedState:
So what is it like in Santa Monica now? It depends on who you ask. If you ask Los Angeles Times reporters reviewing statistics, Santa Monica is a relative garden of Eden. The Times did a dive into police calls and, according to their review, it’s trending down. It spiked during the George Floyd riots when rioters looted and burned the city. But forget about that. The Times wants you to know that statistics show that it is so much better now. Police responses, arrests, and encounters are down.
There is a group of Santa Monica businesses and residents who see it differently. They’ve witnessed a lot of aggressive homeless, sex workers, and drug dealing. They want the world to know that there is a problem. They put up a sign that says:
Santa Monica IS NOT safe,” it reads, above a second sign with the words “Crime … depravity … outdoor mental asylum.”
Which is dramatic stuff, given that these merchants are all blue-city lefties who vote Democrat. Their billboard protest, which I've never seen done in those parts, is comparable to the tax strike going on among the gay businesses of San Francisco's Castro district. The little guys are screaming first because they are hit hardest.
And what might the problem be that renders this city unsafe?
Seems the bums, who are normally always present in the city, have gotten a strengthened entitlement mentality and are now aggressively going after shops, customers, foot traffic, and anyone in their vicinity. Pay them money for drugs, or they'll cut you.
RedState's Bob Hoge last month wrote about how bad it had gotten:
Once the jewel of SoCal, progressive politics and corrupt bureaucrats have turned Santa Monica into the 6th most dangerous city in California.
Police on Thursday night arrested a homeless man suspected of stabbing two people at Santa Monica’s Ocean Front Walk Park, according to the city’s police department. The man, now identified as 26-year-old Jamal K. Lampitt, stabbed the first victim multiple times near a public restroom after a failed robbery attempt, then knifed a second male on a bike several times for “no apparent reason.”
Sadly, this is not unusual these days. Luckily both victims are recovering in the hospital and are expected to survive:
Apparently, no one can go out at night. Daytime is probably O.K., provided you avoid the panhandlers and passed-out bums, but at night, the city turns into an obstacle course to avoid assaults and killings. It's got a crime rate now like Compton's.
Which is shocking, because it's such a beautiful. human-friendly area, utterly walkable, replete with shops, restaurants, the beach, biking, sports, beautiful old hotels to meet friends for drinks, spas, used clothing shops with rich-people discards, yoga studios, young people, theatres, walkways, gardens, and beauty parlors. Best of all, unlike next-door Los Angeles, the city has excellent parking, with tons of conveniently located city garages and parking lots, which you pay for, but at a perfectly reasonable price.
Apparently, it's a no-go zone now, particularly at night, roughly parallel with the nightmare that San Francisco has become.
The most telling thing is about this slide downward is the indifference of the officials:
According to Thompson, taking us back to the merchant billboards:
The city of Santa Monica disagrees:
“We care deeply about the success of Santa Monica businesses. It’s sad that a small group of landlords are working against our collective success through signage at the very moment when small businesses are welcoming holiday customers.”
They are all leftied up, pretending a problem that exists to the point that people are buying up billboard space to advertise their grievances, is non-existent, just a little lo
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Host
From: Showtalk
Jan-16
Santa Monica was such a beautiful city. First it swung far left and now this. It’s sad.
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From: WALTER784
Jan-18
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Introduces Bill Criminalizing ‘Conspiracy to Commit White Supremacy,’ Criticism of Non-White People
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, speaks as the House Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on the future of abortion rights after the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
JOSHUA KLEIN
16 Jan 2023
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) introduced a House Bill criminalizing “conspiracy to commit white supremacy,” which includes criticism of non-white people which influences an individual to commit a hate crime.
The legislation, H.R.61 “Leading Against White Supremacy Act of 2023,” introduced last Monday by Democratic congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, seeks to “prevent and prosecute white supremacy inspired hate crime and conspiracy to commit white supremacy inspired hate crime.”
The congressional bill, which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, states that someone engages in a white supremacy inspired hate crime “when white supremacy ideology has motivated the planning, development, preparation, or perpetration of actions that constituted a crime or were undertaken in furtherance of activity that, if effectuated, would have constituted a crime.”
Accordingly, “conspiracy” to engage in white supremacy inspired hate crime entails the publishing of material “advancing white supremacy, white supremacist ideology, antagonism based on ‘replacement theory’, or hate speech that vilifies or is otherwise directed against any non-White person or group.”
It also calls for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to gain “authority to conduct operations and activities pursuant” to what it deems “necessary and appropriate to interdict, mitigate, or prevent such action from culminating in violent activity.”
The bill would grant the department authority to “prosecute” persons engaged in such actions, with “records of white supremacy inspired hate crimes” maintained and annual reports provided.
In response, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) accused Democrats of “making a mockery of the First Amendment.”
“In case you weren’t aware of what the Democrats were prioritizing in the 118th Congress, just take a look,” she wrote. “When they’re not bankrupting our country, they’re busy making a mockery of the First Amendment.”
“Who wants to tell her about the First Amendment?” asked conservative attorney Harmeet Dhillon.
“Congressman Sheila Jackson Lee just introduced a bill that would make it a federal crime for White people, and White people only, to criticize mass immigration or to say anything that she claims would vilify ‘a non-White person or group,’” wrote one Twitter user.
“Sheila Jackson Lee should be introduced to the Bill of Rights. Particularly the first amendment pertaining to free speech,” another wrote.
“This is a disturbing, yet not surprising, piece of #AntiWhite legislation,” yet another user wrote.
Previously, Jackson Lee has argued that institutional and systemic racism “taints and spoils” the way America treats minorities, adding that there are “aspects of America’s laws, America’s structure as relates to the black community in particular and other communities that is racist.”
Rep. Jackson Lee Introduces Bill Banning Criticism of Non-White People (breitbart.com)
FWIW
Staff
From: WALTER784
Jan-18
This just goes to how Senator Ben Cardin's hatred of our First Amendment of freedom of speech is warped to the core!!! Democrats allowed for burning of our American Flag as a symbol of free speech. Those who actually do burn our American Flag do so with contempt against and hatred towards our Country and our Flag for which she stands... but yet!!!
Democrat Senator Ben Cardin: “If You Espouse Hate, If You Espouse Violence, You’re Not Protected Under the First Amendment” (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
Published December 29, 2022 at 12:40pm
Democrat Senator Ben Cardin recently said during a hearing that so-called hate speech violates the First Amendment.
It doesn’t.
“If you espouse hate, if you espouse violence, you’re not protected under the First Amendment. I think we can be more aggressive in the way that we handle that type of use of the internet.” the US Senator from Maryland said.
There is no hate speech exception to the First Amendment.
The Democrats don’t even hide the authoritarian that lives inside of them.
VIDEO:
The Democrat Senator defended his position after he was called out for lying about the First Amendment.
“Hate speech is protected under the First Amendment, unless it incites violence,” Cardin said.
This is also false.
When it comes to incitement, the statement made by someone must imminently cause violence in order to meet the threshold.
FWIW
Host
From: Showtalk
Jan-18
It has nothing to do with white supremacy. Not the same thing at all. Who defines what is in the heart of someone who makes a political stand? They can’t. They can’t make a law that discriminates against one race.
Host
From: Showtalk
Jan-18
Free speech means being able to criticize the government without fear of reprisal. They haven’t upheld it on their side in a long time. Maybe there should be a law that politicians who use their right to free speech to remove it from their opponents should lose the right to hold office.
Staff
From: WALTER784
Jan-18
Showtalk said...
It has nothing to do with white supremacy. Not the same thing at all. Who defines what is in the heart of someone who makes a political stand? They can’t. They can’t make a law that discriminates against one race.
Yep, but she's trying to make it about white supremacy, and even though she shouldn't be able to do that, she sure is attempting to do so!
FWIW
Staff
From: WALTER784
Jan-18
Showtalk said...
Free speech means being able to criticize the government without fear of reprisal. They haven’t upheld it on their side in a long time. Maybe there should be a law that politicians who use their right to free speech to remove it from their opponents should lose the right to hold office.
I would love to see them lose their right to hold office in any government position forever!
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