California: where politicians consider criminals their base and ordinary citizens their enemy
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Three stories (two from today and one from two days ago) illustrate starkly the fascist mentality of California Democrats, clearly more interested in giving criminals as much freedom as possible while restricting the freedoms of ordinary law-abiding citizens.
- Kamala Harris wants ‘low-risk’ inmates released amid fears of COVID-19 spreading in prisons
- Bay Area counties announce ‘shelter in place’ rules
- San Jose Shuts Down Gun Shop in First Action Against ‘Non-essential’ Businesses
The first story is especially grotesque. Senator Harris (D-California) wants to release criminals into the general population, even though these individuals cannot generally be relied upon to follow any quarantine restrictions. In prison however they are in the perfect quarantine, easily isolated from others.
Harris however is horrified by this. As she writes,
[The Federal Bureau of Prisons] is responding to the threat of coronavirus with extreme measures that both maintain current levels of incarceration and penalize the incarcerated community— including by suspending social and legal visitation, suspending inmate facility transfers, and potentially locking down institutions.
O the horror! We must release these individuals immediately, since restricting their freedom is so against what America stands for!
Meanwhile, the second story illustrates how California politicians have no problem imposing these same restrictions on innocent citizens. While Harris wants to release criminals, San Francisco politicians have imprisoned every citizen in these counties, while shutting down numerous businesses at great cost to their owners.
And the third story reveals the hidden fascist reasons for these actions in California. Because a flu-like virus might someday infect a lot of people, San Jose officials decide they have to shut down a gun shop.
Makes sense to me. We can’t have those evil Wuhan viruses buying guns, can we?
The goal of Democratic politicians in California (and elsewhere) isn’t to stop the virus. Their goal is to establish a totalitarian state, with them in power. This epidemic is only making this fascist desire more obvious.
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On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs." --San Antonio Express-News
Three stories (two from today and one from two days ago) illustrate starkly the fascist mentality of California Democrats, clearly more interested in giving criminals as much freedom as possible while restricting the freedoms of ordinary law-abiding citizens.
- Kamala Harris wants ‘low-risk’ inmates released amid fears of COVID-19 spreading in prisons
- Bay Area counties announce ‘shelter in place’ rules
- San Jose Shuts Down Gun Shop in First Action Against ‘Non-essential’ Businesses
The first story is especially grotesque. Senator Harris (D-California) wants to release criminals into the general population, even though these individuals cannot generally be relied upon to follow any quarantine restrictions. In prison however they are in the perfect quarantine, easily isolated from others.
Harris however is horrified by this. As she writes,
[The Federal Bureau of Prisons] is responding to the threat of coronavirus with extreme measures that both maintain current levels of incarceration and penalize the incarcerated community— including by suspending social and legal visitation, suspending inmate facility transfers, and potentially locking down institutions.
O the horror! We must release these individuals immediately, since restricting their freedom is so against what America stands for!
Meanwhile, the second story illustrates how California politicians have no problem imposing these same restrictions on innocent citizens. While Harris wants to release criminals, San Francisco politicians have imprisoned every citizen in these counties, while shutting down numerous businesses at great cost to their owners.
And the third story reveals the hidden fascist reasons for these actions in California. Because a flu-like virus might someday infect a lot of people, San Jose officials decide they have to shut down a gun shop.
Makes sense to me. We can’t have those evil Wuhan viruses buying guns, can we?
The goal of Democratic politicians in California (and elsewhere) isn’t to stop the virus. Their goal is to establish a totalitarian state, with them in power. This epidemic is only making this fascist desire more obvious.
My July fund-raiser for Behind the Black is now over. The support from my readers was unprecedented, making this July campaign the best ever, twice over. What a marvelous way to celebrate the website's tenth anniversary!
Thank you! The number of donations in July, and continuing now at the beginning of August, is too many for me to thank you all personally. Please forgive me by accepting my thank you here, in public, on the website.
If you did not donate or subscribe in July and still wish to, note that the tip jar remains available year round.
Regular readers can support Behind The Black with a contribution via paypal:
If Paypal doesn't work for you, you can support Behind The Black directly by sending your donation by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman, to
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P.O.Box 1262
Cortaro, AZ 85652
And she will likely be our VP … crap
No she will likely be your President if Joe wins because the Demonrats will remove him shortly after taking office.
Kamala Harris is unlikely to be Joes vp candidate, she is more of a loose cannon liability IMO.
More likely Klobuchar, or maybe Michelle?
Probably Klobuchar.
” . . . penalize the incarcerated community . . . ”
Isn’t the ‘incarcerated community’ there because they’re being, uh, penalized? The mind reels. Statements like this assure me the speaker is so far inside their own head they’ve lost touch with reality.
Red Hot Chili Peppers –
“Californication”
https://youtu.be/YlUKcNNmywk
5:21
“Born and raised by those who praise, control of population,
Everybody’s been there, and I don’t mean on vacation…”
Blair, the purpose of the modern jail is to rehabilitate the inmates, not to punish them. that’s why they get things like college paid by taxpayers who have to go into debt to send their own children to school. After, we in society as a whole are guilty of creating an environment that compels them to commit criminal acts. Here’s what shows the mindset, I bet it’s the “Department of Corrections” instead of “Department of Prisons”….I just checked, it’s “California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation”. QED
When does the horrid racist caste indian get “wet”? Anyone????
Hummmm. I thought that all of the “low risk” criminals were already out on the streets, given these cities’ new non-enforcement policies.
As for the psychological origin of Senator Harris’ “concern” for the incarcerated, Victor Davis Hanson has written about this in recent months, and his characterization of the elites’ infatuation with “the romantic poor” — as opposed to the boringly self-supporting middle class — is a revelation for anyone who has not deeply imbibed the woke Kool-Aid:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/california-coastal-elites-poor-immigrants-fleeing-middle-class/
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/06/western-middle-classes-angry-elite-hypocrisy/
Going much further back, the late John W. Campbell described essentially the same neurosis in his essay, Hyperinfracaniphilia, published in 1965. The original essay can be found in the archive collection at
https://archive.org/stream/collectededitori01camp/collectededitori01camp_djvu.txt
Please note that Mr. Campbell — and the award that bore his name — has been “canceled” because of his “racism,” so he can no longer be spoken about in polite society. As the saying goes, you may not be interested in woke culture, but woke culture is interested in *you*.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/books/john-w-campbell-award-jeannette-ng.html
Milt: Unaware of the Campbell controversy. WTF?
“Boil the land and burn the sea
You can’t take the sky from me”
‘Firefly’ theme song
Col Beausabre: Thank you for the correction. I now understand that the ‘incarcerated community’ is made up of individuals selected by the State for rehabilitation into useful and productive citizens. Work your State-protected job, obey officials, vote Democrat. Got it.
Milt–
available here, as well:
https://www.free-culture.ir/Collected_editorials_from_analog.html#Feb1965