Not Above the Law?

Recently the Left has been bleating that “no one is above the law, not even the president.”  Really?  Why do we have members of Congress guilty of sexual harassment who get to use taxpayer money to settle their cases and remain in office with anonymity?  Why was Occupy Wall Street able to destroy public and private property with impunity?  Why was Black Lives Matter given “space” to express themselves by rioting, burning, and looting Baltimore?  Why did the San Jose police stand by impotently as street thugs threw eggs and other missiles, tore up signs, and sucker punched people attending a Trump campaign rally?  Why are sanctuary cities and states allowed to not only offer “safe space” to illegal immigrants (criminal and non-criminal) but to actively interfere with federal law enforcement officials and prevent them from carrying out their legal responsibilities?

Why is it that Hillary Clinton and James Comey can play fast and loose with classified information, release it to the media, and even delete subpoenaed documents yet not even get a slap on the wrist?  Why is it that liberal college students are allowed to harass, interrupt, threaten and even shut down conservative speakers?  Santa Clara University denied club status and access to funding for Young Americans for Freedom because ”…bringing conservative speakers to the California campus—would contribute to an unsafe climate for marginalized students.”

Finally, Antifa (a classic domestic terrorist organization!) not only trashes the city of Portland but also assaults and brutalizes anyone who does not conform to their “direct action,” i.e., violent creed and tactics.  In a Baltimore, Oakland, Berkeley, San Jose déjà vu, Portland police are spectators at best and unable or unwilling to protect life and property.  Don’t be surprised when citizens begin to defend themselves against the lawless!

Toxic Taxation and Road Rage

Gasoline prices in California have climbed nearly fifty cents to an average price of $3.793/gallon in the last 30 days and will probably top $4.00/gallon by the time this is printed.  The national average is $2.745!  Don't forget the State gas tax will jump up another 5.6 cents per gallon on July 1st because you voted down Proposition 8 last November.

Remember when we were told the Lotto was necessary to fund public education and improve our roads?  Remember when sales taxes were increased to improve public education and our roads?  Remember when casino gambling was enacted to solve our problems with public education and roads?  Remember when the legislature got a blank check to raise gas taxes and vehicle registration fees to improve the quality of our roads?  So what did we get for our money?  California ranks near the bottom in education (42d) and about the same in road quality with bridge safety practically being the worst!  But never fear, the supermajority Democrat legislature in Sacramento is now proposing $6.2 billion in new taxes and would be more than happy to overturn Proposition 13.

Meanwhile, the legislature introduced Senate Bill 24 in December to require student health centers on all University of California and California State University campuses to offer medical abortions free of charge.  Curiously, as fees are increased for out-of-state students, illegal alien/immigrants are allowed in-state rates!  Jerry Brown’s last budget included $33 million in taxpayer money to fight deportation and many cities and counties are following suit.  The new governor is pushing universal health care for all, including illegals in our sanctuary state.

However, Democrats are considering cutting taxes for one consumable—marijuana, in order to help legal pot shops compete with the black market and of course increase tax revenue…for public education and our roads…again.

The "New Face" of the Democrat Party?

The chair of the Democrat National Committee, Tom Perez, has anointed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the "new face" of the Democrat Party.  She is attractive, enthusiastic, and totally without a clue.  In fact, she probably has a winnable lawsuit against Boston University for giving her a diploma without an education!  Her degree was granted in economics and international relations but her ignorance in both areas is astounding.

For instance, she and her flock successfully sabotaged the new Amazon headquarter relocation to Long Island City and the opportunity to add 25,000 new jobs.  AOC railed against the $3 billion tax break the state and city had offered up as an incentive.  In a burst of jaw dropping stupidity, she proposed that the $3 billion now be used to hire more teachers and repair the subway.  Apparently she is unable to grasp a simple concept that a tax break (not that Amazon needs them given their record of zero federal income tax payments!) does not become immediate tangible funds available for redistribution!  Potential non-tax revenue does not become a current asset.  Is that so hard to understand for a college graduate and member of congress?  If you ever read her "Green New Deal," you will quickly understand there is much more this Democrat Socialist doesn't understand.

For the moment however, AOC is upstaged by the other rising star, Robert Francis O'Rourke, with the culturally appropriated nickname "Beto."  You can already see Robert and his aspiring presidential flock currying favor with Speaker Pelosi.  Pelosi labeled the wall as an "immorality" and "Beto" has said it should be torn down!  Ignore what the Border Patrol agents recommend; ignore what ICE has to say; ignore what Mark Morgan (the chief of the Border Patrol under Obama) has to say; and ignore the heartbreak of the Angel Moms and their families.  And of course, the vapidity of mainstream media will ignore the disastrous nature of their foolishness.

Until such time as the media earns the right to their constitutional protection, we will see personality prevail over proficiency and glibness conquer the gullible.  We will see one party pursue open borders, sanctuary cities, and fight voter identification requirements.  We will see one party refuse to stand when the President says the USA will not be a socialist country.  We will see one party extend the role of government into every imaginable facet of American life and erode our God-given unalienable rights.  And we are letting it happen.

“Straddling the Wall/Fence/Barrier”

By William L. Garvin

In typical congressional double-speak, being for border security does not mean you secure the border!  In 1986, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill granting amnesty to 2.7 illegal aliens in exchange for Democrats securing the borders and cracking down on businesses that hire illegals.  Estimates are that we have 11-22 million illegal aliens in this country but nobody knows exactly how many!  Here’s what Democrats used to say:

“It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.”  President Bill Clinton

“Real reform means strong border security, and we can build on the progress my administration has already made—putting more boots on the Southern border than at any time in our history and reducing illegal crossings to their lowest levels in 40 years.”  President Barack Obama

“I voted numerous times when I was a senator to spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in.  And I do think that you have to control your borders.”   Secretary Hillary Clinton

“When we use phrases like ‘undocumented workers,’ we convey a message to the American people that their government is not serious about combating illegal immigration, which the American people overwhelmingly oppose.  If you don’t think it’s illegal, you are not going to say it.  I think it is illegal and wrong, and we have to change it.”  Senator Chuck Schumer

Keep in mind that the USA is the most generous and welcoming nation on this planet when it comes to LEGAL immigration.  As of 2016, we had 43.7 million legal immigrants.  That is four times more than any other country.

In 2013, Schumer sponsored a $46.3 billion immigration bill that provided for 19,200 additional southern Border Patrol agents, $8 billion for “fencing, infrastructure and technology,” $4.5 billion to implement DHS border security strategies, and $750 million for E-Verify.  It did not pass the House. That was then; this is now.  Today, the Democrat House (Pelosi) and Schumer’s Democrat senators will not even pony up $5 billion for physical barriers on the southern border.  Why?  Because they hate Donald Trump so much that they are willing to jeopardize national security, jeopardize American lives, continue the flow of deadly drugs, and continually increase illegal alien numbers.

Numerous Democrats are even calling for eliminating or reducing the funding for ICE.  For the record, in 2018, ICE arrested over 17,000 adults with criminal records.  Over 6,000 were gang members such as MS-13!  In addition, they seized or helped seize 282,000 pounds of cocaine, 248,000 pounds of meth, 6,500 pounds of heroin, and 2,400 pounds of fentanyl!  Nineteen percent of prisoners in the federal system are illegal aliens.  All the Border Patrol boots on the ground say walls will help but Pelosi will not listen to them nor the Angel Moms.  Now that is an actual “immorality”!

AT WAR WITH THE TRUTH

By William L. Garvin

"The first casualty when war comes is truth."  It is clear that Senate dems are at war with truth, with basic concepts of fairness, decency, and fundamental concepts such as "innocent until proven guilty."  In their psychotic hatred of President Trump and their slavish devotion to a mother's "right" to murder her babies, they have no concern about slaughtering innocents nor collateral damage.  As Alinsky devotees, they isolate, mock, ridicule, humiliate, and intimidate opposition into submission.

We have seen this ruthless methodology played out in the confirmation hearings for JUSTICE Kavanaugh and by several local liberal writers who are long on name calling and invective but short on logic and facts.  Innuendo, uncorroborated allegations, outright smears and ludicrous charges are just means to an end--an insatiable need for power.  Therefore, they believed Dr. Ford before she ever testified.  They knew they would oppose "with tooth and nail" ANY nominee submitted by this president.  They hated Judge Kavanaugh before they ever heard him say a word and their venom dripped from nearly every question.  The mask was off; the gloves were dropped; the knives were sharpened, and they proceeded to slice and stab a thousand cuts into every fiber of his lifetime of superb professional accomplishment.  They hoped to intimidate and humiliate him into running away from the nomination.

However, once he stood up to the bullies and decided to fight back, they had to offer up the sacrificial Dr. Ford, an undoubtedly troubled woman with repressed memories of an episode of 36 years ago.  While she may have been sincere, her story had so many holes that no rational person could find it substantiated in any way whatsoever.  Her fear of flying is untrue.  Her witness list all refuted her contentions.  Her story about the second door in her house if contradicted by the construction timeline, etc., etc., etc.

Oh wait!  He's still fighting back! Now he fails to show the "temperament" for the Supreme Court.  Doesn't he know he's not allowed to emotionally defend himself, his wife, his daughters, his reputation and his professional accomplishments?  He is supposed to bow his head as he is called evil, alcoholic, serial rapist; as he is emotionally scourged like a democrat whipping boy; as his character is systematically gang raped by those who should not be throwing stones!  Doesn’t he know he and his supporters are supposed to “shut up!”  What happened to that Aloha spirit, Senator Hirono?  Being lectured on “falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus” (false in one thing, false in all things) by lying “stolen valor” Senator Blumenthal had to be the epitome of irony.  But wait, hold my beer says Spartacus!  This self-admitted sexual molester assumes his holier than thou persona to cast stones from within his glass house!  What a travesty.  What an unnecessary spectacle.  And it could all have been avoided by Senator Feinstein and Ford’s attorneys.  You sacrificed your pawn, but you also sacrificed your honor, your dignity, and your sacred duty.

Hypocrisy, Deceit and Destruction

“Hypocrisy, Deceit and Destruction”

By William L. Garvin

“The ends justify the means.”  This immoral and barbaric principle in the naked quest for power typifies democrats on the Senate Judicial Committee.  In fact, minority leader Chuck Schumer has stated: “The consequences are going to be down the road. We are not going to settle on a Supreme Court nominee…we are going to oppose them tooth and nail,” and “It's hard for me to imagine a nominee that Donald Trump would choose that would get Republican support that we [Democrats] could support."

The strategy of “Borking” was used by the cowardly “Lion of the Senate” who allowed a woman to drown in his car.  It was followed by Joe Biden conducting a “high tech lynching” of Clarence Thomas.  Now Diane Feinstein and democrat colleagues have choreographed a hideous intellectual gang rape, torture and assassination of the character of Judge Brett Kavanaugh without a shred of evidence to support an allegation of 36-year-old sexual misconduct.  They would make MS-13 proud!

What a cast of characters.  Feinstein employed a Chinese spy as her driver for 20 years while her husband made millions dealing with Chinese companies and receiving no-bid government contracts.  Richard Blumenthal falsely claimed on numerous occasions that he had served in Viet Nam in order to secure “Stolen Valor.”  Sheldon Whitehouse pored over every adolescent comment made in a high school yearbook and imputed a salacious intent to every entry his fertile mind could concoct.  Perusing the Holton-Arms yearbook would have been more satisfying to his prurient interest.  Long time Californians know exactly how Kamala Harris leveraged her entry into the hallways of political power.

Then there’s the pompous, preening Prince of Pontification, Cory “Spartacus” Booker who has earned special opprobrium.  You see, Cory has already confessed to fondling and sexually molesting a drunken female.  (See Stanford Daily archives, Vol. 201, Issue 12, page 4.)  Cory expected, nay DEMANDED expiation for his sexual sin as a now evolved, “woke” beta male.  One would think that he might have some sensitivity to the allegations.  But, no.  Instead, he proclaimed Kavanaugh to be “evil” and anyone who supported him to be “complicit in evil” before the hearing, before Dr. Ford’s testimony, and without a single piece of corroborating evidence.  Obviously, this is a classic case of projection; since he was guilty, Kavanaugh must also be guilty.  As did the remainder of his colleagues, he found Ford to be “credible” and “courageous” well before her testimony.  Unfortunately for her, every supposed witness to her ordeal (including her best friend!) not only failed to corroborate her account but effectively refuted her testimony!  Still, even with overwhelming evidence to the contrary, she and senate dems believe her version of events.  While her belief is credible; her story is not.

The senate democrats would have you believe that the judge was a stumbling, falling down drunk and frat boy serial rapist. Their media propaganda arm marches in lock step with that motif by devoting 95% of their coverage to the charges and less that 5% to the defenses and holes in her story.  Surprisingly, this “functioning alcoholic” remained at the top of his class in high school, college and law school.  Then a miracle occurred.  From the moment he entered professional life, there is not a smidgeon of sexual predation.  Not only did women from his high school stand in his support, but hundreds of women from his every professional stop joined in his defense.  His support, mentoring, and promotion of women is consistent and unwavering regardless of their political affiliation.

Feinstein could have dealt with these allegations in a private and timely manner, but she chose instead to expose Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh to senatorial and/or public excoriation.  Kids, you are warned about bullying but this is how the pros do it.  Dr. Ford, you may not think you are a political pawn, but you have been played, sacrificed, and will soon be discarded.  Hopefully your GoFundMe pages will see you through.  As for Judge Kavanaugh, Nancy Pelosi is already floating the idea of impeaching him in his present exemplary performing appellate role. Given the barbarism of their performance, I would not be at all surprised if they armed themselves with pointed sticks and started dancing all the while chanting “Kill Piggy, kill Piggy, kill Piggy!”  They have shown a willingness to abandon all sense of fair play, decency, due process, the presumption of innocence, rules of evidence, and factual decision making as the minority party.  God help us all if they ever secure greater power as the majority party!

  

Letter to the Editor: Facts about firearms

Facts: after 26 parishioners were murdered in Sutherland Springs, Texas, the murderer was confronted, shot, then fled from a neighbor wielding an AR-15. A Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, homeowner shot and killed three masked intruders with an AR-15.  Is that good enough for starters?

 

On a larger scale, President Obama commissioned a $10 million CDC study on gun violence.  The Institute of Medicine and National Research Council released their results and noted that “almost all national survey estimates indicated that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year.”  This is supported by a previously unreported CDC study from 1996-1998 that showed approximately 2.46 million DGUs (defensive gun uses) per year.

 

Fact: in our worst school shooting (Virginia Tech, 32 fatalities), the murderer used two pistols: a .22 caliber Walther and a 9 mm Glock. In the most recent Santa Fe shooting, the murderer used a shotgun and a .38 caliber revolver.  Contrary to media reports and Beacon writers, no AR-15s were involved.

 

Fact: Britain has highly regulated gun laws.  So far this year, New York City has 32 homicides by firearms; London has 32 homicides by knife!  Knives with blades over 3” have now been banned in London.  Here in the US in 2016, there were 374 deaths by rifles (of all sorts) but there were 1,604 deaths by knives/sharp objects!

 

“Military, rapid fire killing weapons” is deliberate mischaracterization and fear mongering at its finest but that’s what anti-gun zealots do when it comes to the AR-15.  This weapon did not create the culture of violence and banning it will not solve the nature of evil in the hearts of those who murder others.  They will find a way.