Thread – Choose Your District Attorneys Wisely or Get One of These!

1. It is no secret that George Soros has sought to undermine the rule of law in the US for decades. He has been underwriting the candidacies of radical district attorneys with increasing success.
2. Far too many people haven’t been paying attention, and thus there are Soros-backed DAs popping up all over the place. Here are excerpts from an article describing the damage done by one of them:
2A. The person in question is Diana Becton – the first woman and the first African American to be elected D.A. in Contra Costa County, north of San Francisco and Oakland.
2B. She's a lawyer and a long-time former judge, but now as district attorney, she has made several major changes in how crimes are charged in the County and how various cases are prosecuted.
2C. [T]he most recent headline-grabber is Becton's decision concerning how looters should be charged when – or if – they are arrested. She's told her office and law enforcement officials to consider if the looting was done "for financial gain or personal need."
2D. The only way a sane person can define that is that if the looter is "poor" and "needs" things, then he should not be charged with 'looting." In addition, prosecutors must consider four other factors as they decide how to charge the suspects:
2E:
- if the looted business was open or closed at the time;
- how the suspect entered the business;
- the "nature/quantity/value of the goods targeted"; and
- if another law could be substituted for "looting."
2F. A looting charge increases the severity of burglary or theft, can be a misdemeanor or felony and can be punishable by up to three years in jail. With these new considerations for prosecutors as they decide charges, the whole system of justice becomes flawed.
2G. Antioch Police Officers Assoc. President Steve Aiello told East County Today that this type of policy is "reckless … because it shows the district attorney's office is picking and choosing the types of crimes it will prosecute versus just following the laws on the books."
2H. Becton is one of five black female district attorneys who are backed by Soros and who claim the American criminal legal system "was constructed to control Black people and people of color."
2I. They went on to say the system is "deeply rooted in our country's shameful history of slavery and legacy of racial violence."
3. Diane Becton is just one of many Soros-backed DAs wreaking havoc with the justice system in the US. Others include Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, NY AG Letitia James, Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner, and #Dementiacrat VP candidate Kamala Harris. Lunatics all!
4. By the way, that policy change on looting isn’t just a Contra Costa County issue; that’s been happening elsewhere in concert with the BLM and Antifa crowd “demands” amounting to “automatic reparations.”
5. And #Dementiacrats everywhere have yet to condemn the ongoing looting, as noted by Victor Davis Hanson:
5A. The last possible reason for the silence is the most dangerous of all: Looting is simply no longer a crime but a redistributive lark.
5B. Has Biden bought into the increasingly faddish left-wing view that looting is merely an overdue redistribution of someone else’s property, not theft of one’s own?
5C. From Vicki Orsterweil’s crackpot book In Defense of Looting to the decisions of blue-state district attorneys not to prosecute most crimes of looting, the Left has created a cottage industry of redefining looting and vandalism as cries-from-the-heart social justice.
5D. Biden in his dotage either buys into these crackpot ideas or is savvy enough to realize he’s a figurehead, propped up to put a thin veneer on the state in a radical Jacobin nuthouse.

Read the rest here: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/silence-about-the-violence/
6. A pal of mine reports goings-on similar to Contra Costa County by the Dallas (TX) County DA John Creuzot:
6A. I may sound like a broken record, but the Dallas County D.A. put similar policies in play last year regarding theft. Anyone who commits the crime of theft in Dallas County – ANYONE – where the value of the loss is less than $750 will not be prosecuted by the D.A.
6B. Fill a grocery cart to full and overflowing and you have roughly $750 worth of food. Take clothing off the rack where the value is under the “tolerance limit” and you get away.
6C. Now, the State of Texas has laws regarding justifiable homicide. Theft at night (between the official hours of sunset and sunrise) – ANY THEFT – provides the basis for the person sufferring the loss (property owner) to shoot the perpetrator.
6D. Of course, that shooter will be arrested and booked into jail for the shooting. An attorney will seek an immediate show-cause hearing and if the evidence points to fulfillment of the theft at night justifiable homicide statute, the shooter goes back home or wherever.
6E. Dallas County has seen a skyrocketing effect where theft is involved. The perps are getting more brazen by the day. And, more often than not, the perps are armed and will shoot back when challenged. I lay these problems directly at the feet of the Dallas County D.A.
6F. His contention: “We have to take into account is the person stealing needed food for his family.” Mom and Pop convenience store owners are wondering what type of logic that is.
6G. They see beer and wine going out the door without being paid for. I guess that is a family need deal? The statistics indicate the thefts are heavily concentrated in predominantly black neighborhoods.
6H. I guess that is social justice caliber thievery. Surely can’t be black on black crime. That only occurs in Chicago. Right. <end of his comments>
7. And right on cue, we see that @BrandonStraka’s #WalkAway team ran into a BLM buzz saw in Dallas just yesterday. So much for police protection and public safety! The likelihood any of these criminals will be prosecuted by the Dallas DA? Zero. https://twitter.com/BrandonStraka/status/1302450145922088962
8. I suspect that other people around the US could report about similar actions on the part of their local prosecutors. Is it any wonder that the violence & mayhem in the streets of many #Dementiacrat-run cities continues unabated with prosecutors like these abetting the rioters?
9. My pal goes further back in time in order to relate the evolution of law and order in Texas in general and Dallas County in particular. You will find his commentary to be very interesting:
9A. I came to Dallas from Hot Springs, Arkansas, to attend Southern Methodist University. I must have been the poorest freshman student, but I had a dream to someday rise from the poverty I had known in Arkansas.
9B. In my early teens, I was quick to recognize that the kids I went to school with that came from prominent families had the best money could buy. Arkansas was a one political party state and if you did not belong to it, then you were destined to stay where you came from.
9C. Sure, my parents and their parents and peers voted the Democrat ticket because there was no other choice. However, the adults in my early teen world who were looked up to had one common connection.
9D. They were into party politics bigtime. Money flowed into the party purses and those who made deposits were granted privileges the rest could not obtain.
9E. In 1964, Texas was much the same as Arkansas when it came to political party affiliation. I am sure that the Republican Party had some beachheads scattered around Texas, but I do not recall any concentration. LBJ was boss, & he let all of us here in Texas know that back then.
9F. The Texas Democrats were much conservative types, and frowned on any splinter groups that took on liberal ideas.
9G. In 1964, Dallas was about 550,000 citizens and neighboring Fort Worth was 200,000 (on weekends when the cowboys came to town to shop, eat and dance). The city fathers of both were business men who truly cared about the destiny of their respective communities.
9H. They wanted solid business growth, jobs for everyone, and most of all, excellent educational facilities from K though 12 and advanced degrees. SMU in Dallas and Texas Christian University in Fort Worth were stellar institutions.
9I. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas was in the beginning of becoming the world class medical research and school it is today.
9J. Dallas and Fort Worth were great locations, especially for a young person looking to break away from where he or she came from to make something of themselves.
9K. It was up to the person to make his or her place in the society of those two metropolitan communities. Nothing stood in the way.
9L. The year Nixon won the presidency was the era of Texas moving from the Democrat Party to the Republican Party. It was the first time for my wife and I to vote in any election, so we could not wait to cast our votes. We were damned proud of it, too.
9M. I recall many long-time Democrats jumping party affiliations back then and the Texas counties going Republican with them.
9N. We decided to move to the rural county of Grayson when we learned out daughter would be bused to a grade school 15 mi away instead of attending the grade school just a block away. I had ridden a big yellow, noisy school bus and it took me to the only school available locally.
9O. Back then, riding a school bus to school was a necessity, not because a federal judge ordered it. Living in the rural school district where we moved meant our daughter rode a school bus to the only school in the immediate area.
9P. All school kids rode buses or were driven to school by parents. No federal mandate for us to follow.
9Q. What the busing did to education resulted in not what the Federal judge thought, i.e., that integration would happen, and the world would really be flat again. Rather, the quality of the education provided lessened tremendously.
9R. And those citizens of all colors who could move out of Dallas and Fort Worth for communities with better schools did just that. And, with that move, the quality of life began to erode for Dallas and Fort Worth.
9S. Sure, it was not a total withdrawal of talent and good people, but all one had to do to see what was happening was go into the Central Business Districts during evening hours where the streets were vacant of sidewalk traffic. CBDs were daytime office and retails spaces.
9T. What filled the void was those homeless and unstable people. It was becoming a nighttime of alcohol and drug abuse. The office workers arriving in the mornings were greeted by the smell of urine left from overnight street people.
9U. More and more used hypodermic needles were found in alleys and parking garages. The problems continued getting worse. I began to question what was happening. When I was younger, the city fathers made sure the police rid the streets of vagrants and the insane.
9V. Now, the city fathers were taking on a much more liberal perspective about handling the homeless and insane. Overlook them, and they aren’t there. How stupid is that?
9W. In the past ten years, the City of Dallas has gone through a revolution of leadership – mayor, police chief, fire chief, city manager, etc. Dallas County has gone with the city, too.
9X. Without one protest march or riot, one of the most eloquent parks in all Dallas was robbed of its center piece – a magnificent bronze of Robert E. Lee riding a horse. The bronze was greater than life in size and beauty.
9Y. The mayor decided it needed to go along with several other commemorative statues of Confederate leaders. The Dallas school superintendent decided to seek School Trustees’ approval to rename schools that bore names of historically important Southern leaders.
9Z. The Trustees established a citizens’ committee to come up with new names. I can’t wait to learn which school gets Che Guevara’s name. And, there are two prominent major streets in Dallas’s Oak Cliff section named Jefferson and Davis.
9AA. One will become Obama Boulevard, and the other hasn’t been decided.
9AB. Darwin said to adapt or die, but I don’t belief he saw coming what we are seeing today. The mentality of BLM and Antifa leaders is very questionable. As to their political base, there is no question they carry communism to the extreme.
9AC. Portland, Seattle or any other location that allows the unrest and rioting to continue is perpetuating the “broken window” theory.
9AD. When the windows of abandoned buildings are broken out and the local governments do nothing about it, then the problem grows so bad that all the structures in the community are at risk of destruction.
9AE. Allowing violent demonstrations to continue unabated night after night are just going to result in more broken windows and greater destruction.
9AF. Our Constitution is at much greater risk now than when we were attacked by Japan or joined Britain to stop the Nazis from taking control of all the European countries. It is time to toe the line, restore our communities, and return to law and order for everyone.
10. I couldn’t agree with my Texan friend more! What a sad tale of the consequences of leftwing meddling over the years. And now they’ve moved on to capturing local DAs and further destroying communities across America!
11. People have just GOT to pay more attention to local elections – and elections in general! – or the evil Soros and his ilk will succeed over time in destroying our constitutional Republic. ///The end.
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