Posted on 01/14/2024 9:25:34 AM PST by CFW
“They want systemic lawlessness. They want high retail theft,“ says Seneca Scott, founder of Neighbors Together Oakland. It’s ”managed decline from eviction moratoriums, managed decline from defunding police, managed decline from $950 you can steal from stores, not being able to catch people.”
“Mega billionaires are giving money to defend the police movements. The same individuals are the largest investors in AI autonomous security,” Mr. Scott said. He has been documenting how Oakland, California became, as he describes it, an “urban hellscape.”
Once a progressive Democrat and labor organizer who represented thousands of union workers in California, he says woke ideology took over the labor movement and it stopped representing the actual needs of workers. “That’s when I saw that we were being used by the mega-billionaire class as very useful idiots for a very nefarious agenda of control,” Mr. Scott said. He argues the elites are pitting the upper middle class against the lower class and promoting class warfare.
Now, Mr. Scott sees himself as a “post-partisan solutionary.”
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But don’t the dems want everyone to live in a controlled cities?
2nd paragraph: “Mega billionaires are giving money to defend the police movements.”
It’s supposed to be “ . . . *defund* the police movement . . .”, not “defend the police”, right?
I always wondered how great empires and cities fell into dispair.
Now I know, they were liberals who abandoned their fathers heritage for something “fashionable”!
How do “elites” benefit from this compared to a peaceful, productive society? They don’t want to be able to go to fancy eateries anymore? They want to worry about home invasions, carjackings, street attacks, etc? Doesn’t make sense. They should want the populace happy and quiet.
The police defunding is intended to be temporary.
Once the white officers are laid-off officers with more pigmented skin would replace them.
Democrats of color love unions but despise white union members.
Right, because while they’re busy destroying America there’s also building bunkers in far away places in case of “The Event”!
“How do “elites” benefit from this compared to a peaceful, productive society? They don’t want to be able to go to fancy eateries anymore? They want to worry about home invasions, carjackings, street attacks, etc? Doesn’t make sense. They should want the populace happy and quiet.”
Convicts sitting in prison generally do not take kindly to requests to vote even for thieving Democrats.
“It’s supposed to be “ . . . *defund* the police movement . . .”, not “defend the police”, right?”
I believe you are right. At about 9 minutes in, Seneca Scott starts talking about his realization that government did not have the best interest of the people at heart. He would still be considered a leftist but it is interesting to hear his thought process and how it changed beginning with Covid.
He talks about the larger promoters of “defund the police” being the rich and elite businesses owners who are promoting and producing A.I. security.
What did they think “Build Back Better” means?
Well said.
“They want high retail theft”
It costs a lot of money to incarcerate a people for stealing comparatively cheap things.
The Democrats stopped the incarceration but failed to ensure punishment for retail theft. I have suggested penalty time rooms so criminals can serve time without having to be provided with free food, housing, medical care and lawyers.
The theory of elites destroying society doesn’t make sense to me in any way shape or form. I’ve only known one billionaire, and he was a great man who helped other succeed in business and was famous for his large charity donations. His parents were Armenian immigrants. His name was George Mitchell, he was a Texas oil wildcatter. I staked some of his wells as a teen. When I married he gave me one of his gorgeous condos to use during our honeymoon. He also invented the drill bit that could go horizontal and sold the patent to Baker Hughes. That revolutionized drilling, leading to a lot of wealth and better jobs/pay for many people.
Thank you!
The community policing model (which seems to be less effective than traditional policing) will be replaced with the Sicherheitspolizi method of policing.
I visited Oakland 15 years ago.
The language I heard was worse than that of a high school.
The theory of elites destroying society doesn’t make sense to me in any way shape or form.”
They think the hellscape they create will give them more power and money will not touch them otherwise. They really think that the “useless eaters” we call “everyday Americans” use up too many resources. Resources that could be used to increase their power and fatten their banking accounts. Mr. Scott calls out the rich supporters of defund the police by name at about 20 minutes into the video.
Right! I thought commie doctrine was to heard everyone into cities.
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