CRUZ: Our government must preserve the peace, protect the people, and serve justice [Baltimore]

Cruz.Senate.Gov ^ | April 28, 2015 | Senator Ted Cruz

[SoConPubbie]

Sen. Cruz releases statement on riots in Baltimore

HOUSTON, Texas -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, released the following statement in response to the riots in Baltimore:

"Today 85,000 Baltimore city children will not be going to school. Buildings have been set ablaze, stores have been looted, the police in the streets have been seriously injured, and strict curfews have been imposed.

"No man, woman, or child should fear for his or her safety in America--not in their schools, not in their neighborhoods, not in their cities--but today families are scared.

"Our government must perform its central functions and purposes: to preserve the peace, protect the people, and serve justice.

"The government exists to ensure our domestic security--whether it's from a city riot, or the threat of a terrorist attack on our homeland. We have to restore that trust and prove to the people we can make America safe again.

"Every case deserves justice, and the facts surrounding Freddie Gray's death should be thoroughly and impartially investigated. But rioting and mayhem are not the answer.

"While we continue to pray for a peaceful conclusion to the events in Baltimore--and pray for the families of those injured--I hope we all remember that our nation's law enforcement consists of thousands of heroic officers who deeply respect the dignity of each person they serve to protect. Targeting law enforcement for violence is wrong, and it cannot be allowed to persist.

"Likewise, the small number of those who have wreaked destruction upon Baltimore over the past few days are not emblematic of the thousands of honest, hard-working families who are proud to call the city home.

"There is, and has always been, far more to celebrate in America than to worry about. Don't lose sight of that fundamental truth.

"We will always face challenges and, together, we must rise to address them with strength and confidence in the future of our nation."

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[SoConPubbie]

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

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[dp0622]

I am a negative Nellie and always have been. Want to hear cries for blood but I know in my heart and somewhere in my head that is stupid. Cruz is the bigger man and shows it in classy speech.
I am a man by the way, lol negative nelly is just a phrase.

[entropy12]

That is easier said than done. The slums in big cities of United States are a much bigger problem than everybody thinks. When I worked in City of Chicago, my route to work required me to drive through really bad areas of Chicago (Cottage Grove & 87th). I have seen the slums for 17 years every working day, first hand. Only stores open at 7:30 am before work were liquor stores, with cars double parked.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Has to start with a vision and someone has to state it. Unless someone shows what “up” would be, all we can manage on our own is variations of “down.”

[GeronL]

and Obama comes out and says “It’s the Republicans fault”

Obama is not the adult, ever

[skeeter]

Common sensical, truthful, axiomatic.

And diametrically opposed to what the president, democrats and most of the news media have to say on the matter, of course

[MrB]

The sheeperals lap that pablum right up, too,

because otherwise, they might get an inkling of
having to admit that their source of righteousness - “caring”
has actually caused far more harm than good.

[dp0622]

drove a cab on staten island for a few years. saw white prostitutes go into buildings for a minute only never to come out. Went in once to save one getting beaten in hallway. that was the last time.
Any federal or state benefit that can be turned into narcotics or sex or booze is done so, robbed too many ties to count one even stole wallet i left on front seat (idiot me) and gave it back empty when i said i would call the cops. I asked her how she could steal in font of two young kids. she didn't care.
offered sex for the ride.
two gay black guys assaulted me, i fought them off because they were high on crack..and on and on and on and on

[Logical me]

F government. All government are totally useless and will never protect us. Lock and load. We will have to do it ourselves. Law enforcement is useless. Example, every punk that threw a rock or a bottle at the police should have been shot on the spot.

[MeshugeMikey]

Wheres The Great Leaders Call for Law and Order and Common Sense???

Thank you.

[Gritty]

The only ones the government of, by, and for the Donks are trying to protect are the Donks.