Posted on 04/19/2022 6:08:58 AM PDT by SJackson
On March 29, California governor Gavin Newsom denied parole for Leslie Van Houten, 72, involved in murders committed by followers of Charles Manson in 1969. On April 3, six people were killed and 12 wounded in a mass shooting in downtown Sacramento. The two events are related, but not in the way Californians might suspect.
In the wake of the April 3 massacre, police arrested Dandre Martin and his brother Smiley, who was in possession of a machine gun. Both suspects are African American, both have criminal records, and both were released early from prison.
As the Sacramento Bee reported, Smiley Martin has a record stretching back to 2013, and last year Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert opposed early release from his 10-year sentence for domestic violence and assault with great bodily injury. Hours before the April 3 shooting, Martin appeared in a Facebook video brandishing a handgun.
Dandrae Martin was released from jail in Arizona in 2020 after serving one and a half years on a probation violation. That violation stemmed from a 2016 guilty plea in an aggravated assault. The younger Martin pleaded guilty to punching, kicking and choking a woman who refused to work for him as a prostitute.
Sacramento police also arrested a third suspect, Daviyonne Dawson, 31, seen carrying a firearm in the aftermath of the shootings. As people emerged from bars, the shooters fired more than 100 rounds, killing three women: Johntaya Alexander, 21; Melinda Davis, 57; and Yamile Martinez-Andrade, 21. The three men killed were Sergio Harris, 38; Joshua Hoye-Lucchesi, 32; and Devazia Turner, 29.
Gov. Newsom’s 119-word statement twice decried “gun violence” but named no victims or suspects. The “mass casualty shooting,” Gov. Newsom said, was a “terrible tragedy.” The statement contained no pledge to find the criminals responsible for the murders, and keep such killers off the streets.
Newsom is on record that “there’s no greater political mind in our lifetime than Governor Brown,” a reference to recurring governor Jerry Brown, who twice denied parole to Van Houten. In similar style, Newsom uses a high-profile case to pose as a tough-on-crime governor. The record shows otherwise.
One of Newsom’s first actions as governor was to reprieve 737 convicted murders on California’s death row, the worst of the worst. He also failed to show up for events honoring Ronil “Ron” Singh, a police officer shot dead in late 2018 by an Mexican national with gang connections, illegally present in the United States, and protected from deportation by California’s sanctuary law. For some reason, this particular murder did not launch a crusade against “gun violence.”
For all their savagery, the Sacramento shootings and Manson murders are far from the worst in California history. That distinction belongs to previously deported Juan Corona.
In the early 1970s, Corona murdered and mutilated Charles Fleming, Melford Sample, Donald Smith, John J. Haluka, Warren Kelley, Sigurd Beierman, William Emery Kamp, Clarence Hocking, James W. Howard, Jonah R. Smallwood, Elbert T. Riley, Paul B. Allen, Edward Martin Cupp, Albert Hayes, Raymond Muchache, John H. Jackson, Lloyd Wallace Wenzel, Mark Beverly Shields, Sam Bonafide and Joseph Maczak.
Four others were not identified and not a single victim was Mexican. All but three were white American workers and the others black or Native American. By all indications, nobody wondered whether Corona might have been motivated by racism. Politicians did not blame the knives and machetes Corona used to kill and mutilate his victims.
In 1973, a jury found Corona guilty of murder and sentenced him to 25 consecutive life terms. The mass murder died in prison in 2019 at the age of 85, outliving fellow Corcoran prison inmate Charles Manson, who died at 83 in 2017.
Former Manson follower Leslie Van Houten has been recommended for parole five times, but according to Gov. Newsom, “gaps in insight,” still make her a danger to society. When it comes to violent crime, the governor and many Democrats demonstrate a similar insight gap.
“Gun violence” is a gutless dodge. Criminals disregard gun laws. Early release of violent criminals poses a danger to society. And so on, just kind of a simple thing.
Meanwhile, after the Sacramento shootings, support surged for the recall of San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin, named after cop-killer Joanne Chesimard. Black Lives Matter bosses venerate the fugitive, now known as Assata Shakur.
Chesa Boudin has declined to prosecute many criminals and backs the release of most repeat offenders. On June 7, voters get the opportunity to give Boutin the boot. As Donald Trump likes to say, we’ll have to see what happens.
What is this?
Logic 101 for Dummies?
Hopeless. Democrats don't do logic. To you and me it might seem logical that the more career criminals you release back into society the greater the risk of increased crime. BUT DEMOCRATES NEVER LET LOGIC OR COMMON SENSE INTERFERE WITH THEIR IDEOLOGY. And their ideology currently says that if you're a black criminal, then it's not your fault. it's the fault of some white guy who works for a living, pays his taxes and obeys the law. OR if you shoot and kill someone it's because of the firearm. Somehow the gun forced you to pick it up and forced you to go and kill someone with it.
Democrats know guns have that mystical power. It's just as rational beings we deny the Democrat reality because we live in a universe where logic and cause and effect hold true. Where inanimate objects (like guns and SUVs) don't cause people to go kill other people. We know that Alishi Babbit was murdered by a DC cop, that Jan 6 was a Demonstration far less violent than the endless BLM riots of the previous summer, that the election was stolen, etc.
Democrats are relentless. They cannot be reasoned with. They cannot be bargained with. Their goal is to completely enslave us via a totalitarian government that makes the worst excesses of North Korea look like a libertarian paradise. They will not stop until we're enslaved or they're destroyed. Here's hoping that the midterm elections wipe them out.
Sure they do. They just start with false assumptions about the nature of reality.
It is why their logic creates and exacerbates problems rather than solves them.
Ping
To a Democrat if your actions make things worse, then the explanation is "We just didn't go far enough." I know you've heard them say that. To the Democrat mind if doing action A causes bad result B then doing 10 times A will not result in ten times as much bad result B, but somehow reverse the the situation and make things better. to me this isn't a logical assumption - it's simply psychosis manifesting itself.
Newsom has his own “Gaps in insight”.
CoupFlu has NEVER been about public health.
Climate change has NEVER been about saving the planet.
Letting perps run loose has NEVER been about public safety.
See where I’m going with this....
And, yes they can be inconsistent and wrong.
Many of them are simply evil power worshipers.
When did California do anything right oh wait.
The only thing that California did right was make it legal to make a right hand turn at a red light.
Woody Allen
change many to almost all and I'll agree with it :-)
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