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Standing up to hate: Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf shows how it’s done
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | March 1, 2018 | Otis R. Taylor Jr.

Posted on 03/01/2018 1:31:29 PM PST by artichokegrower

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf used her office to alert the public to a federal immigration sweep.

That’s what she did, make no mistake about it. And it was brilliant. Politically risky, yes. But Schaaf stood up to hate.

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But aren’t undocumented people breaking the law of the land? Yes, but in this country laws have been enacted — or ignored — to disenfranchise and oppress people of color since it was founded.


Interesting concept. Laws can be followed or ignored based on one's perception of current or past wrongs. My grandparents were discriminated upon arriving in this country so I am free to ignore all traffic laws.

1 posted on 03/01/2018 1:31:29 PM PST by artichokegrower
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Or - showing how to ignore oiur laws.


2 posted on 03/01/2018 1:33:33 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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Politically risky, yes.

About as risky as rolling over in bed.

Her constituency has a large percentage of illegals - who are voting illegally for her. Risk would involve holding them accountable for breaking the law.

3 posted on 03/01/2018 1:35:08 PM PST by relictele
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Lock her up!


4 posted on 03/01/2018 1:36:27 PM PST by Renegade
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If this woman is not charged by the DOJ................ then we have lost. Period.


5 posted on 03/01/2018 1:36:59 PM PST by Michael.SF. (California: drive illegally, you lose your license, here illegally, they give you one.)
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Schaaf should be arrested, but nobody with the authority has the balls to do it.


6 posted on 03/01/2018 1:37:09 PM PST by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~)
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Disgusting skank should be charged with committing a felony for obstructing the lawful duties of Federal law enforcement.


7 posted on 03/01/2018 1:37:09 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat ( Who are the idiots who elected this dreadful Pope? They need to unelect him. He is a disgrace.)
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Laws , Schaaf don’t need no stinking laws


8 posted on 03/01/2018 1:37:28 PM PST by butlerweave
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Schaaf stood up to hate.

Soooo, preventing the enforcement of our laws, aiding and abetting criminals, is "standing up to hate"?

Got it.

9 posted on 03/01/2018 1:37:40 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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Opposing liberals = Hate


10 posted on 03/01/2018 1:37:56 PM PST by dfwgator
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I’m sure Jeff will get right on the obstruction charges /s.


11 posted on 03/01/2018 1:38:19 PM PST by gibsonguy
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Because of he stupid stunt, at least 800 dangerous criminals were not able to be arrested. They have now dispersed into the East Bay area for the time being. I suspect Libby will deeply regret this someday when the problem touches her own life.


12 posted on 03/01/2018 1:39:00 PM PST by lee martell
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Disgusting skank should be charged with committing a felony for obstructing the lawful duties of Federal law enforcement.

The FBI and Mueller are too focused on Trump "obstructing" justice with no clear details like the one cited - terrible lack of priorities.

13 posted on 03/01/2018 1:39:13 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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If enforcing our nation’s laws is hate, then this idiot is advocating for no laws at all.

Murder, rape, pedophilia, assault...

This person is seriously challenged.


14 posted on 03/01/2018 1:40:09 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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This is why it is a bad idea for the Feds to try and arrest or prosecute her. The media and libs will make a martyr out of her. Just flood her city with ICE agents and vehicles for a couple of weeks. When the Hispanics start asking questions just let them know the Mayors actions has brought them there in force. :)
15 posted on 03/01/2018 1:40:36 PM PST by martinidon
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But Schaaf stood up to hate.

Oh, bull crap! She stood up to get votes from illegals and a bunch of leftists who evidently think it's okay to break the law. Somebody with legal clout needs to grow a pair and throw this law-breaking bitch in jail. If she and all of those like her can thumb their nose at the laws they don't like, how long will it take for people like me to wake up and do the same with the laws I don't like...starting with penalties for not paying taxes?

16 posted on 03/01/2018 1:40:39 PM PST by econjack
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That will never happen with Sleepy Sessions, not much has.


17 posted on 03/01/2018 1:41:52 PM PST by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~)
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SOmebody needs to start arresting these people, maybe she has some weed on her, AG Sessions you awake now!!


18 posted on 03/01/2018 1:43:39 PM PST by eyeamok (Tolerance: The virtue of having a belief in Nothing!)
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WTF does "hate" have to do with it?

ICE officials do not hate illegal aliens. Their job is to enforce our immigration laws, which illegal aliens, by definition, have broken.

For a bunch of people who express such unbridled hatred towards those who dare disagree with them, the left in this country certainly bandies about the "standing up to hate" trope an awful lot.

19 posted on 03/01/2018 1:43:58 PM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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"Stood up to hate"?! - these people are lunatics. Openly fight people that 'they hate', is more like it.

I'm going to start machining and churning out simple firearms because I don't agree with CA's hateful, anticivil rights laws.

Nice & affordable for the women & minorities.

20 posted on 03/01/2018 1:44:00 PM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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