Posted on 01/21/2022 8:29:52 AM PST by lowbridge
Reacting to recent media images of trash-strewn railroad tracks in Los Angeles – the result in part of thieves stealing from passing rail cars and discarding packaging – California Gov. Gavin Newsom showed up Thursday with a clean-up crew and vowed action.
And the Democrat, dressed in a T-shirt, baseball cap and coronavirus mask, pitched in himself, joining crew members from the state Department of Transportation in grabbing handfuls of debris and placing the trash in bags or in a dumpster.
"What has happened on this stretch of the Union Pacific Railroad is unacceptable," Newsom told reporters. He said the area looked like a scene from "a Third World country," according to FOX 11 of Los Angeles.
He claimed the state was committed both to prosecuting the thieves and cleaning up the messes they’ve left behind. He added that preventing further thefts was also part of the plan, FOX 11 reported.
"How do we make sure we don't have to keep coming back?" Newsom asked. "How do we secure this site? How do we do a better job in making sure that this doesn't have to continue to happen? This is the supply chain. I know all of us are focused down on the water, it's so damn beautiful, and everybody's just focused on containers at the ports, the supply chain."
He added that rail cars carrying cargo was also part of the supply chain.
But Republicans and others have argued that progressive state policies such as zero-cash bail for lower-level offenses have made crime worse.
"Criminals know how to exploit California’s policies for their gain," state Senate Republican Leader Scott Wilk, whose district includes northern Los Angeles County, told The Associated Press.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Some things happened. Some people did some things.
Just put some bulls at the junction with guns for a week.
Victor Davis Hanson: Third-Worldizing America
Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, op-ed via Townhall.com,
It’s called Third Worldization! It’s the utter breakdown of the law, and the ability of the rich within such a feudal society to find ways to avoid the violent chaos.
Neistat was right in identifying a pandemic of crime in Los Angeles as Third Worldization. In a recent online exchange, YouTuber, Casey Neistat vented his anger after his car was broken into and the contents stolen. Los Angeles, he railed, was turning into a “3rd world s***hole of a city.”
The predictable role of the smug, indifferent Third World rich, who master ignoring – and navigating around – the misery of others in their midst. In a medieval-type society of two rather than three classes, the rich in walled estates rarely worry that much about thievery. Crime is written off as an intramural problem of the poor, especially when the middle class is in decline or nonexistent.
Such impoverishment pales in comparison to the encampments of present-day Fresno, Los Angeles, Sacramento, or San Francisco. Tens of thousands live on sidewalks and in open view use them to defecate, urinate, inject drugs, and dispose of refuse.
Violent crime is soaring in America. Two things are different about America’s new criminality.
• One is the virtual impunity of it. Thieves now brazenly swarm a store, ransack, steal, and flee with the merchandise without worry of arrest.
• • Second, the Left often justifies crime as a sort of righteous payback against a supposedly exploitative system.
So, the architect of the so-called 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, preened of the riotous destruction of property during the summer of 2020: “Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence.”
Third Worldization reflects the asymmetry of law enforcement. Ideology and money, not the law, adjudicate who gets arrested and tried, and who does not.
The above statements excerpted from: Victor Davis Hanson’s: “Third-Worldizing America
Nation & State” ^ | 12-4-2021 | Victor Davis Hanson
https://www.nationandstate.com/2021/12/04/victor-davis-hanson-third-worldizing-america/
Fox News: California city/Walnut Creek boosts security budget by $2 million after ‘criminal mob’ ransacks after Nordstrom’s @ Walnut Creek was rocked by a smash-and-grab mob last month!
https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-walnut-creek-security-police-2-million
It’s the leniency of politicians like California Governor Gavin Newsom/Gruesome which is ultimately responsible for the descent into barbarism and this organized looting/piracy with masses of looters.
This organized massed looting is similar to a problem our forefathers had at one time. It was called piracy. They shot or hung pirates and then sank their ships with the pirates on board.
That worked for about 3+ centuries until George SoreA$$’s Elites’ took over our blue states, cities, mayors, local and state attorney generals, governors and often, the local police chiefs.
This has allowed George SoreA$$’s elites and his well funded BLMers to have free reign over many blue cities and states and now, the plundering of the Nordstrom’s in Walnut Creek.
Forget It, Jakes/Janes! Relax! It’s Now, Not Even Your City/Town/County nor State, any more!
George SoreA$$’s elites control everything now from your schools to the stores where you send your kids and try to buy things.
Even, If you didn’t vote for this, it doesn’t matter!
Your votes were probably not counted nor have been counted for decades, if ever!
Beta male leadership at its worst.
Kudos to him for responding.
At least he is cleaning up.
But how are you going to prosecute.
First, You need to remove from office the DA’s that won’t prosecute.
“Unacceptable”, but will do nothing to change the policies that made it possible.
> Gavin Newsom showed up Thursday with a clean-up crew
The Babylon Bee is just plain silly now. Why would a governor focus on the mess instead of the crime?
Well, I say newsome is unacceptable yet here we are.
When they zoom out you can see the roads lined with dilapidated camper RV's filled with homeless drug addicts and mentally ill people. Did he say he would clean that up, because that's who is robbing these trains and leaving a mess.
Yeah, got to get that photo opp... that is image, marketing, for the LOOKS.. Now, after the photo is taken, take off the mask, and keep screwing the people.
From what I’ve read, these areas do get cleaned up routinely, but it goes south in no time.
Too bad he’s only concerned about the litter and not the CRIME.
This oily vapid bastard has unlimited political ambition. Beware, America.
Shotguns with buckshot....bring in forty guys to send a message.
First, You need to remove from office the DA’s that won’t prosecute.
And in the DAs’ defense they’re only trying to break the ‘crime-to-prison’ pipeline. We all know that pipelines are evil and must be stopped. /s
What’s his next planned photo-op????
A photo op for re-election purposes only.
Littering is criminal.
Grand Theft is only a naughty naughty.
I am sure glad I left CA in 2003.
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