International President of El Savador sounds alarm on US cities

[lifelessheap]

It's honestly a good question, why would city councils and mayors essentially allow mass shop lifting (and previously mass rioting/looting) if they weren't either being paid to allow it, and/or they wanted to destroy their own cities. Why would DA's let career criminals continuously walk away with a slap on the wrist?

Because Soros funded them and he wants to destroy the US. He wants to be a God and use his power to destroy US.

According to him.

Edit, someone beat me to it. I am so redundant. Sorry.

 

[Beechwood]

A problem that has come about recently is progressive DAs in some American cities. They view crime and who to prosecute differently from what traditionally has been viewed as criminal. It is frightening what is going on in these blue cities. I'm glad I don't live in one. I suspect the problem will become worse. A write up on this ~

Progressive Prosecutors Build a New Kind of Police State​

They’re not defunding the police; they’re funding the thought police.​

https://www.frontpagemag.com/progressive-prosecutors-build-a-new-kind-of-police-state/

excerpt:

Before New York Attorney General Letita James launched her selective prosecution of former President Trump, the former public defender was advocating for the “criminal justice reforms” that empowered criminals and terrorized a state.

AG James had run for office promising to “reform NY’s criminal justice system and to investigate and prosecute Trump’s family businesses” and she kept her word. Criminals now roam free in the state while prosecutorial resources were dedicated to targeting political opponents.

In New York, criminals have nothing to worry about from the Attorney General’s office, only Republicans do. And this is becoming the norm among “progressive prosecutors”.

The crime waves sweeping the country and the serial prosecutions of former President Trump and other conservatives are not separate events, but the common outcome of a fundamental transformation of the justice system from punishing crime to punishing political opposition.

Within prosecutorial circles, the same debate has been taking place between maintaining even handed professional standards or using the profession to advocate for social justice as in other fields. In the media, it’s been between objective reporting and biased activism, and within medicine, between treating those who are sickest or prioritizing disadvantaged groups.

Among prosecutors, the debate has taken the form of the familiar social justice formula of “punching up” or “punching down”. Progressive prosecutors argue that prosecuting violent junkies or serial thieves is “punching down” and that they should advocate for change by dropping those cases, which make up much of their workload, and attacking the ‘root causes’.

The first part of this argument has gotten plenty of attention as cities and communities fight to oust radical prosecutors (dubbed by some the Soros DAs because of that billionaire’s backing for such figures) because even in an era of soaring crime rates, they refuse to bring criminals to justice. But it’s the latter part of that argument which may be even more dangerous.

What are the ‘root causes’ of social problems and how should they be fixed? If sending muggers to prison is ‘punching down’, whom are the prosecutors going to be ‘punching up’ against?

Too few have connected the vigorous prosecutions of Trump, his supporters and former administration officials to the same movement that gives violent criminals a pass, but they are two sides of the same coin. Progressive prosecutors have been attacked as promoting lawlessness, but more accurately they are promoting a new concept of what the law is.

Prosecutorial discretion means choosing which criminals to prosecute based on a set of values. The same philosophy which allows a DA to refuse to bring charges against a repeat sex offender because he is a member of an oppressed minority group allows him or her to bring charges against a driver for smearing his tires over a BLM street graphic, or for a federal prosecutor to choose which president to prosecute for taking home classified documents.....

Prosecutors are not supposed to be judges or legislators, but social justice activism demands that everyone use their profession to be an advocate for social change, And that social change, under the revolutionary agenda of leftist movements, demands “punching up” against political power rather than “punching down” against those helpless victims who are merely mugging people because of the economic policies of Trump and other Republicans.

That is what progressive prosecutors believe and act upon. By engaging in sustained lawfare against conservatives, they believe that they are fighting against the ”root causes” of crime.....

 

[Paladin]

The fact that this legitimate critique can come from the leader of El Salvador really shows how much harm the left has done to America. Anyone supporting the lawlessness going on in major American cities should be ashamed of themselves.

South America is waking up and saying no to the leftist ideology.

Argentina’s president, Javier Gerardo Milei
And el salvador president Nayib Bukele are beacons of hope that not all is lost.

 

[Yorick]

A problem that has come about recently is progressive DAs in some American cities. They view crime and who to prosecute differently from what traditionally has been viewed as criminal. It is frightening what is going on in these blue cities. I'm glad I don't live in one. I suspect the problem will become worse. A write up on this ~

Progressive Prosecutors Build a New Kind of Police State​

They’re not defunding the police; they’re funding the thought police.​

https://www.frontpagemag.com/progressive-prosecutors-build-a-new-kind-of-police-state/

excerpt:

Before New York Attorney General Letita James launched her selective prosecution of former President Trump, the former public defender was advocating for the “criminal justice reforms” that empowered criminals and terrorized a state.

AG James had run for office promising to “reform NY’s criminal justice system and to investigate and prosecute Trump’s family businesses” and she kept her word. Criminals now roam free in the state while prosecutorial resources were dedicated to targeting political opponents.

In New York, criminals have nothing to worry about from the Attorney General’s office, only Republicans do. And this is becoming the norm among “progressive prosecutors”.

The crime waves sweeping the country and the serial prosecutions of former President Trump and other conservatives are not separate events, but the common outcome of a fundamental transformation of the justice system from punishing crime to punishing political opposition.

Within prosecutorial circles, the same debate has been taking place between maintaining even handed professional standards or using the profession to advocate for social justice as in other fields. In the media, it’s been between objective reporting and biased activism, and within medicine, between treating those who are sickest or prioritizing disadvantaged groups.

Among prosecutors, the debate has taken the form of the familiar social justice formula of “punching up” or “punching down”. Progressive prosecutors argue that prosecuting violent junkies or serial thieves is “punching down” and that they should advocate for change by dropping those cases, which make up much of their workload, and attacking the ‘root causes’.

The first part of this argument has gotten plenty of attention as cities and communities fight to oust radical prosecutors (dubbed by some the Soros DAs because of that billionaire’s backing for such figures) because even in an era of soaring crime rates, they refuse to bring criminals to justice. But it’s the latter part of that argument which may be even more dangerous.

What are the ‘root causes’ of social problems and how should they be fixed? If sending muggers to prison is ‘punching down’, whom are the prosecutors going to be ‘punching up’ against?

Too few have connected the vigorous prosecutions of Trump, his supporters and former administration officials to the same movement that gives violent criminals a pass, but they are two sides of the same coin. Progressive prosecutors have been attacked as promoting lawlessness, but more accurately they are promoting a new concept of what the law is.

Prosecutorial discretion means choosing which criminals to prosecute based on a set of values. The same philosophy which allows a DA to refuse to bring charges against a repeat sex offender because he is a member of an oppressed minority group allows him or her to bring charges against a driver for smearing his tires over a BLM street graphic, or for a federal prosecutor to choose which president to prosecute for taking home classified documents.....

Prosecutors are not supposed to be judges or legislators, but social justice activism demands that everyone use their profession to be an advocate for social change, And that social change, under the revolutionary agenda of leftist movements, demands “punching up” against political power rather than “punching down” against those helpless victims who are merely mugging people because of the economic policies of Trump and other Republicans.

That is what progressive prosecutors believe and act upon. By engaging in sustained lawfare against conservatives, they believe that they are fighting against the ”root causes” of crime.

Brilliant. Gbt or genuine?

 

[Unknown Pleasures]

I'm actually a bit surprised at how much of a free pass the press is giving Bukele. To my knowledge, his re-election was clearly unconstitutional the way it was written, but he evidently had the power to stack the supreme court with his cronies who dubiously said he could run again. And then they actually arrested people who would recite the constitution in public.

Apparently though the vast majority of El Salvadorians are ignoramuses of their own constitution. It seems the media just kind of passes off his "cool dictator" persona as something to be joked about. Wonder if Milei will follow suit and have dictatorial tendencies. It does seem that Bukele does legit have the support of his people by large part, so it feels something to not be too upset about, but once people bend rules like that in places with corruption issues and time passes, things can get ugly.