Two videos documenting San Francisco’s decline today. First up: What happens when lawbreakers neither fear nor respect a police force that’s been made helpless by political leadership.
In a second video from CBN (age-restricted, so no embedding), leftwing attorney and former San Francisco Board of Supervisors member Angela Alioto admits that everything she did back in office was wrong and has made things much, much worse. “We made bad decisions. We made bad policy. Undo it.”
She supported being a sanctuary city and needle exchange program, but now believe both are wrong and corrupt.
She’s come to realize the truth of the Homeless Industrial Complex: “His is a $14 billion budget. When I ran for mayor in 2018, it was $5 billion. $2 billion is going for homelessness and homelessness-related issues. How is that not corrupt? How is 60% of that money not going into someone’s pockets?” She doesn’t seem to realize that the programs were designed to line the pockets of leftwing activists and politicians.
Last year, the city gave $1.4 billion to non-profits theoretically working to solve homelessness. What they got was more homeless. Alioto: “We have way too many nonprofits…I’ll go so far as to say that some of them are not trying to help. Some of them have perpetuated a homeless industry that is killing us.” I’d say most of them.
Crime is another issue. Proposition 47, which decriminalized theft under $1,000, has made things much worse as well. “It’s ridiculous. It gives people a license to steal.”
Just like Republicans said it would.
What Angela Alioto doesn’t know or can’t say is that all this Homeless Industrial Complex graft is almost certainly sanction by the local, state, and national Democratic Party leadership, and I have a fairly strong suspicion that a lot of that graft gets directly recycled into campaign contributions to Democrats across the country.
Alioto was appointed to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors by Gavin Newsom in 2004. My suspicion is that Newsom not only knows about the graft, but is one of (if not the) primary controllers of it. Remember the recall effort against Newsom? Scott Adams called the Democratic Party’s fight against that effort as “the top process in the system.”
But the entire Democratic Party is complicit in the decline of San Francisco to the crime-ridden hellhole it’s become, and they’re looking to roll out their graft-and-decline agenda nationwide.
Tags: Angela Alioto, California, Crime, Democrats, Gavin Newsom, homeless, San Francisco, San Francisco Police Department, Social Justice Warriors
The Alioto name looms large in local SF politics – Angela’s father, Joseph Alioto, was the pro-development, pretty much traditional, old school Democrat machine politician Mayor of San Francisco basically from the Summer of Love/Zodiac Killer/Symbionese Liberation Army days through to the first ascension of Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown, from 1968 to 1976.
Look at any of the movies or TV shows shot in SF back then, from Dirty Harry to Bullitt to The Streets of San Francisco, and you get a glimpse how Alioto and the well-paid and pretty much unconstrained SFPD kept the city – i.e. a clean low-crime place for business and families.
The fact that his daughter has come to the belated recognition in her old age that she done effed up everything her father built mush especially gall.
They all thought they knew better. They did not.
That’s going to be the epitaph for the United States, and the Democratic Party. Real fact is, they have to produce results people want, or they’re dead, dead, dead. The shakeout from the uniparty displaying its utter incompetence is going to take decades, but… So be it.
I used to work around a guy who was a Democratic Party precinct official. We’d argue politics at lunch with him… He was basically a die-hard Scoop Jackson Democrat, decent hard-working guy who believed in the Democrats the way a Jesuit believes in the Catholic Church.
He kept moving up the ranks, and eventually got sent off to some “leadership conference” back East, early in the first Clinton administration. I have no idea what he saw back there, or experienced, but he came back a changed man. You’d needle him the way we always had about the Democrats and their various corruptions, but after that “leadership conference”, he’d just sit there with an expression of what I can only describe as “rueful acknowledgment”. He gradually separated himself from his party activism, and by the time I last saw him about a year later, he wasn’t even involved any more. I asked him directly, about that time, and I couldn’t get an answer out of him about anything he’d seen or otherwise experienced that had “broken his faith”, but it was obvious that something had transpired. Only thing I could get out of him was something to the effect of “…they’re going to be hunting Democrats through the streets with dogs, one of these days… And, they’re going to be right to do it, too!!!
I have thought a lot about that guy and what he said. I still have no idea what the hell it was that changed his outlook that much, but I’ll say this: Before he left, he was all proud of the fact that he was on the same floor with all the bigwigs attending the conference, the national leaders from the Democratic Party. Something he saw around them? Something he heard? No idea; he’d never say what it was.
What’s the over/under on Committees of Vigilance entering the chat?
“What’s the over/under on Committees of Vigilance entering the chat?”
We hope in dreams, “high”. In reality, “low”. Some of us pray they’d start with politicians, if only our dreams came true.
Not only were they warned, but there is little they can do to stop it now. Part of that 60% of $2 billion is funding efforts to keep all of this going. You have to raise money to counter the propaganda that is paid with taxpayer dollars. You can’t even hire more cops, because at the top, it is clear that if they do so much as toss over someone’s apple cart, they’ll go to jail.
It won’t be “Committees of Vigilance”, not at first. It’ll be the same deal as when the Mafia started out, because the cops and the “system” didn’t care about immigrants or what went on in their neighborhoods. So, instead of calling the police when your daughter got assaulted, you went to the local Mafia types, and said “Hey, this happened… Do something, will you?”, and the local Mafioso would indeed “do something”, so as to maintain and accrue his power in the community.
What we term “law enforcement” today will still go on; it just won’t be the cops and the courts doing it. It will be impromptu little affairs where the victims casually slaughter their assailants, and other cases where the local cartel or gang finds it lucrative to ensure that things like rape and so forth don’t go down on their turf.
None of which is going to be at all conducive the stated goals of the genius “brights” who’ve inflicted all this “defund the cops” on us. What they really should have done is properly termed that idea what it actually is: “Fund the gangsters”. ‘Cos, that’s what it’s gonna do, just like Prohibition pumped millions of dollars into the hands of criminals.
You don’t want to do law? Fine; someone else will, and I’m pretty sure you’re really not going to like how they do it, either. Victim’s rights? Criminal’s rights? LOL… It’s all gonna be down to who has the money and can pay for it. Want to get justice for your dead kid? Pay the cartel to kill the responsible party…
Is that just? Hell, no… But, it is what’s going to wind up happening.
On a whim, I recently attended a church that is very close to my new home address.
The suburban area features large wooded lots in proximity to corn fields and expansive parkland. Near the interstate highway there are chain store grocers and big box stores. A golf course and a few low-impact industries situated on campus-like grounds are situated here and there. All-in-all, this seems like a safe neighborhood.
Imagine my surprise when the church’s entrance door was locked shut for the Sunday service. I rang the doorbell and an usher arrived, looked through the window and admitted me to the sanctuary’s lobby. He then conducted me to where the minister was greeting the incoming congregants.
When questioned about the locked door, he informed me that because of a recent shooting at a Texas church, the deacons had decided to implement a security program that featured armed guards.
Brightening, I asked cheerily if he would like me to fetch my pistol from the truck so as to fortnight the perimeter. This earned me a wan smile.
The hardening of soft targets is developing slowly in unexpected places. When the revolution comes to town, it will find a well-prepared reception committee.
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I’ve never seen fortnight verbed. And not really verbed, because I don’t see any connection between “fourteen days” (the definition of fortnight I’m familiar with) and “contributing to the defense” (a rough sketch of the definition context provides.)
Honestly, don’t know if he’s making up a new meaning for the word or if it’s just one I’ve never encountered before.