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The official Democrat position on the sharp rise in crime, as put forward by the media and its experts, is that it’s imaginary. Everything is great and it’s only propaganda that’s making people think cities are dangerous.
But the criminals out there are changing Dem minds one member of Congress at a time.
Earlier this year, Rep. Angie Craig, who had attended a BLM rally, had to throw hot coffee at a man who attacked her in an elevator, and she ‘woke’ up.
Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) called for a crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C., after she was attacked in the district. Craig was allegedly attacked by Kendrid Hamlin, 26, early Thursday morning in her apartment building’s elevator.
“I got attacked by someone who the District of Columbia has not prosecuted fully over the course of almost a decade, over the course of 12 assaults before mine that morning,” she said. “And so I think we have to think about how in the world can we make sure that we’re not just letting criminals out.”
“If you throw somebody in jail for 10 days and think, ‘There’s your punishment, and we’re gonna let you right back on the street,’ what the hell do you think’s gonna happen?” she said.
Now it’s Rep. Henry Cuellar’s turn.
“I was just coming into my place. Three guys came out of nowhere and they pointed guns at me. I do have a black belt, but I recognize when you got three, three guns — I looked at one with a gun and another with a gun, a third one behind me — So they said they wanted my car. I said, ‘Sure.’ You’ve got to keep calm under those situations. And then they took off,” Cuellar told reporters Tuesday morning on Capitol Hill.
“According to the victim’s statements, the suspects ‘swarmed [the victim’s] vehicle, pointed firearms in his face and demanded the keys to the car.’ Thankfully there were not any injuries,” a statement from Capitol Police said. “A witness told investigators three males in knit caps and ski masks were involved. The witness reported that the suspects were 5’10” black males who may have been around the age of 16 due to their build.”
This is once again becoming the new normal in Washington D.C. because Democrats chose to dump tough-on-crime policies for pro-crime policies that portrayed thugs as the victims of an unjust society and a racist police force. Now D.C. is reverting once more to the violent criminal underworld that it used to be.
And Congress will go back to the bad old days with the rest of D.C. Just ask Joe Biden.
“We now do not go to the automatic teller after dark,” Sen. Joe Biden had complained in 1994. “My wife tells me we are not going to do the shopping on Friday nights anymore.”
Then Sen. John Kerry described having his cars stolen three times and fleeing a confrontation. “I am confident if I stayed out on the street, I might be a statistic today.”
Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota watched his wife assaulted in front of him near the Capitol by a released rapist who pointed a gun at him and dragged his wife for two blocks.
Conrad, who had been fairly liberal, turned more conservative. “I am ready to do something very serious about crime,” he declared in the Senate. “We have to get tough. People who commit violence need to be put away and need to be separated from the rest of us.”
In 1992, Abbey McClosky, a 22-year-old trying to join the office of Senator Dodd, was walking home when she was brutally beaten and raped. What was left of her had been so badly battered that she could only be identified by her boots. After three days she died in the hospital.
The ‘superpredator’ who assaulted her had been out on parole after a series of assaults on women, including even a local councilwoman. He followed up the assault on McClosky by “crushing the eye socket of a 73-year-old woman”.
That year, Rep. Bob Traxler of Michigan was beaten unconscious and mugged for eight bucks a few blocks from the Capitol. Tom Barnes, a 25-year-old staffer for Senator Richard Shelby, was mugged and murdered while going to 7-11 for coffee.
The good news is that Congress is not immune from the consequences of pro-crime policies. The question is how many members of Congress have to experience crime for themselves before they take a stand against it.
Thanks Daniel! What woke me up was having a best childhood friend murdered in 1984 on his driveway, in front of his wife and kid, when coming home from work, by a black street criminal. Some years later the perp, who was in Pelican Bay for several other murders, confessed, and showed the interrogator a badge from my friend that the murderer had kept as a momento. He was proud of himself and said “I got me a captain!”
I gave part of the memorial service ending with my saying “Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.” At that his wife let out a loud cry I can still hear.
Sitting outside on the church steps afterwards, talking to my friend’s dad, the tears came down my face like sheets of water. That can really happen, the only time it happened to me in my life. My friend’s dad said “You loved him too.”
My condolences. I said a prayer for you and your friend, for what it’s worth.
Thanks Jeff!!!!
I can’t believe this bigot reported it to the police.
The whiner probably wants attention.
I’ll believe Rep Cuellar and other Democrats have had a change of heart when they don’t join with their colleagues to push legislation to make criminals out of law-abiding citizens and empower ACTUAL criminals with additional gun control legislation and 2nd Amendment erosion.
They are calling for action on a national level, which means nothing useful. What is needed is action on the local level.
Impossible this happened to Cuellar ! DC has strict gun laws ! Oh, that’s right, criminals do not get “permits” to carry and definitely do not fill out those cute federal forms asking if you are a criminal when getting a gun. Only goody goody’s do that. I also wonder if the criminals have magazines that can have more that 10 rounds cause that’s is ” illegal” in DC too. Maybe they are law abiding criminals, you never know….
I doubt it will have any effect on Rep. Cellar or any of his Dem colleagues. They know the level of street crime and that it is disproportionately committed by black people. Thus, any efforts to control this crime would disproportionately result in the jailing of blacks. They also know that black people are their most robotically loyal voters, usually voting <90% for Dem candidates. They aren't about to confront reality and risk offending some portion of that voting cohort. Just remember, it's all for the greater good of The Party.
Party is all to those Dirtbagocrat scumbags. Fuck their white, asian and latin constituents and fuck America.
So dose this fool still support Gun Control or will he vote to have violent criminals locked up in prison for a longer sentence like 40 to 50 years for violent criminals
As far as I’m concerned……every DEM member of Congress can “experience violent crime firsthand”.
And if many of them don’t survive their encounters with the criminal class……….I’m OK with that.
The more dead D-Bags, the better.
Just three conscientious teens taking a break from studying for their advanced placement exams.
lol ,.. good one … my first laugh of the afternoon 🙂
CongressMEMBER? No. Regardless of sex, the term is Congressman, Please, don’t lend credence to the left’s so far successful efforts to bastardize the English language.
Note that when it comes to “gender”, there really are three. Masculine, feminine, and neuter. Gender refers to a characteristic of languages that have these forms for nouns. El Toro, la mama, etc.
True enough. But remember, the Brits have had “Membrs of Parliament” for centuries. Until recently they were all MEN but still MEMBERS.
I’m OK with cngressman and congrasswoman, though more correcly the erm references the POSITION and not the one who fills it.
The word “chairman” refers to the office, not the one olding it. thus “chairwoman” is a grammatical faux pas. but the femmies and wokies dn’t care a hoot about propriety, do they?
I like the term CongressMuslim. Heard that the first time a few days ago 🙂
Irrational policies will hurt everyone. The regrets, unfortunately, come too late at the expense of the country, families, prosperity, and security.
Golly gee, I wonder what race the “car jackers” were? Could they have been “white supremacists?”
How many members of Congress have to experience the results of their pro-crime policies to wake up and take a stand? Probably all of them, and maybe not even then.
murder and mayhem of democrats wont change anything . the feckless president says so along with cackle o harris who quipped that rioters and murderers should not stop because they are aggrieved . wait until the 10 mill. plus illegals start on a crime spree because they haven’t been given enough . america will become one hell hole cess pit and the democrats and most republicans like it that way . america , a modern day titanic , on its way to the bottom and fast .
When you treat violent Carrer criminal’s with the Kid-glove treatment and replace longer sentences with Counseling and parole and the rest of that liberal poppycock your going to have High Crime Rate and Gun Control/Confiscation will make things worse
Hillaryarious!!! Absolutely Hillaryarious!! Major giggle-snorts, and LOLing Out Loud!!!
Made my day!
Redirect all crime 911 calls to defund the police politicians. Let them handle it.
Then, Karma does exist.
Sooner or later Dems will reap what they have sown.