The vile that spews from George Soros
The Friday Letter / #504 / Aug. 5, 2022
Edited with typographical corrections at 9:48 a.m. E.T.
George Soros is concerned about crime – he told us so in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece published last Sunday.
“Like most of us, I’m concerned about crime,” he wrote. “One of government’s most important roles is to ensure public safety. I have been involved in efforts to reform the criminal-justice system for the more than 30 years I have been a philanthropist.”
Our Oxford dictionary defines reform as “change that is made to a social system, an organization, etc. in order to improve or correct it.”
Handing out millions of dollars to elect and control left-wing prosecutors for the purpose – he told us so – of ending cash bail and defunding the police is not what we would normally call reform. Reform is improvement. George Soros, the puppet-master of prosecutors in Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New York, other cities and until recently San Francisco, is an anti-Semite Hungarian immigrant whose purpose is to destroy American civil society. He's doing a pretty good job of it.
Soros wants you to think our criminal justice system is “racist” because more blacks than whites, as a percentage of their population, are arrested and sent to prison for committing violent crimes. That is because they commit more violent crimes than whites, are more likely to discharge firearms during armed robberies, and are more likely to commit murder while engaging in unprovoked attacks. Let's review some numbers.
Despite what apologists for the Michael Browns and George Floyds of the world claim, police don't go around looking for black people to arrest just for the hell of it, like they did in the Democrat-controlled Jim Crow South before civil rights reform. For one thing, they don't need the hassle.
Looking at national figures, then, we must assume that, as a percentage of their population, more blacks than whites are arrested because they commit more violent crimes.
Over the weekend of July 24-25, Chicago had 65 shootings and five homicides. This occurred a week after eight were killed and 17 others, including an off-duty Chicago PD officer, were wounded, the local ABC affiliate reported. We don't have precise figures, but various news media consistently report that the percentage of both killer and victim in Chicago is overwhelming black.
In 2018 in New York City, 73 percent of the shooting victims were black, though blacks comprise only 24 percent of the city's population.
Alvin Poussaint, M.D., is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School who has written widely on the need to treat the causes of black crime. In 1983 he published a study of black homicide victims in the professional journal Victimology.
The abstract reads, in part, “Today homicide is the leading cause of death among young Black men, and contributes significantly to the shortened life-span of the Black male. In about 80-90% of the cases, the Black victim was killed by another Black, and about 52% of the murder victims were acquainted with their assailant.”
We were curious to know if these statistics have changed much in the last 39 years. We asked Dr. Poussaint to comment but did not get a response.
Table 43 of the FBI's Uniform Crime Report for 2019 reports arrests for violent crimes in the United States, by race. Its findings for the year:
Police at all levels made 355,244 arrests for violent crime. Of those charged, 59.1 per cent were white, about their percentage of the population, and 36.4 percent were black. Blacks compose about 13 percent of the population.
It's important to note here that these figures apply to arrests only, not to crimes that never result in charges. Chicago, for example, has many more homicides than arrests, most committed by blacks on other blacks.
A reader-supported Chicago-area crime reporting website called CWB Chicago explains the difference:
“In fact only 63% of the 82 murders CPD cleared in the first three months of this year resulted in charges being filed, according to records provided to in a Freedom of Information Act request. Prosecutors refused to charge in 26% of the cases and 11% of the alleged killers were deceased.
And many of the cleared cases that are contributing to the department’s clearance rate are old. Five of the 82 murders cleared as of March 30 were committed before 2001. Another 19 were committed between 2003 and 2019.”
In summary, Chicago's Soros-impaneled DA Kim Foxx refused to prosecute about one fourth of the murder cases so far this year. This is the Soros definition of “reform.” Combined with murders that never result in arrest, these numbers suggest that, from a criminal's point-of-view, Chicago is a pretty good place to commit murder.
As for George Soros, he is able to stir up black Democrat hatred of whites with the help of propaganda writers in the press, and this leads to his relative ease of getting his puppets elected as prosecuting attorneys. Here is what a self-styled scholar at the Brookings Institution wrote in 2015:
“The nation’s consciousness has been raised by the repeated acts of police brutality against blacks. But the problem of public space violence – seen in the extraordinary distress, trauma and pain many poor inner-city families experience following the killing of a family member or close relative – also deserves our special attention.”
The writer cites old CDC figures (from 2011-2013) showing that about 34 black men per 100,000 population were killed by guns. Contrast that with about 16 white men and 2½ to 3 black and white women. The clear implication, because the article's chart immediately follows the claim of “repeated acts of police brutality against blacks,” is that most of these peace-loving fathers and husbands were mowed down by the likes of trigger-happy Officer Tackleberry from Police Academy. (Lady: Can you get my cat down from the tree? Tackleberry, drawing his gun: “Yes, Ma'am,” and boom, here comes the cat.)
In 2020, Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute reported that for the previous five years police have fatally shot about 1,000 civilians annually, “the vast majority of whom were armed or otherwise dangerous. Black people, representing about 13 percent of the population, accounted for 23 percent of the fatal shootings.”
For 2019, she said police fatally shot 14 unarmed blacks and 25 whites. She adds, “There are about 7,300 Black homicide victims a year. The 14 unarmed victims in fatal police shootings would comprise only 0.2% of that total.”
Since 2015, police shootings of all kinds have decreased as police, under threats of imprisonment from the Democrat Party's defund affiliates, back off to avoid legal troubles of enforcing the law. The result is hardly a surprise: increased homicides and other major felonies in those areas.
True to its disingenuous mission of twisting facts to score propaganda points, the Washington Post ran a story this week with this headline: “1,067 people have been shot and killed by police in the last year.” Providing no context, the Post says “Black Americans are killed at a much higher rate than white Americans,” adding, “Although half of the people shot and killed by police are White, Black Americans are shot at a disproportionate rate.”
Nowhere does the story explain circumstances behind the shootings. This is the kind of journalistic dishonesty (sorry for the redundancy) that allows George Soros to spread his vile on the American public.
And Soros isn't backing down. Here is how Eric Lendrum at American Greatness described the situation on Wednesday:
“On Monday, far-left billionaire George Soros declared that he would continue to financially support district attorneys and other candidates who are explicitly soft on crime, falsely claiming that such candidates will make the criminal justice system “more effective and just.”
Short takes on the news
The 10th Amendment at work. Kansas voters rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would have declared that the state constitution does not guarantee the right to an abortion. This is exactly what the SCOTUS majority had in mind when returning abortion decisions to the states. Supporters blame “out-of-state abortion activists” who “flooded the Midwestern state with dark money and deceptive ads,” Margot Cleveland writes at The Federalist. . .
Tim Scott moves from the America First wing to the fading Establishment wing of the Republican Party. The U.S. Senator from South Carolina, seen as a rising star as a constitutional conservative, pro-Trumper, cashed in his membership Thursday when he endorsed Lisa Murkowski for re-election. Murkowski, of Alaska, is a liberal Republican whose favorable rating by the conservative Heritage Action for America is 33 percent. She is challenged by Kelly Tshibaka in Alaska's Aug. 16 primary. . .
First-term Rep. Peter Meijer (Mich. 3) loses a Republican primary challenge to Trump-endorsed John Gibbs. Meijer is a liberal Republican (50% rating by the American Conservative Union) who voted to impeach President Trump and voted for gun-control expansion sponsored by Shelia Jackson Lee of Texas (3 by the American Conservative Union, 0 by Heritage Action for America). . .
Superstar crooks. Just 10 career criminals account for 485 arrests in New York City since no-cash bail took effect two years ago, The New York Post reports. Because defendants are released shortly after their arrest with no bail, most of them are still on the streets, the newspaper reports.
Recommended reading
"Leftist Verizon Shuts Off Conservative One America News”
Jeffrey Lord at mrc newsbusters
Last year two Democrat congressmen from California, Anna Eshoo and Jerry McNerney, wrote to the largest cable and satellite TV distributors, including Verizon, DirecTV, Comcast, and Cox, with the intent to intimidate them into censoring – dropping – Fox News, News Max, and One America News Network for their role in disseminating information unfavorable to the state. With One America News, they succeeded, as OANN is now virtually silent now that Verizon became the last major distributor to drop it.
Earlier, AT&T's DirecTV dropped OANN.
“We are concerned about the role each distributor plays in disseminating misinformation to millions of [its] subscribers, and we write to you to request additional information about what actions [each distributor] is taking to address these issues,” they wrote.
Thought control by the ruling government can't succeed without a strong working relationship – affiliation, in reality – with the prevailing propaganda news media. The major cable and satellite carriers are firmly in partnership with the rulers.
The leftist lawmakers want to know what the carriers are doing to censor and outright suppress any thought that does not support the rulers: “Are you planning to continue carrying Fox News, Newsmax, and OANN . . . both now and beyond and contract renewal date?”
Eshoo and McNerney both sit on the House Commerce Committee, which oversees the Federal Communications Commission.
Other stories to follow: “Twitter Censors Israeli Biological Research Scientist After He Says Monkeypox May Be Connected to mRNA shots.” Debra Heine at American Greatness.
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