USA: Reliving the Nightmare of a Shocking Christmas Carnage Every Day

I am a fan of Gatestone. This article is correct and important. Wokeness, weakness, and support for criminals of all kinds must not prevail. Burke was right.

This could help explain why crime is so rapidly increasing.

I remember for a long time there were signs on lawns near me idealizing George Floyd and proclaiming support for BLM. I wondered how this could be? He was surely a petty criminal with a lot of narcotics in his bloodstream. Surely he is not a clone of MLK. And the same with the other trials of police who were trying to maintain law and order. And then the easy sentences and lax policies of leftist governments toward real criminals committing real crimes. I am afraid to visit parts of my city that I used to wander about with a feeling of perfect security only a couple of years ago. What has happened to us? How is it that the leftists idealize criminals and vilify citizens, turn concerned parents at school board meetings into domestic terrorists? How do they see terrorists in Afghanistan, Iran or Israel as heroic fighters for right and liberty? What is going on? Do people want to be deceived?

One would think that left wing ideology and practise of law supporting human rights, fair trials,
anti racism etc are a perfect idealistic and ideological fit.
Is there an overwhelming financial motive driving such alleged idealism and sense of justice?
Might I suggest that unreasonably low sentences, acquittals, cancellation of bail etc allowing the the first time offender (often multiple offender) to repeatedly commit obvious crimes several times in the future.
This generates a continuous source of future income for lawyers appearing on behalf of a repeat offender.
Just imagine... an alleged offender who should have been jailed for the first time offence, is acquitted. This same person is allowed to walk the streets, commit multiple future crimes
at the expense of public safety and be defended by lawyers who are remunerated
via taxation.
Am sure that lawyers are very aware that in general far fewer crimes are committed by a person in jail then outside jail. As a future source of income to lawyers a jailbird is worth far less
then a person who should be in jail.

New Yorkers wants these, they get it...
Simple as that!

This was an excellent exposé of the agenda of just one member of America's out of control leftist legal establishment.

As long as the voters want this, the DA, Alvin Bragg, will give to them.
This is the New York that New Yorkers want and vote for. If you live in New York and are unhappy with it, don't bother to vote, since this is the government New Yorkers overwhelmingly vote for.
I don't even think the Republicans will be on the ballot going forward. Curtis Sliwa of Guardian Angels actually was the Republican candidate for Mayor, Guardian Angels being an organization committed to public safety, won about 29% of the vote against Adams, with Democrats outnumbering registered Republicans enormously, Republicans being only one out of 8 registered voters.
After all, the New York Times is headquartered in New York and New Yorkers overall are happy to be in New York.
It's not going to change.
After Adams, Bragg will likely run for and be elected Mayor of New York, unless he runs for and is elected Governor of New York, a stepping-stone on the way to run for President of the US.

It would be nice if he could be recalled before his term ends. He's definitely terrible!

How can a person such as Mr. Bragg ignore the laws himself? Forgive me for being naive, but isn't he duty-bound to uphold the laws as they are written by the legislatures? In this case, he is a law unto himself.

Little surprising the lawless are being so lucky in the United States today. It's time the Americans remained vigilant and asserted to equip their criminal justice system with such human resources as would refrain from letting any irremediable evil go scot-free.

All aspects of USA law, whether referring to enforcement, arrest, trial, evidence,
punishment etc have both good and bad features. On rare occasions the bad features can accurately be described as legal insanity.
For example it is a commomnly practised legal insanity that the criminal needs protection not the victim. By trying to strengthen this nonsense Bragg has lowered his own status as District Attorney, but also the standing of the law in the eyes of law abiding citizens.
Will this insanity be accepted in word and deed if Bragg himself is held up at gunpoint while walking through Manhattan streets?

MY comment is just wait until something happens within his circle of friends OR family from one of his mollycoddled victims or is that {perps} yes right word .

IT will change and will change so fast they will wonder what has happened.
A true story I can tell of a magistrate who let car thieves off with a rap on the wrist went on for some time, his pride and joy was a rather expensive English Motor vehicle, it was suddenly stolen one night and burnt, oh dear, and from that day on if he could have hanged them he would have. The law was then implemented to the last letter for those that appeared before him for car theft, his usual before was it's only a vehicle and possibly insured naughty boy away now and behave.
a sudden change of mind when it hit home, with many a knowing smile from the officers of the law from the local station oh dear oh dear wonder who did that,{{{names and such withheld to protect the guilty}}}

Thank you Lawrence for this revealing insight into the depravity of justice in the U.S. "We are living in an era where an elected prosecutor has deliberately reinvented good and evil."
When the Ten Commandments goes out the door, so does the notion of "Thou shalt not kill" easily applied to abortion which is now (thanks to certain American Humanist initiatives- beginning with Colorado's legalising of it), is now global with 40,000,000 to 50,000,000 abortions, and effectively reduced the birthrate below 2 in all European countries, the U.S., Australia, Canada.
And thank you to Gatestone for alerting us.

I am not an American - I live in a country far across the Pacific. As an outside observer from this distant vantage point, all the evidence of the last 15 years points to the fact that that the United States is now well down the path of self-destruction. Every traditional bulwark of American society seems to be crumbling under the forces of deeply corrupt ideologies, such as that proposed by this local New York political potentate.

Like the Lotus Eaters of Homer's Odyssey, ordinary Americans – rich & poor alike - ever since the end of the Cold War - have gorged themselves on the piffle spewed out by the Media-Hollywood-BigTech industrial complex, oblivious to the fact that they were losing their country. Those ordinary Americans have naively permitted absurd sociological concepts, policies, and practices to take deep root across their society, thus allowing the individuals peddling these ideas to transform what was once a rational and successful nation into a sociological hell - and ultimately a failed state. This process of self-immolation includes the once-excellent (& now badly degraded) Universities, the armed forces, the governance structures, as well as the school education and the health systems. Even the leaders of the corporate and business sectors have succumbed to these crazy ideologies of self-destruction, the most telling of which was the decision made decades ago to export American industry, know-how, and technology to an ambitious, rising China - and thus convert that country into a rich and powerful adversary. How could the decision-makers of a nation such as the U.S.A. have been so short-sighted that they thought that the de-industrialisation of America was a clever idea?

Why has this been happening? The answer is that none of this has happened by accident. The following quote from the article provides the clue to understanding what has been going on:
"If a foreign nation sought to destabilize our society by creating such a scenario we would consider it an act of war."

For almost three millennia, Imperial China was able to use its size and massive wealth to perfect techniques to corrupt the ruling classes of neighbouring countries. China had no need of conquering armies. It simply bought the elites of their neighbours. All the current rulers of China have done is to simply apply those techniques to the United States.

It is not too late for ordinary Americans to take their country back from people such as this New York District Attorney – but first they must gain the will and the courage to do so. Ceasing consumption of the Lotus spewed out by the Media-Hollywood-BigTech industrial complex would be a very good place to start.

I pray those deranged Individuals who have let evil undeterred will experience for themselves what they have sanctioned, as a wake up call for true justice. Terror on the streets as evil runs rampant. So sad there is no wisdom in government.

The fact is, someone appointed the disgusting, evil, scarcely civilized District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, and someone is permitting him to remain in his position despite his imbecilic notions regarding justice. One thing we truly can say, 'This is America today. It is rotten, and it's going to fail', possibly even before Joe Biden surrenders to Vladimir Putin's outrageous demands for America to pull out of Europe, abandon NATO allies, and shrivel up into a paper tiger.
But take heart America, you are not alone. Toronto police officers talk about this city's "revolving door" system with criminals arrested and in no time back on the street - where, in no time, some repeat offend - sometimes murder. Where, after all, any longer are there serious consequences and a genuine deterrent. The system is loaded in favour of criminals. This is to what Western Civilization has sunk - after abandoning its Judeo-Christian-inspired rules for fairness and justice.
Recently we read and heard about a young Toronto man, black, who had stabbed to death in a park a teenager of fine character, also black I gathered, who tried to stop a fight. In effect this criminal, a repeat offender, murdered this teenager, yet has been sentenced to less than six years in prison. This is justice in Canada for you. It's a bad joke, and adding to this pitiful circumstance recently on television we saw Canada's Minister of Justice, David Lametti, tell us that his department "has instructed all judges across Canada" that 'when they look out across their court and see before them an aboriginal or black person, they must apply a more lenient sentence'.
So there we had it, racism in action and David Lametti utterly oblivious to his dimwitted foolishness. Having come to Canada from South Africa - and sometimes I now wonder why - I wrote to Lametti to tell him that his instruction was "apartheid in action". "It implements racial inequality, favours two racial groups over all others and thus is a racist practice reminiscent of apartheid," I told him. My bet is that David Lametti didn't have the foggiest understanding of what I was saying. When the human mind becomes possessed by the political correctness disease, common sense and good judgement depart.

The Western World by its own now weak and cowardly Neville Chamberlain-like hand is now in a pitiful state. Having abandoned the values that made it special and great, it is fading just as surely as did the once great Byzantine Empire when it abandoned the values and discipline that made it great. Truth and facts are being sacrificed for the sake of political correctness stupidity and cowardice, and weak-minded 'woke' lies and delusions.

We always had the likes of Bragg but only for two minutes and then they were gone vanished into the cornfield. this guy can be found it is guaranteed stuffing his big face at the local expensive restaurants on the free.

Just the icing on the cake this, unless these progressive lunatics are kicked out the US is well on the way to becoming a banana republic

Isn't he violating his oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution and the laws of New York? If so, shouldn't a grass roots effort be attempted to remove him from office?

If the govt. won't protect the citizens, then the citizens must do it themselves. New Yorkers, consider: if the cops aren't there to protect you, they won't be there to see if you have a gun or not. Shopkeepers, keep a shotgun under the counter. Pedestrians, get air-pistols and learn to use them. When attacked by a thug, *shoot back*. Then get your story tight before -- or if -- you call the cops to haul the corpse away.

Great place to sell guns now. With armed robbery being downgraded from felony, more criminals will want to give it a try, while at the same time, more potential victims will think they'd better be prepared to protect themselves. SF and LA have also voted in DAs like him and every kind of crime including extreme violence to innocents has skyrocketed. Here in SF our DA went on and on about evil police violence against gang members who are people just like us. He never let up on how he was going to go after cops for their crimes. Of course he hates cops: Both of his parents were in prison for killing several people including a cop (or maybe two, don't remember) during a bank robbery. Yet SF still voted for him. Now things have gotten so bad here that all the terrified, hard core liberals who voted for him are putting it on the ballot to have him removed. Personally I think I'd like to see him stay and I'll take care of myself. Let them pay for their stupidity while their home gets invaded in the middle of dinner (which has been happening).

This same office, or for that matter NY state government piecemeal or as a whole is extremely anti Second Amendment. It's currently nearly impossible for any citizen to obtain a CCW permit -- unless you are a politician, dignitary, or movie star. In those cases it's much easier to have the "for cause" recognized.
Bail reform was misrepresented as something that would prevent crime. But criminals, especially violent ones, don't care about behaving regardless of carrot nor stick. We were also promised bail reform would not apply to violent offenders.
This is yet another step in progressive socialists tearing down our foundation. Like venom circulating through the bitten victim. First the limb then the body.
A socialist or communist revolution begins by sowing discord and then breaking down the governmental system in place. Open civil discourse follows. Then after riots the civil authorities lose control.
Not prosecuting felons, as said, wrecks public confidence and support.
Manhattan citizens should make use of the recall options while they still can.
Hopefully more so, SCOTUS will also provide relief in ordering NY to become a "shall issue" state.
Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness includes the rights and further yet the ability to protect oneself.
Sarcastically, the Manhattan DA may find himself labeled with an NY version of "Let's Go Brandon!"

I didn't fact-check this piece of information, but I remember hearing or reading somewhere that Mr Bragg ran (with the help of Soros millions) on the pro-criminal platform which he is now in the process of implementing.
If this is true, New Yorkers are getting what they voted for.
Crime-ridden blue states voting for more crime.
Who would have thunk it!

It's about destroying the social fabric of society. It's what Marxists do, with help from George Soros. Now, he is the definition of evil.

How does a person like this get elected? It makes me angry that the same city that gets preyed on by the criminal scum, keeps electing people like this, like De Blasio, etc.