Barr cannot simply "think up" a criminal category of entire cities. Has the word buffoon ever entered a Congressional confirmation process?
September 21, 2020
By Matt Naham
The U.S. Department of Justice (click here) woke up bright and early on Monday and declared Portland, Seattle, and New York City “anarchist jurisdictions” two and a half weeks after President Donald Trump revealed a controversial memo aimed at withholding federal funding from several cities—all of them run by Democrats. The memo was widely criticized for the open-ended way in which Attorney General Bill Barr was permitted to define the term “anarchist jurisdictions”; many of those criticisms were repeated on Monday because the DOJ again said that “any other related factors the Attorney General deems appropriate” was a legitimate criterion for labeling a place an “anarchist jurisdiction.” But, in a twist, other attorneys said that cutting federal funds would mean defunding police....
The three cities involved are all Democratic-held cities. Additionally, there have been many more troubled cities in the USA that are not considered to contain aspects of crime that might classify as anarchist paths.
The three cities involved are all Democratic-held cities. Additionally, there have been many more troubled cities in the USA that are not considered to contain aspects of crime that might classify as anarchist paths.
A very good example of "anarchist trends" within a city came in May of 2019 when 40 citizens were murdered and the Dallas police were unable to stop it. What did occur to stop the trend was the Governor's order for the State Troopers to assist in ending the violence.
When a city is overwhelmed with murder and accompanying law-breaking that cannot be tamed, that can be considered an anarchist trend. In 2019 the increase in murders in Dallas, Texas was 21 percent higher than the year before. But, it is only right to note the State Troopers brought those statistics down once they were on the job (cilck here). After 1000 arrests Dallas no longer needed the State Troopers to curb violence and break up a trend in organized crime that was leading to anarchy.
August 15, 2019
By Troy Closon
...Less than six months later, (click here) Pintucci was shot and killed in that sedan in the parking garage of Dallas shopping complex near the city’s NorthPark Center. The teenager was waiting to sell marijuana. But when the buyers — three male suspects — showed up, police said, they placed guns to the heads of Pintucci and others in the car and took the vape cartridges. Before running away, one of the suspects shot and killed Pintucci.
The suspects laughed as they headed for the garage exit, witnesses said.
Pintucci is one of at least 135 homicide victims in Dallas this year as the city is expected to reach its highest homicide rate in more than a decade. Meanwhile, other large Texas cities such as Houston, San Antonio and Corpus Christi are on pace for declines.
After Dallas experienced 40 killings in May — its highest monthly total since the 1990s — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed the state’s Department of Public Safety to send state troopers to reduce violent crime in a city that has struggled for years with a massive shortage of police officers. Since the troopers' arrival, they've seized more than 70 guns, according to the Dallas Police Department. Violent crime — though still up compared with last year — has also dropped by nearly 30% in the areas of Dallas where they're deployed....
There is no such thing as an "anarchist jurisdiction" lead by the FREELY ELECTED authority. The authority in those three Democratic cities, no different than Dallas, was freely elected and conducting the people's business. Conducting the people's business never stopped for a priority to bring in anarchists to overrun the city.
Protests are allowed under the First Amendment in freedom of speech and a right to assemble. There are no anarchist trends in local governments recognizing the First Amendment rights of protesters.
Damage to any property caused within those demonstrations belongs to the thugs that carried it out. Looting falls into that category as well.
As noted in this article there has been an increase in states to criminalize protests.
August 27, 2020
By Akela Lacy
Prosecutors and lawmakers in several states (click here) have responded to mass protests against police brutality by charging demonstrators with committing felonies, including terrorism charges. The trend of criminalizing protest has been on the uptick since the 2016 protests against the Dakota Access pipeline at Standing Rock, during and after which numerous states upped charges for protests “near critical infrastructure” as felonies....
To clearly illustrate the wrong-headed thinking of this government aggression against protesters, the courts would eventually rule in the favor of the protesters at Standing Rock.
March 25, 2020
Washington, D.C. - A federal court (click here) today granted a request by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to strike down federal permits for the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline.
The Court found the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated the National Environmental Policy Act when it affirmed federal permits for the pipeline originally issued in 2016. Specifically, the Court found significant unresolved concerns about the potential impacts of oil spills and the likelihood that one could take place....
The point is the First Amendment is absolute. There is no order by the government no matter what level, that ends the rights of citizens to protest. For Barr to come forward to call entirely freely elected city governments "anarchist jurisdiction" is a movement to end the First Amendment and replace it with an autocratic authority never sanctioned by any legislative process. Even if any legislative authority attempted to instill autocratic law, it would be struck down by the First Amendment and would not stand.
Bill Barr is also carrying out Trump's-Go-To strategy in enforcing his ideas by withholding money to states and cities already legislated to those official governments. That is illegal. Barr or Trump will never prevail in any of their machinations.
End of discussion.
