They say that one definition of insane would be when you keep
trying the same thing,
over and over again, but you
expect somehow that something different will happen.
California by any definition is insane. Entertaining at
times, amusing at others, frustrating most always, California stumbles on,
experimenting with new things regardless of the consequences that are
inevitable when you continue trying things that all the wise folk tell you will
fail, and then taking those failures and doing them over and over again.
California sets the pace and the rest of the country eventually follows, so we
have already shown here that the rest of you folks are doomed. We’ve proven
that by our own folly. Sorry about that.
One of the crazy weirdest things we ever did as Californians
was to elect Jerry Brown as governor back in the 70’s. And of course, after
watching him mess up every single thing possible, we re-elected him for a
second term. Jerry’s father, who earlier had played governor without actually
staying at a Holiday Inn Express, was also distinguished by a certain lack of
competence and responsibility. Apparently, Brown the elder thought that the job
of governor was to turn pretty much the entire state over to a few “public
service” unions, and all would be well. Following in daddy’s footsteps, Jerry
never met a union he didn’t like, and they in turn made sure he had a long
career in public…uh…service.
After a brief hiatus, California has put Jerry the younger
Brown back in the governor’s office. And the insanity continues, for nothing
has changed. Brown and the teacher’s union have become the shortest distance
between two points. Brown sees higher taxes as the solution to every problem.
Thanks to Jerry, there now is a well-established straight line between our wallets
and the teachers’ union pockets. So we all work for the benefit of others, via
the power of the state to tax and spend.
The first time Jerry was governor, he thought he’d help
make the world a better place by putting an end to that silly notion that we
should discourage folks who wanted to kill people. I’ll give Jerry the benefit
of the doubt here, for he had led a sheltered life, and he surrounded himself
with people who had led sheltered lives, and the world was going well and why
not be a nice, if delusional, guy and give those poor misunderstood folks who
murder others a little sympathy, and maybe a second or third chance to turn
into nice people, too? So Jerry put Rose Bird in as the Chief Justice of the
state, and she overturned every death penalty case, more than sixty, that came
before her. She also overturned the law that mandated prison sentences for
crimes committed using guns.
So California put an end to capital punishment, and set up
ways to let those poor misunderstood killers change their ways and return to
society, eager to fulfill their role in enhancing the joy of mankind. And
California legally encouraged its criminals to use guns in their crimes, and to
do it over and over again.
Coincidentally, about that same time California also began
its war against the law abiding folks, with law after law passed to restrict
the rights of the law abiding gun owners in the state. And after setting this precedent, Jerry sailed
off into the sunset, that sense of a job well done filling his heart.
Since Jerry left the governor’s office, our fine state has
staggered along, much like a bus careening down a winding mountain highway
without a driver or brakes, and I’m here to tell you it’s been an E ticket
ride. Nobody has been able to balance the budget, for the unions get first
pick. And criminals have run amok, killing and annoying folks with little
consequence, thanks to the legacy of good ole Jerry. Meanwhile, the nice people
are faced with some of the most punitive firearm restrictions in the nation.
So I will be the first to admit that I laughed my ass off
when our hero Jerry decided he wanted to be mayor of the city of Oakland. In
case you missed it, the people living in Oakland decided many years ago that
they’d rather live in a war zone than say, a nice city. They welcomed in drugs
as a clear alternative to reality, and then encouraged their sons to join gangs
to promote the product, expand the market, and do that pure capitalism thing
with competition, and profit, and a little murder and mayhem. Jerry stepped in
to fix this, figuring these misguided people would listen to him and see the
light. They missed the memo.
After a particularly messy year with well over one hundred
murders in the streets, somebody asked Jerry what he thought the problem might
be. With a look of chagrin on his face, Jerry suggested that we have too many
criminals in Oakland. And silly me, I thought the guy had finally seen the
light. Jerry knew he had too many criminals to supervise because California
continues the tradition Jerry started, and thus we turn our murderers loose
after only a brief vacation spent socializing with other criminals and
completing the mandatory continuing education required in this state.
Yep, the doctors go to classes to learn how to be better
doctors, and the criminals relax in prison and do the same thing.
I was hoping that Jerry would take the lesson he should
have learned from watching the slaughter on the streets of Oakland, and once
made governor again he would take the steps necessary to keep the murderers
locked up where they belong. But I forgot this is California, and we are
insane, and we continue to elect insane people to continue to do the same wrong
things, over and over and over again.
So governor again Jerry Brown is still setting murderers
loose from prison, early parole, dumping them back onto the streets to kill
again. And he is doing this at a record setting pace. Somebody should send him flowers as a thank
you. You can find plenty on the graves.
Oh, and those rabid liberal judges that Jerry and his
cronies over the decades have packed into our courtrooms to ensure that we are
extra special nice to our criminals are living up to expectation. Noting that the
poor imprisoned criminals don’t have health care on a par with our elected
representatives, the judges decided California would be better off if we turned
out thousands of prisoners, violent felons, rapists, murderers, thieves and
litterbugs, unless the legislature came up with enough money to fix things nice
for the prisoners.
Problem was, the state is so broke after paying off the
unions for making sure the politicians are constantly employed, that the
prisons didn’t get fixed. So pretty soon, Oakland and a few other places, will
soon have way too many criminals again.
Crime statistics tend to rise and fall over the years. No
doubt, many things influence these trends. Roe v Wade led to the near universal
legalization of abortion around our country. Many believe that the unwanted pregnancies
ended following that sea change, those never born boys who would have been old
enough to join the gangs beginning in the 90’s, might account for a large part
of the drop in crime rates. Clearly, not being born is about the only
consistent deterrent to a short violent life of crime and murder.
But the only thing known that consistently reduces crime
is the arrest, incarceration, and execution of criminals. Thanks largely to
Jerry and Bird, crime skyrocketed in California in the 80’s.
The crack wars in the 80’s drove violent crime numbers up.
The War on Drugs, like Prohibition back in the 20’s, was a boon to organized
crime and later the gangs we’ve grown to know and love. Murder rates
skyrocketed, particularly in those inner city neighborhoods peopled by people most
likely to consume crack cocaine, and least inhibited when it comes to letting
their own sons slaughter their own sons in the process. Nothing has changed in
this regard, so the carnage on the streets continues.
With the prison doors already creaking open, thanks to the
kindly judges, thousands of criminals will soon flow into this opportunity.
Crime and murder inevitably will increase. And we must do something to stop it.
This being California, we shall approach this dilemma with crazy.
It’s already begun. Hot to solve the budget crisis so they
can fix the prisons and appease the judges and keep some of the criminals
locked away, California instead funds the unions even more….hot to fund the
police so they can recapture the released criminals as they resume their life’s
work, they forget to send the check….hot to do anything to stem the chaos…the
California legislature is busy plotting new gun control laws aimed at you and
me. The good guys.
They figure if they punish the honest citizens severely
enough, maybe crime will be nice and go away.
With the voracious and vicious Mexican drug cartels moving
in to intensify the drug wars, and thousands of criminals returning to the
streets, and a government that shows no interest whatsoever in fixing things,
this makes perfect sense.
Welcome to the future.
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