Jay Weber Show transcript 7-30-21 8:30am
At the height of the BLM riots and the ‘defund the police’ movements...I said, ‘all of these mayors and councilmen who are accommodating the thugs and excusing away the thuggery need to be gone. Need to be voted out of office.
There was-no-excuse for a lot of the behavior that we saw from these pathetic, ‘woke’ mayors, such as Jenny Durkin in Seattle or Ted Wheeler in Portland.
They were bending over- to antifa and BLM. Allowing them to set up autonomous zones that the groups claimed were no longer part of America.
These mayors both defended-and looked the other way- on rioting and looting and the thug squads beating and killing people in the street.
They stood back and watched all of it play out, and shockingly, time and time again, defended and sided with the thugs.
They gave orders to have their police officers stand down-and not arrest the rioting criminals, and worse-they went along with the racist, anti-American thug crowds....and refused to back their police officers and law and order.
Mayors like Durkin and wheeler famously refused to call out the national guard and refused any state or federal offers to do so.
Most of these democrat mayors and big city aldermen are useless, activist, far left scumbags themselves. And they proved it during a year of lawlessness and BLM and antifa rioting.
And when the riots calmed down, these same mayors and socialist progressive alderman agreed to work with the anarchist Marxist groups to ‘defund the police’, to toss open the jail house doors, and to push for no-bail and no-prosecution laws.
In short- these dangerously dumb and gutless big city mayors made everything about the 2019 and 2020 rioting worse. They not only refused to stop them, but they fueled the fires and encouraged more with their weakness and their anti-cop, anti-law, and order moves. None of them. Should still have a job.
And now, many of them are up for re-election next year.
And the riots may have died off...but violent crime is up-across the board-in these same big cities...due to their idiotic policies.
These mayors-in a very real way-have cost the lives of some of their own citizens-by the decisions they made and the public positions they took in 2019 and 2020. And now they want to hang onto their jobs.
And -the sad part is- most of them will.
It’s tragic how many complacent and dimwitted residents of these big cities will just pull the lever for the same terrible mayor and council men...
And so, no, I don’t believe most of these dangerously incompetent mayors will lose
Re-election, no.
But- they sure are scrambling to pretend as if the last two years have never happened, and they’ve been pro-law and order all along.
Heated political races in Atlanta, Boston, and Minneapolis that now include lefty candidates who are pretending they never called to defund the police, now want to see more cops on the street.
Another such instance is in Washington DC-one of the true crime-ridden hell holes of America.
Are voters dumb enough to buy this?
Sadly? In these cities?
The answer is yes. I used to do occasional segments about how dimwitted and apathetic the average city of Milwaukee voter is.
Then it dawned on me that-if they don’t care that their city is circling the drain -why should i, or my -mostly suburban-listeners?
If they don’t care to take back their city, or their schools, and demand better by electing new leaders-what can we in the surrounding suburbs do?
I don’t mean to insult listeners who live in the city, but if you are listening to this show, I’m guessing that you’d agree with me: you pay attention. You vote. But most of your fellow Milwaukee citizens don’t.
If they vote at all, it’s in the presidential elections, and that’s it.
And they never vote for change and never demand better.
Nor do the voters of Seattle, or Portland, or LA, or Frisco, or Atlanta, or Chicago...etc. Name a major city. This applies everywhere 60 to 100 years of democrat control has caused people to lose all hope that-anything-will ever get better.
In Denver- the county judges and das office are like most other big-city lefties and have moved to a position of refusing to prosecute and lock up criminals.
In fact-they have followed the lead of California and New York-and implemented idiotic ‘no bail’ policies that allow the thugs and crooks to be put right back out onto the street after arrest.
This, of course, has led to a big spike in crime and a Denver police chief who is fed up.
Folks, if police officers can be criminally charged and have their lives ruined over making the wrong, split second decision.
If they must go in front of police commissions and review boards that are going to review incidents and hold officers to the highest possible standards for their behaviors and decisions on the job-
Why shouldn’t there be a local criminal justice board that does the same thing for prosecutors and judges?
And I’m not talking about ‘the bar’, or the internal reviews in the court system. Where fellow judges do it all quietly behind the scenes and protect their fellow members on the bench.
Why isn’t there a publicly appointed review board that holds prosecutors, das, and judges accountable for their terrible decisions?
Why-if a felon gets an easy sentence or is released early with no bail- and kills someone or commits another crime-
Why shouldn’t a public review board be able to punish, sanction, or even fire? Prosecutors and judges?
And I realize the da and the judges are elected officials...but if professional review boards can pull their law licenses, why couldn’t a public review panel?
But they’re elected officials, Jay. The public will pass judgment on them.
What? Every four years in low turnout elections?
No. It’s time to have more public accountability than that for prosecutors and judges who refuse to follow the will of the people.
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