Monday, November 2, 2015

Obama moves to get criminals jobs and housing by concealing their records because......they are his peeps!

Briebart News.com November 2, 215    
Ever in search of benefits to hand leftist constituencies, Democrats have decided to give goodies to their most natural constituency of all: criminals. According to the Associated Press, President Obama will announce executive orders Monday attempting to prevent screening for prior criminality in government hiring.

The so-called “ban the box” program would prevent government agencies from asking about criminal history until later in the interview process. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Vermont Senator Bernard Sanders (D-Loonbag), and former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley have all joined Obama in calling for banning “the box” – meaning the check box for criminal conviction. Obama also wants to prevent public housing from hindering the ability for convicted criminals to gain access to subsidies.

So, in short, we all get to hire unhireable employees with criminal backgrounds, and subsidize those who wouldn’t be able to find housing because they have committed crimes.
All of this merely represents the latest in a string of attempts by Democrats to reach out to those at odds with law enforcement. Last summer, Obama visited a federal prison, where he told prisoners that as a former user of both marijuana and cocaine, he could have ended up in prison, too. “These are young people who made mistakes that aren’t that different from mistakes I made,” Obama said. “The difference is they did not have the support structure, the second chances, the resources that would allow them to survive these mistakes.”

Actually, the difference is that Obama didn’t get caught, tried, and convicted. And while Obama finds pandering to convicted criminals cute, those who live in the neighborhoods such drug dealers destroy might find it less endearing.
Meanwhile, just days ago, Hillary Clinton said she would sign a law that would ban racial profiling. She did not explain how the legal standard of “racial profiling” would be proved, thus placing every arrest of a person of color at risk of potential legal liability. She also said she would use executive action to destroy sentencing differentials between crack and powder cocaine, despite the fact that crack cocaine and powder cocaine use differs widely, and that black legislators originally sought the sentencing differential to rid drug-ravaged inner cities of the crack scourge. The same day, Clinton – demonstrating her own belief that crime and ethnicity are inherently tied – launched African Americans for Hillary at Clark Atlanta University after lunching with vicious Jesse Jackson. “We have to create those channels of opportunity so that we go from childhood to adulthood pursuing your dreams, instead of cradle to prison and seeing them die,” she intoned.
This weekend, Obama echoed that message. “I believe we can disrupt the pipeline from underfunded schools to overcrowded jails,” he said in his weekly address. “I believe we can address the disparities in the application of criminal justice, from arrest rates to sentencing to incarceration.”
Obama did not explain how school funding leads people to become criminals, because there is no information suggesting that it does. Nor did he present statistics showing systemic bias against people of color in the criminal justice system as opposed to white people with the same criminal histories and same crimes. And he certainly didn’t discuss the Welfare-driven collapse of the black family, which has contributed to criminality in the black community more than any other single factor.
No, he pandered, just as he has over and over again with regard to anti-police militancy. Obama’s pattern is simple: the police are always wrong at first glance, and even if they’re not wrong based on the eventually revealed fact pattern, their innocence is an outlier. After all, Obama is fond of saying, black Americans aren’t “making up” issues with law enforcement.
It’s no wonder that crime rates are rising for the first time in decades in major Democrat-governed cities across the country. Baltimore, New Orleans, St. Louis, New York, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, Chicago – all have seen crime rates surge, including violent crime rates. All of this led local leaders to descend on Washington, D.C., last month to discuss the problem with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who admitted to the “devastating effects of crime across the country.” Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn said, “We cannot avert our gaze from the fact that police in cities feel like they are not being supported by the federal government. Right now, officers feel like they are being defined by everything they are working against.”
What did Lynch say? According to USA Today:
She referred to the federal government’s commitment to assist the re-entry of newly-released offenders back to their communities and a recent expansion of the federal violence reduction network, designed to provide crime-plagued communities with increased access to existing federal investigative resources.
In other words, give criminals an easier ride. Make sure they exit prison more easily. Ensure that government accept those the private sector will not, turning government employment into a de facto unemployment check for criminals.
Recidivism rates in America remain incredibly high. The Bureau of Justice Statistics currently pegs the recidivism rates at 68 percent within three years and 77 percent within five years; non-violent offenders end up arrested again even more often. President Obama and his Democratic allies say that benefits must be given to ex-cons because, otherwise, they will be forced back into crime. But recidivism rates show that criminals tend to fall back into crime because they are criminals; the easiest way to avoid falling into a life of crime is to avoid falling into a life of crime. But the left won’t do anything about that.
If all of this seems cynical – deliberately undercutting police efforts, increasing crime rates, and redistributing from the law-abiding to criminals – that’s because it is. The real rationale for the new push for “criminal justice reform” by the left is simple: more Democrat voters. In July, Obama stated, “If folks have served their time, and they’ve re-entered society, they should be able to vote.” And according to the Department of Justice, more than 650,000 people are released from prison each year. That number will rise as Obama lets people out of prison early. All of these people are of the age of majority, and virtually all would vote Democrat. So, presumably, would their families members. That’s a hefty chunk of votes.
Those who pay are the law-abiding, the decent. They’re an obstacle to President Obama’s agenda. And it won’t be long before President Obama comes looking for more help from them, as always.

39 comments:

Calypso Facto said...

The War on Consequences continues.

Trump fan said...

The middle class always gets screwed. In my neighborhood there was one methadone clinic after another. We fought to get some of them closed or moved. Now we will see an increase in these muts once they r let out

edutcher said...
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edutcher said...

He had it done for himself.

But it seems this will do a lot to mobilize people to rid communities of their slovenly elements (Claire Trevor, anyone?).

I know, the courts, but I think we're getting closer to the day when John Marshall's legacy is ready for the sunset. This may just push it over the line.

ricpic said...

Is there a patriotic General remaining who can lead a military coup against President Malevolent and save what's left of America?

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Hey I know that face. Willie Horton weekend furloughed

ndspinelli said...
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john said...

It's too bad that these escaped convicts can now get jobs at the McDonalds and work next to our sons and daughters, and even move into our neighborhoods. Open their crack houses, rape our women.

Oh, they didn't escape? They were released after serving their sentences?

We still don't care, we don't want them here. And here is everywhere.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Obama has done nothing for his "community". Hillary won't do a damn thing either, except give it lip service.

frauds.

Methadras said...

I think a Biden succession at this point would be a much better thing that we do to save this country. And if you have to ask how Biden succeeded Urkel, then you don't understand what is being said.

Methadras said...

Also, I wonder if Obama has been trolling Crack's blog, The Macho Response

chickelit said...

Who says that crime doesn't pay. Turns out it's going to pay quite well per hour. The white office ladies of DC will outdo each other in who can rehabilitate the most hardened criminal, all the while fantasizing about rough sex with a reformed rapist. Women of color will see work as a dating opportunity! Win-win for the ladies!

Next up: Give felons the vote! Right R&B?

chickelit said...

Methadras said...
Also, I wonder if Obama has been trolling Crack's blog, The Macho Response

Not wishing to click over there, why do you say that?

I'm Full of Soup said...

I just bought my first handgun with laser guidance. Good timing I'd say.

Methadras said...

chickelit said...

Methadras said...
Also, I wonder if Obama has been trolling Crack's blog, The Macho Response

Not wishing to click over there, why do you say that?


Cause Crack hasn't posted since September and since that fool went on his hate whitey rants, I wonder if someone got to him first. Wouldn't shock me one bit.

Methadras said...

AJ Lynch said...

I just bought my first handgun with laser guidance. Good timing I'd say.


What did you get?

William said...

Freddie Gray had been arrested twenty times before. You would think that after the fifth or sixth bust he would have accepted the fact that this whole life of crime wasn't working out. Not everyone is cut out to be a master criminal. But he kept plugging away. He was committed to being a career criminal. Some decisions have as much to do with free will and stupidity as with economics. The law in all its majesty forbids both the rich man and the poor man from pissing on the bikes of Hell's Angels members. If you factor in the jail time and the risk of being eliminated by a rival dealer, the sounder decision would have been to flip burgers..........He carried a knife. I think if you took out your camera phone and recorded one of his transactions, you would find that he was not a non violent drug dealer.......I'd like to see a guy like Freddie Gray hired as the school crossing guard at the Sidwell School.

chickelit said...

I'd like to see a guy like Freddie Gray hired as the school crossing guard at the Sidwell School.

That about says it all. Of course that will never happen.

AllenS said...

Back in the late 1960's where I worked tried this. It didn't end well. All were back in prison in less than a year.

Chip Ahoy said...

Allen, that would be about the time this president was born. He's got a LOT to learn that regular people who aren't presidents of the United States already well know.

He is a child given the biggest gun in the world.

Dems, this is your God-child. Your project. He's your monster, he's your problem.

The rest of us listen carefully but do not heed. He's destroyed your party and his own government. Splashing in the bathtub as babies do. The biggest bathtub on Earth.

Some trust in government can be restored après Obama, some, I'll bet but only by the kind of history-erasing this same party is becoming known. That is, by literally erasing the unhappy bits that make them feel uncomfortable and literally rewriting the rest. Literally rewrite. Rewrite what? Literature. Political literature. Literally rewrite literature. It's not even ironic. It's not paradoxical. It's just disgusting.

AllenS said...

Chip, I tried to look it up, but couldn't find it. There was also a program in the Twin Cities, MN about the same time, that gave away cars to newly released from prison men. As you can imagine it was a complete, total failure with most of those cars being sold very quickly.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

All these released ex-cons should be required to be the new nanny's, house-keepers, baby-sisters and errand-runners, etc... for all Democrat pols and all the socialists in Hollywood.

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Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Come on ivory tower private school democrat media elite - agree to take an ex-con into your home.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

I want leftists to open up their mansions to the poor, turn their many luxury homes into communes, and give ex-cons a chance. Come on, super-progs - show us the way. Lead by example.

Katie Couric, Matt lauer, Dan Rather, Babs Streisand, Meryl Streep, Ben Affleck, Cher, "The View", Sarah Jessica Parker, Aaron Sorkin, Harvey Weinstein, Bill Gates, George Soros, Tom Styer, Mary Mapes, Dan Rather, Robert Redford, Gweneth, Dixie Chicks, Cheryl Crow, The cast at CNBC, MSNBC, Arriana Huffington... Open up your many luxury homes and show us how to live like proper neo-progressive communists. it's all about sharing and caring.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Think of all the homeless people who could fit inside Bill Gates mansion.

chickelit said...

@April, you should consider writing posts for Lem's. Seriously.

bagoh20 said...

I've hired ex-cons. I used to make a point of it. Usually as welders, because many learn that skill in prison. They were almost always huge intimidating Black guys, who were surprisingly well-mannered and nice guys, but they never worked out. None ever turned out to be any good at welding. I assume the training in prison is pretty unfocused, but the real problem was that they invariably couldn't handle the routine of getting to work every day, and doing your best. This trait, I believe is the core characteristic of their life problems. The simple ability or discipline to go to work every day and try your best will save a person from most of life's pitfalls.

It wasn't race. A few were White guys or Hispanics, and had the same issues. Also some people who have never been to prison have the same issues, but it seems to be almost universal among those from prison. I have had a few exceptions - almost always a Hispanic guy - who truly turned their life around after being to prison. I think this is a cultural thing. Being a bum, is a tough road in Hispanic families. The families are close, big, and not afraid to call you out on it.

bagoh20 said...

No doubt there are enough rich lefty celebrities in L.A. to solve our homeless problem here. That is if money was all they needed. Unfortunately, self-discipline and sanity is a deficiency in both groups.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Bagoh is one millions times more interesting than me. Him first!

bagoh20 said...

I can't even spell poast, and you usually say what I'm thinking anyway.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

I am serious. Why leftists, who want to force their radical ideology on the rest of us, burdening us to death - never operate under their own rules.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

oh yeah - I never graduated grammar school.

bagoh20 said...

The other thing about Hispanic families is that they usually have a patriarch who is loved and respected. Mom's do the actual work of holding things together, but for some magical reason that is unclear to me, they have a much easier time if they just have a respected man present in the family, regardless of how much interaction there is. He somehow makes her stronger, and completes the foundation, the base that is home and family. Our families are moving away from fathers, both in actually having them, but also in having them respected.

AllenS said...

Bags, I have a similar story about prison "workers":

Back in the early 1970s, I bought a used Minnesota No 5 (7?) hay mower. I didn't realize it at the time, but the "Minnesota" brand was prison made products.

Every time that I needed parts, I'd have to order and then pay the distributor, then go to the prison and pick up what I ordered. All of my parts were in burlap bags, some no larger than 18" square. They probably made those too.

Once I got home, I'd have to work on everything that I ordered, because the holes weren't the right size, threads were stripped, and some of the parts had 20 coats of paint on them and wouldn't fit.

Zero quality control. The prisoners working were well mannered, and it was probably the next step before release, because if they wanted to, they could have walked out of the door that I walked through.

deborah said...

bago at ten sixteen. Very interesting first-hand insights. A while back I read an article, I think it may have been about Florida specifically, that talked about the dearth of workers who had the ability to show up for work consistently, and on time. I think this article was in defense of the need for increased legal immigration.

deborah said...

PS the Mexican work ethic is phenomenal. On the other hand, my cousin in Florida got out of roofing because illegal aliens undercut standard rates.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Thank you, Chickelit. Just let me know how it works. I'd be happy to. Although right now my time on-line is a tad erratic because of work.

Methadras said...

AprilApple said...

Think of all the homeless people who could fit inside Bill Gates mansion.


That would be interesting to see, since they'd have to swim across a nice channel to get there. :D