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To: puborectalis who wrote (765124)	1/22/2014 9:21:40 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1573430

84 yo beaten bloody under de Blasio jaywalking crackdown Bill de Blasio Crackdown on Jaywalking Leads to Beating of 84-Year-Old Man January 21, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield 61 Comments It’s De Blasio Time Bill de Blasio just rushed into City Hall and the totalitarian antics of his administration have already claimed their first victim. An 84-year-old man.[iframe name="aswift_0" width="300" height="250" id="aswift_0" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" vspace="0" hspace="0" style="left: 0px; top: 0px; position: absolute;" allowtransparency="true"][/iframe] Cops bloodied an 84-year-old man and put him in the hospital Sunday when he jaywalked at an Upper West Side intersection and didn’t appear to understand their orders to stop, witnesses said. Kang Wong was strolling north on Broadway and crossing 96th Street at around 5 p.m., when an officer told him to halt because he had walked against the light. Police were targeting jaywalkers in the area following the third pedestrian fatality this month around West 96th Street. Neither the hospital nor the cops would allow him to see his dad until after 10 p.m., explaining that since he’d not been admitted, he was not a patient, but a “prisoner.’’ Early Monday, cops fingerprinted Wong and charged him with jaywalking, resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration and disorderly conduct. ???? New York City does not ticket or arrest jaywalkers under normal circumstances. Giuliani’s administration briefly tried it and gave up. Even Bloomberg, who criminalized salt and soda, left jaywalking alone. New York is a pedestrian city and jaywalking is for places like Los Angeles that are automobile cities. Bill de Blasio came in with a Swedish plan called Vision Zero which involves a large scale crackdown on all sorts of traffic violations in order to achieve zero fatalities. “The goal,” Bill de Blasio stated in his campaign literature, “reduce serious injuries and fatalities on our streets to zero… with strong enforcement.” Traffic fatalities in New York City are never going to hit zero, but Bill de Blasio’s crackdown on jaywalking has already put one man in the hospital. While Bill de Blasio campaigned against police brutality, Wong’s case didn’t seem to bother the arrogant politician one little bit. As for Mr. Wong, Mr. de Blasio said, “I’m waiting for all the facts, and I haven’t gotten all the facts on the case, so I’m not going to comment on something until I have a better sense of it.” “There is no larger policy in terms of jaywalking, and ticketing and jaywalking. That’s not part of our plan. But it is something a local precinct commander can act on, if they perceive there to be a real danger,” he told reporters this afternoon, after speaking at Rev. Al Sharpton’s annual National Action Network Martin Luther King Day event An 84-year-old man crossing the street apparently represents a real danger. Meanwhile Bill de Blasio’s pal Al Sharpton who has led racial attacks on Jews and Asians is his best friend. The cops on the barricades understand the futility of ticketing pedestrians for jaywalking. “This is just taking hard-earned money from people who can’t afford it,” an officer told the Times during Giuliani’s jaywalking crackdown of 1998. Another adds, “I just don’t think that walking across the street is a crime, and I wouldn’t feel comfortable getting down on people for doing it.” Bill de Blasio however feels very comfortable about it. Inside every liberal is a totalitarian screaming to get out. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/bill-de-blasio-crackdown-on-jaywalking-leads-to-beating-of-84-year-old-man/

To: puborectalis who wrote (765124)	1/22/2014 9:22:29 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1573430

Not unless they're on Medicaid .... and they probably were. Otherwise they'll be taxed because they don't have health insurance.

To: puborectalis who wrote (765124)	1/22/2014 9:23:42 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Respond to of 1573430

California’s Dumbest Senate Democrat Warns ‘Ghost Guns’ Will Shoot All Their Calibers At You January 21, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield 17 Comments Using the same amount of research that Kevin de Leon put into his presentation warning of the terrible menace of 3D printed ghost guns, I have determined that he is a 9th century explorer who has represented his constituents in the Valle de Los Necios in the National Assembly of People’s Power of Southnortheastern California. [iframe name="aswift_0" width="300" height="250" id="aswift_0" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" vspace="0" hspace="0" style="left: 0px; top: 0px; position: absolute;" allowtransparency="true"][/iframe] Anti-gun California State Sen. Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles) is being mocked by gun rights advocates after he made a number of inaccurate statements while promoting a bill that would require individuals who manufacturer homemade firearms to undergo background checks. “This is a ghost gun,” de Leon begins, holding an unloaded rifle in his hands. “This right here has the ability with a .30-caliber clip to disperse with 30 bullets within half a second. Thirty magazine clip in half a second.” Also it can fry a dozen eggs in under four hours and can hit a fly on the moon in less than four hundred years. But one important question, will these 3D ghost guns be printed on computers with 100 gigabyte CPUs capable of uploading 400 kilowatts a second? Firstly, there is no such thing as a “30-caliber clip” in the context of which he is speaking. He clearly is referring to a 30-round magazine. An ammunition magazine is different than a “clip,” but the two are often confused by those not familiar with guns. And though it’s obvious, there is also no such thing as a “30 magazine clip.” Secondly, caliber refers the measurement of the width of a bullet or internal diameter of a gun barrel, not magazine capacity. [iframe width="540" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iJmFEv6BHM0?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""][/iframe] [iframe name="aswift_1" width="300" height="250" id="aswift_1" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" vspace="0" hspace="0" style="left: 0px; top: 0px; position: absolute;" allowtransparency="true"][/iframe] Kevin de Leon, a former English as a Second Language teacher and NEA crony, couldn’t be expected to know any of this. He’s only been pushing gun control for the last six years. How was he supposed to find the time to learn what a caliber is in only six years? But it’s not like he’s considered the bright future of California Senate Democrats… California Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg said Tuesday that “it is clear” Sen. Kevin de León will be the next leader of the state Senate. “I think he will be a great leader. He’s adept at both the policy and the political side,” Steinberg said as he and de León emerged from an afternoon meeting of Senate Democrats, in which the majority party discussed future leadership of the house but did not take a formal vote. California meet your new English as a Second Language and knowledge as a third priority leader. He may be really dumb, but at least he’s honest… State Sen. Kevin de Leon defended himself Tuesday against allegations he helped transfer $25,000 to a nonprofit controlled by Sen. Ron Calderon’s brother, Thomas. De Leon’s name appears in recently released federal documents detailing an FBI investigation of Ron Calderon, who allegedly received bribes from an undercover agent. While the FBI probe centers on Calderon, the Los Angeles senator is referenced 17 times in the 124-page FBI document. At one point, the documents state de Leon helped transfer $25,000 from a Latino political group in the state Legislature to a nonprofit. At one point, the affidavit states de Leon helped broker a deal for leadership of the Latino Legislative Caucus, a 25-member group of lawmakers that includes the senator. Okay so Kevin de Leon is a dishonest idiot who will lead the California State Senate in its war against the calibers of 3D ghost guns. California now has Mexico’s political structure, but doesn’t have as much oil. I suspect that’s going to be a problem. frontpagemag.com