In The Mailbox: 02.19.21 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | February 19, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.19.21 (Morning Edition)

SOTD: A new version of an old favorite.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Now That’s Something You Don’t See Every Day
EBL: Jorja Smith
Twitchy: Chris Hayes Claims Biden’s COVID Messaging Is “More Consistent” Than Trump’s, And The Jokes Write Themselves
Louder With Crowder: Remembering Rush Limbaugh – The Left Hated Him Because They Feared Him
Vox Popoli: Baen Under SJW Assault, also, The Third World Comes To Texas
Gab News: It’s Time To Build Our Own Economy
Monster Hunter Nation: Publishing House Baen Books Attacked By Cancel Culture

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The “Toolkit” Greta Thunberg Tried To Hide
American Greatness: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Spearheading Effort To Declare Math “Racist”
American Power: Now Joe Klein, Of “Anonymous” Fame, Is Writing At The Bulwark?
American Thinker: Woke Politics – The Democrats’ Plan For A Permanent Majority, also, The Coup De Grace For Nikki Haley’s Presidential Ambitions
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Uneasy Echoes News
Babalu Blog: Bipartisan Group Of Cuban-American Leaders Call On Biden To Leave Sanctions On Castro Dictatorship In Place
BattleSwarm: Interview With TPPF’s Katie Tahuahua On The Texas Winter Storm Energy Crisis
Behind The Black: Texas Power Outages Delay Starliner But Not Starship, also, Perseverance’s Possible Travel Route On Mars
Cafe Hayek: Evidence That Labor Markets Are Competitive
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: We Want Belief, also, Biden’s Foreign Faux Pas
Don Surber: The Post-Limbaugh Era Will Be Awesome
First Street Journal: The Washington Post Defends A Book Burner
The Geller Report: Democrats & Leftists Celebrate Rush Limbaugh’s Death With Heinous Tweets, also, Michigan Removes 177,000 Voters From Rolls In January After Certifying Biden Won By 154,000 Votes In November
Hogewash: One Example, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Clunky Paradise Cove Shows Folly of California’s Progressive Politics, also, Why Kate Winslet’s Feminist Battle Cry Can’t Be Trusted
The Lid: What Role Do Big Government Regulations Play In Texas’ Freezing In The Dark?
Legal Insurrection: Biden To Pay $200 Million In WHO “Obligations”, Reversing Trump’s Decision, also, FBI & US Attorney In Brooklyn Considering Investigating Cuomo Administration Over Nursing Home Deaths
Michelle Malkin:
Nebraska Energy Observer: End Of Watch For An Indispensable Man
Power Line: How Gone Is He? also, Vaccination Priority For Teachers Or Medical Marijuana Workers?
Shark Tank: Charlie Crist Says VA Is Turning Away Vets Who Want COVID Vaccine
Shot In The Dark: All Is Proceeding As Joel Kotkin Predicted
The Political Hat: Three Man And A Baby Are Smashing The Duo-Normative Diarchy
This Ain’t Hell: Congress Shocked That The Troops Don’t Trust Random Hastily Approved Vaccines, also, Like A Case Of Herpes
Transterrestrial Musings: Boeing, also, The Texas Wind Turbines
Victory Girls: Framing Britney Spears – Portrait Of A Toxic Mix
Volokh Conspiracy: Standing Up For Civil Discourse
Weasel Zippers: Beta O’Rourke Blames Global Warming For Cold Weather In Texas, also, Bob Dole Has Stage IV Lung Cancer
The Federalist: Blue Checkmarks On Twitter Mock Rush Limbaugh’s Death, also, The First Step Toward Righting America Is Refusing To Believe The Left About Anything
Mark Steyn: Blizzards Real & Metaphorical, also, Death By A Thousand Lockdowns

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Family Demands Answers

Posted on | February 19, 2021 | Comments Off on Family Demands Answers

Whenever police kill a black criminal, it is now predictable — as night follows day — that the media will run a story about how the family of the deceased suspect “demands answers” about the shooting. Generally speaking, there will be a “civil rights” lawyer at the press conference, and there will eventually be a lawsuit against the cops. We take this for granted nowadays, along with the media interviewing relatives of the deceased criminal, who had an extensive felony record, saying that he was really a wonderful person, a beloved father, blah blah blah.

All of this is part of building up the Black Lives Matter narrative that law enforcement is about “systemic racism.” It is necessary to mention in this context that cops kill white criminals, too. In fact, the majority of suspects shot by cops are white, and sometimes the circumstances surrounding these shootings are tragic (e.g., Sage Crawford, shot in front of her small children after she charged cops with a knife), but cops shooting white people doesn’t become a 24/7 story on CNN, and nobody’s rioting over these cases. No, it is only black criminals getting shot by cops that get CNN saturation coverage, and we are not supposed to notice the upside-down values involved in this liberal media narrative, wherein everyone is expected to sympathize with lifelong criminals.

OK, but what happens when cops don’t kill criminals? What happens when fear of being accused of racism convinces people that it’s a good idea to turn criminals loose, just because they’re black?

The latest news from Chickasha, Oklahoma:

It’s been over one week since a four-year-old and her 67-year-old grandfather were stabbed to death inside their Chickasha home. All of it was allegedly by one of their own family members, 42-year-old Lawrence Anderson.
Monday night, investigators said that same family member may be responsible for a third murder.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations is still investigating the unfolding story in Chickasha, but the family of the third woman killed are demanding answers. They said they want to know why the man’s sentence was commuted in the first place.
“We’ve lost a part of our heart that we will never get back,” said Brooke Burris Wofford, a cousin of 41-year-old Andrea Blankenship, who was found dead in her Chickasha home.
Anderson was just released from prison in mid-January. He was out for less than three weeks on a commuted sentence when the crimes occurred.
Investigators said Anderson stabbed his uncle and 4-year-old Kaeos to death. However, the alleged spree didn’t end there. Detectives now believe Anderson also murdered Blankenship, who was found dead in her home on the same street as the first two murders.
“We need some more answers,” Burris Wofford said.
OSBI officials said on Thursday they now have evidence that Anderson killed Blankenship before he killed Leon Pye and Kaeos and stabbed Delci Pye.
Wofford said Blankenship was a single mother of two who lived alone and worked from home. She said the family is unaware of any relationship between her and her alleged killer.
“We want to know why this monster who is dangerous was released,” Wofford said.
Anderson was originally sentenced to prison in 2006 for attacking and pointing a gun at his girlfriend. He went back to prison in 2012 for selling crack cocaine near an elementary school. Anderson was sentenced again in 2017 for having a gun and sneaking drugs into jail. However, just three years later, Gov. Kevin Stitt signed off on a commuted sentence, which was granted by the state pardon and parole board. Anderson was released from prison for a third time on Jan. 18.
“Let us know the reasoning behind why he would release such a violent criminal,” Burris Wofford said.

He attacked his girlfriend and sold cocaine near an elementary school, but why he should be in prison? That’s “systemic racism”! No, let’s turn him loose, because what could possibly go wrong?

Why did the Republican governor of Oklahoma approve this commutation? Without bothering to research that question, my guess is that someone in the governor’s office decided it was a good idea to release inmates who were imprisoned for “non-violent” offenses. Selling cocaine near an elementary school? That qualifies as a “non-violent” crime. Nobody bothered to check whether Lawrence Anderson had any previous history of violence, and this is what happens when “social justice” replaces common sense as the guiding principle of law enforcement. That some Republicans are buying into this mentality should concern us.

Category: Crime, Oklahoma, Racism

In The Mailbox: 02.18.21 – The Rush Limbaugh Memorial Edition

Posted on | February 19, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.18.21 – The Rush Limbaugh Memorial Edition

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Home again in Tonopah for a few days. Should get caught up tomorrow.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

From Mike Ramirez at the Las Vegas Review-Journal. I didn’t know that he recruited Paul Shanklin for Rush.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1266
357 Magnum: Another Failure Of The Victim Selection Process
EBL: Rush Limbaugh, RIP
Twitchy: Drew Holden’s Megathread Comparing Media Obits Of Rush Limbaugh And Soleimani (Among Others) Speaks Volumes
Louder With Crowder: Dear Rush – Thank You For Your Talen On Loan From God
Vox Popoli: Still Not The President, also, The Talent Has Been Returned
Monster Hunter Nation: RIP Mr. Limbaugh

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Your Role In This Spiritual War
American Conservative: Death Of A Republican Kingmaker, also, Driving Alone & Talk Radio
American Greatness: Wuhan Biolab In Red China Eligible For U.S. Taxpayer Funding, also, Mainstream Media Networks Paid BLM Activist $35,000 For Footage Of Capitol Shooting
American Power: Talk Radio’s Conservative Pioneer Rush Limbaugh Dies, 70
American Thinker: Grief & Hope In The Loss Of Rush Limbaugh, also, Toasting Rush Limbaugh & His Place In America
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: We Will Miss Rush Limbaugh, also, The Cuban Artists Fighting The Totalitarian Effort To Rewrite Cuban Culture
BattleSwarm: Rush Limbaugh, RIP, also, Austin Winter Storm Update For February 18
Behind The Black: A Historian’s Memorial To Rush Limbaugh, also, Today’s Blacklisted American
Cafe Hayek: Price Controls Make People Work Harder, also, Monopsony Power, Schmonopsony Power
Camp of the Saints: Rush Limbaugh, RIP
CDR Salamander: The Use & Abuse Of Wargames
Da Tech Guy: The Seed Rush Sowed Will Yield A Crop 30, 50, Even 100-Fold, also, Report From Louisiana – Snowpocalypse 2021
Don Surber: Limbaugh’s Finest Hour, also, Impeachment Was A Diversion
First Street Journal: About That Getting Rid Of Fossil Fuels, also, It’s Not Just The NYT & WaPo Who Don’t Like Freedom Of Speech For Other People
The Geller Report: French Parliament Passes Law To Fight Jihad – Bans Hate Imams, Allows Police To Close Religious Schools, also, Muslim “Refugee” Working As Anti-Rape Trainer Arrested For Rape
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Don’t Know Much About A Science Book
Hollywood In Toto: Five Apologies Hollywood Owes Us, also, Rush vs. Howard – How Limbaugh Got The Best Of The Reformed Shock Jock
The Lid: CloutHub May Not Be The Free Speech Social Medium It Claims To Be
Legal Insurrection: Winter Storm Kills 14, Leaves Millions Without Electricity & Heat, also, Rush Limbaugh Has Passed Away
Michelle Malkin: Pregnant Women, Beware of COVID Shots!
Nebraska Energy Observer: What Hath Government Wrought
Power Line: Rush Limbaugh, RIP, also, Howard Root – A Letter To My Prosecutors
Shark Tank: Murphy Claims Taking Care Of The National Guard Is A Priority
Shot In The Dark: Talent Being Paid Back (With Interest) To God
The Political Hat: Euthanasia In Canada – Killing The Lonely, Social Services So Bad People Would Rather Die, & Homicidal Hospices
This Ain’t Hell: Heartwarming Story Of The Day, also, Marines’ New Amphibious Combat Vehicle
Transterrestrial Musings: Rush Limbaugh, also, The American Cultural Revolution
Victory Girls: Rush Taught Me How To Be A Conservative, also, A Voice, A Patriot, A Legacy
Volokh Conspiracy: Why I’m Happy That We’re On Parler
Weasel Zippers: Biden Lies That There Was No COVID Vaccine Until He Was Installed, also, Yale Professor Celebrates Rush Limbaugh’s Death
The Federalist: Joe Biden – Minorities Don’t Know How To Use The Internet, also, Read The Most Touching Tributes To Broadcast Legend Rush Limbaugh
Mark Steyn: Remembering Rush, also, The Indispensable Man

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Rush Limbaugh, R.I.P.

Posted on | February 17, 2021 | Comments Off on Rush Limbaugh, R.I.P.

The talk-radio legend has died at age 70, and his frequent guest-host, Mark Steyn, has a tribute to the man who attracted the largest radio audience in the world. Did you catch that?

Throughout his entire time on air, there were genius GOP consultants who, in reaction to any electoral setbacks, would insist that what the GOP needed to do was come up with a way to ditch Limbaugh. As I said on air many years ago: Really? For almost a third of a century, Rush’s audience was over half the total Republican vote. How many do all you genius “Republican reformers” bring to the table? I’ve recounted previously the first time I was asked to guest-host, back in 2006, when I happened to be down in Australia and the Prime Minister, John Howard, asked me to some or other event a day or two hence. And I politely declined, saying I had to get back to America to host The Rush Limbaugh Show. “I hear that’s a pretty big show,” said the PM.
“Yeah,” I replied. “Twenty-five, thirty million listeners.”
“‘Strewth,” said Mr Howard. “Rush has more listeners than we have Australians.”
Indeed. And all these GOP clever-clogs never explain, once you throw Rush and his millions overboard, what’s going to replace them.

Most critics of Limbaugh simply never acknowledged this truth. From the time Fox News began to be recognized nationally — the 2000 election was a turning-point of sorts — there was an inordinate amount of attention paid to Fox while, the whole time, Rush was reaching a larger audience. Five days a week, three hours a day.

Flashback to Rush Limbaugh receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom pic.twitter.com/zeaGxJeUJu

— The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) February 17, 2021

Rush was the best there ever was, and to all intents and purposes invented an entire new media category. Until Rush came along, “talk radio” was about interviewing guests. Rush seldom had guests, and instead focused on using actualities (“sound bites”) from current news events as the fodder for his commentary. His use of sound bites was the real innovative breakthrough in what Rush did, more so even than his interactions with call-in listeners. The main thing about Limbaugh was, he was a radio professional before he ever became a political commentator. He had worked as a Top 40 deejay from the time he was a teenager, and understood how radio works. His braggadocio — “Talent on loan from God,” etc. — was part of his genius as an entertainer.

To be successful on radio requires that the host establish a personal connection with the audience, and so Rush had to humanize himself for his listeners, to get them to think of him as a friend, to create a sense of shared experience — “we’re all in this together.” Listeners would sometimes complain when Rush would talk about anything except politics. He’d come on the air Monday afternoon and start talking about the previous day’s NFL games, or he’d talk about playing golf, and after 15 minutes or so, he’d remark that the callers were on the line complaining that he wasn’t talking about politics. But you can’t be 100% politics all the time, or you’ll burn out. Politics isn’t everything in life, so there was Rush on the radio talking to millions of people about the football game he’d watched on TV Sunday. This is what I mean by Rush humanizing himself to the audience. Radio was his job, and doing an occasional change of pace — that’s called entertainment.

Rush Limbaugh was the greatest broadcaster in history. The man created an industry from nothing and in the process taught several generations of Americans about the virtues of freedom and liberty. He was a giant, irreplaceable, a legend who made this country immeasurably better.

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) February 17, 2021

Three or four times, Rush actually read my articles on his show, and I’d get phone calls and messages from friends I hadn’t heard from in years: “Man, I heard you on Rush!” It was a pretty big deal.

One of the oldest maxims in show business is “always leave ’em wanting more,” and Rush Limbaugh has certainly done that. R.I.P.

Category: Rush Limbaugh, Talk Radio

In The Mailbox: 02.16.21

Posted on | February 17, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.16.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: They Are Not Upstanding Members Of The Community
EBL: The White Tiger – A Review
Twitchy: MORTAL KOMBAT!
Louder With Crowder: BBQ Bro Shows Proper Way To Handle Pro-Lockdown Reporters With One Smack
Vox Popoli: Vitamin D Actually Saves Lives, also, DC Is Getting Out Of Comics

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: No Bystanders
American Conservative: Some Sound & Some Fury
American Greatness: The Vast Bipartisan Pretense Of Trump’s Demise, also, Republicans Acquit Trump, But Leave His Supporters Defenseless
American Power: What Went Wrong With The Texas Power Grid?
American Thinker: The Confucius Institutes – A Study In Subversion, also, What Were The Democrats Thinking?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily North Slope News
Babalu Blog: Cuban Dock Workers In Cienfuegos On Silent Strike For Higher Pay & Better Working Conditions
BattleSwarm: Minneapolis Refunds The Police, also, TPPF’s Chuck DeVore On The Reasons Behind The Texas Blackouts
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, also, SpaceX Launches 60 More Starlink Sats/Customer Report On Installation
Cafe Hayek: Habit Of The Lip, also, I Am Insane
CDR Salamander: Cyprus, Greece, & Egypt Move Closer Against Turkey
Da Tech Guy: John Lausch Needs To Stay As U.S. Attorney For The Northern District Of Illinois, also, What Do John Weaver & Andrew Cuomo Have In Common?
Don Surber: Impeachmenticide, also, Trump’s Best Lesson
First Street Journal: Group Calling Itself “Refuse Fascism” Actually Advocates Fascism
Fred On Everything: Slightly Woozier Thoughts On The Impossibility Of Justice
The Geller Report: MEGA MAGA Rally, also, Comey Email Reveals FBI & DOJ Made “Premeditated Effort To Dislodge” President Trump From Office
Hogewash: Unjust Justice, Don’t Know Much About Algebra, and Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: How Silence Of The Lambs Shattered The Horror Movie Mold, also, “Monster Hunter” Scribe Shares Cancel Culture Survival Tips
The Lid: 30 Taliban Terrorists Immolated In Bomb-Making Class
Legal Insurrection: Massive Winter Storm Frosts Texas Wind Turbines, Causing Blackouts & Higher Energy Prices, also, GOP Plans To Target Democrats Over Biden’s Job-Killing Energy Policy
Nebraska Energy Observer: We Need To Know
Power Line: It Isn’t Only Math, also, Wisdom From Weaver – Is Leftism A Personality Disorder?
Shark Tank: FL Democrats Continue Protecting Compromised Voting System
Shot In The Dark: This Is What Urban Progressive Privilege Looks Like
STUMP: Geeking Out – GDP By Country & Recent COVID Mortality Data
The Political Hat: “Diversity” Is Inherently Discriminatory & Exclusionary
This Ain’t Hell: End Of The Ammo Drought In Sight? also, Kamala Harris Engaging In Head of State Calls?
Transterrestrial Musings: “The Science”
Victory Girls: Wind & Solar TKO’d By Ice & Snow
Volokh Conspiracy: The New York Times And American Communisma
Weasel Zippers: Health Inspector Does Happy Dance After Shutting Down Business Over COVID Rules, also, Trump Slams McConnell In Press Release, Vows To Back America First Candidates In Primaries
The Federalist: NY School Principal Urges Parents To Become “White Abolitionists”, also, Big Corporate Defunds Republicans While Indulging Democrats Who Abused Due Process At Kavanaugh Hearings
Mark Steyn: Hoping It Might Be So, also, Blizzard Of Lies (Update)

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The Death of ‘Teflon’

Posted on | February 17, 2021 | Comments Off on The Death of ‘Teflon’

Ramiro “Teflon” Carrasco began his life of crime at a young age, with a record dating back to 2003, the year he turned 14. In late June 2011, Carrasco was wanted on six active warrants, including failure to appear in court to face charges of fraud, domestic violence and probation violation, when police spotted him in Loveland, Colorado. Carrasco managed to elude police for two more days before he was finally arrested with the help of a SWAT team and a police K-9. Six years later, in February 2017, Carrasco was wanted on four outstanding warrants — including two felonies — when Loveland police tried to arrest him again, but he barricaded himself inside an apartment and once more, the SWAT team had to be called to take “Teflon” into custody.

You might think that a lifelong felon who had twice been the subject of SWAT interventions might have gotten a lengthy prison sentence. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention, “Teflon” was a known gang member, whose face was covered with tattoos. Despite his felonious history, Carrasco was released from prison in Colorado in January 2019. His obituary was published 13 months later:

Ramiro Carrasco, a loving father, son, brother, uncle, cousin and friend. Ramiro left this world unexpectedly at 30 years young on Feb 26, 2020.

“Unexpectedly”? His death was actually quite predictable. The cause of death was three gunshot wounds from a Greeley police officer’s pistol.

At the time of his death, Carrasco was out on bond on charges in Larimer County. He also had an outstanding warrant in Boulder County. He and a woman named Keya Marie Pobanz (who had also done time in prison) had spent a few days smoking marijuana and methamphetamine. About 1 a.m. on February 26, 2020, Carrasco and Pobanz were in a green Honda in the parking lot of the Island Grove Village Apartments, “an affordable rental housing community” near a park on 14th Avenue in Greeley.

A police officer “was conducting crime suppression patrol” in the neighborhood, which was known “to be a high crime area specifically, narcotics and a dumping ground for stolen vehicles.” The officer spotted the Honda, which was “suspicious” because it did not have a front license tag and was backed into a parking space. Exiting his vehicle, the officer approached the Honda, and his bodycam video captured what happened:

Watching the video with an untrained eye, you might not realize why, at about the 42-second mark, the officer raises his pistol and orders Carrasco: “Stop moving. Put your hands up right now, dude.”

What happened? The officer shined his flashlight on Carrasco and saw he had a pistol on his lap. Carrasco moved his hand to try to conceal the pistol, and that’s when the officer drew his gun. A tense standoff followed for more than a minute, and the officer moved away from the car door for his own safety. Just about the time backup arrived, the officer saw Carrasco reach for the gun and BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!

Despite being hit with three shots, Carrasco still had the presence of mind to try to get rid of his gun — a Ruger .380 semi-auto — by tossing it out the open passenger door. You can actually hear it hit the pavement at about the 2:29 mark in the video. Despite this, Pobanz continued insisting that Carrasco did not have a weapon until the next day:

Pobanz told Commander Smith she was with Teflon for the last few days. During this time Teflon had told Pobanz he was not going back to prison as he has spent the better part of his life in prison. She didn’t know why he kept the gun lying on his lap as the officer approached. She said they knew the cop was going to contact them when he pulled into the lot, and she did not know why Teflon did not hide the gun prior to being contacted by the police.

Well, I think we all know the answer to that mystery. “Teflon” didn’t hide the gun because he wanted to have it handy, planning to shoot the cop and then try to escape. But the cop was smart, and when “Teflon” saw the backup police cars arriving, he made the only choice he had left.

Was he going to shoot, or was Carrasco reaching for the gun in a desperate last-minute attempt to hide it before more cops arrived?

It doesn’t matter, really. The shooting was justified because the officer had reasonable cause to believe his life was in danger. In releasing his report on the incident, the district attorney explained that he was not naming the police officer because of Carrasco’s “very strong and documented ties to known criminal gangs,” which could put the officer at risk of retaliation from Carrasco’s gang associates.

And that’s the story of how a career criminal “left this world unexpectedly.” His nickname was “Teflon.” But it wasn’t Kevlar.

Category: Colorado, Crime

Why Wasn’t He Already Behind Bars?

Posted on | February 16, 2021 | Comments Off on Why Wasn’t He Already Behind Bars?

Say hello to Leonard Ortega, 47, of Seattle, a lifelong criminal who was inexplicably out on the streets earlier this month:

Police say 47-year-old Leonardo Ortega pulled a shotgun on 68-year-old Phil Salmon, and stole his pick up truck Wednesday morning [Feb. 3] from a Chevron gas station in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood. Salmon’s son Dan says it could have been a lot worse.
“A lot worse if he had pulled the trigger, it would have been over he was only 3 feet away,” says Dan.
Authorities say Ortega then proceeded to take officers on a car chase with speeds reaching up to 75 miles per hour on city streets during the morning commute, ending with a huge crash several miles away at the corner of Broad St and Alaskan Way along the downtown waterfront. Ortega was immediately arrested.
Friday afternoon, Ortega waived his right to appear in court for his bail hearing. He’s facing multiple charges including motor vehicle theft and evading police.
Ortega has a lengthy criminal history including seven felony convictions such as being in possession of a stolen gun and stealing cars.
“We know from police they are investigating him for multiple cases not only in Seattle but in other cities as well,” says Casey McNerthney with the King County Prosecutor’s Office.
But there are now questions about why a judge released him last month after being arrested for allegedly stealing an empty FedEx truck in the Northgate neighborhood.
“In those docs that we got from police, law enforcement didn’t object to the release,” says McNerthney, which allowed Ortega to be on the street before this latest arrest.
“I’m not sure if the officer who looked at that case when they put together that form knew the extent of his history. So that’s not meant to knock the police at all,” says McNerthney.

Gosh, what has happened in Seattle recently that might result in a policy of unusual leniency toward criminals? But if you pay attention to crime stories, you see these kind of cases all the time — the suspect in a heinous case that makes headlines is almost always a career criminal who is out on probation or parole for an earlier crime. Most serious crime in this country is committed by lifelong criminals who will predictably return to their felonious habits as soon as they are released from prison.

Is leniency toward criminals “social justice”? Consider this story that ran in the Washington Post a couple of years ago:

In the past decade, nearly 26,000 murders have gone without an arrest in major American cities.
Of those, more than 18,600 of the victims — almost three-quarters — were black.

You can, and should, read the whole thing, but think about what this means: There are more than 20,000 murderers on our nation’s streets. In reporting on these unsolved homicides, the liberals at the Washington Post undoubtedly intended to imply that law enforcement exhibits an indifference to the deaths of black people, because of “systemic racism.” But these unsolved murders are occurring mainly in liberal big cities, where leniency toward crime is usually the policy. In such cities, “social justice” translates to “turn ’em loose.” Allowing criminals to roam the streets will result in a lot more unsolved murders, and if most of the victims of these crimes are black, well, whose fault is that?

Good luck finding a liberal who can answer that question.

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 02.15.21

Posted on | February 16, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.15.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

In case I forgot to mention it before, Bob Zimmerman is doing a fundraiser at his blog, Behind The Black, which I added to the blogroll because we didn’t have any consistent coverage of what’s happening in the High Frontier. Go show the man some love, by which I mean HIT THE FARGING TIP JAR! Also, happy President’s Day to the Once and Future President, Donald Trump.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.