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“Throughout 2018, the city engaged in a
process to "reimagine police oversight". This
reimagining process further damaged morale
as officers felt like they had no say in how
these oversight processes were going to play
out.”
[Which resulted in a] $150million cut [of the
police budget] representing a third of the
police force's budget - by far the largest
proportion of any American city which
slashed funding after the BLM riots.
Even after the city came to its senses and
restored the money years later, the damage had
already been done, and few wanted to join a
police force in Austin where the prosecutors
were not going to back them up and police and
911 operators are always overwhelmed with too
many crimes.
911 operators in LA, Chicago and Minneapolis are
likewise placing callers on hold.
-- Daily Mail
A few weeks ago, an image went viral. In Belgium a migrant used the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to cook an omelette. For many, the desecration brought to mind a quote from French author Jean Raspail, written in 1973 in his novel Camp of the Saints, about a sudden invasion of Muslim, Indian and African migrants into France:
“Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door.”
“Beware of two errors: despising the world God sustains, or worshipping the culture He restrains.”
— Abraham Kuyper, Common Grace Vol. 1, Ch. 30
"[Successful NY Mayoral candidate] Mamdani built his campaign on the infrastructure of the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA and its city allies can dispatch activists across New York and, with a network of progressive partner organizations, can mobilize young people, get out the vote, and do the work of door-to-door politics.
"We saw this dynamic many times in the twentieth century: socialists rise to power, their policies degrade the quality of life, and, as they enter the endgame, they tighten their grip on power and offload resentments onto their ideological, racial, and economic enemies.
"...the twentieth century taught us that left-wing voters have extraordinary defenses against reality."
-- Christopher Rufo
