Dems have another rising-star criminal alien
The 405 Freeway in Orange County, California, is jammed with vehicles at all hours. Traffic rarely proceeds at the posted speed limit. But in November of 2021, a drunken driver traveling at speeds estimated to be 100 mph killed two young people. They were consumed by the flames of the fiery collision.
The driver displayed a wanton disregard for the lives of others. His deliberate acts concluded with the most likely outcome, death. At the very least, it was attempted murder, and this case should have been a double homicide. It was processed by the judicial system as manslaughter. The 10-year prison sentence did not mean 10 years in jail, as the current bureaucratic push is to release convicts as soon as possible. In this case, that apparently means four years. By the way the killer is an illegal alien with multiple deportations.
In America today, the laws really do not mean what the language says. The public sees and hears about the crime, a trial is held and a sentence is imposed. But what the public rarely reads about or recognizes is incarceration and punishment are actually in the hands of a layered bureaucracy created by people devoted to the idea of rehabilitation of the criminal, not his or her punishment.
And you can forget the idea of separating a habitually dangerous person from society for the protection of society. The bureaucracy is dedicated to catch, rehabilitate and release. The latest trend is to replace an arrest with a citation.
The end result is a system that supports the criminal. This system drives social chaos, as evidenced by the slow destruction of the nation’s major cities.
California, where Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano killed two 19-year-olds with his car, has been a leader of the political rejection of crime and punishment. Under the guidance of the “less is more” socialist Jerry Brown, the state’s prisons were renamed “Correctional Institutions.” A trio of his appointees to the California Supreme Court, including Chief Justice Rose Bird, was recalled by voters. Why? The vote was propelled by the failure of the state’s judicial system to protect people from criminal violence.
A parallel Golden State political campaign attacked the state’s mental health system, declaring people incarcerated for mental health issues were being abused, over-medicated and used as guinea pigs for medical experiments. The Lanterman-Petris-Short Act “reformed” mental health care, emptied and closed the state’s mental health facilities and the result of those reforms are now evidenced by the masses of sidewalk dwellers in the towns and cities of California.
Why this focus on California? California is the progressive’s progressive state, self-promoted as a visionary leader and a future of equity, diversity and inclusion.
This case is a repeat of hundreds of other judicial system failures.
Except, Donald Trump is president, and his staff saw the breaking news on Fox, and launched a series of actions to make sure Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano does not settle himself comfortably in a secret Garden Grove location. The bigger issue? Events indicate the State of California may soon be brought to heel and forced to rejoin the union.
Bill Essayli, United States Attorney for the Central District of California, apparently has filed a felony immigration charge against this defendant, and that could send this career criminal to jail for 20 years. Border boss Tom Homan anticipates California may try to duck the detainer order placed by federal authorities, but officers will be at the jail waiting for him, just in case.
In a serious of self-promoting press releases, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is attempting to manufacture an image of his self as the premier crime fighter. First, he claimed credit for the work of law enforcement with glowing reports of the amounts of narcotics sized and the numbers of arrests made by assorted “task forces.”
Then came the inevitable pivot. Crime is down in California! The governor said it was so.
No, crime is not down. Criminals are being issued tickets. No arrests are made. No one is booked in the jail. No one is brought before a judge. So there is no actual record of the crime.
If the Newsoms of this world can eliminate law enforcement, statistically the record will show crime is no longer a problem. And there will be Gavin Newsom up front, taking credit for another progressive fiction. When he launches his presidential campaign, you can bet he will be talking about his successful crime-fighting fiction as if it were a real thing.
It appears Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano will get what is coming to him, and he may just take down the Democrat’s leading presidential prospect, Gavin Newsom, in the process.