San Francisco helped kill Kate Steinle

Posted on Wednesday, July 8, 2015 by BZ

San Francisco quite proudly declared itself a sanctuary city 26 years ago. It is proud of that fact. A “sanctuary city” means that Illegals of all shapes and sizes will, according to the mindset of Leftists, not be “ratted out” to various authorities for deportation just because they are “undocumented” — LeftSpeak for illegal.

San Francisco is proud of that label.

San Francisco is proud, even after a 32-year-old Pleasanton woman, Kate Steinle, was shot and killed in front of her father at Pier 14 on the Embarcadero in San Francisco, on Wednesday, July 1st, at about 6:30 PM.

Her last words were: “Dad, help me, help me.”

Her father was powerless, considering Kate Steinle had been shot directly in the chest three times by an illegal immigrant who purposely sought out San Francisco because he knew it was a sanctuary city.

Here’s where the pride of San Francisco comes in:

Had San Francisco authorities not refused a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer request, Lopez-Sanchez may not have been in the United States and Steinle might still be alive.

Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) addresses the core issue: laws were not enforced.

Laws were not enforced. We’ll get back to that.

The San Francisco Sheriff’s Department is in charge of illegal immigrant notifications, not the SFPD. The SF Sheriff himself, Ross Mirkarimi, is doubling down on his having done the proper thing:

S.F. Sheriff Defends Releasing Killer, Calls Trump ‘Opportunist’

by Michelle Moons

San Francisco’s Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi is defending the intentional April release of five-times-deported Mexican national Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, who has since confessed to the Wednesday shooting death of a young woman at Pier 14.

Sheriff Mirkarimi appeared agitated as he spoke to San Francisco-based KRON 4 News, casting blame on U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for not filing a formal court application to detain Lopez-Sanchez. In a separate CNN interview, Mirkarimi defended his refusal of ICE detainers. He called ICE policy the “imperfect deportation and transferring of people.”

It is San Francisco Sheriff’s department policy to deny all ICE detainer requests. He indicated that he only honors court orders.

Mirkarimi also told CNN’s Jake Tapper that sanctuary city policies “make us safer.”

Safer, yes, of course. Why didn’t I think of that?

Further, the San Francisco mayor, Edwin Lee, said in part:

As I said in 2013, we must protect both civil liberties and uphold public safety. Which is why, at the time, I promised to veto any legislation that completely eliminated the Sheriff’s ability to make a case-by-case determination about honoring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers. Our sanctuary policies should not create a safe harbor for convicted, violent felons.

Translated: Mayor Lee just threw Mirkarimi under the bus. But of course Lee takes the golden opportunity to turn a death into a political wiffle ball. It’s the fault of the Republicans:

Even after repeated attempts by President Obama and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi to reform our immigration laws, Republicans in Congress have blocked those efforts, unfortunately, leaving cities and local municipalities to act upon immigration issues that affect its residents. I will continue to work with the Obama Administration on Comprehensive Immigration Reform to ensure cities aren’t forced to make and enforce immigration law.

That said, what actually happened with Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez? He shouldn’t have even been in the United States. With seven felony convictions — not arrests, but convictions — Sanchez had been deported to Mexico five times. And came back each time.

Even CNN wrote about the circumstances surrounding the multiple releases of the murder suspect:

In March, Lopez-Sanchez was turned over to San Francisco authorities and ultimately released after completing a federal prison sentence.

U.S. Immigrations and Custom Enforcement said San Francisco wanted Lopez-Sanchez on a drug warrant, so the agency handed him over with a request to let it know if he was to be released.

Despite that request, San Francisco authorities let him go in April after the drug charges were dropped.

Freya Horne, chief legal counsel to the San Francisco County Sheriff, said city officials believe such requests violate Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures.

Question, Freya: if a federal detainer violated federal law, then how has the federal government been getting away with its various USC sections over the numerous years regarding deportations of illegals? When I worked Booking in the Sacramento County Main Jail as a deputy in the 80s, I would pick up the phone and call the USBP when we suspected a LE agency had arrested an illegal. The USBP did the rest. Simple.

Sanchez confessed to the murder but his Public Defender subsequently insisted he was not guilty.

Breitbart.com adds:

It is San Francisco Sheriff’s department policy to deny all ICE detainer requests. He indicated that he only honors court orders.

ICE had begun processing the reinstatement of Lopez-Sanchez’s removal order before the prisoner was transferred on March 26 from a Bureau of Prisons facility in Victorville to San Francisco Sheriff’s custody pursuant to an old drug warrant.

ICE was informed of the transfer afterwards and alternatively issued a detainer request for the prisoner.

A San Francisco court dismissed Lopez-Sanchez’s drug charge on March 27.

On April 15, 2015, authorities dismissing the ICE request for detention released the seven-time convicted felon Lopez-Sanchez onto the streets.

Finally, I submit to Leftist sheriff Ross Mirkarimi (he is, you should know, a co-founder of the Green Party of California) that you, sir, are damned near equally responsible for the death of Kate Steinle. You go explain your philosophy and mindset to the parents, siblings, friends and relatives of Kate Steinle. Personally.

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But you won’t. Because you are a coward and your belief system is “Leftist Mindset Uber Alles.” It’s funny, however, how you call Trump an “opportunist” when he dared to speak the truth about Mexico. Mexico is out for Mexico — but of course on your planet of purple skies you hadn’t remotely thought of that. Mexico does not give us our best and brightest. Its children have brought disease to this nation. It sends us more MS13 gangbangers. Its illegals commit crimes in this nation and commit murders. Yet your purple skies, Mirkarimi, “Trump all.”

You are absolutely disgusting in your willingness to forsake your law enforcement oath for murdering Leftist values. You sicken me. You are unfit to wear your badge. I say this, sir, as a recently retired (two weeks ago) Sergeant with a California department much larger than yours, after 41 years of service: you sicken me.

Ladies and gentlemen, let me finally write: wake up. Some of your police and sheriff departments are killing you in the fashion of the SFSO. They are killing you either by fear, cowardice, ignorance or by dint of wishing to be politically correct. But they are doing it nevertheless.

They are killing you because they are not obeying the law. Their not obeying the law is because they have chosen to do so for expedience — AND — because the federal government does not obey its own laws. More on that in a subsequent post.

I submit: the American taxpayers are not too terribly far away from picking and choosing which laws they will or will not obey.

Because the federal government and some agencies in law enforcement have already led the way on the issue.

And a terrible lead it is.

P.S.

Two additional points:

1. The handgun used by Sanchez to murder Kate Steinle was stolen in a burglary from a local federal agent. Sanchez said he “found” the handgun nearby wrapped in a T-shirt. Of course he did. Read this to see the lengthy criminal history of Sanchez as per a federal database.

2. Here is the City of San Francisco’s sanctuary ordinance from its own website. The complete text of the ordinance is here. Mayor Gavin Newsom’s Executive Order 07-01: Sanctuary City Policy (PDF) is delineated.

UPDATE:

Gavin Newsom has had the link to his Executive Order 07-01 Sanctuary City Policy REMOVED. The link, when clicked, now indicates: For Your Information – Page Not Found

Isn’t that just terribly convenient, as Stick points out, since it would appear that Newsom will likely be running for governor?

Ben Carson: wrong on ethanol

Posted on Tuesday, May 12, 2015 by BZ

I know that Dr Ben Carson is a highly educated and good man, and I suspect that he is likewise a very compassionate and considerate man.

However, he has now provided sufficient information for me to conclude that I’ll never vote for him.

First, from HotAir.com:

Ben Carson: Let’s slash Big Oil to pay for ethanol

by Jazz Shaw

Newly announced presidential contender Ben Carson was out talking to the Cornhuskers and the inevitable subjects of ethanol, the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and subsidies for King Corn came up.

Uh-oh, do I hear some potential pandering in the wings, pray tell?

Whilst there in Iowa, Dr Carson said, however:

“I don’t particularly like the idea of government subsidies for anything because it interferes with the natural free market.”

Nicely played sir. Agreed. Go on.

“Therefore, I would probably be in favor of taking that $4 billion a year we spend on oil subsidies and using that in new fueling stations” for 30% ethanol blends, Dr Carson said.

Oh boy.

This is where Dr Carson and I part ways, and part ways Big Time.

Dr Carson wants E30 in our vehicles. Are you kidding me? E30? That will be one of the largest destroyers of current ICE engines imaginable, other than kicking one out the back of a C-130 at 38,000 feet.

He’s suggesting cutting subsidies for domestic energy companies in the oil and gas industry. Not for everyone, mind you. Just them. And then reallocating that money away from fossil fuels and into ethanol processing. Just five seconds before that Carson had been claiming that he didn’t want anyone interfering with the free market, but now he’s saying to cherry pick one specific set of companies in the energy sector, remove a subsidy from them, and then redirect it to benefit the ethanol industry? It’s difficult to imagine a more egregious example of the government picking winners and losers, with the winners just happening to be in the first caucus state.

Hot Air disapproves in a political fashion:

If you want to have a discussion about removing all subsidies across the board, then fine. We’re all ears. Carly Fiorina has proposed the same thing and it’s a worthy topic of debate. But when you start talking about just picking the pockets of oil and gas developers and using it to pay for ethanol, you may as well be running for the Democrat nomination. Poor showing, Dr. Carson.

But has anyone considered the physical-energy aspects of the plan?

Hold that thought.

I’d never much wanted to write this, but Dr Ben Carson lacks a major component that most political figures must possess: presence. It is a tool that Dr Ben Carson completely lacks. That said:

Second, calling out the “subsidies for Big Oil” is the language of the Left, and as usual it’s complete horse hockey. As anyone who follows this topic knows, the subsidies received by oil and gas companies are not specific to them. They are precisely the same as subsidies given to almost anyone who sells anything, including Apple and Microsoft among so many others. In fact, you couldn’t just cancel the subsidies to the fossil fuel segment of the energy industry without rewriting the rules entirely just to exclude them. That’s a left wing, anti-energy talking point and Carson should be embarrassed to be saying it in front of an ostensibly conservative crowd.

True. But moreover, what do we know about ethanol?

First, that the greater the gradient (E-15 to E-30), the greater amount of water is contained. Internal combustion engines don’t like water, they aren’t built to have any water in the fuel system. High compression motorcycle engines eschew ethanol completely.

Corn crops marked for ethanol might even be illegal.

Further, globally, America earmarking corn for fuel reduces the amount of corn available for the rest of the world in terms of edible food.

As in: corn for food vs corn for fuel. As in: who starves and who profits from corn?

It is clear that Dr Carson wishes American corn to be utilized as a domestic fuel source, as opposed to a global food source.

But realize: even way back in 2005, ten years ago, Ethanol was recognized as inefficient.

Even Forbes.com, a site most certainly supportive of business, suggests that ethanol is moribund at best.

It’s Final — Corn Ethanol Is Of No Use

OK, can we please stop pretending biofuel made from corn is helping the planet and the environment? The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released two of its Working Group reports at the end of last month (WGI and WGIII), and their short discussion of biofuels has ignited a fierce debate as to whether they’re of any environmental benefit at all.

The IPCC was quite diplomatic in its discussion, saying “Biofuels have direct, fuel‐cycle GHG emissions that are typically 30–90% lower than those for gasoline or diesel fuels. However, since for some biofuels indirect emissions—including from land use change—can lead to greater total emissions than when using petroleum products, policy support needs to be considered on a case by case basis” (IPCC 2014 Chapter 8).

And here we go with the poor:

With more than 60 nations having biofuel mandates, the competition between ethanol and food has become a moral issue. Groups like Oxfam and the Environmental Working Group oppose biofuels because they push up food prices and disproportionately affect the poor.

Yet:

So why have we pushed corn ethanol so heavily here in the U.S.? Primarily because it was the only crop that had the existing infrastructure to easily modify for this purpose, especially when initially incentivized with tax credits, subsidies and import tariffs. Production, transportation and fermentation could be adapted quickly by the corn industry, unlike any other crop.

Let’s summarize: ethanol is inefficient. You get more “bang from your buck” from petroleum products.

MPG plummets with ethanol.

Horsepower plummets with ethanol.

And ethanol destroys engines.

Concurrent with: ethanol is energy-inefficient and — simultaneously — drives food prices higher.

Way to go, Dr Carson.

I suggest: you might want to think this over for a week or two.

Our federal government: killing the nation with illegals

Posted on Wednesday, October 29, 2014 by BZ

Susan Oliver, wife of Deputy Danny Oliver, killed by an illegal Mexican.

I lost a deputy last Friday. You can read about it here.

And Barack Hussein Obama seems to be completely oblivious. No, wait; he isn’t oblivious. He is purposeful with his insistence on keeping the southern border porous and flooded with illegals. Despite criminals, despite terrorists and despite disease, Mr Obama keeps the border open for one reason: votes. Illegals predominantly vote Demorat. They want their Free Cheese.

Deputies Oliver and Davis

From Breitbart.com:

Sheriff Joe: 36% of Criminals Turned Over to ICE ‘Keep Coming Back’

Maricopa Co., AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio reported that 36 percent of the criminals his sheriffs turned over to ICE “keep coming back” on Monday’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on the Fox News Channel.

Arpaio also reported that Luis Enrique Monroy-Bracamonte, a suspect in the shooting of three civilians and an officer, “served time in the jails that I run in 1996 … he was in and out of the jails. Here in Maricopa County, for drug-related crimes, assault weapons…he was deported twice by ICE, and he was let out on the streets of Maricopa County a couple other times.”

Let me also address one thing that no one, yet, has either seen or been interested in reporting: directly after killing Deputy Oliver, the illegal Mexican and his wife attempted to carjack the vehicle of a man some blocks south off Howe Avenue. This man was black and refused to readily hand over his vehicle. Anthony Jones, 38, was shot in the head and is still in serious condition.

Jose Cruz, a Mexican landscaper working in the Arden Park area, was uninjured when the illegal Mexican jacked his red Ford pickup. The illegal Mexican spoke to Cruz in Spanish and apologized to him.

Illegal Mexican, deported twice, will acquire a great free attorney for his upcoming trial.

A commenter on the article wrote plainly:

“I guess it’s a good thing that he’s Hispanic or else he would have gotten a bullet to the head as well.”

But will Mr Obama even remotely consider doing anything with the southern border with Mexico? Of course not. Two deputies killed and one black man shot to the head by an illegal Mexican are of no concern to Mr Obama whatsoever.

Mexican who shot three and killed two California deputies is ILLEGAL

Posted on Monday, October 27, 2014 by BZ

Let me be blunt.

The abject ambush and murder of two deputies by an ILLEGAL MEXICAN in the central Sacramento Valley of California was completely avoidable. The people who have blood on their hands because of these two murders are the POLITICIANS on both sides of the aisle who either voted for the borders to remain open and porous or placed the issue on Ignore Mode because it was too “touchy” for them to address. Too “sensitive.” We might offend illegal Mexicans, ISIS, welfare cheats or Free Cheesers who otherwise would vote — illegally or not. We might “offend” people who don’t care about our laws or want to kill us.

And make no mistake: the DHS, CBP and Barack Hussein Obama have blood directly on their hands — particularly Mr Obama. He is the man who refuses to close the southern border for any reason under any conditions, be it violence or terror or disease.

Two families have have their lives torn apart since last Friday the 24th, when an illegal Mexican shot two deputies in Sacramento, California, during a suspicious vehicle contact. He killed one of the deputies, Danny Oliver, 47, with a long gun. Oliver’s partner, Scott Brown, was able to return fire and wound the assailant in the hand. The Oliver family has been torn asunder, as Danny leaves a wife and two daughters behind.

This is Deputy Oliver, Mr Obama. Take a close look at him. He was a good man, a warrior, and he helped keep Sacramento County safe and free. He was what Lt. Col. Dave Grossman would term a sheepdog. Please click that link in order to understand the word.

This is the man you couldn’t care less about. This is the man who lost his life directly and distinctly because of your political policy regarding illegal Mexicans. This is what not only your indifference has wrought, but your purposeful plans.

A short time and roughly 35 miles later, the Mexican (in the company of his wife) drove up Interstate 80 into Placer County outside the town of Auburn. Two Placer County deputies came upon the red Ford pickup that the Mexican had carjacked from Sacramento. Both were shot; Placer County Detective Michael Davis Jr. was killed.

Once again, Mr Obama, take a good and close look at Detective Michael Davis.

Detective Michael David Davis Jr. was killed 26 years — to the day — after his own law enforcement father was killed. He too was a warrior and a sheepdog.

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men
stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
– George Orwell

The illegal Mexican’s wife was caught. He was later taken into custody from a rural home into which he had violently overtaken in order to escape. Like most cowards, he did not take his own life when confronted by overwhelming law enforcement odds. According to him, his life was infinitely more valuable than those he had previously taken.

Both suspects, the husband and wife, are from West Valley City in Utah.

We find, however, that the illegal Mexican was deported twice and convicted of drugs.

Sheriff’s officials have identified the suspect as Marcelo Marquez, but the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said in a statement Saturday that his name actually is Luis Enrique Monroy-Bracamonte.

Monroy-Bracamonte was first deported to Mexico in 1997 following his arrest and conviction in Arizona for possession of narcotics for sale; he was arrested and returned to Mexico a second time in 2001.

ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice said the agency had filed an immigration detainer against him asking that he be turned over to federal authorities if and when he is released by local law enforcement.

Virginia Kice, sorry, I can only say: screw you. You are more than a day late and a dollar short. You should be embarrassed to be representing such a despotic regime as occurs under Mr Obama. As if deporting this piece of excrement after-the-fact somehow makes up for or absolves the destruction he has wrought at the hands of the federal government.

You should be ashamed. Terribly ashamed.

Where are the Republicans on this? Frankly, I haven’t heard a peep. I haven’t heard a tsunami of objection and outrage. Where is it? Why hasn’t it occurred? Oh wait; I know. Because DC politicians are, again — across the board — feckless cowards.

My suggestion to the families of the victims?

Instigate a 42 USC 1983 deprivation of civil rights action. Why? Because the civil rights of Deputies Oliver and Davis were abrogated by this illegal Mexican. Because of the inactions of politicians in DC.

Specifically against Barack Hussein Obama.

He is the man responsible. He is where the buck stops.

1983 Actions should work both ways and all ways. Name him and shame him.

Finally: I lay the bodies of these two dead deputies at your feet, Barack Hussein Obama.

But you will do nothing but “monitor” and be “concerned.”

P.S.

Thank goodness Bill O’Reilly and other agents are taking the case of this illegal murdering Mexican under their collective wings.

We’ve lost the border, we’ve lost our sovereignty, we’ve lost the Rule of Law

Posted on Wednesday, June 18, 2014 by BZ

Mexican law enforcement officers on the Mexican side of the border, April of 2014, photo taken from the American side. Why are they hiding their faces? See below.

When you lose your borders, you lose control over who enters your country, when, and for what reason. You lose control over your right to determine your country’s future. In essence, you lose your sovereignty.

And when you have a president and a DC administration that eschews laws already extant regarding your borders, for political reasons, you lose the Rule of Law. When DC can pick and choose which of its laws to hold, you lose the Rule of Law.

Holding to law then becomes easier to eschew and disregard.

Why and how is our border porous, beyond the obvious means? Please read this, from the WashingtonTimes.com:

Feds: Armed Mexican troops, police regularly jump border to cross into U.S.

by Stephen Dinan

More than 500 armed Mexican troops or police have strayed across the border into the U.S. over the past decade, according to numbers the Homeland Security Department provided to Congress on Tuesday that shed new light on how often the international boundary is violated by official agents.

The information comes even as the U.S. is trying to earn the release of Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, who has been held by Mexican authorities since the beginning of April, when he drove through an official port of entry into Mexico while carrying firearms.

“Strayed.”

You read it here. Mexican Federales and military units regularly cross the border into the United States from Mexico — to the point where there are meetings to negotiate and defuse the situations. To wit:

Gil Kerlikowske, commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said in a letter to Rep. Duncan Hunter that such instanced, known as “incursions” are “infrequent” but happen often enough that Mexico and the U.S. have created special liaison units to help negotiate the situations.

Mr. Kerlikowske said there have been about 152 instances, involving a total of 525 armed Mexican military or law enforcement, who have been documented encroaching on the U.S. side of the border since Jan. 1, 2004.

At the point when we should be getting more serious about our borders, we are allowing them to leak like sieves and — further — we are corralling up those youngsters who are now entering illegally, putting them on conveyances and then dispersing them many miles AWAY from the US/Mexico border so that they may never be tracked and never be found, with the brain-glazingly ridiculous command to “go back from whence you came.”

Oh yes. I’m sure they’ll get right on that. Self-deportation. That works so well.

Just one question: why are those persons bused further AWAY from the border itself?

This is absolute insanity. I repeat: insanity.

If I were a USBP officer or an ICE officer with even ONE ounce of courage or fidelity or integrity, I would cringe at wearing the uniform. I would feel guilty for drawing a paycheck. I would hate to go to work knowing that, ultimately, I am responsible for the diminishment of my country and the corruption of our Rule of Law.

I would ask: should I even wear this uniform at all?

And: what does the oath I took actually mean, when I originally swore in?

Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it politic? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But an actual conscience asks the question: is it right?

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