Author: fredalanmedforth

See if you can spot what these two stories have in common.

Saratoga County Woman Killed After Turning into Wrong Driveway – Albany Times Union

84-Year-Old Is Charged in Shooting of Black Teenager Who Went to Wrong House – New York Times

The media, by which I mean the Left, has with utter racist predictably begun waving the bloody shirt about the second case. The tawdry movement is cheerfully organizing a lynch mob for an 84-year-old man, not on the merits of the case, but because of the racial identity markers in that headline. Had the races been reversed or if both participants in the tragedy were black or white, we would either not hear about it or the story would be about “gun violence”.

But let’s set the cynical racial narratives that govern our broken country aside for a little while.

The Left went on a mission to deconstruct the justice system and law enforcement. The resulting massive crime wave has people of all races terrified for their safety. Break-ins are happening in even ‘nice’ areas.

What are people doing? They’re getting guns and they’re preparing to defend themselves.

In an environment where criminals are emboldened and law enforcement has become meaningless, people, especially older homeowners (the Saratoga shooter, Kevin Monahan, was 65), are afraid and preparing to fight back.

Sometimes this leads to tragedies.

The answer is to restore law and order. That means turning the clock to the late 90s, before all the abominations of pro-crime, including the First Step Act, it means locking up the criminals, putting three-strikes laws back on the books to lock up repeat offenders and getting rid of any prosecutors who won’t do their jobs.

Vigilante responses of all sorts are happening. And despite the leftist media’s racist lies, they’re often being carried out by minorities, like the minority workers who killed criminals in self-defense in New York City recently.

If we don’t want to live in the Wild West, we have to bring back law and order. When the Left insists on freeing criminals and legalizing crime, then people will defend themselves, and lacking the training and judgment of law enforcement, innocent people may occasionally die.

But we should remember that it is the Left’s opposition to police and the justice system that ushered in this nightmare.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/stop-enforcing-the-law-and-people-will-start-killing-each-other/

“Durable consumer goods pay off in the long run, so it’s wrong for young people not to have children their value exceeds that of the other goods you buy,” said Chen Wenling, chief economist at the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, according to a media report.

Chen’s comments sparked an online outcry. Some said that people in China are all regarded as “consumables”, rather than human beings. Others said those who decide not to have children are smart, RFA reported.

“Today’s society has driven young people to the point of desperation,” commented one social media user, adding, “I want a place to live, but I can’t afford one. I don’t have time for fun, and I can’t afford to raise a child this comment from this expert is so arrogant!”

The message that prompted outcry was from a prominent Chinese economist at a government-backed think-tank, and the most recent effort by the Communist Party’s campaign to boost the country’s flagging birth rate that includes a slew of economic perks for couples long limited to just one child to have more children, RFA reported.

Chen’s comments came at a time when youth unemployment is running at around 20 per cent in China, with around 10 million graduates about to enter the labour market to compete with those who are already unemployed.

A current affairs commentator who gave only the surname Chen agreed.

“Most people don’t have the money to find a partner right now, because all of that requires money for food, transportation and going out. Most young people are demotivated by that,” Chen said, RFA reported.

“It’s not that they don’t want a partner; the economic pressures are just too huge, and far worse than before,” he said.

Li Jiabao, who moved from mainland China to live in democratic Taiwan, said there is a huge amount of disillusionment with government policy from the same age group that Beijing is counting on to raise more children.

“After three years of violent enforcement of the zero-COVID policy in China, young people see this government as extremely bureaucratic and careless of human life. I think this is the main reason why young people are so disgusted with this expert,” Li said, RFA reported.

https://hindupost.in/world/bear-more-children-theyre-like-consumer-durables-chinese-economist/

The following photo was sent to me by a contact in Bulgaria:

Just how far left is the FBI? If a battalion of heavily armed thugs bursting into Mark Houck‘s house to drag him off to jail for being a pro-life activist doesn’t answer this question for you, consider what happened to the FBI agents who were photographed shamefully kneeling in obeisance to Marxist black supremacists at the height of the Black Lives Matter riots:

At least six FBI agents from the bureau’s Washington, D.C., field office were photographed kneeling during a BLM march on June 4, 2020, and were referred to derisively on social media as “Kneel Team Six.”

Obviously, people who obsequiously display submission to criminals as they loot and destroy should not be working in law enforcement. Yet not only were these moonbats not fired, at least two of them were promoted:

They are Sarah Webb Linden, who was promoted from special agent to assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s D.C. field office, and Amy Oakes, who was promoted from agent to lead cybercrimes counterintelligence agent.

There is a tendency with the federal government for the worst people to fail upward. This explains our current POTUS, but not these promotions. Kooks who prioritize leftist politics over the safety of American citizens are what the FBI seeks to promote.

[Former FBI agent, Kyle] Seraphin said he was in the room a few days after the kneeling controversy when two FBI executive assistant directors, Jennifer Moore and Larissa Knapp, praised agents who kneeled. Hugs even occurred, he said.

“In the meeting, there was praise for all who knelt,” Seraphin told The Daily Signal.

It wasn’t simple cowardice or “de-escalation.” According to Seraphin…

…the FBI kneelers were a good distance from the actual protesters. He said he suspected that the agents’ act of kneeling was more of a political statement than an effort to stay safe.

“Both were promoted shortly after kneeling,” Seraphin said.

Seraphin, an FBI special agent for six years, became a whistleblower before the bureau suspended him without pay last year. He first revealed that the FBI’s field office in Richmond, Virginia, was targeting Catholics when he published a document on UncoverDC.com.

Personnel is policy. With every passing day, the personnel comprising the Deep State veers farther to the left. The FBI is comprised of ever fewer principled law enforcement agents like Seraphim and ever more leftist apparatchiks like Linden.

Black Lives Matter conducted violence throughout the country to achieve political objectives. It is by any reasonable definition a terrorist organization. Counterterrorism is Linden’s area of expertise. According to her alma mater’s website, “Today, Sarah is a supervisory special agent specializing in cases of homegrown violent extremism.”

That is, she specializes in promoting it on behalf of the radical left. That’s how you get promoted in the FBI, now that it has succumbed to the Long March Through the Institutions.

Oakes, the second agent identified as kneeling during a Black Lives Matter protest, also has worked on counterterrorism investigations.

The FBI was asked for input on this story. Here it is: “The FBI declines to comment.”

The Deep State is not answerable to the public. As Democrats consolidate power, the public will increasingly be answerable to the FBI.

Congrats to @FBIWFO ASAC Sarah Linden for graduating from the @DCPoliceDept Leadership Academy – the only law enforcement academy WITHOUT a fitness standard. (Motto: "Leaders who can't follow/keep up." probably)

Remember – The @FBI #KneelTeam6 leaders are the #FBI's leaders. https://t.co/FXZVyWdTwp pic.twitter.com/lzZw2WtKes

— Kyle Seraphin (@KyleSeraphin) March 28, 2023

https://moonbattery.com/fbi-kneel-team-six-moonbats-were-promoted/

Young asylum seekers in Wales could soon receive a monthly payment of £1,600 and taxpayer cash to fight deportation under plans proposed by the country’s devolved Labour government.

The move would see asylum seekers who arrive unaccompanied in Britain as children effectively handed a monthly living wage from the age of 18, in addition to extra cash for legal fees to fight deportation orders.

A letter outlining the intention, which has been signed by three Welsh Labour ministers — Jane Hutt, Julie Morgan, and Mick Antoniw — has been sent to the U.K. Justice Ministry for sign off. The plans are still in the development stage and would need the green light from the U.K. government in Westminster.

The letter asked the British government to ensure asylum seekers receiving the payment would still be eligible for legal aid, which is means-tested across Britain.

“We believe that care leavers have a right to be properly supported as they develop into independent young adults,” a Welsh government spokesperson said in a statement.

“Too many young people leaving care continue to face significant barriers to achieving a successful transition into adulthood than many of their peers.

“In line with our Nation of Sanctuary approach, we want to ensure that unaccompanied asylum-seeking children are supported to rebuild their lives and are not prevented from accessing appropriate Welsh government schemes and benefits to support their integration,” they added.

Campaigners against big state intervention opposed the move. “Legal aid is rightly means tested,” said James Roberts of the conservative TaxPayers’ Alliance. “Illegal immigrants should not be allowed to claim this cash.”

“Last year we spent around £30million on legal aid for asylum seekers and we will respond to the letter in due course,” a Ministry of Justice spokesman said in response.

Andrew Davies, leader of the Welsh Conservative parliamentary group, said: “At a time when our asylum system is being abused, we have to be tough to be kind. That’s exactly what the Conservative government is doing. I fear this move from Labour ministers in the Senedd will undermine that and I suspect the Welsh public will agree.”

“That’ll teach ’em,” tweeted Conservative MP Lee Anderson. “After a year of fighting our Rwanda Plan it looks like Labour finally have their own plan to tackle the migrant crisis.”

Former Brexit Party MEP Martin Daubney added: “That’s right: they will get a guaranteed income PLUS housing, meaning they’re better off than average taxpayers!”

Conservative commentator, Darren Grimes, said: “This is a pretty clear indication of what Labour would be like in power. Why wouldn’t you come here if our taxpayer is paying this?”

No comment has yet been made by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer as to whether a future British Labour government would adopt a similar policy nationally.

https://rmx.news/article/asylum-seekers-in-wales-to-receive-1600-a-month-and-taxpayer-cash-to-fight-deportation-in-labour-plan/

Red alert in Duisburg: One or two attackers stabbed at least four men with knives in a fitness studio in the city centre of Duisburg. The police assume that the attack was committed on a rampage, which is why the Essen police headquarters took over the operation. The perpetrators are said to be on the run.

In addition to several patrol cars, special task forces rushed to the scene of the crime. A police helicopter was flying over the streets, witnesses reported.

According to BILD information, the bloody deed is said to have started in a changing room of the gym chain “John Reed”. There, the victims (aged between early 20s and early 30s) are said to have been brutally stabbed. At least four men were seriously injured, two may even be in danger of losing their lives. Several emergency doctors and ambulances were on duty.

After the attack, the perpetrator or perpetrators are said to have fled and a large police force is currently in search of them. A police spokesperson told BILD: “We ask the public to avoid the area concerned in the Old Town.”

The background or trigger for the attack is still completely unclear at the moment. The police are asking for witnesses to come forward.

Only on Easter Sunday, there had been a bloody knife attack in Duisburg’s old town, in which a man (35) was killed. It is still completely unclear whether there is a connection to the current crime.

https://www.bild.de/regional/ruhrgebiet/ruhrgebiet-aktuell/sek-alarm-in-duisburg-mehrere-verletzte-in-fitnessstudio-83606728.bild.html

Ukraine war refugees are being used by Germany’s Interior Minister to obscure the country’s ongoing migrant crisis, an opposition MP has claimed.

Mathias Middelberg, the deputy leader of the Christian Democratic Union in the German parliament, has accused Interior Minister Nancy Faeser of using the war in Ukraine to obscure the reality of the ongoing migrant crisis.

The Antifa-linked Interior Minister has previously ignored recent concerns raised about migrant arrivals in the country rising to near-record lies, outright refusing any suggestion that asylum numbers in the country could be capped.

“Eight out of ten refugees come from Ukraine,” she is described as saying. “There can be no upper limit for humanity there.”

However, according to a report by Süddeutsche Zeitung, Middelberg has now accused Faeser of fudging the numbers, saying that the number of refugees arriving from Ukraine has collapsed since the start of 2023.

The publication notes that, by March 31, 81,647 people said to be fleeing Ukraine arrived in Germany this year.

This is compared to the 80,978 non-Ukrainian migrants who claimed asylum in the county within this same period.

“Federal Minister of the Interior Faeser is misleading [the public] about the development of migration to Germany,” Middelberg claimed, adding that the figures have clearly shown a substantial increase in the number of African and Asian migrants arriving in Germany in 2023.

Middelberg’s accusation that Feaser is trying to mislead the public with her talk of Ukrainian arrivals comes at a time when migration is once again becoming a major issue in Germany.

Having last spiked during the infamous European Migrant Crisis of 2015-2016, the number of foreign arrivals claiming asylum in the country is rising once again, with multiple local municipalities across the country now struggling to cope with the influx.

Overall, more than 200,000 migrants made asylum claims in Germany for the first time last year, with a further 55,000 applying for international protection in the first two months of 2023 alone.

The migrant surge has prompted multiple warnings from officials in the country, with the head of Germany’s Federal Police Union lashing out at the left-wing government’s “scandalous” refusal to properly deal with the crisis.

Union Chairman Heiko Teggatz also added that anyone who “publicly opposes the protection of our borders and thus the fight against illegal migration” is ultimately ignoring “the associated dangers to public security”, and that Minister Faeser’s inaction was effectively giving “international crime an El Dorado in Germany”.

Opposition MPs within the populist Alternative for Germany party have meanwhile expressed concern about crimes committed by migrants against German citizens.

“In 2022 alone, 3,503 German women were victims of immigrants who committed crimes against women’s sexual self-determination,” MP Stephan Brandner revealed using statistics he obtained from the German government.

“30 women had to die,” he added. “Effective border control would save many lives!”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/04/18/ukraine-war-refugees-cynically-used-to-distract-from-ongoing-global-migrant-crisis-opposition-mp-says/

The village of Rosenthal in eastern Saxony has only 150 citizens, but its population may soon double if a planned migrant center with capacity for 150 is built in the vicinity of the village. Now, citizens are turning to the conservative Alternative for Germany (AfD) party for help.

The tranquil village is located in a little-known corner of Germany where a large number of ethnic Sorbs live, right on the border of Poland. The village’s obscurity may be exactly why the federal government and the state of Saxony may have thought they could relocate migrants there without much opposition.

None of the migrants headed there will be Ukrainians; instead, they will be Afghans, Syrians, Iranians, and Iraqis. Given that the move will change the culture and demographics of the village virtually overnight, residents are furious and actively fighting against the top-down measure with the help of the AfD.

At the beginning of April, when Thomas Gampe, the head of the social affairs department of the district of Görlitz, presented plans for the construction of a migrant home in the village, he was met with boos. Citizens appealed to District Administrator Stephan Meyer (CDU) to block the project. Meyer is being accused of rushing to find new asylum accommodation with his plans to make migrant homes out of a former vocational school in Boxberg as well as a former apprentices’ dormitory in the Hirschfeld district of Rosenthal.

Now, the topic appears to be the only one the villagers want to talk about. The AfD has also forced the issue to the forefront. On Tuesday, the Görlitz district council will meet in a special session after the AfD requested the meeting to address asylum seekers being moved into the town.

The AfD is counting on growing frustration to get its motion passed in Görlitz, with AfD politicians aware that rival parties are under ample pressure due to the extreme popularity of the AfD in Saxony. In the Görlitz city council, the AfD holds 27 seats and the CDU only 23. Citizens are directly pressuring the CDU as well to support the measure, and if the CDU fails to deliver, it could end up costing the party even more political capital down the road.

AfD leader Timo Chrupalla is urging all county council members to vote in favor of the motion. He points to the country’s soaring deficit, which stands at €50 million in the last year alone. The AfD has long argued that the country’s exploding immigration population has resulted in billions in taxpayer money going into housing, education, social benefits, and unemployment benefits for millions of newcomers who have a notoriously bad record at integrating into German society.

“We have completely different problems here. For example, we lack doctors, teachers and craftsmen; money for school lunches or the school bus,” Chrupalla said. Many of the rural villages in Germany feature little to no investment, and Chrupalla noted that there is no public infrastructure in the Hirschfelde district of Rosenthal. Now, citizens are asking why money is going into housing more migrants when it could have gone into improving their quality of life, schools, and infrastructure.

In March alone, 80,000 asylum seekers registered in Germany, according to the German Interior Ministry. If this trend continues, it is estimated that almost 1 million asylum seekers will apply to stay in Germany, which would exceed the record-breaking 750,000 asylum applications from 2016. As citizens increasingly turn against the left-wing government’s open borders immigration policy, the AfD party and anti-immigration sentiment are growing in popularity.

https://rmx.news/germany/germany-150-migrants-for-small-village-of-150-in-saxony-has-citizens-turning-to-conservative-afd-party-for-help/