Saturday, June 12, 2021

Hell Freezes Over: Democratic Sheriff of Los Angeles County Going Conservative, Standing up to Crime, Democratic Party

 When Alex Villanueva announced his bid for LA County Sheriff, I did not support him.


I wanted McDonnell to win re-election, because from the outset he opposed SB 54, the unconstitutional sanctuary state law which put illegal alien criminals ahead of law-abiding citizens. As the sheriff for the most populous county in the United States, McDonnell faced considerable blowback and headwinds for speaking out against the sanctuary state anarchy.

He met considerable hostility from left-wing activists, including La Raza militants and Brown nazis alike. He was unwavering in his opposition against such lawlessness. The state of California needs federal law enforcement officers in the jails to remove every foreign national who has violated our sovereignty. Illegal aliens have to go.

I confronted Villanueva on this issue. He actively campaigned on removing ICE from the jails.

Sadly, he was elected sheriff in 2018. I suspect that voter fraud, i.e. ballot harvesting played a huge role in that outcome.

So, we have had to suffer under his reign of error in regards to illegal immigration. He even went so far as to expand the number of crimes under which illegal aliens would not have to be deported from the county.

But now, fast forward two more years, and we see a Sheriff who is talking about law and order and taking on the political establishment in Los Angeles County.

He is speaking with news anchors on Fox News. He is talking about issuing massive numbers of Concealed Carry Weapons permits to Los Angeles County residents, when the previous sheriffs (Lee Baca and Jim McDonnell) refused to issue CCWs in the first place.

AND he is talking about cleaning up Venice Beach, taking on emergency powers to get rid of all the homeless who have migranted to California, to Venice Beach because they love the weather, the free government handouts, and lax law enforcement.

Villaneuve is calling out all the liberal politicians, from the Board of Supervisors to the Los Angeles City Council, for allowing this homeless invasion to metastisize in our communities.

Villanueva has sparked the ire of the very Democratic Party that lined up behind him in 2018, too. Check out this report:

LA CountyDemocrats call for Sheriff Villanueva to resign; his spokesman hits back

LOS ANGELES — The call by the Los Angeles County Democratic Party for Sheriff Alex Villanueva to resign is part of a “radical agenda,” a sheriff’s department spokesman told City News Service Wednesday.

Only California Democrats would declare that enforcing the law, protecting public safety and health were part of a "radical agenda." This is absolute madness.

“Yesterday, Sheriff Alex Villanueva began solving the homeless problem on the Venice Boardwalk while simultaneously conducting the largest illegal drug bust operation in the history of the department,” said Capt. John Satterfield, a spokesman for the sheriff’s department.

This story is not getting enough attention, either. Pot farms have been sprouting all over Northern Los Angeles County. These illegal operations take water away from essential services and real businesses, like farming. People need to eat food, not smoke pot, to get through the day.

“Violent crime rates have nearly doubled, yet for some strange reason the radical left activist crowd has decided defunding the police is a good move.

They are rabid communists paid to spout their hateful nonsense. If everyday citizens and activists don't get busy, this will become the norm throughout Los Angeles County and the United States as a whole.

“The LACDP calling for the sheriff’s resignation is part of this radical agenda, evidence they have been hijacked by the far left, and a distraction. The sheriff will continue to remain focused on public safety, creating solutions and serving our communities.”

Exactly. Of course, I do not believe in drawing a dichotomy between "The Left" and "The Far Left." Left is left is left. Evil is evil is evil. Madness is madness is madness.

Anyone who wants to serve in law enforcement is supposed to ... enforce the law. That is something that Democrats are now militantly fighting with all their might.

The Los Angeles County Democratic Party Central Committee voted Tuesday night to call for Villanueva to resign, saying he has failed to rein in “long-standing problems within his department.”

There are still long-standing problems, but they are not going to be solved by endangering public safety further. When the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to cut $300 million from the department budget

The vote came 10 days before the first anniversary of the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Andres Guardado by a sheriff’s deputy in an unincorporated area near Gardena.

The Democrats should also talking about the shooting of a special needs adult in Cudahy. For some reason, the Left does not care about innocent people who get killed by the police. They only care when someone who was committing crimes gets killed by the police--and black suspects only, at that.

“Accountability has long been one of the foundations of democracy,” Los Angeles County Democratic Party Chair Mark Gonzalez said Tuesday. “As voters, we have an obligation to hold our leaders accountable for their actions, and as the Democratic Party, a responsibility to ensure that our elected officials are upholding our ideals and principles.

The Democratic Party of Los Angeles County has no ideals or principles, aside from lawlessness, disorder, and Cultural Marxism. How can anyone still support this terrible party anywhere in the state of California?

“Tonight, marking the one-year anniversary of the murder of Andres Guardado, Los Angeles Democrats stand in solidarity with the Guardado family, recognizing the systematic brutality of law enforcement that has continued to shake our county. Leadership and accountability starts at the top, and while strides have been made to reform police culture in Los Angeles, it’s simply not enough.

Will they stand in solidarity with Jamiel Shaw Jr? How about David Dorn? How about Conan Hinnant (oh, he does not count, since he was a white kid shot by a black man ...)

“Sheriff Villanueva has had multiple opportunities since his election to rein in long-standing problems within his department, which is why tonight, Los Angeles Democrats are holding him accountable and calling for his resignation.

“A failure to lead in Los Angeles is a failure to serve Los Angeles. We will continue to hold those accountable who fail to live up to their obligations.”

The Democratic Party of Los Angeles County needs to be defunded and disbanded. They are a terrorist organization all unto themselves.

The Los Angeles County Democratic Party Central Committee endorsed Villanueva in his 2018 race against then-Sheriff Jim McDonnell, helping him become the first Democrat to win the nonpartisan office in 138 years.

Final Reflection

Again, hell is freezing over. We have the Sheriff of Los Angeles County taking on his own party and actually doing his job.

He refused to enforce the onerous lockdown orders from Governor Gavin Newsom.

In fact, he refused to enforce the statewide beach closures in Los Angeles County, too, on Independence Day! Happy Fourth of July!

He is issuing more CCWs to law-abiding citizens. He is issuing more concealed-carry permits than his predecessors, both of whom were supposedly more conservative than he.

He has continued to post the release dates of every convict in the LA County jails, even though left-wing activists wanted this practice to stop so that illegal alien criminals could wander back into LA County streets and cause more harm and havoc.

He stood up to the regressive, leftist LA County Board of Supervisors and ensured that not one sheriff's deputy was laid off, even after the board voted to cut his budget by $300 million.

He has gone on national television calling out the corrupt, lawless, dystopian governance in Los Angeles County.

He has pledged to remove all the homeless from Venice.

He has signed off on the recall petition to remove pro-criminal, anti-victim LA County District Attorney George Gascon.

He is even releasing the names of deputies in officer-involved shootings.

If he brings ICE back into the jails, I will VOTE FOR HIM in 2022!




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Based El Salvador: Central American Nation Pushing Incredible Conservative Populist Reforms

 This incredible set of developments in El Salvador is something else!

Indeed, a country which acknowledges Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior is going to enjoy great wisdom and great blessings!

"Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance." (Psalm 33:12)

and

"But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption" (1 Corinthians 1:30)

The country is doing away with property taxes. He is inviting Cryptocurrency investors to the country.

The President of El Salvador also blasted the current administration in the United States for their open border policies, all of which are harming Central American nations, too. Just because corrupt VP Kamala Harris comes to Guatemala and tells people "don't come" does not mean that people will not come. The Biden Administration has rolled out the Welcome Mat with all kinds of government-funded goodies to illegal aliens. It's really embarrassing when Canada has stricter border security than the United States.

And the President of El Salvador was not afraid to call it out!

We need more countries stepping into these bold conservative reforms. Sadly, there may be a growing movement for these changes in South America as American governing leadership abandons all interest in upholding constitutional principles.

 

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Nice: Barnes Beating Groypers Like a Boss

Kudos to Alex Jones for sponsoring a debate between Robert Barnes and Nick Fuentes.

Here's the link. I cannot share this link on Facebook, since they are doing the bidding of Communist China, and they will not allow Alex Jones' program to be posted on their site. After all, Jones has gone out of his way to expose all the evil that the Chinese Communist Party is doing around the world.



His debate debunking anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism, and pretty much upended the Groyper obsession with denouncing Israel while ignoring Islamic militancy and promoting Iran was excellent.

Here's some takeaways from the debate:


After the debate, Barnes exposed a number of Fuentes' despicable views (all culled and shared by TPUSA's Benny Johnson)

And here was a funny meme, too:

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Failure of Zoomer "Conservative" Populism: "Sex Should Be Illegal"

 This is a serious policy position from a Zoomer populist:

Seriously?

This is the answer to the culture wars? Make sex illegal?

Even if this were a joke, it's not very funny or enlightening.

When does this madness cease?

I understand that a growing number of Zoomers, many of whom are embracing more conservative, nationalist, and populist beliefs want to take a stand for the culture wars and help win this fight.

However, these kinds of spasmatic, sporadic spouting-off sentiments are not going to help.

If younger generations want to be taken seriously in the fight for the United States, to Make America First, they need to do a better job of crafting real policy positions and shape the culture.

You cannot shape the culture by tweeting all day, and putting out ludicrous ideas like "sex shouldbe illegal."

Cut the crap, kids, and get real!
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How False Marriage Took Over So Quickly in the United States

 I don't like to call the movement to allow homosexuals to marry "gay marriage". There is nothing really happy about the whole homosexual scene. So many stories of people who have lived in the whole "community" and the people who left homosexuality share that there is nothing really gay about the gay lifestyle.

And so, I talk about "false marriage." since it's a flagrant violation of natural law and natural right to say that two people of the same sex can form a covenant akin to marriage itself. It's just not possible. The physical, mental, emotional, and certainly spiritual dynamics relating to the marriage covenant belong only to one man and one woman.

At any rate. here's an extensive report about Sasha Isenberg in The New Yorker, in which he reports on how false marriage went from a fantastic and offensive idea to a sad reality in the United States:


In his new book, “The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage,” the journalist Sasha Issenberg chronicles one of our country’s most recent civil-rights battles, tracing the evolution of the cause from 1990, when it started to become a political movement, to its ratification by the Supreme Court, in 2015. Issenberg’s subjects are the activists, politicians, and judicial figures who, intentionally or not, found themselves at its forefront. That gay marriage would become legal after only a twenty-five-year fight, Issenberg writes, “was beyond the wildest hopes of gay-rights activists just years before.” The book attempts to explain why this campaign succeeded so quickly and how religious conservatives inadvertently furthered a cause they passionately opposed.



Conservatives need to learn how this happened, and then take every step to reverse this terrible course.

I think, generally, when people think of the struggle for gay marriage, they often think about the relative speed with which it was accomplished compared with other struggles in American history. Do you think that can be replicated in other movements?

I think there are certainly some structural, tactical decisions that same-sex-marriage supporters made that helped lead them to victory. And that, broadly, there are lessons that other campaigners or social movements can adopt. But the idea that there’s a kind of off-the-shelf manual for twenty-five years of social change. . . .

Exactly.

One important thing is there’s an organization called Freedom to Marry, which was a single-issue campaign organization with one goal: equal marriage rights across fifty states and the District of Columbia. And, up until this point, the major players in L.G.B.T. politics, the Human Rights Campaign, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and a lot of state-level organizations, have a really broad panoply of issues that they are invested in. They represent a coalition that is fairly broad, basically sexual minorities, and have a whole lot of issues that they’re working on: they’re trying to stop hate crimes, they’re trying to get recognition for families, they’re trying to allow gays and lesbians to serve in the military, a whole bunch of things. It’s been a recurring trope among gay-rights activists that the Human Rights Campaign, the most wealthy and prominent of the gay-rights groups, is too focussed on the inside game, too focussed on winning access, raising money. Some activists believe that the gay-rights movement as a whole did not fight strongly enough against the Defense of Marriage Act or against the federal marriage amendment because the Human Rights Campaign wasn’t ready to fight and that this was evidence of their accommodationist sort of approach to politics.

One organization focused on one goal: to make false marriage a reality in the United States. Too many conservatives want to focus on all kinds of issues at once, and they become ineffective.

It’s clear that the H.R.C. was always acting, I think, quite rationally, in that they had had a broad set of issues that they cared about, and they intended to use influence in Washington institutions to get it. And they had to weigh the merits of fighting over marriage with the merits of trying to get progress on other issues. When Freedom to Marry comes along, they don’t have to make those compromises. And so they are able to develop a strategy that’s not based on trade-offs between “If we push for marriage in this state, will it step back our efforts to get a nondiscrimination ordinance passed?” And Freedom to Marry said, “We’re going to put ourselves out of business after we meet our goal,” which they did after the Supreme Court ruled in 2015. And that is not the way that most interest groups are set up. They’re set up basically to perpetuate themselves. And that means that they are having to weigh not just their policy objectives, but their donors and their members and their long-term stability.

And I think it raises a lot of questions. Where would gun laws be if, instead of having these broad gun-control organizations, a group is focussed solely on background checks?

The other issue with the gun control lobby, however, is that the right to self-preservation is so endemic to human beings, and the very culture and character of the United States was founded in large part on the right to self defense. When the British started attacking the American colonists in New England, they went after their guns. The farmers with guns on the fields of Lexington and Concord help

Probably the same place, but your point may still be correct.

Yeah. But I think that the natural physics of interest-group politics and coalitions is to make them bigger. And if you really are focussed on one discrete policy objective, the bigness and broadness of those groups can be self-defeating.

Exactly. Smaller interests tend to wield disproportionate political power, and more effectively, too.

Well, this also goes to your earlier point, that the religious right did the cause of gay rights a favor by making it more about one specific thing.

Yeah. They helped set up the terms of a debate, and then, later, gay-rights activists with big donors built an infrastructure that could fight the conflict on those terms.

We were talking about backlash earlier, and you mention near the end of the book that a backlash to gay marriage hasn’t really happened in the way one often expects. How do you understand that?

I think there are a few elements here. One is that anti-gay activists were not surprised when the Obergefell decision came down in 2015. It looked almost fated, based on the court’s earlier ruling and the way that it had handled appeals to circuit-court decisions. So I don’t think that there was the emotional letdown on the day of the decision that would’ve galvanized some opposition. And, because of that, many of those activists had already begun to move to an area where they still had strength, where the public opinion looked a lot more like it did around gay marriage twenty years ago—which is trans issues. And so they basically said, “We have lost the gay-marriage fight, but we have this nearby place where we can manufacture conflict from a position of strength.” And many of the same institutions that had been fighting over gay marriage all of a sudden just started fighting over issues related to transgender people.

The bigger issue, which this interview does not pay attention to, is that pro-family activists refused to discuss more grounded realities regarding the dangers of false marriage. In fact, they did not even start the fight properly with the right rhetoric. They should have been calling the push for gay marriage what it really is: false marriage.

Then they should have focused on science, biology, genetic arguments. They needed to point out that every society cannot survive, let alone thrive, without the nuclear family, without natural marriage. Sadly, pro-family activists and their lawyers relied on arguments of tradition, religious sentiment, and religious liberty. These arguements cannot be persuasive in the face of the emotionally demanding "non-discrimination" arguments.

That was going to be my next question—to what degree is it a coincidence that trans issues have become more prominent in the past five years?

There was all this capacity that had been built. I mean, part of the story of how we ended up fighting about gay marriage in the nineteen-nineties is that the gay-rights movement and the religious right grew up more or less in parallel in the late seventies and became professionalized and well funded through the eighties. By the nineties, the gay-rights movement was a central part of the Democratic-left coalition, and the religious right was a central player in Republican politics. And they had developed capacity for conflict. They were basically on a collision course. And the only question was: What were they going to fight over? And this popped up on the radar as the thing that they started to fight over.

I think what happened twenty years later, around the time of the 2015 Supreme Court ruling, was that these coalitions were bigger and stronger in many respects, more entrenched, and still needed something to fight over. Religious conservatives had lost their position of strength for a variety of reasons—opinion change, demographic changes. And then they decided that they were going to go to trans issues instead.

The real change was not demographics, but rather the growing indoctrination in the public schools and the public square. The media promoted TV sitcoms and "out" celebrities, all of whom gave off this false veneer that they were "born that way", and that normalizing their lifestyle was not going to cause anyone else harm.

The other part of it is the cosmology of religious conservatives shifted with the defeat over same-sex marriage, where they may have ceded the broader culture wars. There’s a reason Jerry Falwell called his organization the Moral Majority. The kind of motivating conceit of religious-conservative activism through the eighties and nineties, and much of the two-thousands, was based on the idea that there’s a Judeo-Christian majority in the country and the laws of the United States should reflect its values. And losing the conflict over gay marriage, I think, persuaded many of those religious conservatives that they were not, in fact, the majority—that now you don’t have to watch more than ten minutes of Fox News to understand that the cosmology of the current American right is that they are a besieged minority, under siege by the courts, and academia, and Hollywood. And, once they began to think of themselves as a besieged minority, they started doing what besieged minorities do in our constitutional system, which is to ask the courts for protection. And that takes the form of these religious-liberty exemptions, which is basically an acknowledgment of the concession of defeat in the broader struggle.

The Moral Majority cannot win a political or cultural majority based on statements, speechs, conventions, and conferences. The intellectual and legal activism essential to preserving a culture was not prominent among religious conservatives for the last twenty years. In fact, for decades conservatives have avoided court battles, have avoided taking over key institutions of the culture, hoping that by reducing the government and pressing "live and let live" as a cultural policy, everything would work out just fine.

Clearly, that is not what has happened.

You wrote an op-ed last weekend in the Times which was headlined “Cancel Culture Works: We Wouldn’t Have Marriage Equality Without It.” For the book, you went back and looked at the different ways that gay-rights organizations and gay-rights activists shamed, shunned, and boycotted opponents of same-sex marriage. Do you feel that you’re seeing some of the same tactics that are today labelled “cancel culture,” or do you feel like those activists avoided what critics of cancel culture find so damaging today?

This is a bigger part of the reason why false marriage took over the country. Again, referring to my previous reflection above, the homosexual lobby fought the culture war in the fields of public opinion, including academia and the general media. They worked hard to shame and shun anyone who spoke out in favor of natural marriage and against false marriage. These Stalinist tactics have barely abated in the last five years since false marriage was imposed on the country via a corrupted Supreme Court decision.

Yeah. Well, I’m glad we’re not going to have a conversation about what cancel culture means or doesn’t, because I actually don’t really know. I think that one of the big changes that take place in the marriage debate is how the money dynamic shifts in the years between 2008, when gay-marriage supporters suffered this massive setback when Proposition 8 passed in California, and four years later, in 2012, the first time they sweep four ballot measures. One of the big things is the extent to which the pro-gay-marriage side of the debate opened up a major financial advantage over opponents. You had a cluster of exceedingly wealthy gay donors, mostly gay white men who had made their money through tech or inherited it, who in the two-thousands had become uniquely interested in marriage among all the issues on the agenda. By 2012, Mike Bloomberg was giving major contributions. Jeff Bezos was giving major contributions. You had a whole lot of Wall Street donors, including Republicans, who were giving generously as well.

Notice that Big Business got behind the false marriage movement big time! Conservative donors did not want to get their hands dirty in that fight. I would go one step further and submit that conservative donors have been more interested in making money than in perserving the culture. As Dinesh D'Souza pointed out in his book "Letters to a Young Conservative," conservatives care about the economy. Liberals care about power. The fight to force false marriage on the country was a powergrab of the first order, and the Left understood this dynamic very well.

The other thing that’s happening is big donors basically abandon the other side of the fight: by 2012, it’s clear that the folks running the effort to ban same-sex marriage are just having trouble going to their normal donors, including archdioceses. There’s something about being associated with this issue that people don’t want to deal with, in terms of media scrutiny and acceptance among their peers in the business world. I think so often this cancel-culture conversation is played out over the propriety of it, or the place of these tactics in a liberal democracy, and here’s this really important recent case study that shows it actually works. Scaring away propositions’ financial backers through shame is something that can have a dramatic effect on the trajectory of a particular political debate, and the Internet has made it much easier for individuals to launch and organize these types of attacks.

Final Reflection

Supporters of false marriage relied on shame, degradation, and all-out war against anyone who disagreed with their perversion. Conservatives simply refused to understand the nature of the tactics which LGBT militants would use to push their destructive, hateful agenda.

Too many people were caught up in the lie that they are "born that way," and therefore it is cruel to discriminate against them. Furthermore, I submit that there was too little research at the time on the necessary reasons for children to have a mother and a father. Much of the reason for the paucity of research, however, is due to the fact that academies, universities, and research facilities have suppressed inquiry into these issues. Intellectual activism has included cancelling, suppressing, stopping any investigation into the long-term damage of undermining natural marriage in any community.



Conservatives, pro-family activists have ample opportunity to push back. What is needed is not just political change, but cultural and intellectual activism of a new sort to push back. Conservatives cannot abandon the public square and public institutions because they do not want to engage with destructive, hateful, anti-family, and anti-American liberals. They need to get into the fray, get into the fight, and win.

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Open Letter to Actor Edward Choy Regarding "Pink Dot"



Dear Mr. Choy:

How are you?

My name is Arthur Schaper. I am very well aware of your work in the Republic of Singapore, as an actor and spokesman on many issues. I am particularly surprised and grateful for your "American accent"! I notice that your speech is very much like mine!

At any rate, I noticed this post on your Instagram account:


These are your remarks on that post:

"@jodecro and I put on our pink tops and cycled to a nice place by the water to sit and take a picture. We'll always support the right of consenting adults to love each other without being subjected to prejudice and persecution.

"As Jesus says, "love thy neighbour." So we do lor. :)"

Regarding the "right" of consenting adults to love each other without being subjected to prejudice or persecution ...

Do you believe that people who engage in prostitution should be free from prejudice or persecution? What about incestuous relationships between adult parents and their adult children? Should polygamy be accepted in the Republic of Singapore and other countries as well?

Furthermore, I am aware of your participation in Christian events and services in your country. How do you reconcile your interest in promoting relationships between two people of the same sex, when God's Word makes it very clear that such behaviors are unnatural? i.e.

"25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers," (Romans 1:25-29)

I understand that you have provided speaking and presentation services to New Creation Church. You are aware that Pastor Prince has wisely and righteously made appeal to those who struggle with the sins of those manifested in the city of Sodom and Gomorrah that they can break free. 

Consider also Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians:

"9Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." (1 Corinthians 6:9-11)

I ask again: how do you reconcile your faith with these pronouncements in favor of Pink Dot, which runs contrary to God's best for all of mankind?

Feel free to respond via email if you wish. My email address is arthur@massresistance.org

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Nun With Bad Habit: Former Torrance Catholic School Principal Pleads to Guilty to Embezzlement

This story hits so close to home for me.

A catholic nun and former principal at St. James School (located in Torrance, pretty close to where I live, in fact), will plead guilt in federal court to stealing money from the school where she worked for 28 years to fund her gambling habit and pay credit card bills.



Here's the full story in the Daily Breeze:

A nun and former principal of a Catholic school in Torrance has agreed to plead guilty to embezzling $835,000 in tuition and charitable donations to pay for her gambling habit and other expenses, prosecutors announced Tuesday.

Mary Margaret Kreuper, 79, of Los Angeles, faces one count each of felony wire fraud and money laundering, U.S. Attorney’s Office officials said in a news release. She is expected to plead guilty during her arraignment on July 1, according to a plea agreement between her and federal prosecutors filed Tuesday.

The defendant served as the principal of St. James Catholic School for 28 years, and admitted diverting some of the school’s money between 2008 and 2018 into accounts she controlled, prosecutors said. Despite swearing a vow of poverty, she admitted using what she embezzled to pay bills racked up while gambling at casinos, as well as other expenses. She went on to falsify reports to administrators in order to conceal the misuse of funds, prosecutors said.



“The community of faith at St. James was shocked was saddened by these actions,” Archdiocese of Los Angeles spokesman Adrian Alarcon wrote in an emailed statement.

Church officials learned about the stolen money in 2018, as the result of a financial review performed after Kreuper retired. They were initially hesitant in pursuing criminal charges against her and another nun, Lana Chang, who admitted wrongdoing and expressed remorse for the embezzlement scheme in internal documents after it was discovered. However, the Archdiocese reversed course in light of outrage from parishioners.

This revelation is particularly disturbing. The Los Angeles Archdioceses was going to resolve this quietly? They were going to let the nuns get away with it, basically?

No charges had been filed against Chang as of Tuesday. Investigation into the matter has concluded, said Ciaran McEvoy, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office.

I wonder why the feds have not gone after Chang?

Kreuper faced a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison and restitution of up to $1.67 million for the two charges she is expected to plead guilty to. The actual punishment she receives will be up to a judge’s discretion, and could could range anywhere from probation to the maximum penalty. However, the plea agreement contemplates a sentence of three years, said Thom Mrozek, another spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

She is not going to get 40 years in prison. There is a long body of common law judgments which discourage locking people up for decades, especially when they are elderly. She must make restoration, no doubt, and that would be real justice for the school, the parents, and the students.

The attorneys representing Kreuper, Mark Byrne and Daniel Nixon, who called her Sister Mary Margaret, said she is “very remorseful for what happened,” and has been completely cooperative with law enforcement and the archdiocese after the embezzlement came to light.

“She became a nun when she was 18 years old, and for the next 59 years she dedicated her life to helping others and educating children in archdiocesan schools,” Kreuper’s attorneys wrote. “Unfortunately, later in her life she has been suffering from a mental illness that clouded her judgement and caused her to do something that she otherwise would not have done.”

If she was suffering from a mental illness, then why would she plead guilty in the first place? This is a nonsense defense, even insulting. Someone with a mental illness cannot engage in the financial shenanigans which she perpetrated, to cover her tracks while spending other people's money.

They declined to go into further detail about any illness their client may have been diagnosed with.

Here's the official press release from the US Attorney's office. Click here.

When I worked at the local grocery store a few years back, just down the street from St. James School, I saw this nun coming in from time to time. Earlier, when I was looking for work as a teacher, I had visited St. James School and submitted an application for employment. At the time, she told me that they had not had one vacancy in five years, since everyone liked working there.

It's so eerie that something like this is happening to close to home: a nun with a bad habit was on the run with stolen money.

I have heard of holy rollers, but this is just ridiculous!

Forget Hail Marys. Maybe she had too many Bloody Mary's.

Holy Communion? Yes! Treating church money as communion? No!

You cannot serve God and Mammon, and this momma nurse is going to be saying "Oh Man" in federal prison.

It's about the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, not the Gospels of George, Abe, Alex, and Ben (1, 5, 10, 100)

(The jokes write themselves. I can't help myself!)

On a more serious note, St. James School (and the parish based in Redondo Beach) are very connected to me, as well. My mother went to that church with her family for many years, and I went there myself for a while.

This revelation is still shocking after all this time. This lady interacted with me and others for so many years, that she was stealing from the church! This story got major press a few years ago, as most people were living up the fact that a religious official and a professional in an educational setting did such dastardly deeds, which harmed parents and children who had placed such trust in the school and the church leadership.

It's still very disconcerting to me that the Archdiocese was thinking about not pressing charges against the nun/principal and her cohort in crime! Thankfully, there was enough outrage at the school and with the leadership that the Archdiocese did not sweep this scandal under the rug.

I am glad that this lady is going to face justice for what she did. I do pray that she can restore all the money that she spent, and that the school will be able to bounce back from this terrible financial hardship.

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Grooming: Insider Showcases 259 LGBT Characters in Modern Cartoons

 Let's call this what is it: grooming of the worst order.

This madness cannot continue. People need to start raising hell about this abject evil being perpetrated on children. This cannot continue. This must no longer be tolerated.  

Time for MassResistance. It's time to fight back and shout "ENOUGH!"

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Reminder: "Black Lives Matter" and Sexual Perversion (PRIDE) Are Inseparable

We must never forget that the Black Lives Matter is at its core a homosexuality, cultural marxist movement of hate.



The Black Lives Matter movement announced their hateful opposition to the nuclear, read natural family. They also are so racist, as to believe that black people cannot form natural families.

And they are in lockstep with promoting the homosexualist movement, which is all about undermining the natural dimensions of society.

Consider the latest post from the Black Lives Matter movement:

This month and for eternity after that, Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation celebrates the beauty of Pride and all of our LGBTQ+ fam.

To our LGBTQ+ fam: You are radiance, you are divine, you are life itself. Own it!

Happy Pride Month, June 2021 | *Pride began as an uprising against the police in June 1969 | Graphic of Marsha P. Johnson, 1969 Stonewall Riots

Every year, Pride month rolls around, and we celebrate the colorful beauty of our LGBTQ+ community. But we must not forget to also recognize the discrimination, hate, and violence our family continues to face today at the intersection of their identities -- and how the fight for LGBTQ+ equality goes in hand-in-hand with #DefundThePolice.

Pride began as an uprising against police in the early hours of June 28, 1969. Police in New York City violently raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club that was a place of refuge for many queer Black and Brown folks. Police raids of gay spaces were common. But this time, fed up with the constant police violence against them, the patrons of Stonewall fought back in what came to be known as the historic Stonewall Uprising.

The language may have been different then, but the sentiment remains the same: #DefundThePolice.

This Pride month and beyond, we're dedicated to the fight for LGBTQ+ civil rights and equality. Because all Black Lives Matter.

In love and solidarity,

Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation

Note that PRIDE was the first "Defund the Police" movement, at least in principle.

It's noteworthy that for the last 50 some years, the LGBT militancy movement has been hiding this rugged, essential disregard for the rule of law and recognition of the rights of others. Of course, if anyone had been paying attention, most of the first LGBT clubs and organizations were communistic at their core, i.e. the Mattachine Society. Oscar Wilde wrote an essay "The Soul of Man Under Socialism", and so on. It's time for people to wake up and recognize that this assault on natural marriage, life, and family is simply another interation of Marxism/Communism moving in and bringing down the country.

A nation cannot survive on sodomy, and a country cannot continue on systemic bigotry.



The whole ruth be told, the Stonewall Riot incident had nothing to do with oppression of homosexuals and trangenders by the New York City police department. Rather, it had everything to do with the fact the Stonewall Inn was a mob bar, and they were not paying their liquor license fees. Because of that, the police raided the Stonewall Inn--and then the fights broke out.

Let's cut the comedy here. PRIDE is nothing to be proud of, and Black Lives Matter does not care about black lives. There is a pattern here, folks, and people need to start paying attention to it.

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Friday, June 11, 2021

"Recall Gascon Now" is LEGIT! Now Let's Make Gascon Gas-GONE!



The recall movement against corrupt LA County DA George Gascon has grown so strong, that there are now two groups/PACs fighting to recall this pro-criminal District Attorney:

"Recall George Gascon"

"Recall Gascon Now"

LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva is not working with either PAC directly. He just wants Gascon out! LA County Supervisor Mike Antonovich (ret.) has attended a few press conferences with the Recall George Gascon PAC, but he has also met with and talked with members of the Recall Gascon Now PAC, too.

Clearly, there is no intended favorite or preferred PAC to work with. At the end of the day, we need to ensure that everyone collects enough signed petitions, gets them sent into their respective headquarters, and we make sure that Gascon becomes Gas-GONE!

However, there has been a rumor that emerged in Northern California on the blog "Right on Daily", which claims that "Recall Gascon Now" is a bad PAC, a fraudulent movement, and/or an incompetent group that has no business collecting signatures.

That is not true.

As someone who has received a great deal of resources to help this petition process, I can attest that the Recall Gascon Now PAC and the movement connected with it is legitimate, well-planned, professional, and properly coordinated. I cannot make it more plain: "Recall Gascon Now" is L-E-G-I-T. I cannot say it any other way!

Why do I say this? Volunteers for "Recall Gascon Now" have answered my calls. They planned a protest outside of George Gascon's home on May 29th, which I attended. I met some of the victims of gang violence at that protest, who came to speak out against Gascon and his ruinous, dangerous, and illegal policies.

These events were put together by volunteers for "Recall Gascon Now". They are doing stuff! They are reaching out to people in the community. In fact, they are working directly with volunteers in the South Bay section of Los Angeles County, where I live. These same volunteers have been dutifully meeting at the corner of Hawthorne and Sepulveda Blvds. in Torrance, CA every Saturday from 10am to 3pm. I was there. I collected signatures with those volunteers, and those same volunteers are transferring petitions to "Recall Gascon Now" leaders. It's all legit, it's all good, and it's working out very well!

So, what is going on? Why are there two different PACs to take out Gascon?

It all comes down to differences of strategy and outreach, nothing more. These kinds of disagreements can happen. People want to achieve the same goals, but if one person will not let others help, or let others lead, then potential volunteers can get frustrated. That is precisely what happened with the "Recall George Gascon" PAC, and volunteers decided to start "Recall Gascon Now".

I spoke with David Hernandez, Chairman of the Los Angeles Hispanic Republican Club. He also knows what is going on in LA City politics in connection with many political movements, Democratic and Republican. He told me that the two groups split because of differences over strategy and outreach. Frankly, I don't see why anyone should care beyond that. He doesn't care, either, and in fact he is not even working on the Recall Gascon movement in the first place!


So, where did this rumor come from, that "Recall Gascon Now" is no good?

It's all in a blogpost from an "intrepid blogger" (who is a friend of mine and helped my campaign for State Assembly by posting a great blog post in my favor--see here).

He wrote the following:

Why are they telling people to send petitions to the wrong address?

The address that I blacked out goes to Gary Crummitt – an LA based political treasurer who was not aware his address is on this email until he got called by some interested parties.

All of this is nonsense. The address which "Recall Gascon Now" is sending out is fully correct and legitimate. Mr. Crummitt is a well-established professional treasurer located in the city of Long Beach. His office and the building where his office is located are secure yet also easy to travel to.

And I have the receipts that he is the accountant for the Recall Gascon Now PAC. Here's one email that he sent out to one of the volunteer staffers:



Crummitt knows what is going on. There are no surprises, no problems, no confusion.

Crummitt is taking in money to help with this recall effort, and he is tallying petitions that he is receiving from the public. The names of the people who have donated will be a matter of public record shortly, so there is no betrayal of privacy or trust in sharing this information with the general public.

The "intrepid blogger" then adds:

Karen Roseberry and Craig Kleffman run this bogus committee. They are not affiliated with the official recall of George Gascon and are not authorized or legally able to accept petitions according to my understanding of how these things work. I know Karen and I understand some stuff in the background, but I don’t understand why she’d engage in such a public way to disrupt the effort.

This is the strangest statement yet. There is nothing bogus about what they are all doing. Karen Roseberry drove all the way down from Antelope Valley to Naples, where I was protesting George Gascon, to provide me petitions, signs, and excellent talking points on postcards so that I could summarize to unsure LA County voters why they need to sign the petition to recall George Gascon! Helping get a guy recalled is not "bogus."

I have spoken with the volunteers for Recall Gascon Now--and they are not getting paid! I am not getting paid, either, but I am so committed to getting rid of this wicked, pro-criminal DA, that I will do what I can to get him RECALLED!

The blog continues:

The proponents of this effort literally need 580,000 +/- Valid Signatures [sic] to put George Gascon on the ballot and they only have 145ish days left to do it! Why is this other group out there complicating the effort? The one accurate representation from the email is that LA County demands all signatures to be delivered at once, further protecting corrupt incumbents and complicating efforts. This puts an exclamation point on the fact they are telling people to send their stuff to another address.

This is also a nonsense argument. During the Recall Newsom movement, there were other PACs and groups that were collecting signatures. All the signatures follow the same ultimate process to be collected, reported, and recorded--and in two months' time, there will be an en masse vote to Recall Newsom! The same process is at work with the different PACs working in Los Angeles County to get rid of Gascon. There is no conflict, there is no clash, there is no frustration. The same petition will work toward getting rid of Gascon for good.

I am choosing to work with Recall Gascon Now because ... they are working! I have nothing against the "Recall George Gascon" PAC. It makes little difference to me, other than seeing hardworking people getting vilified in anyway -- that really bothers me. 

The blogpost then adds:

I’ve been told that these folks have actually made off with boxes of signed petitions after events. So, at least they are not trying to go Lincoln Project and grift cash right? Visit their website and a big fat Donate Link is on the homepage.

Regarding "made off with boxes" after signed events, this statement is so vacuous as to be meaningless. If they were collecting signatures at the even, then of course they would make off with the boxes. "I've been told" does not add any credibility to this statement, either. No matter who sets up a table wherever to collect signatures, these volunteers are clearly instructed on who to deliver the petitions to. No one with any common sense can believe the statement above.

Regarding "donations", both websites have donation links. Why is anyone surprised? The Recall Gavin Newsom efforts had donation links, as well. Volunteers should receive some financial help (cost of gas, printing, etc.) Is that really something to get upset about?

Now, let's cut to the chase. What is going on with the blog that attacked "Recall Gascon Now"?

Political squabbles are nothing new to grassroots efforts. It is unfortunate, though, when a cause too important to fail suffers from this kind of partisanship. Why is this happening? A small set of individuals working for the "Recall George Gascon" camp is in pursuit of a paycheck. Regrettably, this all came to a head with that blog post, written by the usually trusted "intrepid blogger" from northern California (now residing in Nevada).

Just looking at the blog alone, one can see that it has merely put together purely unsubstantiated and uncited rumors he’d (probably?) heard about. Check that against what I am writing, and you can see that I have done my research, and I am naming names, and I even include proof that Mr. Crummitt is the well-established treasurer for Recall Gascon Now.

If anyone wants to start criticizing a grassroots efforts, they need to get their facts straight. They also should not let their commentary be based on Quid Pro Quo (Clarisse!). The "intrepid blogger", according to the sources I have spoken with, is looking to work with an upcoming US Senate race in Nevada. This offer comes form the same consultant -- Jeff Corless -- connected to the "Recall George Gascon" PAC. And there you have it. The "intrepid blogger" wrote the blog for money, nothing more.

Here is more information about the two groups most actively involved in the effort:

"Recall George Gascon" (aka the PAC Victims of Violent Crime for the Recall of District Attorney Gascon) is run unilaterally by one individual: Heather Carbone. Some volunteers have shared with me  that that one individual has alienated and expelled potential volunteers who have offered aid, assistance, and contributions to the Recall Gascon effort.

"Recall Gascon Now (aka Stop the Madness: Support Recalling District Attorney Gascon Now) is run by a committee of individuals, a couple of whom I know and have worked with in the
past. One is named in the “intrepid bloggers” post. Another is Marc Ang, who has helped me and others fight other important fights in the state of California. In fact, Ang was instrumental in killing Prop 16 last year, and I am grateful for his service!  Harriette Reid of Long Beach is also helping the "Recall Gascon Now" PAC, and I was privileged to work with her in the fight against Critical Race Theory in the Los Alamitos Unified School District.

Reminder: having a physical mailing address allows for options in getting the petitions safely and securely delivered and stored. Having multiple teams circulating and collecting signatures actually inspires healthy competition in a good capitalist mindset. Having choices regarding which PAC to work with allows for personality conflicts to be resolved without frustration or capitulation.

However, any group that spends more time undermining the efforts of another legitimate group is  missing the mark and letting their pride get in the way. This recall does not belong to one PAC, and it is not authorized soley by one PAC.

#ThisIsEverybodysRecall

Let’s just focus on the one getting Gascon gone. The 47 proponents who signed the
Notice of Intent, which they served to Gascon don’t care which PAC collects signatures and will authorize all signatures collected to be submitted on their behalf. 

Let’s go get 580,000 qualified signatures and get them all turned in together on October 27th.

#RecallGasconNow
#RecallGeorgeGascon 
#RecallGascon

For the sake of simplicity, I am inviting people to work with the "Recall Gascon Now" PAC. They answer people's calls, they will get in touch with you right away, and they do not spend time with partisan zealotry or bigotry. They insist on making this recall effort a completely non-partisan effort, as it should be. I have already met with registered Democrats, Republicans, and Independents who are helping with this effort. Their strategy of direct and engaging outreach with necessary confrontation and media connections is paying off, and more people will find a welcome community of volunteers who will help them get to work!

So let me end this report with one simple statement:



You can visit their website here: 

https://recallgasconnow.com/ 
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