The late great city of Seattle
World Net Daily, September 16, 2022
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To be fair, no city emerged unscathed from the pandemic
lockdowns, but Seattle's problems were exacerbated by a
progressive hostility toward law and order. Police might arrest
criminals, but what good did it do? They were back on the
streets within hours (or even minutes). The infamous Capitol
Hill Autonomous Zone gave a middle finger to any law enforcement
restraint and was soon a hotbed of rape and violent crime
(despite the laughable "Summer of Love" moniker).
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Demoralized, the police left the city or the profession in
droves. Nearly 500 officers have left the force since 2020,
including 122 in 2022 (six of whom left in August alone). As of
the week of Aug. 28, there were only 877 deployable officers in
the entire city, when there needs to be around 1,400 to 1,500.
Of these remaining officers, how long before they burn out and
leave? It's a downward spiral from which recovery may be
impossible.
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Mississippi Governor Plans to Bring ‘Culture of Life’ to
State Following Supreme Court Ruling
Epoch Times, July 4, 2022
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves is promising a home for every
single baby in his state, where he aims to create a “culture of
life” following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v.
Wade. “The fact of the matter is this entire court battle was
never about winning a court case. It was always about creating a
culture of life,” Reeves, a Republican, said on Fox News
Sunday on July 3. “That’s exactly what we’re doing here in
Mississippi, and that’s what we as pro-life Mississippians and
pro-life Americans have to continue to do,” he continued. “We
have to prove that being pro-life is not simply about being
anti-abortion. And in our state, we’re enacting policies to do
exactly that.” One of the things that Mississippi will do is to
invest in pregnancy resource centers, according to Reeves.
“We’re going to convince those moms that yes, those lives are
precious, and there are people in this world and there are
people in the state of Mississippi who love not only the moms
but also the babies,” he said.
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The Virtue Of Religion In Society Is
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What is meant by the term “Culture of Life”?,
Aleteia.org
Being pro-life is much more than
just opposing legalized abortion, it's about promoting a
"Culture of Life." A "culture" is the living expression of a
particular society's set of values. So a "culture of life" would
be the lived expression of a society that values human life,
respects human intrinsic dignity, and protects the inalienable
rights of all human persons from conception to natural death.
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See shocking decline of 'queen city of the Northwest'
(Seattle), World Net Daily, Mar 1, 2022
It's
known as the "queen city of the Northwest" and the "emerald
city," but Seattle's decline into lawlessness and squalor amid
a homelessness crisis and the more recent efforts to defund
police and soften the punishment for crime is evident even to
visitors in the city's downtown shopping district. On 3rd
Avenue, only three blocks from the Seattle's iconic Pike Place
Market, videos from KOMO News reporter Jonathan Choe reveal the
squalid conditions, with homeless people openly using drugs and
trash covering the street, Townhall reported, in front of
storefronts still covered by plywood some 18 months after the
2020 riots and the takeover of a city neighborhood.
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Moral Relativism’s Disastrous Consequences in King
County, FPIW, Feb 7, 2022
According to a recent
report, there has been an alarming rise in gun violence, car
theft, shoplifting and more all across King County. Rather than
working to combat this crime through refunding the police, King
County officials are working to do the opposite by placating
criminals and promoting vice, while the law-abiding citizens
needlessly suffer because of their “leaders’” ineptitude. The
King County Department of Defense (DPD) is attempting to
remove jail bookings for suspects accused of failing to register
as a sex offender, first and second-degree motor vehicle theft,
residential burglary, and those with fugitive warrants. This
would even apply to offenders with extensive histories of
criminal acts.
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A ‘Culture of Crime,’ Fox News, June 4, 2022
Fox and Friends Weekend co-host Pete Hegseth cited the
pervasiveness of New York City squeegee men before the crackdown
on crime from former Mayor Rudy Giuliani when arguing that it is
a “culture of crime” the U.S. is facing, rather than a gun
problem. On Saturday, Fox News invited on Los Angeles Deputy
District Attorney Shea Sanna, who was highly critical of LA
County District Attorney George Gascon recently sentencing a
16-year-old to five months in a youth camp for hitting a woman
and her child with his car. Sanna compared the youth camp to a
YMCA summer camp and suggested the teen should have been charged
with attempted murder.
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Blake Masters: A Culture of Lawlessness, GWP, Feb 7,
2022
Blake Masters joined Tucker Carlson
on Monday night to discuss the historic crime wave and record
numbers of homicides in America today. Masters told Tucker put
blame where it is due — at the feet of Joe Biden. Blake
Masters: “It’s not just low-level crime. You got to look at
who’s in charge. You got to look at the people at the top. Look
at Joe Biden. Biden violates the Constitution like every single
day! And that’s the highest law of our land. And so this
culture of lawlessness is propped up by powerful Democrats and
by bad people. Bad people like George Soros. Right? George
Soros funds all of these leftwing DAs and you get these DAs in
office and they don’t want to arrest anybody. Because that
would be racist. Tucker we’ve got criminals thriving at the
bottom of our system because we got criminals running it at the
top.
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JPII’s penetrating question to Chicago’s Cardinal
George: “What are you doing about the culture?”, Aleteia, Jan
22, 2022
It's a question that should be on the
mind of every serious Christian. “What are you doing about the
culture?” This was the question that John Paul II asked Cardinal
George when he visited Rome to report for the first time on his
stewardship of the archdiocese of Chicago. John Paul pushed
aside that massive report that Cardinal George had brought with
him and instead posed that challenging question. “What are you
doing about the culture?” That’s a question that should be on
the mind of every serious Christian. We know that in our own
time and place that the culture—that complex web of the arts,
economics, philosophy, media, the many forms of human
interaction—is sick, is ungodly, is anti-human. What are we
doing about it?
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John Paul II: Dying with Dignity, by Rev. J. Daniel
Mindling, O.F.M. Cap.
The teaching of Pope
John Paul II about sickness and death came not only from his
speeches, addresses, and encyclicals. He instructed just as
convincingly with the witness of his own faith in the face of
injury, suffering, hospitalization, illness and dying. He gave
this catechesis for years. He taught us that to understand death
with dignity, first accept the dignity of life. Human dignity is
an undeserved gift, not an earned status. The dignity of life
springs from its source. We come to be by the loving action of
God the Creator. "What is man that you are mindful of him, and
the son of man that you care for him? You have made him little
less than a god, and crown him with glory and honor" (Psalm
8:5). The dignity of life is beyond price. We have been ransomed
not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the
precious blood of Christ (1 Peter 1:18- 19). The dignity of life
is clear from our calling. God's plan for human beings is that
they should "be conformed to the image of his Son" (Romans
8:29). "For God created man for incorruption, and made him in
the image of his own eternity" (Wisdom 2:23).
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Lawlessness in America: The 'Progressive' Culture of
Death, Oliver North and David Goetsch, Townhall, Dec 07, 2021
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A “Culture of Lawlessness” in D.A. Offices, Jason C.
Johnson, City Journal, Sept 25, 2020 |
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