Absurdities in California

Time for the March of the Criminals and Commies again, since it is May 1. And of course it is pure coincidence that the Caravan of Wannabe Invaders came all the way to the California portion of the border and arrived at this time. Riiiiiiight. What a bunch of stupid theatrics.

Someone forgot they were supposed to be in the shadows!

Speaking of stupid cultural appropriation of kabuki theater, Larry Lopez, appearing under his stage name Nativo, is still doing a very poor imitation of Jesse Jackson. Or maybe Gloria Alred? Whichever. Larry, whose attempt to beat a criminal prosecution had him either feigning dementia eight years ago, or making a miraculous recovery since, or perhaps is still demented (I'll let you decide), made it into the Orange County Register and either the reporter was too lazy or agenda-driven to note the paper's previous coverage of Larry, or the editors decided to cover for him. It even appears to me that they have prevented comments from being made on the article.

If you're not interested, at least scroll down for a reminder that rioting has lasting negative consequences.

As more cities and counties add their voices to an anti-sanctuary movement, one civil rights group wants to fight back by taking an unusual tack – asking Latinos not to cooperate with law enforcement.

"Civil rights" - that's hilarious! It's also interesting that they are presenting Latinos as synonymous with illegal aliens. Sounds racist to me.

A decades-old activist organization, Hermandad Mexicana on Tuesday announced a statewide campaign of “non-violent, non-cooperation” with all police authorities.

How is this different from what they already do?

The group – which is not supported by other immigrant organizations on this tactic – says police should not expect cooperation in the form of information, witnesses, court appearances or even the reporting of crimes within Latino communities.

OK. How about we stop firefighting, too? Also, can we please top insulting legal immigrants by lumping them with illegal aliens?

Nativo Lopez, a long-time immigrant-rights advocate and an occasionally controversial figure, said to communities adopting an anti-sanctuary stance: “The public safety of Orange County cannot be preserved without our cooperation. To the degree that our families’ public safety is endangered, so will yours and that of the general public.”

"You'll do what I want, if you know what's good for ya." Hey genius, everyone is packing in the OC. Good luck!

Orange County Undersheriff Don Barnes said in an email that encouraging residents to not cooperate with local law enforcement is “irresponsible and extremely dangerous.”

“Our only interest in collaborating with ICE is within a custody setting to turn over dangerous, convicted criminals to keep them from re-offending in our communities.  We will never ask the immigration status of suspects, witnesses, victims of crime, or those who report criminal activity,” Barnes said.

But Barnes! Da Feelz is all that matters!

It's also clear that Larry's allegiance is to "Latinos" instead of America. How racist of him.

Lopez said there is precedence for the Hermandad campaign. In 2001, a similar campaign in Anaheim led to changes that helped end what he said was a practice in the city of jailing unauthorized immigrants for not having driver’s licenses and impounding their vehicles.

Yes, and how did that work out? More dead people, that's how. Thanks a lot, Larry!

Oh, look what I found.



A Register story from 7/2/2010:

Nativo Lopez was jailed in Los Angeles Thursday after being indicted by the grand jury there for eight felony counts alleging voter fraud.

Bwahahahahhahahahah!

Los Angeles District Attorney spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said he faces a mental competency hearing on Aug. 6.

Hoooooohhahahahahhhahahaha!

A controversial figure among both anti-illegal immigration activists and some community activists, Lopez was recalled in 2003 from his post as school board member after serving six years.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Lopez also ran into difficulties in 2002 over hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funding received by Hermandad Mexicana Nacional, whose services included citizenship training and English lessons. Prosecutors alleged that Lopez had wrongly used the education grants to pay the mortgage on his headquarters in Santa Ana.

Tsk tsk.

Same paper, from 4/14/2011:

A Superior Court judge this morning threatened to throw immigrant-rights activist Nativo Lopez back in jail if he doesn’t stop with the legal gibberish.

He really is trying to be like Jesse!

Lopez has been jailed twice before after conflicts with judges over the case, and briefly detained a third time. The court has been in the process of determining whether he’s mentally competent to stand trial since the beginning of 2010, and Lomeli made the determination this morning that he is indeed fit.

Citing Lopez’s third psychiatric evaluation, Lomeli said Lopez’s “reasoning was quite facile” and “he was very clear and articulate.” Lomeli, addressing a courtroom that included more than 40 Lopez supporters, said there was insufficient evidence to indicate delusion or psychosis.

But Lomeli said the psychiatrist believed Lopez was “malingering” and called his legal explanations “gibberish” – a characterization Lomeli repeated later while talking to Lopez.

Same paper, from 6/22/2011:

Nativo Lopez pleaded guilty today to one felony count of voter-registration fraud related to charges that he lived in Santa Ana when he registered to vote in Los Angeles in 2008.

He got off easy.

It was a tumultuous judicial process, with Lopez jailed twice after conflicts with judges. In March, a judge ordered him to Patton State Hospital. But before Lopez could be sent away, the judge received a revised assessment from a psychiatrist and cancelled the order.

The court went through a series of hearings and evaluations to determine whether Lopez was mentally competent to stand trial, beginning in early 2010 and finally concluding in April that he was indeed able to adequately understand proceedings. Lopez’s plea today immediately followed the judge’s announcement that jury selection would begin without further delay.

Yeah, he knew the jury would nail him.

Interesting how he "recovered" from whatever was ailing him.

Finally, 26 years down the line, Los Angeles county has seized property that had been essentially vacant since rioters burned down what was there before. The owner had cited red tape in why it hadn't been redeveloped, and I can believe it. However, I wouldn't blame anyone who refused to rebuild in neighborhoods that are subjected to rioting every 30 years or so, and high crime rates, especially vandalism, all of the time.

From the Los Angeles Times:

Ever since the 1992 riots, there have been promises but not changes at the corner of Vermont and Manchester avenues.

Property owner Eli Sasson has over the years proposed a shopping center, a housing development and an entertainment complex for a vacant lot the size of three football fields in South Los Angeles.

Don't like it? Don't burn it down in the first place!

Citing its blighted conditions, a city redevelopment agency seized the property a decade ago through eminent domain, only to lose it when the state dissolved the department amid a budget shortfall.

How is someone supposed to attract funding and tenants when government can swoop in and seize the property?

There were some choice comments left.

Chris Wernicke:

He owns it and pays taxes.

The chickens of CEQA come home to roost. Nobody can get anything done without wades of cash for planning and replanning, court battles and in the end they go after you with eminent domain.

What have these politicians done but enrich themselves?

Bigmike911:

I find it ironic that the people who are complaining of the problems did diddly squat when the rioters were breaking into, pillaging and finally burning the businesses that were formerly part of the 'community'. Now the Pols, are trying once again to do what Pols do, take someone else's property and allow developers, who will contribute generously to the Pols campaigns, to build something on it. It is Los Angeles at its historic worst.

LongieDude:

First of all, Jerry Brown was right to dissolve the CRA's. It was another layer of very corrupt bureaucracy, especially in the corrupt City of L.A. with its 15 fiefdoms. Of course corruptions still exists, mostly at the City Council and Mayoral level, and this impedes reasonable development. While the 15 thugs on the Council have their own "fixers" in City agencies, most people at the City are doing their jobs well. The pension crisis, which is real and a cause of the City's perpetual de facto bankruptcy, is the direct result of City Council and Mayoral corruption. L.A. will continue its descent to Third World status as long as there are "elected" officials (some with less than 10 percent of the eligible voters voting; people have given up and in to the permanent state of corruption) with their hands out, as in the Sea Breeze scandal. L.A. had legalized and institutionalized corruption. But corruption is corruption. So anyone who wants to know about L.A. and its traffic, pollution, crime, lack of basic city services, etc. need to focus on this: corruption. Your word for the day. Tomorrow's will be "cash."

Don't let your state become California.