Monday, December 30, 2019

SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS STRIKE AGAIN



 SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS STRIKE AGAIN. 

DO WE REALLY WANT CRIMINALS ON
THE STREET THAT MUCH SOONER? 

WE DON’T THINK SO! 
THE WATCHMAN - 
Social Justice Warriors deserve due credit for their tireless efforts at trying to undermine the legal and penal system of not only Oklahoma, but this entire nation. This most recent effort is an affront to those good men and women in law enforcement who put their lives on the line every day to protect the citizens of this state. Not only that, but it undermines the already woefully light sentences alleged non-violent offenders get for their crimes as it is. Maybe if these do gooders would open their eyes they would realize that these criminals, and they are criminals, do very little of their sentences as it is.

There is an initiative petition going around for signatures that is being, in our opinion, misrepresented to the people. That petition would be listed as State Question 805 on the November 2020 ballot. You can see the basic information on the question by going here. It would prohibit an offender’s prior felony convictions from being used to enhance their sentence. It also allows those currently incarcerated to apply for a reduction of their sentence provided their sentence was enhanced by a previous felony conviction. We have to wonder how much longer it will be before these snowflakes are going to ask us to put up signs in our yards asking to be a victim of a crime.

We did our research and actually found a copy of the initiative petition which you can see here. We find it to be full of double talk. The term “violent felony” is used often. What do they consider a violent felony. Since Social Justice Warriors love this site so much, we’ll use the definition they list for it. “Legal Definition of violent felony: a crime consisting of conduct that presents a serious risk of potential injury to another or that is punishable by imprisonment for more than one year-used especially in federal sentencing of career criminals guilty of crimes involving use of a weapon.” Seems to me we had a bunch of those who were just released in the great criminal release of 2019.

Let’s see if we can’t name a few of them. I’m going to give you two examples of individuals released under the great criminal release of 2019 who were supposed to be non-violent offenders:

Austin Lionel Jones In June of 2010 charged with robbery by force or fear, assault and battery and first-degree burglary. Was out for ten days before he was arrested again. You can re read our story about him at this link.

Eric R. Beck 2 counts of assault and battery on a corrections officer. Was out for four days before he was arrested again. You can re read our story about him at this link.

We can surmise that the non-violent offender clause of the previous initiative didn’t hold up very good. The recidivism in these cases is rampant.

We found this article from the Tulsa World that looked only at the solution offered by this State Question. It failed to address the complete and total lack of failure of our State Legislature to address the subject of insufficient prison space for five decades until some lobbyist came along with the private prison concept which they were willing to place $900 million a year into. They have failed to address the mental health facility shortage in the state even after the Superintendent of Mental Health leased out all but three hundred of the state beds leaving judges no choice on where to send the mentally impaired. They have even failed to address the part of corrections that is the foundation of meaningful reform. That is meaningful training in a job skill needed to make an honest wage without having to revert to crime

We also found this article in the Enid News. It’s called a quest editorial but has the feel of being written by someone close to the State Question itself. He’s right. It would ease the problem in the short term. The problem is by putting all of those criminals back on the street to do what ever it is they do, you are putting the lives and property of law-abiding citizens in danger. Not only that, you are putting the lives of those who have to capture and bring them to justice again in danger. The recidivism for these people is remarkably high. The reason is they do little of their sentences to begin with. They do mere weeks on the year they were sentenced to. The second and most ludicrous of all is the fact that criminals have to work hard to go to prison in Oklahoma. Short of murder, you are arrested 6 to 10 times before you go to prison.

We are going to look into the group or groups we find that are backing this petition. In the meantime, we would urge all of our readers to not sign the petition for this State Question 805. The Social Justice Warriors have had there way long enough. It’s time for those snowflakes to melt away.

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