New York City Mayor Bill (I’m Not Done Ruining the City Yet)
de Blasio recently proposed that Rikers Island be closed and replaced with new,
more “humane” jails. This was not enough for students at New York University,
however. NYU’s student government officially requested that the city of New
York close Rikers Island with all due haste and promise not to open any
new jails to replace it. The school’s Student Government Assembly released a
statement averring that “jails do not make us safe,” but “serve only to further
harm Black and brown families, individuals, and communities and to perpetuate a
racist and violent criminal legal system.” It also endorsed a plan by a group
called “No New Jails NYC” that would mandate the $11 billion de Blasio was to
invest in new jails instead be used to fund “housing for all,” and other
(woker) public programs.
No New
Jails NYC is committed to totally abolishing the city’s jail system by
“disrupting every level of power,” and demands that de Blasio “responsibly
release” the 1,000 or so prisoners at Rikers. (“No New Jails NYC” appears to
have much in common with the Jacobins, the famous and radical left-wing
revolutionary group responsible for the Reign of Terror that saw more than ten
thousand people executed in France during the French Revolution, most for
political crimes). There is no way to “responsibly release” the 1,000 prisoners
held at Rikers without wreaking havoc on Gotham City. But that is the point.
The group further alleges that de Blasio’s plan is part of “the nationwide
right-wing movement led by President Trump’s push to build a wall at the
U.S.-Mexico border.” Yes, I’m sure that the wildly progressive Democrat de
Blasio, who is steadily erasing the achievements of the city’s two previous
mayors, is part of a vast right-wing conspiracy to……protect the country against
violence, crime and chaos?
And
then there is Patricia O’Brien, an assistant professor at the University of
Illinois’s Jane Addam’s College of Social Work, who believes that women should never be put in jail for any
reason, period. In a recent op-ed published in The Washington Post, she contended
that most women in prison are non-violent, poorly educated, unemployed and
abused…themselves merely victims of a bigoted, patriarchal society. (Really, nobody
should ever have to go to jail…unless, of course, they were caught wearing a
“MAGA” hat).
Who
could argue? I must admit, with cogent arguments such as these, they have
convinced me they are right. Let’s have utterly open borders and welcome
everyone in the world into America. Let’s also pay for their every want and
wish. Let’s close down every prison and jail and release all the convicts.
I feel better already, just writing this! Let’s also dispense with the Second
Amendment and do away with the people’s so-called “right” to protect and defend
themselves. We should confiscate the firearms from every American citizen.
While we’re at it, let’s disarm the police, as well. And the military. Let’s
defund the military! What was that brilliant old saying that I’ve observed on
the bumper stickers of so many Priuses and Subaru Outbacks? Oh, yes, I remember
now: “It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need, and
the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.”
In
closing, let me just remind all of you right-wing extremists of a cogent fact:
“You
Can’t Hug Your Kids With Nuclear Arms.”
But
maybe you can keep them from going to college.
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