Last week, Christopher De La Cruz died while attempting to surmount a turnstile in NYC. He possessed “the purest of souls” and would “share whatever [he] had,” except $2.75 for a subway fare. He lacked the athleticism to complete this no-longer-a-crime and ended up breaking his neck on the floor.
The situation reminds me of Al Pacino’s speech to his football team in Any Given Sunday:
“You find out life’s this game of inches, so is football. Because in either game – life or football – the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early and you don’t quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast and you don’t quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They’re in every break of the game, every minute, every second.
On this team we fight for that inch. On this team we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when we add up all those inches that’s gonna make the f****** difference between WINNING and LOSING.”
Indeed, it was a matter of inches that made the difference between his trip to the morgue and a free ride. Al’s character is a good analogy for George Soros, who like a coaching players to win a game, is utilizing People of Color to destroy America.
Like a good coach, Soros knows that having the best players in key positions is critical to unleashing a crime wave. He’s now installed one of his DAs in Manhattan to repeat the victories he’s scored against the residents of cities like Chicago and Philly.
This guy is coming right out of the gate sounding more motivated than any of his colleagues. For example, pointing a gun at someone during a robbery will be prosecuted as a misdemeanor if the perpetrator doesn’t shoot. In terms of drugs, “acting as a low-level agent of a seller” will also be a misdemeanor, which probably means Pablo Escobar would have nothing to fear between the East River and the Hudson. It would also appear that home invasions won’t be too big of a deal either.
I’m not a lawyer dispensing legal advice, just calling attention to a fact of American life. To People of Color, misdemeanors are essentially a nuisance for which they can only voluntarily be held accountable. As White man with a job and address, they’re something you should take seriously. For them, not so much. This is especially true for the armed robbery/drug dealer types, meaning most crime will now be legalized.
For these miscreants, a lucrative phase awaits. The challenge will be to show enough restraint not to kill, rape or inflict bodily harm on their victims in order to stay in the good graces with the law. The problem is that criminals don’t fit into neat categories like their crimes do on paper.
One might sell crack and shoot someone all in the same 15 minutes or shoplift Doritos and then walk outside and punch an old lady in the back of the head, for example. This is why crimes used to be prosecuted instead of pretending that a crime can only be committed if someone gets hurt or killed.
The other thing is that most crimes occur because the perpetrator lacks the intelligence, time preference, and impulse control to discern that this action isn’t in his best long-term interests. This means he doesn’t wake up in the morning determined to be the best non-violent offender his God-given talents will allow. That’s why it’s better he wakes up in prison for whatever the police could bust him on.
So, my point is that legalizing non-violent crimes is actually a playbook for getting people killed. Alvin Bragg might be too dimwitted to realize that, but not Soros.
I’m proud to officially announce my candidacy for the office of Dogcatcher.
“Man killed in subway turnstile jump…”
This makes it sound like he was a victim, having been “killed” for jumping a turnstile. Or maybe killed BY a jumping turnstile in some freak mechanical accident. Instead, the stupid bahstid merely got hoist by his own petard while in the act of committing a crime. No pity.
In my wildest imagining, I can’t picture an adult White man jumping a turnstile to beat a fare. It’s just not what we do.
I worked just outside NYC in 1993. It was pretty seedy. 42nd street still had peep shows. I returned to work there in 1995 and Rudy Giuliani had made a noticeable difference, largely by cracking down on minor crimes like fare jumpers. Over the next four year that I lived there I felt very safe in Manhattan. There is no way I would ever go there now.