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Sunday, November 25, 2018

Another look at First Step Act






 image credit:rightoncrime.com

Yesterday, this blog linked to some information on the First Step Act, with support coming from Ken Blackwell and Pastor Darrell Scott, among others. On the other hand, Ann Coulter criticized the Act in pretty sharp terms. Then I came across Michelle Malkin’s analysis of the First Step Act; like Coulter, Malkin is tough on crime, immigration, and drug dealing, so I was interested to see that she supports the Act:

The package of criminal justice reform proposals endorsed by President Donald Trump is not “soft” on crime. It’s tough on injustice. And it’s about time.

Known as the “First Step Act,” the legislation confronts the Titanic failure of the federal government’s trillion-dollar war on drugs by reforming mandatory minimum sentences, rectifying unscientifically grounded disparities in criminal penalties for crack vs. powder cocaine users, and tackling recidivism among federal inmates through risk assessment, earned-time credit incentive structures, re-entry programs and transitional housing.

There’s nothing radical about giving law-breakers who served their time an opportunity to turn their lives around and avoid ending up back behind bars. More than 30 red and blue states have enacted measures to reduce incarceration, control costs and improve public safety. Texas — no bleeding-heart liberal mecca — spearheaded alternatives to the endless prison-building boom a decade ago by redirecting tax dollars to rehab, treatment and mental health services. The Lone Star state saved an estimated $3 billion in new public construction costs while stemming the prison population tide.
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Despite staunch support from conservative Republican governors, prosecutors and law enforcement closest to the ground on this issue, the same hyperbolic talking points used by some immovable “law and order” opponents at the state level are now being used against First Step: Cops will be endangered, critics balk. Violent monsters will go free. Child predators and drug kingpins will flood our neighborhoods.

Scary, but deceptive. The plain language of the bill makes clear that its “early release” provisions must be earned. Moreover, as Utah GOP Sen. Mike Lee points out: “At all times the Bureau of Prisons retains all authority over who does and does not qualify for early release.” Former U.S. Attorney Brett Tolman, a veteran of the criminal justice system for 20 years, notes that inmates convicted of crimes of violence (including assaults on police), drug trafficking (including hardcore fentanyl and heroin dealing) and child pornography would not qualify for credits. Period. The list of ineligible prisoners is a mile long.
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Critic Dan Cadman of the Center for Immigration Studies is not satisfied and argues that “the simplest way to make it a clean bill where immigration enforcement is concerned is to say at the beginning of the bill that ‘none of the sections that follow in this bill apply to incarcerated aliens.'” That should be a simple fix and is no reason to prevent First Step from moving to the Senate floor for vigorous debate.

Full article is here.
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Saturday, November 24, 2018

Ohio Issue #1 and the "First Step" proposal




On November 6, Ohio voters rejected Issue #1, an amendment that would have reduced the penalties for drug trafficking under Ohio law. Cleveland Tea Party blogs urged a “No” vote here, here, and here

The Trump administration is proposing reform to the federal criminal justice system that is running along parallel lines to Issue #1. Ken Blackwell reports:

The FIRST STEP Act is the beginning of a transformation of America’s federal criminal-justice system into what it should have always been: a system that makes America safer. This legislation unites conservatives, police and civil rights advocates, civil libertarians, business leaders and supporters of social justice. Supporting this legislation means supporting ideas that all Americans want - from police to Democrats to Republicans - an America that is fair, an America that puts Americans first, and that makes America safe. 

Blackwell concludes that “This is a law and order President who believes in justice and the First Step Act will get us closer to true justice.” Among those standing with President Trump at his press conference were Sen. Tim Scott and Pastor Darrell Scott.  But Ann Coulter vigorously disagrees, and she is not one to pull her punches:

In the systematic dismantling of common sense in America, Jared Kushner's "sentencing reform" bill is the coup de grace -- a Mack Truck hurtling down the highway about to take out thousands of Americans. The Idiot Army is already in place to fight and win this battle.

Jared and the hip-hop artists currently advising him have decided that too many people are in prison. If you think you've heard this before, you have: Genius insights of this sort have preceded nearly every major crime wave this country has experienced, from Philadelphia to California to a bloody period known as "the Warren Court."
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We're incessantly told that sentences will be cut only for "nonviolent drug offenders."

If you are even passingly familiar with our justice system, you know that virtually everyone in prison is there as the result of a plea bargain -- "97 percent of federal cases and 94 percent of state cases," according to The New York Times.

You don't strike a deal with the prosecutor to plea to the worst crime you've committed. You plea to the least serious offense.

Coulter hammers both the facts and stats concerning previous crime waves, and she also directs her outrage at President Trump and his son-in-law. Whether she is correct in attributing a motive to Trump’s support of this initiative, her analysis of past efforts at criminal system reform is worth considering, and some of her arguments will resonate with those against Ohio’s Issue #1. (Full column by Ms. Coulter is here.)
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Monday, July 2, 2018

Pastor Darrell Scott and Henry Davis


photo credit: foxbusiness.com


The first time I saw Pastor Darrell Scott was in March 2016,when he introduced Donald J. Trump as a GOP candidate for President out at the IX Center. Pastor Scott was a showstopper at the Cleveland Tea Party “Spirit of America” rally in support of President Trump in March 2017. 

Pastor Scott is really something, and so is a man named Henry Davis from Missouri. Mr. Davis loaded up a 2-minute Twitter video of himself expressing his gratefulness and pride as a black man living and witnessing today the extraordinary accomplishments of the Trump presidency and what it means for minority employment, opportunity, and the possibilities for the future.

After Pastor Scott saw the video, he tweeted a message -- not just in support of Mr. Davis, but also promising to invite him to the White House to discuss joining the Urban Revitalization Team. Then he picked up the phone and called Mr. Davis to make the arrangements.

Vivek Saxena has the story and a link to the video here at BizPacReview. 
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Is Pastor Darrell Scott running for Congress?


L to R: Steve Loomis, Cleveland Police Patrolman’s Assoc.; Pastor Darrell Scott, New Spirit Revival Center; and Ralph King, Cleveland Tea Party / Main Street Patriot.
Photo taken at The Spirit of America Rally in Cleveland last March by CTP's roving photographer, Pat J Dooley.

Pro-Trump pastor Darrell Scott may challenge

U.S. Rep. Dave Joyce in 2018 Republican primary


Cleveland.com's report is here.
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Sunday, March 5, 2017

Spirit of America Rally in Cleveland - video #3

The Spirit of America Rally in Cleveland yesterday, March 4, was video-taped by our roving photographer, Pat J Dooley. Here is the third of 3 videos (this is the one with Rev. Darrell Scott):


Speakers included:

Main Street Patriot Ralph King emceed and introduced the presenters

Debbie Vance
Navy Veteran

Michael Onitskansky
Immigration

Steve Loomis
Cleveland Police Patrolman’s Assoc.

Mike Petruziello
Business Owner

Pastor Darrell Scott
National Diversity Coalition
New Spirit Revival Center
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Sunday, February 26, 2017

Pastor Darrell Scott to keynote Spirit of America Rally


Photo credit: ABC
  
On March 4, Spirit of America Rally will welcome keynote speaker
Pastor Darrell Scott
senior pastor and co-founder of the New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland Heights, and CEO National Diversity Coalition for Trump

  
Main Street Patriots are holding Spirit of America Rallies across the country in support of President Trump, the policies he is enacting and in support of our country. As heard about on Rush Limbaugh and posted by Breitbart, there are currently over 65 locations across the US and growing.

The Main Street Patriots "Spirit of America Rallies" are a spontaneous uprising of grassroots activists made of people that voted for President Trump as a way to let people know that we support his agenda. Unlike those protesting against President Trump’s vision, we are a diverse coalition that are the heart and soul of America that wants our nation to fulfill our potential, as the greatest nation on God’s green earth!

Please join us at the Spirit of America Rally to be held in Cleveland on Saturday March 4, 2017 and stand united as one across this great nation. These rallies will be positive, patriotic, uplifting, and open to anyone that supports President Trump and an America First agenda.

Date: Saturday, March 4, 2017
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Voinovich Park
Address: E. 9th Street Pier Cleveland, OH (Click for Map)

Speakers

Sal Salvino
First Generation American

Mike Petruziello
Business Owner

Steve Loomis
And More....
Keynote Speaker
Pastor Darrell Scott

Bring your Trump signs, rally signs, Pro-America signs and help us send a positive message of support!

To make this event a success we need your help! To help offset the costs of sound system, insurance, etc., please donate what you can at the Go Fund Me Page set up for the event. (Click Here To Donate).


To volunteer with set-up, clean-up, security, or as a greeter, please email Lucy Sticken at lucygop@aol.com or Cynthea Sabolich at cynthea_sabolich@yahoo.com  In the Subject line please use “RE: Volunteer”.

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Wednesday, September 28, 2016

A new civil rights agenda


photo credit: therightplanet.com

A couple of days ago, I posted a chart demonstrating the radical agenda of Black Lives Matter as it relates to race riots in Charlotte and elsewhere. It’s an important subject in this election season, especially since candidate Donald J. Trump is going where few GOP candidates have gone: into the inner cities to explore a “new civil rights agenda” with black leaders such as Pastor Darrell Scott and Sheriff David Clarke.

Thomas Sowell, an economist and one of my favorite contributors to various blogsites, had an article yesterday at Town Hall entitled ‘Favors’ to Blacks. His comments are particularly on topic as to why a “new civil rights agenda” is in Trump’s platform. Here are some extracts:

Back in the 1960s, as large numbers of black students were entering a certain Ivy League university for the first time, someone asked a chemistry professor -- off the record -- what his response to them was. He said, "I give them all A's and B's. To hell with them."

Since many of those students were admitted with lower academic qualifications than other students, he knew that honest grades in a tough subject like chemistry could lead to lots of failing grades, and that in turn would lead to lots of time-wasting hassles -- not just from the students, but also from the administration.

He was not about to waste time that he wanted to invest in his professional work in chemistry and the advancement of his own career. He also knew that his "favor" to black students in grading was going to do them more harm than good in the long run, because they wouldn't know what they were supposed to know.

Such cynical calculations were seldom expressed in so many words. Nor are similar cynical calculations openly expressed today in politics. But many successful political careers have been built on giving blacks "favors" that look good on the surface but do lasting damage in the long run.

One of these "favors" was the welfare state. A vastly expanded welfare state in the 1960s destroyed the black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and generations of racial oppression.
In 1960, before this expansion of the welfare state, 22 percent of black children were raised with only one parent. By 1985, 67 percent of black children were raised with either one parent or no parent.

A big "favor" the Obama administration is offering blacks today is exemption from school behavior rules that have led to a rate of disciplining of black male students that is greater than the rate of disciplining of other categories of students.
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But Washington politicians are on the case. It strengthens the political vision that blacks are besieged by racist enemies, from which Democrats are their only protection. They give black youngsters exemptions from behavioral standards, just as the Ivy League chemistry professor gave them exemption from academic standards.

In both cases, the consequence -- unspoken today -- is "to hell with them." Kids from homes where they were not given behavioral standards, who are then not held to behavioral standards in schools, are on a path that can lead them as adults straight into prison, or to fatal confrontations with the police.

This is ultimately not a racial thing. Exactly the same welfare state policies and the same non-judgmental exemption from behavioral standards in Britain have led to remarkably similar results among lower-class whites there.
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If a “new civil rights agenda” honestly confronts such issues and explores real solutions, I am all for it. Some of those real solutions will involve eliminating destructive government interference and shrinking the welfare state. Those are Tea Party values.

Read the entire article here.

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Thursday, September 22, 2016

If they don’t report, how do you decide?

art credit: bradhoffmann.com

Another black mark for Fox News. In a long line of black marks. 

Last year, Megyn Kelly disgraced herself at the first GOP primary debate, with assists from Bret Baier and Chris Wallace. Gretchen Carlson sued Fox for sexual harassment and won. Roger Ailes resigned under a cloud. Then Greta Van Susteren resigned abruptly. Last month, Andrea Tantaros sued Fox for sexual harassment. Some critics are fed up with Sean Hannity for his blatant bias and support of Donald Trump.

So yesterday evening, the 10pm Hannity show was scheduled to broadcast the town hall taped earlier in the day in Cleveland Heights. Donald Trump was speaking as the guest of Pastor Darrell Scott, who is a Trump surrogate; Scott is especially eloquent on minorities, inner cities, the media, and related issues. (This blog has posted some of Scott's interview via YouTubes here and here.)

Fox News bumped the Hannity town hall last night. Instead, they went wall-to-wall with “Fox News Alert” coverage of Charlotte, North Carolina, with shots of earlier rioting interspersed with current shots of not much going on (the Governor declared a state of emergency at 12:30 am and the violence continued into the night; I don't know if Fox was still bumping regularly scheduled programming). 

Is Fox planning to run the Hannity town hall with Trump tonight or over the weekend? The Fox website states only that “The Hannity town hall event, originally scheduled for Wednesday, did not air due to breaking news coverage of the protests in Charlotte.” No announcement of re-scheduling. 

Sundance recently predicted that as Election Day approaches, and since Hillary’s campaign seems to be cratering, that we will see the media and the Uniparty political class fan the flames of race warfare like we’ve never seen. Maybe Fox’s decision to bump the Trump town hall and spend the entire hour with footage of Charlotte streets, evidently anticipating more rioting, is a beginning of the final ugly phase of the presidential campaign season. I don't know, but I can say that I don't see much difference these days between Fox, other cable news, or the networks.

The Washington Post, no fan of Mr. Trump, published an annotated transcript of the Hannity/Trump town hall here

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Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Darrell Scott and David Clarke: Trump's speech in Detroit


Yesterday evening, Sean Hannity hosted both Pastor Darrell Scott and Sheriff David A. Clarke on a short segment. They were discussing Donald Trump's recent speech to a black congregation in Detroit. It was fantastic, and here it is, just in case you missed it:

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Thursday, August 25, 2016

Rep Marcia Fudge, Donald Trump, Darrell Scott, Diamond and Silk, etc

Breitbart reportsRep Marcia Fudge: ‘No People of Color’ at Donald Trump Rallies

The story is just more complaining from a member of the professional grievance industry. First, here’s the photo from the Breitbart story:



Here’s the Cleveland Heights pastor who introduced Donald Trump at the Cleveland, Ohio rally at the IX Center (if you missed this video earlier, it's a Must See):


And Cleveland Tea Party's own blog of photos, taken at the Trump rally in downtown Cleveland during RNC week, is hereOne of the last photos on that blog is of Diamond & Silk,

and most of their appearances stumping for Trump are over at YouTube, such as here; just search for Diamond and Silk.

Rep. Marcia Fudge could learn from these two marvelous ladies.

UPDATE: See David Horowitz's FrontPage analysis of Trump on the African-American vote: “Donald Trump’s Lincolnesque Moment”: A landmark in the emergence of a new Republican PartyHERE.

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Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Pastor Darrell Scott on media bias and Trump


And speaking of media bias and coverage of Donald J. Trump, here is Cleveland Heights' Pastor Darrell Scott on Fox yesterday:

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Sunday, July 17, 2016

America First Unity Rally 2016 TOMORROW Monday


America First Unity Rally 2016
  

After a protracted battle through the courts, a Free Speech victory was secured for our right to rally and show our support for GOP nominee Donald Trump during the RNC Convention.
  
Make America Great Again in 
Cleveland during the RNC Convention at the
America First - Unity Rally 2016!
  
Hosted by Citizens for Trump, and co-hosted by Roger Stone & Alex Jones, the America First Unity Rally 2016 will be where we all come together and take the first step in taking back our government and the White House.
  • Date: Monday July 18, 2016 11:30am - 3pm
  • Location: Settlers Landing Park / (East Bank Flats / Click for Map)
Join in with the Bikers for Trump, Truckers for Trump, the electrifying Pastor Darrell Scott, Alex Jones of Info Wars, Roger Stone, and many more as we stand in unity & support the GOP nominee Donald Trump at the America First Unity Rally 2016!
  
Speakers:
More to be announced....
According to Cleveland Police Dept. parking will be available at various areas throughout the Flats.
To volunteer for the America First Unity Rally email us at clevelandteaparty@gmail.com.

PS In case you missed Pastor Darrell Scott's introduction of Donald J. Trump at the IX Center Rally, the YouTube video is at the "electrifying" link, above, or here. And Info Wars (Alex Jones) is sponsoring the advertising banner already flying around over downtown with the message:  "Hillary For Prison 2016"!
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Saturday, July 2, 2016

America First Rally July 18


America First Unity Rally 2016
  

After a protracted battle through the courts, a Free Speech victory was secured for our right to rally and show our support for GOP nominee Donald Trump during the RNC Convention.
  
Make America Great Again in 
Cleveland during the RNC Convention at the
America First - Unity Rally 2016!
  
Hosted by Citizens for Trump, and co-hosted by Roger Stone & Alex Jones, the America First Unity Rally 2016 will be where we all come together and take the first step in taking back our government and the White House.
  • Date: Monday July 18, 2016 11:30am - 5:00pm
  • Location: Settlers Landing Park
  • (East Bank Flats / Click for Map)
Join in with the Bikers for Trump, Truckers for Trump,the electrifying Pastor Darrell Scott, Alex Jones of Info Wars, Roger Stone and many more as we stand in unity & support the GOP nominee Donald Trump at the America First Unity Rally 2016!
  
Speaker's:
More to be announced....
  
To volunteer for the America First Unity Rally email us at clevelandteaparty@gmail.com.
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Monday, March 14, 2016

More photos and video from Cleveland rally for Donald Trump


Backstage at the Trump rally

Here is a Must See video of Pastor Darrell Scott of New Spirit Revival Center Ministries of Cleveland Heights introducing Mr. Trump :



Here are a few photographs courtesy Pat J Dooley:

IX Center filling up

Pledge of allegiance and Star Spangled Banner

Cleveland Tea Partiers Ralph King and photographer

A homemade sign


Mr. Trump onstage


Posters, cameras, selfies galore

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