They go and show that they can. Good day all. Kalifornistan is a state in the process of imploding, both fiscally and physically. Rather then try and step back from the edge, the Kalifornistan Supreme Soviet has decided to go base jumping without a parachute.
What did the Supreme Soviet do this time? They intend to let convicted criminals server on juries. Here are the details from The Orange County Register:
The state of California has made no secret that it wants to let as many people out of prison as possible. From the early release of inmates through AB 109, to filling parole boards with felon friendly commissioners, to decriminalizing a litany of felonies and drug offenses with Props 47 and 57, Sacramento lawmakers are bending over backwards to dramatically reduce the state’s inmate population.
Of course, it hasn’t crossed their tiny moonbat minds that most of these people deserve to be in prison in the first place. But no, as long as they don’t bother the ruling elite, let them run free! It’s not like the Ruling elite cares one wit about the average citizen.
Despite all of these efforts, the number of inmates hasn’t dropped dramatically enough to satisfy the state’s ruling Democrats, so they’re kicking tires on a new approach — rigging the jury system so no one gets convicted in the first place.
This most recent push is Senate Bill 310, authored by state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, and would allow Californians who have prior felony convictions to serve on juries.
In a press release promoting the proposal, Skinner wrote, “SB310 will help ensure that California juries represent a fair cross-section of our communities…People with felony records have the right to vote in California. There is no legitimate reason why they should be barred from serving on a jury.”
I can think of several legitimate reasons, starting with “They are criminals!” When you are convicted of a felony, you lose some of your rights, sometimes for life. While I agree that there should be a mechanism for those who do clean up their act and become good citizens to have all the rights restored, the vermin that may end up on juries are not going to be some of these people.
Currently, felons are prevented from serving on juries because of their obvious and inherent bias against prosecutors and law enforcement If you honestly believe that jurors in California who’ve served time won’t be more lenient towards accused criminals, I’ve got a bullet train to sell you.
People who have a family member in law enforcement are excused from jury duty all the time because of the possibility of bias, even unconscious bias.
It isn’t just law enforcement people either. They will also exclude people who have the ability to think critically, (Such as those in Information Technology). And those who have been victims of crime themselves. Do they think felons will be any different?
It should be noted that SB310 makes no distinction between violent and non-violent offenders, and even allows convicted felons who are still on probation or parole to serve.
Felons who are on parole are not considered as having completed their sentence. They’ve just been turned loose and are monitored for violations. Even a parking ticket could, theoretically, get them violated and sent back to prison. Of course, this is Kalifornistan.
Since this is California, and the idea is cartoonishly preposterous, of course it sailed through the Senate Public Safety Committee on a 5-1 vote.
Since the Senate Public Safety Committee vote, SB310 has since been approved by the full state Senate. It was approved on a 27-10 vote.
Make no mistake, SB310 is not about expanding civil rights for persecuted minorities or reintegrating felons into society — it’s about stacking the deck against prosecutors by making it impossible to win criminal convictions.
Although this isn’t stated in the column, you can bet that the author, John Phillips, did think about it. One thing the justice system does is show the average citizen that when a criminal is caught, he or she will be punished and removed from society. (Usually imprisonment) If convicted felons are allowed on juries, it will become almost impossible for criminals to be convicted. People will lose confidence in the system and do something that should put the fear of the God these morons don’t believe into. People deciding to take the law into their own hands and dealing out mob justice.
Granted, Kalifornistan has done everything it can to strip the means of self defense away from the average citizen, but people in the other 49 states can and will make sure those means are made available. Those means? Guns. When some child molester is acquitted by a jury made up of felons, even though the evidence was beyond reasonable doubt, that molester might be found a few days later swinging from a lamp post.
Then you will see the rise of “Vigilance Committees, something we haven’t seen since the 1800’s when there literally was no law or justice system in place. The Supreme Soviet, along with the current Party General Secretary, (Also known as Governor Newsom), may order state and local law enforcement to start looking for these groups. What they probably won’t understand is that many of these groups will have those very same law enforcement officers as members, and not undercover.
Kalifornistan is a third world state. The decent people have generally left, taking their money and jobs with them. All that remains are the out of touch wealthy elites in their gated communities, illegal aliens and hard left moonbats working in Silicon Valley. It’s becoming clear that Kalifornistan is ungovernable, and it’s long past time to remove all the elected and appointed officials and institute martial law. Only then can that mess be cleaned up.
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