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“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” ― Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome
BREAKING
John Havlicek, one of the greatest Celtics ever, dies at 79
By John Powers Globe Correspondent,April 25, 2019
John Havlicek was honored in 2015 at TD Garden on the anniversary of his famous steal. (BARRY CHIN/GLOBE STAFF/FILE)John Havlicek, the understated superstar who transformed an off-the-bench role into a Hall of Fame career and became the all-time leading scorer with the Boston Celtics, died on Thursday in Jupiter, Florida. He was 79.
Every one of Mr. Havlicek’s 16 seasons was spent in a Celtics uniform, 13 of them as an all-star. Throughout, he set league records for games played (1,270) and consecutive 1,000-point seasons (all 16), as he played across Celtic dynasties. He was known for his huge lungs and an epic work ethic, constantly hustling the floor quarter after quarter and honing his skills long beyond when other basketball players hit the point of retirement.
“Havlicek stole the ball,” is still one of the great rallying cries in sports history, shouted by announcer Johnny Most and quietly repeated by countless numbers of aspiring players in pickup games across the region for years after.
Mr. Havlicek suffered from Parkinson’s disease. His death was confirmed by the Celtics.
“John Havlicek is one of the most accomplished players in Boston Celtics history, and the face of many of the franchise’s signature moments,’’ the Celtics said in a statement. “John was kind and considerate, humble and gracious. He was a champion in every sense, and as we join his family, friends, and fans in mourning his loss, we are thankful for all the joy and inspiration he brought to us.’’
Fellow Hall of Famer Bill Russell, who played alongside Mr. Havlicek for seven years before handing over the captaincy to him, simply said, “He is the best all-around player I ever saw.”
Mr. Havlicek’s eight championship rings were third behind Russell’s 11 and Sam Jones’s 10.
“If I hadn’t separated my shoulder [in 1973], we definitely would have won that year,” he reckoned. “And if we had hung on to [Paul] Silas and Westy [Paul Westphal], we might have squeezed out another one.”
While Mr. Havlicek averaged more than 20 points per game as a swingman, despite dunking approximately once a decade, he was best known for a defensive play that saved the 1965 season and sent the Celtics to their eighth title.
With Boston clinging to a 1-point lead over Philadelphia with five seconds to play in the seventh game of the Eastern Conference finals at the old Boston Garden, the 76ers were inbounding the ball with a chance to win the game.
Johnny Most’s radio call remains the most famous in franchise history: “[Hal] Greer putting the ball in play. He gets it out deep and Havlicek steals it! Over to Sam Jones! Havlicek stole the ball! It’s all over!”
Although Mr. Havlicek, who was guarding Chet Walker, had his back to Greer, he had an innate sense of when the ball might be in the air.
“I knew he had five seconds to inbound, so I started counting to myself — 1,001, 1,002, 1,003,” Mr. Havlicek recalled. “Usually something has happened by then. So by 1,003 and a half, I started to peek a little more.”
Mr. Havlicek’s meticulous approach to basketball was mirrored in the precision of his daily life.
“His clothes are all hanging half an inch apart in the closet at home,” said his wife, Beth, whose husband folded his socks over a dressing-room hanger and combed his hair at halftime. “Everything from the medicine cabinet to the dresser drawers to the garage is kept that way. John was probably born like that.”
Multisport star
John Joseph Havlicek, whose father emigrated from Czechoslovakia, was born in a coal-and-steel town in eastern Ohio and lived in a house above his parents’ grocery store. His grandfather and uncles worked in the mines. Although he was frequently unwell as a child (“Crying and sickness were my trademarks’’), Mr. Havlicek grew into an exceptional multisport athlete.
At Ohio State, where football coach Woody Hayes unsuccessfully recruited him for quarterback, Mr. Havlicek played first base for the baseball team and was a sophomore starter on the Buckeye basketball varsity that won its only national championship in 1960.
Two years later, the Celtics picked him seventh overall in the NBA draft and hoped that he wouldn’t opt for pro football, as the NFL’s Cleveland Browns had chosen Mr. Havlicek in the seventh round of that draft even though he hadn’t played since high school.
After Mr. Havlicek was the last receiver cut in Browns training camp, he turned up in Boston and ate his first meal at the Hayes-Bickford cafeteria across from the Garden.
“Look what the hell we got here,” marveled coach Red Auerbach while watching Mr. Havlicek in perpetual motion during the team’s first practice.
Every one of Mr. Havlicek’s 16 seasons was spent in a Celtics uniform, 13 of them as an all-star. Throughout, he set league records for games played (1,270) and consecutive 1,000-point seasons (all 16), as he played across Celtic dynasties. He was known for his huge lungs and an epic work ethic, constantly hustling the floor quarter after quarter and honing his skills long beyond when other basketball players hit the point of retirement.
“Havlicek stole the ball,” is still one of the great rallying cries in sports history, shouted by announcer Johnny Most and quietly repeated by countless numbers of aspiring players in pickup games across the region for years after.
Mr. Havlicek suffered from Parkinson’s disease. His death was confirmed by the Celtics.
“John Havlicek is one of the most accomplished players in Boston Celtics history, and the face of many of the franchise’s signature moments,’’ the Celtics said in a statement. “John was kind and considerate, humble and gracious. He was a champion in every sense, and as we join his family, friends, and fans in mourning his loss, we are thankful for all the joy and inspiration he brought to us.’’
Fellow Hall of Famer Bill Russell, who played alongside Mr. Havlicek for seven years before handing over the captaincy to him, simply said, “He is the best all-around player I ever saw.”
Mr. Havlicek’s eight championship rings were third behind Russell’s 11 and Sam Jones’s 10.
“If I hadn’t separated my shoulder [in 1973], we definitely would have won that year,” he reckoned. “And if we had hung on to [Paul] Silas and Westy [Paul Westphal], we might have squeezed out another one.”
While Mr. Havlicek averaged more than 20 points per game as a swingman, despite dunking approximately once a decade, he was best known for a defensive play that saved the 1965 season and sent the Celtics to their eighth title.
With Boston clinging to a 1-point lead over Philadelphia with five seconds to play in the seventh game of the Eastern Conference finals at the old Boston Garden, the 76ers were inbounding the ball with a chance to win the game.
Johnny Most’s radio call remains the most famous in franchise history: “[Hal] Greer putting the ball in play. He gets it out deep and Havlicek steals it! Over to Sam Jones! Havlicek stole the ball! It’s all over!”
Although Mr. Havlicek, who was guarding Chet Walker, had his back to Greer, he had an innate sense of when the ball might be in the air.
“I knew he had five seconds to inbound, so I started counting to myself — 1,001, 1,002, 1,003,” Mr. Havlicek recalled. “Usually something has happened by then. So by 1,003 and a half, I started to peek a little more.”
Mr. Havlicek’s meticulous approach to basketball was mirrored in the precision of his daily life.
“His clothes are all hanging half an inch apart in the closet at home,” said his wife, Beth, whose husband folded his socks over a dressing-room hanger and combed his hair at halftime. “Everything from the medicine cabinet to the dresser drawers to the garage is kept that way. John was probably born like that.”
Multisport star
John Joseph Havlicek, whose father emigrated from Czechoslovakia, was born in a coal-and-steel town in eastern Ohio and lived in a house above his parents’ grocery store. His grandfather and uncles worked in the mines. Although he was frequently unwell as a child (“Crying and sickness were my trademarks’’), Mr. Havlicek grew into an exceptional multisport athlete.
At Ohio State, where football coach Woody Hayes unsuccessfully recruited him for quarterback, Mr. Havlicek played first base for the baseball team and was a sophomore starter on the Buckeye basketball varsity that won its only national championship in 1960.
Two years later, the Celtics picked him seventh overall in the NBA draft and hoped that he wouldn’t opt for pro football, as the NFL’s Cleveland Browns had chosen Mr. Havlicek in the seventh round of that draft even though he hadn’t played since high school.
After Mr. Havlicek was the last receiver cut in Browns training camp, he turned up in Boston and ate his first meal at the Hayes-Bickford cafeteria across from the Garden.
“Look what the hell we got here,” marveled coach Red Auerbach while watching Mr. Havlicek in perpetual motion during the team’s first practice.
Havlicek (right), with teammate Bill Russell and coach Red Auerbach after the Celtics defeated the Lakers in the 1968 finals.(AP FILE)Since the Celtics were coming off their fourth straight title season and were loaded with established stars such as Bob Cousy, Tom Heinsohn, Jones, and Russell, their crew-cut rookie immediately was cast as a substitute.
“I came into a great situation where I had all the veterans around me,” observed Mr. Havlicek, who was nicknamed “Hondo” for his resemblance to John Wayne in the 1953 film. “And through the process of osmosis, I guess, I became one of the people they could rely on.”
Mr. Havlicek’s versatility at guard and forward made him a natural sixth man, a role created for teammate Frank Ramsey, who retired after the following season.
“I think people emphasize too much who’s starting,” observed Mr. Havlicek, who relished the assignment. “Emphasis should be on minutes played.”
Mr. Havlicek, who averaged nearly 37 minutes per game during his career, had extraordinary stamina, helped by lungs so large they had to be X-rayed separately. He took particular pride in his durability and reliability; he missed only 33 of 1,303 regular-season games and fouled out only 21 times.
“There should be a giant key sticking out of his back,” Russell once cracked. “You just wind him up and click-click-click, you put him out there for 48 minutes.”
Mr. Havlicek had no problem being on the floor for the full regulation and beyond.
“I’m ready to go 48 all the time,” he said. “I get to rest on free throws and timeouts.”
Defending Mr. Havlicek, who was continually on the move, was an exhausting assignment.
“A roadrunner taking you through every ditch, every irrigation canal, barbed-wire fence, and cattle guard,” observed Los Angeles Lakers general manager Pete Newell, whose University of California team lost its title to Ohio State in the 1960 final. “You’ve had a trip over the plains when you’re playing him for a night.”
Mr. Havlicek’s capacity to go the distance game after game was especially valued during the Celtics’ rebuilding period at the beginning of the ’70s following the retirement of Russell and Jones when he became what Auerbach called ‘‘the guts of the team.’’
“I became the old man in one year because of the retirements,” Mr. Havlicek observed.
By then he’d assumed he would be nearing the end of his career.
“To be truthful, I never thought I’d last more than eight or nine years,” Mr. Havlicek said. “When I broke in, that was about the limit.”
Yet at 30 he was the cornerstone of the team, leading the league in minutes.
“He’s the complete player . . . the whole thing,” said Heinsohn, who played alongside Mr. Havlicek for three seasons and coached him for nine. “He stands alone.”
After turning down a million-dollar offer to jump to the rival American Basketball Association in 1969, Mr. Havlicek made it clear that he expected to be compensated as the team’s main man.
“Now it’s my turn,” he said. “For years, the top contracts went to others on the team, and I could understand. I’ve met all the standards the Celtics use to reward players.”
Finding a way
“I came into a great situation where I had all the veterans around me,” observed Mr. Havlicek, who was nicknamed “Hondo” for his resemblance to John Wayne in the 1953 film. “And through the process of osmosis, I guess, I became one of the people they could rely on.”
Mr. Havlicek’s versatility at guard and forward made him a natural sixth man, a role created for teammate Frank Ramsey, who retired after the following season.
“I think people emphasize too much who’s starting,” observed Mr. Havlicek, who relished the assignment. “Emphasis should be on minutes played.”
Mr. Havlicek, who averaged nearly 37 minutes per game during his career, had extraordinary stamina, helped by lungs so large they had to be X-rayed separately. He took particular pride in his durability and reliability; he missed only 33 of 1,303 regular-season games and fouled out only 21 times.
“There should be a giant key sticking out of his back,” Russell once cracked. “You just wind him up and click-click-click, you put him out there for 48 minutes.”
Mr. Havlicek had no problem being on the floor for the full regulation and beyond.
“I’m ready to go 48 all the time,” he said. “I get to rest on free throws and timeouts.”
Defending Mr. Havlicek, who was continually on the move, was an exhausting assignment.
“A roadrunner taking you through every ditch, every irrigation canal, barbed-wire fence, and cattle guard,” observed Los Angeles Lakers general manager Pete Newell, whose University of California team lost its title to Ohio State in the 1960 final. “You’ve had a trip over the plains when you’re playing him for a night.”
Mr. Havlicek’s capacity to go the distance game after game was especially valued during the Celtics’ rebuilding period at the beginning of the ’70s following the retirement of Russell and Jones when he became what Auerbach called ‘‘the guts of the team.’’
“I became the old man in one year because of the retirements,” Mr. Havlicek observed.
By then he’d assumed he would be nearing the end of his career.
“To be truthful, I never thought I’d last more than eight or nine years,” Mr. Havlicek said. “When I broke in, that was about the limit.”
Yet at 30 he was the cornerstone of the team, leading the league in minutes.
“He’s the complete player . . . the whole thing,” said Heinsohn, who played alongside Mr. Havlicek for three seasons and coached him for nine. “He stands alone.”
After turning down a million-dollar offer to jump to the rival American Basketball Association in 1969, Mr. Havlicek made it clear that he expected to be compensated as the team’s main man.
“Now it’s my turn,” he said. “For years, the top contracts went to others on the team, and I could understand. I’ve met all the standards the Celtics use to reward players.”
Finding a way
What set Mr. Havlicek apart from his teammates and rivals was his obsessive attention to detail — the toiletries in his locker were arranged in descending order of height.
“I’m a man of routine and discipline,” he said. “My whole life has been thought out.”
But when it came to finding ways to play despite disabling injuries in the playoffs, Mr. Havlicek was craftily creative. After separating his right shoulder in the third game of the 1973 Eastern Conference finals against the New York Knicks, he strapped it in a sling and shot with his left hand for the remainder of the series.
After tearing the plantar fascia in his left foot at the beginning of the 1976 playoffs, Mr. Havlicek iced it down for six times as long as advised (“two Hondo handfuls”), missed only three games, and played 58 minutes of the epic triple-overtime victory over the Phoenix Suns at the Garden that set up Boston’s 13th title.
“I don’t think you should mind a little pain if you’re paid to play,” he said.
In 1977, when fluid on his left knee inhibited his shooting, Havlicek simply invented an impromptu repertoire.
“Left-hand hook, right-hand hook, jumping one-legged tip-in,” he said. “Off-footed, half-legged jump shot . . .”
Although his exceptional conditioning could have enabled him to play for several more years, Mr. Havlicek decided to retire at 38 at the end of the 1977-78 season, in which he played all 82 games. He wore a tuxedo to his finale against Buffalo at the Garden (“You should wear special clothes on special occasions”) and played 41 minutes, scoring 29 points.
“I’m going to remember most the people in the stands,” said Mr. Havlicek, whose number 17 was retired the following October. “And the flags hanging above me.”
Had he played for two more seasons, Mr. Havlicek would have been teammates with Larry Bird, with whom he once engaged in a one-on-one duel after Bird bragged that he would have dominated Havlicek had he played against him.
“I said, ‘Fine, let’s go right now,’ ” Mr. Havlicek said. “I made a swipe for the ball, but in doing so I hit him in a very tender spot. He went down and stayed down for a good two minutes. I said, ‘That’s it. You lose. You aren’t tough enough to have played in my day.’ ”
“I’m a man of routine and discipline,” he said. “My whole life has been thought out.”
But when it came to finding ways to play despite disabling injuries in the playoffs, Mr. Havlicek was craftily creative. After separating his right shoulder in the third game of the 1973 Eastern Conference finals against the New York Knicks, he strapped it in a sling and shot with his left hand for the remainder of the series.
After tearing the plantar fascia in his left foot at the beginning of the 1976 playoffs, Mr. Havlicek iced it down for six times as long as advised (“two Hondo handfuls”), missed only three games, and played 58 minutes of the epic triple-overtime victory over the Phoenix Suns at the Garden that set up Boston’s 13th title.
“I don’t think you should mind a little pain if you’re paid to play,” he said.
In 1977, when fluid on his left knee inhibited his shooting, Havlicek simply invented an impromptu repertoire.
“Left-hand hook, right-hand hook, jumping one-legged tip-in,” he said. “Off-footed, half-legged jump shot . . .”
Although his exceptional conditioning could have enabled him to play for several more years, Mr. Havlicek decided to retire at 38 at the end of the 1977-78 season, in which he played all 82 games. He wore a tuxedo to his finale against Buffalo at the Garden (“You should wear special clothes on special occasions”) and played 41 minutes, scoring 29 points.
“I’m going to remember most the people in the stands,” said Mr. Havlicek, whose number 17 was retired the following October. “And the flags hanging above me.”
Had he played for two more seasons, Mr. Havlicek would have been teammates with Larry Bird, with whom he once engaged in a one-on-one duel after Bird bragged that he would have dominated Havlicek had he played against him.
“I said, ‘Fine, let’s go right now,’ ” Mr. Havlicek said. “I made a swipe for the ball, but in doing so I hit him in a very tender spot. He went down and stayed down for a good two minutes. I said, ‘That’s it. You lose. You aren’t tough enough to have played in my day.’ ”
Havlicek in a 1971 game against the Knicks.(GLOBE FILE)Mr. Havlicek could have spent his retirement fishing, which had been a lifetime avocation. For more than three decades, he sponsored a celebrity fishing tournament on Martha’s Vineyard to benefit the Genesis Foundation for Children.
Since he had deferred much of his salary and invested early in Wendy’s restaurants, his financial circumstances were secure.
“I don’t have to work if I don’t want to,” he said.
Mr. Havlicek had no interest in coaching or in being a conventional businessman.
“When I retired, I didn’t want to be in a situation of working 9 to 5,” he said.
Instead, Mr. Havlicek became a corporate speaker for several firms, including Xerox, whose Japanese competitors he likened to the Lakers. During his playing days, the Celtics were 5-0 in NBA finals against Los Angeles.
“The guy is the ambassador of our sport,” longtime Laker rival Jerry West said. “John always gave his best every night and had time for everybody — teammates, fans, the press. He is simply the ideal everybody expects an athlete to be.”
Mr. Havlicek leaves his wife, Beth, and children Jill and Chris.
John Powers can be reached at john.powers@globe.com.
Since he had deferred much of his salary and invested early in Wendy’s restaurants, his financial circumstances were secure.
“I don’t have to work if I don’t want to,” he said.
Mr. Havlicek had no interest in coaching or in being a conventional businessman.
“When I retired, I didn’t want to be in a situation of working 9 to 5,” he said.
Instead, Mr. Havlicek became a corporate speaker for several firms, including Xerox, whose Japanese competitors he likened to the Lakers. During his playing days, the Celtics were 5-0 in NBA finals against Los Angeles.
“The guy is the ambassador of our sport,” longtime Laker rival Jerry West said. “John always gave his best every night and had time for everybody — teammates, fans, the press. He is simply the ideal everybody expects an athlete to be.”
Mr. Havlicek leaves his wife, Beth, and children Jill and Chris.
John Powers can be reached at john.powers@globe.com.
Nolte: Bernie Sanders Wants to Restore Racist Mass-Murder Dylann Roof’s Voting Rights
AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
JOHN NOLTE
Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wants to restore Dylann Roof’s voting rights — you know, the white supremacist who murdered nine innocent black people at South Carolina church in 2015.
Bernie Sanders is nuts.
As is a Democrat Party that could very well nominate him to run against President Trump in 2020.
No kidding, the Democrat base is actually applauding this idea, actually buying into the idea that restoring Dylann Roof’s voting rights is just as important as giving women and blacks the right to vote.
During a town hall event this week on CNN, a far-left fake news outlet, Sanders told America, “I believe people who commit crimes, they pay the price and they get out of jail, they certainly should have the right to vote.”
Fair enough. As a believer in second chances, I happen to agree with that.
Sanders then added this madness…
“But, I believe even if they are in jail, they’re paying the price to society, but that should not take away their inherent American right to participate in our democracy.”
When pressed by a town hall questioner if that included those guilty of sexual assault and the Boston Marathon bomber, in so many words, Bernie said hellz yes.
“[I] think the right to vote is inherent to our democracy,” Sanders explained. “Yes, even for terrible people because once you start chipping away — you say, ‘That guy committed a terrible crime, we’re not going to let him vote,’ or ‘that person did that,’ you’re running down a slippery slope.”
That was no gaffe, either. The 678-year-old frontrunner (in some polls) doubled down at a Wednesday event in Houston.
“I was criticized rather strongly because I said that when we talk about the right to vote that right should exist for people who are currently in jail,” Sanders said to applause from the Democrats in attendance.
“[T]hat is a right we must protect because we know the history of this country. We know that women didn’t have the right to vote,” Sanders added. “We know that African Americans didn’t have the rights to vote.”
Sorry, no, you babbling Castro lover, there is no “slippery slope” here, there is no “chipping away here.”
The line is a very simple and moral one to draw.
When someone is in prison or on parole or on probation, the state has legally and constitutionally stripped them of many of their rights, stripped them of many of their freedoms, and the idea we would single out the right to vote to reinstate is insane.
Charles Manson and Jeffrey Dahmer should have received absentee ballots?
How about that nameless piece of racist garbage who sat on death row for 21 years after he dragged James Byrd. Jr. to death?
On a summer night less than four years ago, the good people of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church invited an outsider, Dylann Roof, to join their Bible study. And then he murdered nine of them in cold blood only because of their skin color, only because they were black.
Bernie thinks that guy should receive an absentee ballot from the Sanders 2020 campaign.
In total, President Bernie would restore the voting rights of 183,000 convicted murderers and 164,000 convicted rapists who have not yet paid their debt to society, who still sit in prison.
And it’s not just Bernie. There’s also that famous rocket scientist Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA).
When the Democrat candidate for president was asked about allowing prisoners to vote from their cells Harris said, “I think we should have that conversation.”
The only one on a slippery slope here is the Democrat Party, and it is a slippery slope of their own creation.
Imagine handing an absentee ballot to Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Millionaire Bernie Sanders Still Gets Mayoral Pension from 1980s Gig
PENNY STARR
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Presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who recently released his tax returns revealing that he is a millionaire, is still receiving a pension from his time serving as the mayor of Burlington, Vermont. Sanders served as the city’s mayor for eight years.
According to his tax return, in 2018 Sanders received $5,241 from his Burlington gig.
Sanders receives a salary of $174,000 a year as a Senator.
CNBC reported:
Public disclosure records show that Sanders, who began serving in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1991 and in the Senate in 2007, has received nearly $62,000 in Burlington pension payouts since 2005. One of the co-chairs of the Sanders campaign, Rep. Ro Khanna of California, once blasted then-incumbent Rep. Mike Honda for receiving multiple government pensions while serving in Congress.
Public disclosure records show that Sanders, who began serving in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1991 and in the Senate in 2007, has received nearly $62,000 in Burlington pension payouts since 2005. One of the co-chairs of the Sanders campaign, Rep. Ro Khanna of California, once blasted then-incumbent Rep. Mike Honda for receiving multiple government pensions while serving in Congress.
Khanna used his opposition in a bid to unseat Honda, also a California Democrat, in 2014, which failed. But Khanna did win the 2016 election, the same year he endorsed Sanders for president, CNBC reported.
The public records show that since 2005, Sanders has received almost $62,000 from his mayoral pension, CNBC reported.
CNBC reported that “double-dipping” is not illegal and that, “a National Journal study in 2013 found that nearly 20 percent of members have drawn government pensions while serving in the Senate or the House, for a total haul of more than $3.6 million in such pensions in the prior year.”
“David Sirota, a senior aide to Sanders, told CNBC when asked for comment, ‘Like other past Burlington mayors, Senator Sanders receives a municipal pension for his service as mayor of Burlington.’”
CNBC also reached out to Steve Ellis, executive vice president of the non-profit federal budget watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense.
“The optics of it aren’t very good,” Ellis said. “Just from a political standpoint. Why take the heat over five grand?”
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Joe McCarthy Wasn't Wrong, Just Early
In a recent column, I made the comment, “Joe McCarthy wasn’t wrong, he was just early.” I was being flippant. I was trying to make light of the Democrat Party’s turn towards radical, extreme, Marxist, anti-American rhetoric.
I had no idea how right I really was.
I’m not being flippant anymore. Joe McCarthy would have a field day with today’s Democrat Party. He’d be a hero for defending America from evil, radical Marxist politicians posing as "Democrats." We’d be giving him ticker tape parades.
McCarthy’s Senate committee was called “The House Un-American Activities Committee.” Let me ask you bluntly: How much more un-American can you get than the ideas espoused just in the past few days by Democrats?
First, I’ll start with the usual suspect — Ilhan Omar.
It turns out back in 2017 she wrote a Twitter post framing American soldiers as the bad guys in the “Black Hawk Down” incident in Somalia — where 19 American soldiers died. She clearly hates Jews, Israel, America, and U.S. soldiers. Never forget that Nancy Pelosi put her on the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee. How un-American can you get?
Days ago, Islamic terrorists targeted Christians at churches on Easter morning in Sri Lanka. They murdered 300 innocent Christians. Obama and Hillary tweeted out their condolences. But they both refused to use the word “Christians” to describe the victims. Neither would use the word “Islamic” to describe the mass murderers. How un-American can you get?
The Democrat-dominated legislature of New York just passed a law that gives free college tuition to illegal immigrants. Days later they killed a proposal for tuition assistance for Gold Star families — the children of U.S. military vets killed fighting for our freedoms. How un-American can you get?
But I’ve saved the best for last. Bernie Sanders announced his new plan for allowing murderers and rapists to vote from prison. Democrats are no longer satisfied with ex-felons voting. Now they want felons to vote while still in prison. The worst of the worst are qualified to vote according to Bernie. Murderers, mass murderers, rapists, pedophiles, even terrorists. According to Bernie they all have a God-given right to vote — even while on death row.
According to Bernie’s plan, if they were alive today in U.S. prisons, Hitler, Stalin and all of the world’s worst mass murderers could and should vote from their prison cells. According to Bernie, the Boston Bomber should vote. If they were alive, Bernie would allow Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, and the Boston Strangler to vote.
How low can you go? How un-American can you get? Democrats are certainly testing the waters for 2020.
Like I said, “Joe McCarthy wasn’t wrong, he was just early.”
Ban on Sanctuary Cities Protecting Illegal Aliens Advances in Florida
Ban on Sanctuary Cities Protecting Illegal Aliens Advances in Florida
JOHN BINDER
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A plan to ban sanctuary cities — which shield criminal illegal aliens from deportation — has been advanced in the Florida state House after initially being pushed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).
On Wednesday, the Florida state House passed DeSantis’s plan to ban sanctuary jurisdictions across the state. Every Democrat state representative opposed the sanctuary city ban, as well as Republican state Reps. Vance Aloupis of Miami and Rene Plasencia of Orlando.
The sanctuary city ban comes with strict enforcement measures to ensure that localities and counties do not impose sanctuary policies that keep arrested and charged illegal aliens from being turned over the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.
Those enforcement measures include allowing state officials to remove local authorities or local elected officials from office should they implement sanctuary policies to protect criminal illegal aliens. The plan also includes a fine of $5,000 that the state can impose on a jurisdiction for every day that they have a sanctuary policy in place.
The Florida state Senate bill to ban sanctuary cities is similar, but comes with fewer enforcement mechanisms. Rather than fining a jurisdiction or removing a sanctuary city elected official from office, the state Senate plan allows the state attorney general to file a civil action suit against a sanctuary city.
Should Florida implement a sanctuary city ban, they will be only the second state with one of the largest foreign-born populations in the country to do so. The first state with a significant foreign-born population to ban sanctuary cities was Texas last year.
Today, Florida has the fourth largest foreign-born population in the county with more than 4.1 million illegal aliens, legal immigrants, and foreign-born naturalized citizens. California, Texas, and New York continue to have the largest foreign-born populations in the county. California, a sanctuary state, has almost as many foreign-born residents as New York, Texas, and Florida combined, with more than 10.5 million illegal aliens, legal residents, and foreign-born naturalized citizens living in the state.
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